Table of Contents

Volume 49, Number 13 · August 15, 2002

Sanford Schwartz, The Philadelphia Story

Thomas Eakins: American Realist Catalog of the exhibition organized by Darrel Sewell

Garry Wills, The Bishops at Bay

Betrayal: The Crisis in the Catholic Church by the Investigative Staff of the Boston Globe

Conclave: The Politics, Personalities, and Process of the Next Papal Election by John L. Allen Jr.

Kenneth Koch, Proverb (poem)

Tony Judt, Its Own Worst Enemy

The Paradox of American Power: Why The World's Only Superpower Can't Go It Alone by Joseph S. Nye Jr.

James Fenton, Gardening with Attitude

We Made a Garden by Margery Fish,with a foreword by Graham Stuart Thomas

My Summer in a Garden by Charles Dudley Warner, with an introduction by Allan Gurganus

An Island Garden by Celia Thaxter, illustrated by Childe Hassam, with an introduction by Tasha Tudor

The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan

The Gardener's Year by Karel Capek, with an introduction by Verlyn Klinkenborg

Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden by Eleanor Perényi, with an introduction by Allen Lacey

Geoffrey O'Brien, Prospero on the Run

Minority Report a film directed by Steven Spielberg

Darryl Pinckney, Having the Last Laugh

Mr. Potter by Jamaica Kincaid

John Updike, O Beautiful for Spacious Skies

American Sublime: Landscape Painting in the United States, 1820–1880 Catalog of the exhibition by Andrew Wilton and Tim Barringer

Alexander Stille, Secrets of Primo Levi

The Double Bond: Primo Levi by Carole Angier

Primo Levi by Ian Thomson

Saul Steinberg, Reflections on Art and Life

Pankaj Mishra, Murder in India

'We Have No Orders to Save You': State Participation and Complicity in Communal Violence in Gujarat a report by Human Rights Watch

David Hajdu, He Took Manhattan

Somewhere for Me: A Biography of Richard Rodgers by Meryle Secrest

Lorenz Hart: A Poet on Broadway by Frederick Nolan

Ian Buruma, Making a Fetish of Mystery

Essay on Exoticism: An Aesthetics of Diversity by Victor Segalen, translated and edited by Yaël Rachel Schlick, with a foreword by Harry Harootunian

Joyce Carol Oates, For Goodness' Sake

Servants of the Map by Andrea Barrett

Benjamin M. Friedman, Globalization: Stiglitz's Case

Globalization and Its Discontents by Joseph E. Stiglitz


Letters

Sari Nusseibeh, An Appeal
Esther Allen, Marian Schwartz, A Protest



Contributors

Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard. He received the 2008 Erasmus Prize. His novel The China Lover was published in September 2008.

James Fenton iis the editor of The New Faber Book of Love Poems and D.H. Lawrence’s Selected Poems. (July 2009)

Benjamin M. Friedman is the William Joseph Maier Professor of Political Economy at Harvard. His most recent book is The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth. (November 2008)

David Hajdu, author of Lush Life and Positively 4th Street, teaches at Syracuse University and is music critic for The New Republic. (June 2005)

Tony Judt is University Professor at NYU. His latest book, Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century, was recently reissued by Penguin in paperback.
 (July 2009)

Kenneth Koch died on July 6. He was Professor of English at Columbia. During his lifetime, he published at least thirty volumes of poetry and plays. He was also the author of a novel, The Red Robins; two books on teaching poetry writing to children, Wishes, Lies, and Dreams and Rose, Where Did You Get That Red?; and I Never Told Anybody: Teaching Poetry Writing in a Nursing Home. A new collection of his poetry, A Possible World, and Sun Out: Selected Poems 1952–54, will be published this fall. (August 2002)

Pankaj Mishra was born in North India in 1969 and now lives in London and India. He is the author of The Romantics, winner of the Los Angeles Times's Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, and An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and The Guardian. His most recent book is Temptations of the West: How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet, and Beyond.

Geoffrey O'Brien is Editor in Chief of the Library of America. He is the author, most recently, of Sonata for Jukebox: An Autobiography of My Ears and Red Sky Café. (July 2009)

Joyce Carol Oates, the Roger S. Berlind Professor of Humanities at Princeton, is the author most recently of the novel My Sister, My Love: The Intimate Story of Skyler Rampike and the forthcoming story collection Dear Husband. (April 2009)

Darryl Pinckney is the author of a novel, High Cotton, and Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature.

Sanford Schwartz is the author of Christen Købke and William Nicholson. (March 2009)

Saul Steinberg died in 1999. Collections of his drawings include All in Line, The Passport, The Labyrinth, The Inspector, and The Discovery of America. The article in this issue is drawn from Reflections and Shadows, a book of interviews with the writer Aldo Buzzi, just published by Random House. (August 2002)

Alexander Stille is San Paolo Professor of International Journalism at Columbia. His most recent book is The Sack of Rome: Money + Media + Celebrity = Power = Silvio Berlusconi. (December 2008)

John Updike was born in 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania. In 1954 he began to publish in The New Yorker, where he continued to contribute short stories, poems, and criticism until his death in 2009. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, among other awards. His last books were the novel The Widows of Eastwick and Due Considerations, a collection of his essays and criticism.

Garry Wills is Professor of History Emeritus at Northwestern. His most recent book, What Jesus Meant, was published in 2006.


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