Table of Contents

Volume 50, Number 17 · November 6, 2003

Russell Baker, The Awful Truth

The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century by Paul Krugman

John Updike, Singular in Everything

El Greco catalog of the exhibition edited by David Davies, with essays by Davies and John H. Elliott and contributions by Xavier Bray, Keith Christiansen, Gabriele Finaldi, Marcus Burke, and Lois Oliver

Elizabeth Hardwick, Funny as a Crutch

Nathanael West: Novels and Other Writings selected and with notes by Sacvan Bercovitch

Nathanael West: A Collection of Critical Essays edited by Jay Martin

Nathanael West by Robert Emmet Long

Andrew O'Hagan, Imitation of Life

Whatever You Say I Am: The Life and Times of Eminem by Anthony Bozza

Eminem "Talking": Marshall Mathers in His Own Words by Chuck Weiner

Angry Blonde by Eminem

Roger Shattuck, Tumult in the Clouds

Visions of a Flying Machine: The Wright Brothers and the Process of Invention by Peter L. Jakab

Unlocking the Sky: Glenn Curtiss and the Race to Invent the Airplane by Seth Shulman

Wings of Madness: Alberto Santos-Dumont and the Invention of Flight by Paul Hoffman

How We Invented the Airplane: An Illustrated History by Orville Wright, edited by Fred C. Kelly

The Published Writings of Wilbur and Orville Wright edited by Peter L. Jakab and Rick Young

First Flight: The Wright Brothers and the Invention of the Airplane by T.A. Heppenheimer

The Wright Brothers and the Invention of the Aerial Age by Tom D. Crouch and Peter L. Jakab

Les Avions de la Grande Galerie Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace

Progress in Flying Machines by Octave Chanute

To Conquer the Air: The Wright Brothers and the Great Race for Flight by James Tobin

North Star over My Shoulder: A Flying Life by Bob Buck

No Visible Horizon: Surviving the World's Most Dangerous Sport by Joshua Cooper Ramo

Inside the Sky: A Meditation on Flight by William Langewiesche

Taking Flight: Inventing the Aerial Age from Antiquity through the First World War by Richard P. Hallion

Luc Sante, My Lost City

Ronald Dworkin, Terror & the Attack on Civil Liberties

Freeman Dyson, Clockwork Science

Einstein's Clocks, Poincaré's Maps:Empires of Time by Peter Galison

Garry Wills, The Negro President

Rosemary Dinnage, In Love with Verdi

Verdi in the Age of Italian Romanticism by David R.B. Kimbell

The Man Verdi by Frank Walker

Verdi: A Biography by Mary Jane Phillips-Matz

Steven Weinberg, What Price Glory?

A Stillness at Appomattox: The Army of the Potomac, Vol. 3 by Bruce Catton

The World Crisis, Vol. 4 by Winston S. Churchill

Infantry Warfare in the Early Fourteenth Century by Kelly DeVries

Crusade in Europe by Dwight D. Eisenhower

The Carmen de Hastingae Proelio of Guy, Bishop of Amiens translated and edited by Catherine Morton and Hope Muntz

War in European History by Michael Howard

From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow, Vol. 4 by Arthur J. Marder

Atlanta 1864: Last Chance for the Confederacy by Richard M. McMurry

Winged Defense: The Development and Possibilities of Modern Air Power—Economic and Military by William Mitchell

Coral Sea, Midway, and Submarine Actions, May 1942–August 1942 by Samuel Eliot Morison

A History of the Art of War in the Middle Ages by C.W.C. Oman

The Art of War in the Middle Ages, AD 378–1515 by C.W.C. Oman, revised and edited by John H. Beeler

Mohammed and Charlemagne by Henri Pirenne

Hankey: Man of Secrets, Vol. 1, 1877–1918 by Stephen Roskill

The Victory at Sea by William S. Sims

The Bayeux Tapestry: A Comprehensive Survey edited by Frank Stenton

Eisenhower's Lieutenants: The Campaign of France and Germany, 1944–1945 by Russell F. Weigley

A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II by Gerhard L. Weinberg

Medieval Technology and Social Change by Lynn White

The Gesta Guillelmi of William of Poitiers translated and edited by R.H.C. Davis and Marjorie Chibnall

