Table of Contents
Volume 51, Number 1 · January 15, 2004
Janet Malcolm, Good Pictures 
Diane Arbus Revelations Catalog of the exhibition by Sandra S. Phillips, Elisabeth Sussman, Doon Arbus, Neil Selkirk, and Jeff L. Rosenheim
Diane Arbus: Family Albums Catalog of the exhibition by Anthony W. Lee and John Pultz
Brian Urquhart, 'A Great Day in History'
Act of Creation: The Founding of the United Nations by Stephen C. Schlesinger
J.M. Coetzee, As a Woman Grows Older
Amos Elon, A Very Special Relationship
Support Any Friend: Kennedy's Middle East and the Making of the US–Israel Alliance by Warren Bass
Israel and the Bomb by Avner Cohen
Alastair Reid, You Can Go Home Again
Living to Tell the Tale by Gabriel García Márquez,translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman
Tim Judah, The Fog of Justice
Ian Buruma, The Antipodes of Glory
The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard
Robin Robertson, Myth (poem)
William D. Nordhaus, The Story of a Bubble
The Fabulous Decade: Macroeconomic Lessons from the 1990s by Alan S. Blinder and Janet L. Yellen
The Roaring Nineties: A New History of the World's Most Prosperous Decade by Joseph E. Stiglitz
Orlando Figes, Roughing It
Summerfolk: A History of the Dacha, 1710–2000 by Stephen Lovell
John Gregory Dunne, STAR!
Natalie Wood: A Life by Gavin Lambert
John Lanchester, Hall of Mirrors
My Life as a Fake by Peter Carey
Oliver Sacks, In the River of Consciousness
The Principles of Psychology by William James
Creative Evolution by Henri Bergson
The Organization of Behavior: A Neuropsychological Theory by Donald Hebb
Neural Darwinism: The Theory of Neuronal Group Selection by Gerald M. Edelman
Wider Than the Sky: The Phenomenal Gift of Consciousness by Gerald M. Edelman
The Physiology of Truth: Neuroscience and Human Knowledge by Jean-Pierre Changeux
The Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul by Francis Crick
The Quest for Consciousness: A Neurobiological Approach by Christof Koch, foreword by Francis Crick.
A Natural History of Vision by Nicholas J. Wade
Letters
Martti Ahtisaari, Ali Alatas, et al. To Israelis and Palestinians: A Statement of Support
Peter Singer, Daniel Mendelsohn, David Oppenheim's Case
Benjamin Moser, Charles Rosen, Culture & the Market
Charles Simic, 'Cathay'
Contributors
Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard. He received the 2008 Erasmus Prize. His novel The China Lover was published in September 2008.
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 new work of fiction, Summertime, from which the piece in this issue is drawn, will be published by Harvill Secker in October. (August 2009)
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)
Orlando Figes is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, London University. His latest book is The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia. (April 2009)
Tim Judah is the Balkans Correspondent of TheEconomist. He is the author of The Serbs: History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia, a new edition of which has just been published. He is also the author of two books on Kosovo and one on the Ethiopian marathon runner Abebe Bikila. He has reported on the Balkans, Afghanistan, Kurdistan, Iraq, and Sudan for The New York Review.
(March 2010)
John Lanchester's new book, I.O.U.: Why Everyone
Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay, will be published in January 2010. His most recent book, Family Romance, was published in paperback in 2008. (December 2009)
Janet Malcolm was born in Prague. She was educated at the High School of Music and Art, in New York, and at the University of Michigan. Along with In the Freud Archives, her books include Diana and Nikon: Essays on Photography, Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession, The Journalist and the Murderer, The Purloined Clinic: Selected Writings, The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, The Crime of Sheila McGough, and Reading Chekhov: A Critical Journey. She lives in New York.
William D. Nordhaus is Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale and was a member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers between 1977 and 1979. He has been writing recently on productivity growth, the new economy, and the business cycle. See his site at www.econ.yale.edu. (January 2004)
Alastair Reid is a poet, translator, essayist, and scholar of Latin American literature. He had been on the staff of The New Yorker since 1959 and has translated works by Pablo Neruda and Jorge Luis Borges. Among his many books for children are A Balloon for a Blunderbuss, I Keep Changing, and Millionaires (all illustrated by Bob Gill), and Supposing (illustrated by Abe Birnbaum). In 2008 he published two career-spanning collections of work, Inside Out: Selected Poetry and Translations and Outside In: Selected Prose.
Robin Robertson's Swithering won the 2006 Forward Prize. His fourth collection, The Wrecking Light, will be published shortly. (February 2010)
Oliver Sacks is a physician and the author of ten books, including The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Awakenings, An Anthropologist on Mars, and, most recently, Musicophilia. He lives in New York City, where he is University Artist and Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at Columbia University.
Brian Urquhart is a former Undersecretary-General of the United Nations. His books include Hammarskjöld, A Life in Peace and War, and Ralph Bunche: An American Life. (December 2009)
