Table of Contents
Volume 50, Number 12 · July 17, 2003
Norman Mailer, The White Man Unburdened
Andrew Butterfield, Capturing Character 
Jean-Antoine Houdon: Sculptor of the Enlightenment Catalog of the exhibition by Anne L. Poulet
Ein Versuch über die Gesichter Houdons by Willibald Sauerländer
Elizabeth Hardwick, Among the Savages
The Golovlyov Family by Shchedrin, translated from the Russian by Natalie Duddington, with an introduction by James Wood
Sketches of Provincial Life by Saltykov-Shchedrin, translated from the Russian and with notes by Frederic Aston
The History of a Town by Saltykov-Shchedrin, translated from the Russian and edited by Susan Brownsberger
The Pompadours: A Satire on the Art of Government by Saltykov-Shchedrin, translated from the Russian and with an introduction by David Magarshack
Anne Applebaum, The Worst of the Terror
Stalin's Last Crime: The Plot Against the Jewish Doctors, 1948–1953 by Jonathan Brent and Vladimir P. Naumov
Virginia Woolf, At Lady Ottoline's
Andrew O'Hagan, The Wonder of Irishness
Shroud by John Banville
Luc Sante, One Nation Under a Groove
Boogaloo: The Quintessence of American Popular Music by Arthur Kempton
Christopher de Bellaigue, The Shiites Under Occupation
Lewis Lockwood, Beethoven Beyond Classicism
Late Beethoven: Music, Thought, Imagination by Maynard Solomon
Beethoven's Ninth: A Political History by Esteban Buch, translated from the French by Richard Miller
Mark Ford, Reproduction (poem)
Jennifer Schuessler, God and the Critic
The Book Against God by James Wood
The Broken Estate: Essays on Literature and Belief by James Wood
Misha Glenny, The Death of Djindjic
James Chace, TR and the Road Not Taken
Theodore Roosevelt: A Strenuous Life by Kathleen Dalton
Stephen Kinzer, Downfall in Nicaragua
Alison Lurie, God's Houses Part II
Cistercian Europe: Architecture of Contemplation by Terryl N. Kinder
America's Religious Architecture: Sacred Places for Every Community by Marilyn J. Chiat
Houses of God: Region, Religion, and Architecture in the United States by Peter W. Williams
Architecture for the Gods by Michael J. Crosbie
Sacred Architecture by Caroline Humphrey and Piers Vitebsky
Re-Pitching the Tent: Reordering the Church Building for Worship and Mission by Richard Giles
Building from Belief: Advance, Retreat, and Compromise in the Remaking of Catholic Church Architecture by Michael E. DeSanctis
Ugly as Sin: Why They Changed Our Churches from Sacred Places to Meeting Spaces—and How We Can Change Them Back Again by Michael S. Rose
When Church Became Theatre: The Transformation of Evangelical Architecture and Worship in Nineteenth-Century America by Jeanne Halgren Kilde
The New Religious Image of Urban America: The Shopping Mall as Ceremonial Center by Ira G. Zepp Jr
Helen Epstein, AIDS in South Africa: The Invisible Cure
Letters
Jiang Qisheng, On Leaving a Chinese Prison
Alfred Brendel, Piano Portrait
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)
Andrew Butterfield is President of Andrew Butterfield Fine Arts. He is the author of The Sculptures of Andrea del Verrocchio. (April 2008)
James Chace is the Paul W. Williams Professor of Government and Public Law at Bard College. He is the author of Acheson and, most recently, 1912: The Election That Changed the Country. He is now working on a biography of Lafayette. (October 2004)
Helen Epstein's book The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West, and the Fight Against AIDS has just been published. (July 2007)
Mark Ford teaches in the English Department at University College London. His edition of the poetry of Frank O’Hara was published in February. (April 2008)
Misha Glenny is the author of The Balkans: Nationalism, War, and the Great Powers, 1804–1999. (July 2003)
Elizabeth Hardwick (b. 1916) has been a 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.
Stephen Kinzer, a former New York Times bureau chief in Managua, Berlin, and Istanbul, is the author of Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq. He is writing a book about Rwanda. (June 2008)
Lewis Lockwood is Fanny Peabody Research Professor of Music at Harvard. He is the author of Beethoven: The Music and the Life and, most recently, co-editor with Mark Kroll of The Beethoven Violin Sonatas: History, Criticism, Performance. (November 2004)
Alison Lurie is the author of two collections of essays on children’s literature, Don’t Tell the Grownups and Boys and Girls Forever. She is a former professor of English at Cornell and has published nine novels, of which the most recent is Truth and Consequences. (May 2008)
Norman Mailer (1923-2007) was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. In 1955 he co-founded The Village Voice. He is the author of more than thirty books, including The Naked and the Dead; The Armies of the Night, for which he won a National Book
Award and the Pulitzer Prize; The Executioner's Song, for which he won his second Pulitzer Prize; Harlot's Ghost; Oswald's Tale; The Gospel According to the Son; and The
Castle in the Forest.
Andrew O'Hagan's novel Be Near Me has just been published in the US. He is a recipient of the E.M. Forster Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. (June 2007)
Luc Sante is the author of Low Life, Evidence, The Factory of Facts, and, most recently, Kill All Your Darlings: Pieces 1990–2005. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and teaches writing and the history of photography at Bard College.
Jennifer Schuessler is on the staff of The New York Times Book Review. (March 2008)
Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) was a celebrated novelist, critic, and essayist. The excerpt in these pages is taken from Carlyle's House and Other Sketches, the first edition of her recently discovered 1909 sketchbook, which is being published on July 15 by Hesperus Press. (July 2003)
Christopher de Bellaigue was born in London in 1971 and has worked as a journalist in the Middle East and South Asia since 1994. His first book, In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs: A Memoir of Iran, was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize. He lives in Tehran with his wife and two children.