Larry McMurtry, Leaving the Lake

Love Me by Garrison Keillor

John Banville, Good Man, Bad World

Orwell: The Life by D.J. Taylor

Inside George Orwell by Gordon Bowker

Joyce Carol Oates, News from Everywhere

A Few Short Notes on Tropical Butterflies by John Murray

Goblin Fruit by David Marshall Chan

Red Ant House by Ann Cummins

Curled in the Bed of Love by Catherine Brady

Charles Rosen, Culture on the Market

Tim Parks, The Outsider's Art

The Moon and the Bonfires by Cesare Pavese, translated from the Italian by R.W. Flint, and with an introduction by Mark Rudman

The Selected Works of Cesare Pavese translated from the Italian and with an introduction by R.W. Flint

Disaffections: Complete Poems 1930–1950 by Cesare Pavese, translated from the Italian by Geoffrey Brock

The Harvesters by Cesare Pavese, translated from the Italian by A.E. Murch

Il mestiere di vivere: Diario 1935–1950 by Cesare Pavese, edited by Marziano Guglielminetti and Laura Nay, with an introduction by Cesare Segre

An Absurd Vice: A Biography of Cesare Pavese by Davide Lajolo, translated from the Italian and with an introduction by Mario and Mark Pietralunga

Margaret Atwood, He Springs Eternal

Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith in Difficult Times by Studs Terkel

Joan Didion, Mr. Bush & the Divine

Armageddon: The Cosmic Battle of the Ages by Tim F. LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins

Jeremy Bernstein, Peter D. Lax, Thomas Powers, Heisenberg & the Bomb: An Exchange

John Dominic Crossan, Jonathan L. Reed, E.P. Sanders, 'Who Was Jesus?': An Exchange

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Letters

Robert Lowell, Founding the New York Review: Two Letters from Robert Lowell to Elizabeth Bishop
J.J. Goldberg, Elizabeth Drew, 'The Neocons in Power'
Morris Dickstein, Irving Howe Memorial Lecture
Ingrid D. Rowland, Ca' Pesaro
The Editors, 'Wartime Lies'

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Contributors

Margaret Atwood is the author of eleven novels, among them The Handmaid’s Tale, Cat’s Eye, Alias Grace, and The Blind Assassin. Her most recent works of fiction are Oryx and Crake, The Tent, and Moral Disorder. (December 2006)

Russell Baker is a former columnist and correspondent for The New York Times and The Baltimore Sun. His books include The Good Times, Growing Up, and Looking Back. (April 2008)

John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He is the author of many novels, including The Book of Evidence, The Untouchable, and Eclipse. Banville's novel The Sea was awarded the 2005 Man Booker Prize. On occasion he writes under the pen name Benjamin Black.

Joan Didion is the author of The Year of Magical Thinking and We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction. (February 2008)

Rosemary Dinnage's books include The Ruffian on the Stair, One to One: Experiences of Psychotherapy, and Annie Besant.

Ronald Dworkin is Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law and Philosophy at NYU and Jeremy Bentham Professor of Law and Philosophy at University College London. His books include Is Democracy Possible Here? (2006), Justice in Robes, Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality, and Freedom's Law. He is the 2007 winner of the Ludvig Holberg International Memorial Prize for "his pioneering scholarly work" of "worldwide impact."

Freeman Dyson has spent most of his life as a professor of physics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, taking time off to advise the US government and write books for the general public. He was born in England and worked as a civilian scientist for the Royal Air Force during World War II. He came to Cornell University as a graduate student in 1947 and worked with Hans Bethe and Richard Feynman, producing a user-friendly way to calculate the behavior of atoms and radiation. He also worked on nuclear reactors, solid-state physics, ferromagnetism, astrophysics, and biology, looking for problems where elegant mathematics could be usefully applied.

Dyson's books include Disturbing the Universe (1979), Weapons and Hope (1984), Infinite in All Directions (1988), Origins of Life (1986, second edition 1999), and The Sun, the Genome and the Internet (1999). He is a fellow of the American Physical Society, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and a fellow of the Royal Society of London. In 2000 he was awarded the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion.

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.

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.

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)

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. (May 2008)

Tim Parks, a novelist, essayist, and translator, is Associate Professor of English Literature at IULM University in Milan. His novel Cleaver was published in February. (April 2008)

Charles Rosen's most recent book is Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist. (February 2008)

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.

Roger Shattuck is the author of Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography. He has most recently edited new editions of two books by Helen Keller. He is University Professor Emeritus at Boston University. (May 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.

Steven Weinberg holds the Josey Regental Chair in Science at the University of Texas at Austin. He has been awarded the Nobel Prize in physics and the National Medal of Science. His most recent book is Facing Up: Science and Its Cultural Adversaries. (April 2004)

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.

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