Table of Contents
Volume 49, Number 14 · September 26, 2002
Clifford Geertz, The Last Humanist 
A Preference for the Primitive: Episodes in the History of Western Taste and Art by E.H. Gombrich
Bruce Gilley, Andrew J. Nathan, China's New Rulers: The Path to Power
Sue M. Halpern, Heart of Darkness
The Forgetting: Alzheimer's, Portrait of an Epidemic by David Shenk
The Memory Bible: An Innovative Strategy for Keeping Your Brain Young by Gary Small, M.D.
A User's Guide to the Brain: Perception, Attention, and the Four Theaters of the Brain by John J. Ratey, M.D.
The Aging Brain by Lawrence Whalley
Losing My Mind: An Intimate Look at Life with Alzheimer's by Thomas DeBaggio
John Ashbery, Mordred (poem)
Margaret Atwood, The Queen of Quinkdom
The Birthday of the Worldand Other Stories by Ursula K. Le Guin
Christopher Hitchens, Orwell's List
Diane Johnson, The Art of Living
A Charmed Couple: The Art and Life of Walter and Matilda Gay by William Rieder
Mysteries of Paris: The Quest for Morton Fullerton by Marion Mainwaring, with a foreword by Richard Howard
Thomas Powers, The Secret Intelligence Wars
Cloak and Dollar: A History of American Secret Intelligence by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones
The Bureau: The Secret History of the FBI by Ronald Kessler
Spy: The Inside Story of How the FBI’s Robert Hanssen Betrayed America by David Wise
The Bureau and the Mole: The Unmasking of Robert Philip Hanssen, the Most Dangerous Double Agent in FBI History by David A. Vise
The Spy Next Door: The Extraordinary Secret Life of Robert Philip Hanssen, the Most Damaging FBI Agent in US History by Elaine Shannon and Ann Blackman
Darryl Pinckney, The High Priestess of the Vernacular
Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk-Tales from the Gulf States by Zora Neale Hurston, edited and with an introduction by Carla Kaplan, and a foreword by John Edgar Wideman
Charles Simic, You Can't Keep a Good Sonnet Down
American Sonnets by Gerald Stern
Swan Electric by April Bernard
A Short History of the Shadow by Charles Wright
Gordon S. Wood, Wise Men
Benjamin Franklin by Edmund S. Morgan
Bill McKibben, The Hiker's Gospel
The Complete Walker IV by Colin Fletcher and Chip Rawlins
István Deák, The Crime of the Century
Fires of Hatred: Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century Europe by Norman M. Naimark
In God's Name: Genocide and Religion in the Twentieth Century edited by Omer Bartov and Phyllis Mack
The Massacre in History edited by Mark Levene and Penny Roberts
Modern Hatreds: The Symbolic Politics of Ethnic War by Stuart J. Kaufman
Elizabeth Hardwick, On 'The Unpossessed'
Tim Judah, In Iraqi Kurdistan
J.M. Coetzee, The Genius of Trieste
As a Man Grows Older by Italo Svevo, translated from the Italian by Beryl de Zoete, with an introduction by James Lasdun
Emilio's Carnival by Italo Svevo, translated from the Italian by Beth Archer Brombert, with an introduction by Victor Brombert
Zeno's Conscience by Italo Svevo, translated from the Italian and with an introduction by William Weaver, and a prefaceby Elizabeth Hardwick
Memoir of Italo Svevo by Livia Veneziani Svevo, translated from the Italian by Isabel Quigly
Brad Leithauser, Wrapped Up in the Melody
Stardust Melody: The Life and Music of Hoagy Carmichael by Richard M. Sudhalter
Ronald Dworkin, Taking Rights Seriously in Beijing
James Fenton, Some Advice for Poets
Anthony Grafton, Ingrid D. Rowland, The Witch Hunters' Crusade
Demon Lovers: Witchcraft, Sex, and the Crisis of Belief by Walter Stephens
Gordon A. Craig, Great Scots!
How the Scots Invented the Modern World by Arthur Herman
Benjamin DeMott, Guilt Stalker
The Black Veil: A Memoir with Digressions by Rick Moody
John Banville, On the Fatal Shore
Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish by Richard Flanagan
Frances FitzGerald, George Bush & the World
David Hirsch, Philip Jenkins, Judith Levine, et al. Priests and Boys: An Exchange
Letters
Arthur Helton, Administrating Misery
Reinhold Aman, Alive & Kicking
The Editors, Corrections
Contributors
John Ashbery is the author of twenty books of poetry, including Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (1975), which received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the National Book Award; and Some Trees (1956), which was selected by W. H. Auden for the Yale Younger Poets Series. He has also published art criticism, plays, and a novel. Ashbery is currently the Charles P. Stevenson, Jr., Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard College.
