Table of Contents
Volume 50, Number 16 · October 23, 2003
J.M. Coetzee, Awakening
The Pickup by Nadine Gordimer
Loot and Other Stories by Nadine Gordimer
Tony Judt, Israel: The Alternative
Birger A. Pearson, The Other Christians 
Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas by Elaine Pagels
Anthony Lewis, Un-American Activities
Enemy Aliens: Double Standards and Constitutional Freedoms in the War on Terrorism by David Cole
Brad Leithauser, Equatorial Triptych (poem)
Joyce Carol Oates, Stranded in the Dark
Giving Up the Ghost by Hilary Mantel
Eight Months on Ghazzah Street by Hilary Mantel
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Eyeless in Iraq
America Unbound: The Bush Revolutionin Foreign Policy by Ivo H. Daalder and James M. Lindsay
The George W. Bush Presidency: An Early Assessment edited by Fred I. Greenstein
Robert Winter, Piano Man
Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist by Charles Rosen
Amos Elon, Could He Have Stopped Hitler?
Gustav Stresemann: Weimar's Greatest Statesman by Jonathan Wright
Diane Johnson, The War Between Men and Women (Cont'd)
Mismatch: The Growing Gulf Between Men and Women by Andrew Hacker
Orlando Figes, In Search of Russia
Russia: Experiment with a People by Robert Service
Black Earth: A Journey Through Russia After the Fall by Andrew Meier
Larry McMurtry, Big Daddy
Bill Clinton, an American Journey: Great Expectations by Nigel Hamilton
Charles Simic, The Golden Age of Hatred
The Hooligan's Return by Norman Manea, translated from the Romanian by Angela Jianu
James Fenton, Blair in Trouble
Thirty Days: Tony Blair and the Test of History by Peter Stothard
The Hutton Inquiry: Investigation into the Circumstances Surrounding the Death of Dr. David Kelly
David J. Rothman, Sheila M. Rothman, The Organ Market
General Wesley Clark, Iraq: What Went Wrong
Martin Filler, Victory at Bunker Hill
Symphony: Frank Gehry's Walt Disney Concert Hall with an introduction by Frank Gehry and a preface by Deborah Borda; essays by Richard Koshalek and Dana Hutt, Carol McMichael Reese, Michael Webb, and Esa-Pekka Salonen; and photographs by Grant Mudford
Frank O. Gehry: Work in Progress
Letters
Betsy Nicoletti, Garry Wills, 'Living History'
Janet Jagan, Doris Lessing, The Jewel of Africa
Richard N. Frye, H.D.S. Greenway, The Wages of Coups
Aaron H. Esman, Found in Translation
Kenneth Kusmer, The Legacy of John Higham
Contributors
General Wesley K. Clark, USA (Ret.), was Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, from 1997 to 2000, a military analyst for CNN from 2001 to 2003, and is chairman of Wesley K. Clark & Associates. The article in this issue is based on his new book, Winning Modern Wars: Iraq, Terrorism, and the American Empire, to be published this month by Public Affairs, a
member of the Perseus Books Group. (October 2003)
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)
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's new book, School of Genius, a history of the Royal Academy in London, will be published in the US in May. (May 2006)
Orlando Figes is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, London University. His new book, The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin’s Russia, will be published this month. (November 2007)
Martin Filler is the architecture critic of House & Garden and a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and The New Republic. He is the co-author, with Olivier Bossiere, of The Vitra Design Museum: Frank Gehry, Architect.
Diane Johnson is the author, most recently, of Into a Paris Quartier: Reine Margot’s Chapel and Other Haunts of St. Germain. Her latest novel is L’Affaire. (February 2008)
Tony Judt is University Professor at NYU. His new book, Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century, will be published in April. (May 2008)
Brad Leithauser is a novelist, poet, and essayist. He lives in
Massachusetts.
Anthony Lewis, a former columnist for The New York Times, has twice won the Pulitzer Prize. His book Freedom for the Thought We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment was published this year. (May 2008)
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.
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)
Birger A. Pearson is Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. (October 2003)
David J. Rothman is Bernard Schoenberg Professor of Social Medicine and History at the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons and president of the Institute on Medicine as a Professor.
Sheila M. Rothman is Professor of Public Health at the Mailman School, Columbia University. Their books written together include The Willowbrook Wars: A Decade of Struggle for Social Justice (1984) and The Pursuit of Perfection: The Promise and Perils of Medical Enhancement (2003).
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., the author of numerous books on American history, served as adviser to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. He died this year. His Journals: 1952– 2000, from which an excerpt appears in this issue, will be published in October by Penguin. (October 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.
Robert Winter holds the Presidential Chair in Music and Interactive Arts at UCLA. His two new interactive DVDs, Dvorák in America (with Joseph Horowitz) and Performing the Bartók Quartets (with the Emerson Quartet), will appear in early 2004. (October 2003)
