Table of Contents
Volume 49, Number 16 · October 24, 2002
Vaclav Havel, A Farewell to Politics
Russell Baker, The Non-Conformist 
Worth the Fighting For: A Memoir by John McCain
Citizen McCain by Elizabeth Drew
Hilary Mantel, Naipaul's Book of the World
The Writer and the World by V.S. Naipaul, edited and with an introduction by Pankaj Mishra
Charles Simic, The Image Hunter
Joseph Cornell: Master of Dreams by Diane Waldman
Amos Elon, The Wanderer
The Red Count: The Life and Times of Harry Kessler by Laird M. Easton
Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Anatomy of a Murder
Blood on the Moon: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln by Edward Steers Jr.
Lincoln's Assassins: Their Trial and Execution by James L. Swanson and Daniel R. Weinberg
J.M. Coetzee, Heir of a Dark History
After Nature by W.G. Sebald, translated from the German by Michael Hamburger
Mark Lilla, The New Age of Tyranny
Pico Iyer, Passage to Bombay
Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry
Gordon A. Craig, Hitler's Pal
Speer: The Final Verdict by Joachim Fest, translated from the German by Ewald Osers and Alexandra Dring
James Fenton, How Smelly Was the Palladian Villa?
The Perfect House: A Journey with the Renaissance Master Andrea Palladio by Witold Rybczynski
Anne Applebaum, After the Gulag
The Gulag Survivor: Beyond the Soviet System by Nanci Adler
Night of Stone: Death and Memory in Twentieth-Century Russia by Catherine Merridale
Reabilitatsiya: Kak Eto Bylo(Rehabilitation: How It Was) by Andrei Artizov, Yuri Sigachev, Vyacheslav Khlopov, and Ivan Shevchuk
Steven Weinberg, Is the Universe a Computer?
A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram
John Weightman, A Soft Spot for Napoleon
Napoleon and Berlin: The Franco-Prussian War in North Germany, 1813 by Michael V. Leggiere
Napoleon by Paul Johnson
Napoleon: A Biography by Frank McLynn
Napoleon Bonaparte: England's Prisoner by Frank Giles
Tim Parks, Tales Told by the Computer
Denis Donoghue, Brotherhood without Fatherhood
Why I Am a Catholic by Garry Wills
Stuart Hampshire, The Spinoza Solution
John Bayley, Sterne's Great Game
Laurence Sterne: A Life by Ian Campbell Ross
Charles Rosen, Should We Adore Adorno?
Philosophy of Modern Music by Theodor W. Adorno, translated from the German by Anne G. Mitchell and Wesley V. Blomster
Essays on Music by Theodor W. Adorno, selected and with an introduction, commentary, and notes by Richard Leppert, and new translations from the German by Susan H. Gillespie
Beethoven: The Philosophy of Music by Theodor W. Adorno, edited by Rolf Tiedemann, translated from the German by Edmond Jephcott
Letters
Wendy W. Luers, The Floods in Prague
Harry Harootunian, A Case of 'Inverted Commas'
Contributors
Anne Applebaum is a columnist for The Washington Post. Her book Gulag: A History won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction. She lives in Poland. (February 2008)
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. (July 2008)
John Bayley has written two books about his wife, the novelist Iris Murdoch, Elegy for Iris and Iris and Her Friends. (July 2004)
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 latest novel, Diary of a Bad Year, was published in December. (March 2008)
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)
Denis Donoghue is University Professor at NYU, where he holds the Henry James Chair of English and American Letters. He is the author of The Practice of Reading, Words Alone: The Poet T.S. Eliot, and, most recently, The American Classics. (October 2006)
Amos Elon's most recent book is The Pity of It All: German Jews Before Hitler. He is a Fellow at the Center for Law and Security at NYU. (February 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)
Stuart Hampshire, formerly Warden of Wardham College, Oxford, is the author of Spinoza and Justice Is Conflict.(October 2002)
Vaclav Havel, one of the six signers of the statement “Tibet: The Peace of the Graveyard,” is former president of the Czech Republic. (May 2008)
Pico Iyer’s The Open Road, about the fourteenth Dalai Lama and globalism, was published this spring. (June 2008)
Mark Lilla is Professor at the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He is the author of G.B. Vico: The Making of an Anti-Modern (1993) and the editor of New French Thought: Political Philosophy (1991). His latest book is The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics, and the Modern West.
Hilary Mantel is the author of nine novels, including Beyond Black. The excerpt in this issue is drawn from her new novel, Wolf Hall, which will be published by Henry Holt in 2009. (July 2008)
Tim Parks, a novelist, essayist, and translator, is Associate Professor of English Literature at IULM University in Milan. His novel Cleaver was published in February. (April 2008)
Charles Rosen's most recent book is Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist. (February 2008)
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.
John Weightman, Professor Emeritus of the University of London, is the author of The Concept of the Avant-Garde. He will soon publish The Cat Sat on the Mat: Language and the Absurd. (October 2002)
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. His most recent book is Facing Up: Science and Its Cultural Adversaries. (April 2004)
Bertram Wyatt-Brown is Richard J. Milbauer Professor of History at the University of Florida. His most recent books are The Shaping of Southern Culture: Honor, Grace, and War and the forthcoming Hearts of Darkness: Wellsprings of a Southern Literary Tradition. (October 2002)
