Table of Contents
Volume 49, Number 20 · December 19, 2002
Anne Barton, Byron: The Poetry of It All 
The Kindness of Sisters: Annabella Milbanke and the Destruction of the Byrons by David Crane
Byron: Life and Legend by Fiona MacCarthy
Brian Urquhart, The Prospect of War
The Threatening Storm:The Case for Invading Iraq by Kenneth M. Pollack
Ian Buruma, The Circus of Max Beckmann
Max Beckmann: Un Peintre dans l'histoire
Beckmann Catalog of the exhibition edited by Didier Ottinger
Jason Epstein, Up with Downtown
A New Deal for New York by Mike Wallace
Jennifer Homans, Geniuses Together
Stravinsky and Balanchine: A Journey of Invention by Charles M. Joseph
Brad Leithauser, The Awkward Age
Penrod by Booth Tarkington
Penrod and Sam by Booth Tarkington
The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington
Istvan Deak, Jews and Catholics
A Moral Reckoning: The Role of the Catholic Church in the Holocaust and Its Unfulfilled Duty of Repair by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
Randall Jarrell, Two Poems by Randall Jarrell
P.N. Furbank, Men in the Moon
The Lunar Men: Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed the World by Jenny Uglow
James Fenton, Don't Take Our Raphael!
Colm Tóibín, The Cause that Called You
Ireland's Holy Wars: The Struggle for a Nation's Soul, 1500–2000 by Marcus Tanner
Christian Caryl, Death in Moscow: The Aftermath
Mark Strand, 2002 (poem)
Eamon Duffy, The Cradle Will Rock
The History of the European Family: Volume 1, Family Life in Early Modern Times, 1500–1789 edited by David I. Kertzer and Marzio Barbagli
Ancestors: The Loving Family in Old Europe by Steven Ozment
Medieval Children by Nicholas Orme
Patrick Marnham, The Confidence Man
Stavisky: A Confidence Man in the Republic of Virtue by Paul F. Jankowski
Jim Holt, Geometrical Creatures
The Annotated Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott, with an introduction and notes by Ian Stewart
Flatterland: Like Flatland, Only More So by Ian Stewart
Anita Desai, Cards of Identity
The Secret by Eva Hoffman
Michael Ignatieff, Mission Possible?
A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis by David Rieff
Tim Parks, The Cosimos
Cosimo de' Medici and the Florentine Renaissance by Dale Kent
The Medici, Michelangelo, and the Art of Late Renaissance Florence by Cristina Acidini Luchinat and eleven others
John Terborgh, Vanishing Points
The Future of the Past by Alexander Stille
Amos Elon, Israelis & Palestinians: What Went Wrong?
Mary Dilligan, Sherwin B. Nuland, 'Complications': An Exchange
Letters
Hamid Dabashi, Arien Mack, Professor Aghajari's Case
Felix Mühlhölzer, Colin McGinn, Relativity & Objectivity
Jerry Ceppos, Russell Baker, et al. The Shrinking News
Jay Grossman, Query
Contributors
Anne Barton is a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. She is the author of Essays, Mainly Shakespearean. (March 2007)
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)
Christian Caryl is the Tokyo Bureau Chief of Newsweek. He has reported from thirty-seven countries, including Russia, Afghanistan, North Korea, and Iraq. (December 2007)
Istvan Deak is Seth Low Professor Emeritus at Columbia and the author most recently of Essays on Hitler’s Europe. (June 2008)
Anita Desai's most recent novel is The Zigzag Way. (July 2007)
Eamon Duffy is Professor of the History of Christianity at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Magdalene College. His latest book is Marking the Hours: English People and Their Prayers, 1240–1570. (May 2008)
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)
Jason Epstein was for many years editorial director of Random House and has written on food for various publications. (March 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)
P. N. Furbank is the author of Diderot and, with W.R. Owens, A Political Biography of Daniel Defoe. (December 2007)
Jim Holt writes about science and philosophy for The New Yorker, Slate, and other publications. (May 2003)
Jennifer Homans is a former professional dancer. She lives in New York City and is writing a history of classical ballet. (December 2002)
Michael Ignatieff is the Carr Professor and Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. His latest book is Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry. (April 2003)
Randall Jarrell (1914-1965) was born in Tennessee and graduated from Vanderbilt. A poet, novelist, translator, and critic as well as writer for children, Jarrell was a prolific author whose best-known works include the poems collected in The Woman at the Washington Zoo and The Lost World, the academic comedy Pictures from an Institution, the children's story The Bat Poet, and Poetry and the Age, a group of essays. An influential critic who, as poetry reviewer for The Nation, helped to launch the careers of Robert Lowell and other contemporaries, Jarrell taught for many years at the University of North Carolina, where he was much revered. He died in a car accident in 1965.
Brad Leithauser is a novelist, poet, and essayist. He lives in
Massachusetts.
Patrick Marnham's most recent book is Resistance and Betrayal: The Death and Life of the Greatest Hero of the French
Resistance. (December 2002)
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)
Mark Strand teaches in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia. His most recent book is New Selected Poems. (March 2008)
Colm Tóibín is the author of five novels, including The Story of the Night, The Blackwater Lightship, and The Heather Blazing. The Master, a novel based on the life of Henry James, was published in 2004 and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Among his nonfiction works are Bad Blood: A Walk Along the Irish Border, Homage to Barcelona, The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe, and, most recently, Love in a Dark Time. In 2004, his first play, Beauty in a Broken Place, was produced in Dublin. His most recent novel, The Master, which is based on the life of Henry James, won the Los Angeles Times Novel of the Year Award in 2005 and the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger in France. He lives in Dublin.
John Terborgh is Research Professor in the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences and Director of the Center for Tropical Conservation at Duke. His latest book is Making Parks Work: Strategies for Preserving Tropical Nature. (November 2007)
Brian Urquhart is a former Undersecretary-General of the United Nations. His books include Hammarskjöld, A Life in Peace and War, and Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey. (June 2008)
