Table of Contents

Volume 50, Number 9 · May 29, 2003

Amos Elon, An Unsentimental Education

Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life by Queen Noor

Sanford Schwartz, Wölfli's Empire

The Art of Adolf Wölfli: St. Adolf-Giant-Creation Catalog of the exhibition by Elka Spoerri and Daniel Baumann, with an essay by Edward M. Gomez and a foreword by Gerard C. Werkin

Madness and Art: The Life and Works of Adolf Wölfli by Walter Morgenthaler, M.D., translated from the German and with an introduction and notes by Aaron H. Esman, M.D., with Elka Spoerri

Beyond Reason: Art and Psychosis, Works from the Prinzhorn Collection by Bettina Brand-Claussen, Inge Jádi, and Caroline Douglas

The Discovery of the Art of the Insane by John M. MacGregor

Joseph Lelyveld, In Clinton's Court

The Clinton Wars by Sidney Blumenthal

Michael Massing, The Unseen War

Russell Smith, The New Newsspeak

Sue M. Halpern, Evangelists for Kids

Raising America: Experts, Parents, and a Century of Advice About Children by Ann Hulbert

Anxious Parents: A History of Modern Childrearing in America by Peter N. Stearns

Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser

A Mind at a Time by Mel Levine, M.D.

The Myth of Laziness by Mel Levine, M.D.

John Gregory Dunne, The Horror Is Seductive

Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles by Anthony Swofford

Christian Caryl, Window on Russia

Dostoevsky: The Mantle of the Prophet, 1871–1881 by Joseph Frank

Sunlight at Midnight: St. Petersburg and the Rise of Modern Russia by W. Bruce Lincoln

Russia in the Age of Peter the Great by Lindsey Hughes

Peter the Great by Lindsey Hughes

St. Petersburg: A Cultural History by Solomon Volkov,translated from the Russian by Antonina W. Bouis

Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia by Orlando Figes

Prince of Princes: The Life of Potemkin by Simon Sebag Montefiore

Tim Judah, 'Welcome to al-Sadr City!'

Larry McMurtry, The Perfect Secretary

Lloyd George: War Leader, 1916–1918 by John Grigg

The Years That Are Past by Frances Lloyd George

Frances, Countess Lloyd George: More than a Mistress by Ruth Longford

The Decline and Fall of Lloyd George by Max Aitkens Beaverbrook

Lloyd George: A Diary by Frances Stevenson, edited by A.J.P. Taylor

Stranger on the Square by Arthur and Cynthia Koestler

James Fenton, A New Victorian

Reviewery by Christopher Ricks

Selected Poems of James Henry edited by Christopher Ricks

David Brion Davis, Catching the Conquerors

Captives by Linda Colley

Jim Holt, A Comedy of Colors

Four Colors Suffice: How the Map Problem Was Solved by Robin Wilson

Jonathan Mirsky, How the Chinese Spread SARS

Robert Darnton, The Heresies of Bibliography

Making Meaning: "Printers of the Mind" and Other Essays by D.F. McKenzie, edited by Peter D. McDonald and Michael F. Suarez

Books and Bibliography: Essays in Commemoration of Don McKenzie edited by John Thomson

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Letters

Rev. S. Michael Hahm, Suki Kim, Visiting North Korea
Andrea Siegel, Query
Ingrid D. Rowland, 'The Eyes of Leonardo'
Stephen H. Hoffman, Amos Elon, Money for Israel

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Contributors

Christian Caryl is the Tokyo Bureau Chief of Newsweek. He has reported from thirty-seven countries, including Russia, Afghanistan, North Korea, and Iraq. (August 2008)

Robert Darnton is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the University Library at Harvard. His latest book is George Washington’s False Teeth: An Unconventional Guide to the Eighteenth Century. (June 2008)

David Brion Davis is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale and Director Emeritus of Yale’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. His most recent book is Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World. (May 2007)

John Gregory Dunne's new novel, Nothing Lost, will be published in May. (January 2004)

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 is the editor of The New Faber Book of Love Poems and D.H. Lawrence’s Selected Poems. (November 2008)

Sue Halpern, a frequent contributor to The New York Review, is a scholar in residence at Middlebury College. Her new book, Can’t Remember What I Forgot: The Good News From the Front Lines of Memory Research, will be published in May. (April 2008)

Jim Holt writes about science and philosophy for The New Yorker, Slate, and other publications. (May 2003)

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)

Joseph Lelyveld is a former correspondent and editor of The New York Times. He is the author of Omaha Blues: A Memory Loop. (November 2008)

Michael Massing, a contributing editor of the Columbia Journalism Review, writes frequently on the press and foreign affairs.

Larry McMurtry is the author of twenty-four novels, including The Last Picture Show, Terms of Endearment, Lonesome Dove, winner of the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and, most recently, Folly and Glory. His nonfiction works include a biography of Crazy Horse, Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen, Paradise, and Sacagawea’s Nickname: Essays on the American West (published by New York Review Books). He lives in Archer City, Texas.

Jonathan Mirsky is a journalist and historian specializing in Chinese affairs. He has been to Tibet six times. (July 2008)

Sanford Schwartz's essays and reviews have been collected in The Art Presence and Artists and Writers. (October 2008)

Russell Smith is the author of the novels How Insensitive and Noise; Young Men, a story collection; and the illustrated fable The Princess and the Whiskheads. He writes a weekly column for the Toronto Globe and Mail, in which a different version of the article in this issue appeared. (May 2003)

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