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

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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'

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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. (July 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 author of Kosovo: War and Revenge and The Serbs: History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia. He has reported on the Balkans, Afghanistan, Kurdistan, Iraq, and Sudan for The New York Review. (October 2006)

John Lanchester's most recent book is a memoir, Family Romance. (March 2007)

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, prose writer, translator, and traveler. Born in Galloway, he served in the Royal Navy in wartime, and afterward left Scotland to live in a number of different countries. Since the 1950s, he has been a traveling correspondent for The New Yorker. He has published more than forty books—of poems, essays, prose chronicles, and translations—and his writings have been widely translated.

Robin Robertson's Swithering won the 2006 Forward Prize. His translation of Medea will be published in September. (May 2008)

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 Odyssey. (March 2009)

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