Margaret Atwood is the author of eleven novels, among them The Handmaid’s Tale, Cat’s Eye, Alias Grace, and The Blind Assassin. Her most recent works of fiction are Oryx and Crake, The Tent, and Moral Disorder. (December 2006)
John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He is the author of many novels, including The Book of Evidence, The Untouchable, and Eclipse. Banville's novel The Sea was awarded the 2005 Man Booker Prize. On occasion he writes under the pen name Benjamin Black.
J. M. Coetzee, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 2003, is currently Visiting Professor of Humanities at the University of Adelaide. His new work of fiction, Summertime, from which the piece in this issue is drawn, will be published by Harvill Secker in October. (July 2009)
Gordon A. Craig is J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Stanford. His latest book is Politics and Culture in Modern Germany. (December 2003)
István Deák is Seth Low Professor Emeritus at Columbia and the author most recently of Essays on Hitler’s Europe. (June 2008)
Benjamin Demott is Mellon Professor of Humanities Emeritus at Amherst. His most recent book is Junk Politics: The Trashing of the American Mind. (May 2005)
Ronald Dworkin is Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law and Philosophy at NYU and Jeremy Bentham Professor of Law and Philosophy at University College London. His books include Is Democracy Possible Here? (2006), Justice in Robes, Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality, and Freedom's Law. He is the 2007 winner of the Ludvig Holberg International Memorial Prize for "his pioneering scholarly work" of "worldwide impact."
James Fenton iis the editor of The New Faber Book of Love Poems and D.H. Lawrence’s Selected Poems. (July 2009)
Frances FitzGerald's books include Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars, and the End of the Cold War. (November 2008)
Clifford Geertz is Professor Emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He is the author of, among other works, The Social History of an Indonesian Town and Negara: The Balinese State in the Nineteenth Century. (March 2006)
Bruce Gilley is a doctoral student in politics at Princeton University and a former contributing editor at the Far Eastern Economic Review. He is the author of the forthcoming China's Democratic Future, Model Rebels: The Rise and Fall of China's Richest Village, and Tiger on the Brink: Jiang Zemin and
China's New Elite.
Anthony Grafton teaches the history of Renaissance Europe at Princeton University. His books include Joseph Scaliger, Cardano's Cosmos, and Bring Out Your Dead.
Sue Halpern is a scholar in residence at Middlebury College. Her most recent book is Can't Remember What I Forgot: The Good News from the Front Lines of Memory Research.
(May 2009)
Elizabeth Hardwick (1916-2007) was frequent contributor to The Partisan Review, The New Yorker, and The New York Review of Books, which she helped found in 1963. Her books include the novels The Simple Truth, The Ghostly Lover, and Sleepless Nights, the essay collection A View of My Own, and The Selected Letters of William James, for which she acted as editor.
Christopher Hitchens is a columnist for Vanity Fair and a visiting professor of Liberal Studies at the New School.
Diane Johnson’s new novel, Lulu in Marrakech, will be published this month. (October 2008)
Tim Judah is the author of Kosovo: War and Revenge and The Serbs: History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia. He has reported on the Balkans, Afghanistan, Kurdistan, Iraq, and Sudan for The New York Review. (October 2006)
Brad Leithauser is a novelist, poet, and essayist. He lives in
Massachusetts.
Bill Mckibben is scholar in residence at Middlebury College, and the author of The End of Nature and Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future.
Andrew J. Nathan is Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. He is the author of China's Transition, China's Crisis: Dilemmas of Reform and Prospects for Democracy, and Chinese Democracy, the coauthor of The Great Wall and the Empty Fortress: China's Search for Security, and the co-editor of The Tiananmen Papers.
Darryl Pinckney is the author of a novel, High Cotton, and Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature.
Thomas Powers is the author of The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA (1979), Heisenberg's War: The Secret History of the German Bomb (1993), Intelligence Wars: American Secret History from Hitler to al-Qaeda (2002; revised and expanded edition, 2004), and The Confirmation (2000), a novel. He won a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1971 and has contributed to The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, Harper's, The Nation, The Atlantic, and Rolling Stone.
Ingrid D. Rowland is a professor, based in Rome, at the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture. A frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, she is the author of The Culture of the High Renaissance: Ancients and Moderns in Sixteenth-Century Rome and The Scarith of Scornello: A Tale of Renaissance Forgery. She has published a translation of Vitruvius' Ten Books of Architecture. Her latest books are a biography of Giordano Bruno and a translation of Bruno's dialogue On the Heroic Frenzies.
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.
Gordon Wood is the Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History at Brown. A collection of his essays, The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History, was published in March. (May 2008)
