Table of Contents
Volume 50, Number 13 · August 14, 2003
Garry Wills, Lightning Rod
Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton
Ingrid D. Rowland, From Heaven to Arcadia 
Titian Catalog of the exhibition edited by David Jaffé, with essays by Charles Hope, Jennifer Fletcher, Jill Dunkerton, and Miguel Falomir
Tiziano Catalog of the exhibition edited by Miguel Falomir, with essays by Charles Hope, Paul Hills, David Rosand, and others
Whitney Balliett, 'In a Mist'
The Complete Okeh and Brunswick Bix Beiderbecke, Frank Trumbauer and Jack Teagarden Sessions, 1924–36
Louis Armstrong: The Complete Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings
1929 by Frederick Turner
Max Rodenbeck, The Occupation
Richard Cohen, Goodbye, William!
Executioner's Current: Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, and the Invention of the Electric Chair by Richard Moran
David Hajdu, Comics for Grown-Ups
Safe Area Gorazde by Joe Sacco, with an introduction by Christopher Hitchens
Palestine by Joe Sacco, with an introduction by Edward Said
Ghost World by Daniel Clowes
Andrew Hacker, Saved?
Diversity in America: Keeping the Government at a Safe Distance by Peter H. Schuck
Remaking the American Mainstream: Assimilation and Contemporary Immigration by Richard Alba and Victor Nee
Grutter v. Bollinger Written opinions by Justices O'Connor, Ginsburg, Scalia,Thomas, Rehnquist, and Kennedy
Gratz v. Bollinger Written opinions by Justices Rehnquist, O'Connor, Thomas, Breyer, Stevens, Souter, and Ginsburg
Gabriele Annan, Cold Comfort
The King in the Tree by Steven Millhauser
Daniel Mendelsohn, In Search of Sappho
If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho translated from the Greek by Anne Carson
Joyce Carol Oates, Who Murdered the Minister?
The Delicate Storm by Giles Blunt
Hussein Agha, Robert Malley, Three Men in a Boat
H. Allen Orr, What's Not in Your Genes
Nature via Nurture: Genes, Experience, and What Makes Us Human by Matt Ridley
Ronald Tiersky, Norman Mailer, Bush & Terror: An Exchange with Norman Mailer
Jeremy Bernstein, Dreaming of Corsica
Pascal Paoli: Père de la patrie corse by Antoine-Marie Graziani
Benedetta Craveri, A Very Grand Girl
La Grande Mademoiselle at the Court of France, 1627–1693 by Vincent J. Pitts
Against Marriage: The Correspondence of La Grande Mademoiselle Anne-Marie-Louise d'Orléans edited and translated from the French by Joan DeJean
James Fenton, The Return of Robert Lowell
Robert Lowell: Collected Poems edited by Frank Bidart and David Gewanter
Thomas Powers, A Letter from Copenhagen
Stanley Rothman, Ronald Dworkin, The Court & the University: An Exchange
Letters
Cyril Galvin, Freeman Dyson, Measuring the Sea
Darryl Pinckney, Correction
Gene Lyons, 'The Hunting of the President'
Contributors
Hussein Agha is Senior Associate Member of St. Antony’s College, Oxford. He is the author, with A.S. Khalidi, of A Framework for a Palestinian National Security Doctrine. (May 2008)
Gabriele Annan is a book and film critic living in London. (March 2006)
Whitney Balliett's most recent book is Collected Works: A Journal of Jazz, 1954—2001 (August 2003).
Jeremy Bernstein is a physicist who worked at
Los Alamos. His forthcoming book is about the element plutonium. (May 2006)
Richard Cohen is a syndicated columnist for The Washington Post. (August 2003)
Benedetta Craveri is a professor of French literature at the University of Tuscia, Viterbo, and the Istituto Universitario Suor Orsola Benincasa, Naples. She regularly contributes to The New York Review of Books and to the cultural pages of the Italian newspaper La Repubblica. Her books include Madame du Deffand and Her World and La Vie privée du Maréchal de Richelieu, and Amanti e regine: Il potere delle donne. She is married to a French diplomat.
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)
Andrew Hacker teaches political science at Queens College. He is currently writing a book on higher education in collaboration with Claudia Dreifus. (October 2007)
David Hajdu, author of Lush Life and Positively 4th Street, teaches at Syracuse University and is music critic for The New Republic. (June 2005)
Robert Malley was Special Assistant to President Clinton for Arab-Israeli Affairs and Director for Near East and South Asian Affairs on the National Security Council staff from September 1998 to January 2001. He is currently Middle East and North Africa Program Director at the International Crisis Group. (May 2008)
Daniel Mendelsohn, is the author of The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million, which won the National Book Critics
Circle Award and the Prix Médicis Étranger in France. A collection of his essays, How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken, mostly from these pages, will be published in August. He teaches at Bard. (June 2008)
Joyce Carol Oates is the Roger S. Berlind Professor of Humanities at Princeton. Her collection of short novellas Wild Nights! Stories About the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway has just been published, and her novel My Sister, My Love: The Intimate Story of Skyler Rampike will be published this summer. (June 2008)
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)
Thomas Powers is the author of The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA (1979), Heisenberg's War: The Secret History of the German Bomb (1993), and The Confirmation (2000), a novel. He won a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1971 and has contributed to The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, Harper's, The Nation, The Atlantic, and Rolling Stone.
Max Rodenbeck is The Economist’s Mideast Correspondent. He is based in Cairo. (May 2008)
Ingrid D. Rowland is a professor, based in Rome, at the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture. A frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, she is the author of The Culture of the High Renaissance: Ancients and Moderns in Sixteenth-Century Rome and The Scarith of Scornello: A Tale of Renaissance Forgery. She has published a translation of Vitruvius' Ten Books of Architecture. Her latest books are a biography of Giordano Bruno and a translation of Bruno's dialogue On the Heroic Frenzies.
Garry Wills was born in Atlanta, Georgia. One of our most distinguished
historians and critics, he is the author of numerous books, including Saint Augustine, Papal
Sin, and the Pulitzer Prize–winning Lincoln at Gettysburg. He has won many other awards,
among them two National Book Critics Circle Awards and the 1998 National Medal for the Humanities.
He is currently Professor of History Emeritus at Northwestern University. A regular contributor
to the New York Review of Books, he lives in Evanston, Illinois.
