Table of Contents
Volume 50, Number 3 · February 27, 2003
John Updike, 'A Lone Left Thing' 
Marsden Hartley Catalog of the exhibition edited byElizabeth Mankin Kornhauser
My Dear Stieglitz: Letters of Marsden Hartley and Alfred Stieglitz, 1912–1915 edited by James Timothy Voorhies
Charles Simic, Conspiracy of Silence
On the Natural History of Destruction by W.G. Sebald, translated from the German by Anthea Bell
J.M. Coetzee, Sweet Persuasions of the Dark
Regions of the Great Heresy: Bruno Schulz, A Biographical Portrait by Jerzy Ficowski, translated from the Polish and edited by Theodosia Robertson
Fintan O'Toole, The Taming of a Terrorist
A Secret History of the IRA by Ed Moloney
H. Allen Orr, Darwinian Storytelling
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker
James M. McPherson, A Confederate Guerrilla
Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War by T.J. Stiles
Andrew Delbanco, In Memoriam
Quick Studies: The Best of Lingua Franca edited and with an introduction by Alexander Star
Pankaj Mishra, Kashmir: One Cheer for Democracy
John Bayley, Haunted by the Russian Devil
Pushkin's Children: Writings on Russia and Russians by Tatyana Tolstaya, translated from the Russianby Jamey Gambrell, with an introduction by Alma Guillermoprieto
The Slynx by Tatyana Tolstaya, translated from the Russian by Jamey Gambrell
Alan Ryan, Call Me Mister
Respect in a World of Inequality by Richard Sennett
Joseph Kerman, Beethoven the Unruly
Beethoven: The Music and the Life by Lewis Lockwood
Jonathan Mirsky, China's Psychiatric Terror
Dangerous Minds: Political Psychiatry in China Today and Its Origins in the Mao Era by Robin Munro
Robert Gottlieb, The Strange Case of Dr. B.
Rising to the Light: A Portrait of Bruno Bettelheim by Theron Raines
Not the Thing I Was: Thirteen Years at Bruno Bettelheim's Orthogenic School by Stephen Eliot
The Creation of Dr. B: A Biography of Bruno Bettelheim by Richard Pollak
The Pelican and After by Tom Wallace Lyons
Bettelheim: A Life and a Legacy by Nina Sutton, translated from the French by David Sharp
Richard Holmes, The Romantic Pugilist
Antonio Negri, Alexander Stille, 'Apocalypse Soon': An Exchange
Letters
The Editors of Newsday, Iraq: An Alternative to War
Martin Beck Matustik, Alan Ryan, 'Positive Thinking'
E. Randol Schoenberg, Schoenberg's Warning
Contributors
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)
Andrew Delbanco is Julian Clarence Levi Professor in the Humanities and Director of American Studies at Columbia. His most recent book is Melville: His World and Work. (April 2008)
Robert Gottlieb has been Editor in Chief of Simon and Schuster, Knopf, and The New Yorker. He is the author of George Balanchine: The Ballet Maker and is the dance critic of The New York Observer. (May 2008)
Richard Holmes is the author of Shelley: The Pursuit (published by NYRB Classics), which won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1974; Coleridge: Early Visions, winner of the 1989 Whitbread Book of the Year award; Dr Johnson & Mr Savage, which won the 1993 James Tait Black Prize; and Coleridge: Darker Reflections, which won the 1990 Duff Cooper Prize and Heinemann Award. His other works include Footsteps (1985) and Sidetracks (2000). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 1992. He is also a professor of biographical studies at the University of East Anglia. He lives in London and Norwich with the novelist Rose Tremain.
Joseph Kerman is emeritus professor of music at the University of California, Berkeley. He began writing music criticism for The Hudson Review in the 1950s, and is a longtime contributor to The New York Review of Books and many other journals. His books include Opera as Drama (1956; new and revised edition 1988), The Beethoven Quartets (1967), Contemplating Music (1986), Concerto Conversations (1999), and The Art of Fugue (2005).
James M. McPherson is George Henry Davis ’86 Professor of American History Emeritus at Princeton. His most recent book is This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War, a collection of essays. (April 2008)
Jonathan Mirsky is a journalist and historian specializing in Chinese affairs. He has been to Tibet six times. (July 2008)
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.
Fintan O'Toole is a columnist and critic with The Irish Times. He is the author of White Savage: William Johnson and the Invention of America. (November 2007)
H. Allen Orr is the Shirley Cox Kearns Professor of Biology at the University of Rochester. He is the author, with Jerry A. Coyne, of Speciation. (March 2008)
Alan Ryan is Warden of New College, Oxford, and the author of intellectual biographies of John Stuart Mill, Bertrand Russell, and John Dewey. (November 2007)
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 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.
