Table of Contents
Volume 49, Number 12 · July 18, 2002
Russell Baker, What Else Is News? 
The Editor: How I Saved the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles
Times from Dullness and Complacency by Jim Bellows
Into the Buzzsaw:Leading Journalists Expose the Myth of a Free Press edited by Kristina Borjesson, with a foreword by Gore Vidal
The News About the News:American Journalism in Peril by Leonard Downie Jr. and Robert G. Kaiser
Media Unlimited: How the Torrent of Images and Sounds
Overwhelms Our Lives by Todd Gitlin
Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News by Bernard Goldberg
Sherwin B. Nuland, Whoops!
Complications: A Surgeon's Noteson an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande
Andrew Butterfield, Leo's Last Supper
Leonardo's Incessant Last Supper Leo Steinberg
Steven Weinberg, The Growing Nuclear Danger
John Bayley, The King's Trumpeter
The Long Recessional:The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling by David Gilmour
Jeff Madrick, The Power of the Super-Rich
Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich by Kevin Phillips
John K. Leonard, Did Milton Go to the Devil's Party?
How Milton Works by Stanley Fish
Christian Caryl, Giving the Russians Their Spinach
The Russia Hand: A Memoir of Presidential Diplomacy by Strobe Talbott
Jasper Griffin, The Comedy Murder Case
The Death of Comedy by Erich Segal
Tim Parks, Soccer: A Matter of Love and Hate
Witold Rybczynski, Palladio Forever!
The Four Books on Architecture by Andrea Palladio,translated from the Italian by Robert Tavernor and Richard Schofield
The Drawings of Andrea Palladio by Douglas Lewis
Charles Simic, The Always Vanishing World
The Pupil by W.S. Merwin
The Mays of Ventadorn by W.S. Merwin
Michael Wood, Master Among the Ruins
The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis,translated from the Portugueseby Gregory Rabassa
Dom Casmurro by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, translated from the Portuguese by John Gledson
A Master on the Periphery of Capitalism: Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis by Roberto Schwarz, translated from the Portuguese and with an introduction by John Gledson
Machado de Assis: Reflections on a Brazilian Master Writer edited by Richard Graham
Esau and Jacob by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, translated from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Lowe
Quincas Borba by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, translated from the Portuguese by Gregory Rabassa
David Brion Davis, The Terrible Cost of Reconciliation
Divided Hearts: Britain and the American Civil War by R.J.M. Blackett
Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory by David W. Blight
Thomas R. Edwards, After You've Gone
A Multitude of Sins by Richard Ford
André Aciman, Proust Regained
Marcel Proust: A Life by Jean-Yves Tadié
Marcel Proust: A Life by William Carter
Shlomo Avineri, Doyne Dawson, Irwin Wall, et al. 'The Road to Nowhere': An Exchange
Noam Chomsky, John R. Searle, Chomsky's Revolution: An Exchange
Letters
Stanley Karnow, Help for Jews
Contributors
André Aciman teaches Comparative Literature at the City University Graduate Center. He is the author of False Papers and the memoir Out of Egypt.
Russell Baker is a former columnist and correspondent for The New York Times and The Baltimore Sun. His books include The Good Times, Growing Up, and Looking Back.
John Bayley has written two books about his wife, the novelist Iris Murdoch, Elegy for Iris and Iris and Her Friends. (July 2004)
Andrew Butterfield is is President of Andrew Butterfield Fine Arts. His books include The Sculptures of Andrea del Verrocchio. (July 2009)
Christian Caryl is a Contributing Editor at Foreign Policy and Newsweek and a Senior Fellow of the Center for International Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (October 2009)
David Brion Davis is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale and Director Emeritus of Yale's Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. His most recent book is Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World. (May 2007)
Thomas R. Edwards is Emeritus Professor of English at Rutgers and a former editor of Raritan. His most recent book is Over Here: Criticizing America, 1968–1989. (June 2004)
Jasper Griffin is Emeritus Professor of Classical Literature and a Fellow of Balliol College. His books include Homer on Life and Death. (June 2008)
John K. Leonard is a Professor of English at the University of Western Ontario and the author of Naming in Paradise. He has edited Milton's Complete Poems for Penguin, and is currently preparing a Penguin edition of Milton's selected prose. (July 2002)
Jeff Madrick is editor of Challenge Magazine, Visiting Professor at Cooper Union, and Senior Fellow at the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis at the New School. His latest book, The Case for Big Government, was a 2009 PEN Galbraith Award Finalist. (November 2009)
Sherwin B. Nuland is Clinical Professor of Surgery and a Fellow of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale. He is the author of How We Die, which won the National Book Award in 1994, and Lost in America. (December 2005)
Tim Parks, a novelist, essayist, and translator, is Associate Professor of Literature and Translation at IULM University in Milan. His most recent novel is Dreams of Rivers and Seas.
Witold Rybczynski is the Meyerson Professor of Urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania, and is the architecture critic for Slate. His book on American building, Last Harvest, was published in 2007.
Charles Simic is a poet, essayist and translator. He has published twenty collections of his own poetry, five books of essays, a memoir, and numerous of books of translations. He has received many literary awards for his poems and his translations, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Griffin Prize and the MacArthur Fellowship. Voice at 3 A.M., his selected later and new poems, was published in 2003 and a new book of poems My Noiseless Entourage came out in the spring of 2005.
Steven Weinberg holds the Josey Regental Chair in Science at the University of Texas at Austin. He has been awarded the Nobel Prize in physics and the National Medal of Science.
Michael Wood is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge. (September 2009)
