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 this year’s Shorenstein Award for writing about Asia. His novel The China Lover will be published this fall. (June 2008)
James Fenton's new book, School of Genius, a history of the Royal Academy in London, will be published in the US in May. (May 2006)
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. (March 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 new book, Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century, will be published in April. (May 2008)
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. (April 2008)
Joyce Carol Oates is the Roger S. Berlind Professor of Humanities at Princeton. Her collection of short novellas Wild Nights! Stories About the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway has just been published, and her novel My Sister, My Love: The Intimate Story of Skyler Rampike will be published this summer. (June 2008)
Darryl Pinckney is the author of a novel, High Cotton, and Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature.
Sanford Schwartz's essays and reviews have been collected in The Art Presence and Artists and Writers. (July 2008)
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 the author of Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic and The Future of the Past. His most recent book is The Sack of Rome: Money + Media + Celebrity = Power = Silvio Berlusconi. (April 2008)
John Updike was born in 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania. In 1954 he began to publish in The New Yorker, where he continues to contribute short stories, poems, and criticism. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, among other awards. His most recent books are the novel Terrorist and Due Considerations, a collection of his essays and criticism.
Garry Wills was born in Atlanta, Georgia. One of our most distinguished
historians and critics, he is the author of numerous books, including Saint Augustine, Papal
Sin, and the Pulitzer Prize–winning Lincoln at Gettysburg. He has won many other awards,
among them two National Book Critics Circle Awards and the 1998 National Medal for the Humanities.
He is currently Professor of History Emeritus at Northwestern University. A regular contributor
to the New York Review of Books, he lives in Evanston, Illinois.
