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July 16, 1998 • Volume 45, Number 12

  • Russell Baker

    The Exile

    Nixon in Winter by Monica Crowley

    Abuse of Power: The New Nixon Tapes edited by Stanley I. Kutler

    Nixon’s Economy: Booms, Busts, Dollars, and Votes by Allen J. Matusow

  • Ian Buruma

    In the Empire of Islam

    Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples by V.S. Naipaul

  • Joyce Carol Oates

    A Lost Generation e-edition

    Cold New World: Growing Up in a Harder Country by William Finnegan

  • Diane Johnson

    My Blue Heaven e-edition

    Raising Baby by the Book: The Education of American Mothers by Julia Grant

    Dr. Spock: An American Life by Thomas Maier

    Baby and Child Care Seventh edition, by Benjamin Spock, by Steven Parker

    Maybe One: A Personal and Environmental Argument for Single-Child Families by Bill McKibben

    Family Man by Calvin Trillin

    Born That Way: Genes, Behavior, Personality by William Wright

    The War Against Parents: What We Can Do for America’s Beleaguered Moms and Dads by Sylvia Ann Hewlett, by Cornel West

    Our Babies, Ourselves: How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Parent by Meredith F. Small

  • Cathleen Schine

    Sleepwalkers e-edition

    Last Vanities by Fleur Jaeggy, translated by Tim Parks

  • Andrew Delbanco

    On Alfred Kazin (1915–1998) e-edition

  • Garry Wills

    Slumming e-edition

    Bulworth a film by and with Warren Beatty

  • Henry Allen

    407 Highland Ave., Orange, N.J. (poem) e-edition

  • Helen Epstein

    Life & Death on the Social Ladder e-edition

    Unhealthy Societies: The Afflictions of Inequality by Richard G. Wilkinson

    Healthy Work: Stress, Productivity, and the Reconstruction of Working Life by Robert Karasek, by Töres Theorell

    Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers: A Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping by Robert M. Sapolsky

    The Power of Clan: The Influence of Human Relationships on Heart Disease by Stewart Wolf, by John G. Bruhn

  • Michael Wood

    On the Love Boat e-edition

    Identity by Milan Kundera, translated by Linda Asher

    The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto by Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Edith Grossman

    A Lover’s Almanac by Maureen Howard

    The Red Hat by John Bayley

  • Gabriele Annan

    Nesting Dolls e-edition

    33 Moments of Happiness by Ingo Schulze, translated by John E. Woods

    Simple Storys by Ingo Schulze

  • Geoffrey O’Brien

    Child’s Play e-edition

    Cymbeline of Music, June 3-6, and at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C., June 23-July 5, 1998 a play by William Shakespeare, directed by Adrian Noble. performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Brooklyn Academy

  • John Bayley

    The Way We Write Now e-edition

    Without by Donald Hall

    Going Fast by Frederick Seidel

    Ten Commandments by J.D. McClatchy

    Blizzard of One by Mark Strand

    On Love by Edward Hirsch

  • Tim Judah

    How Milosevic Hangs On e-edition

  • Brian Urquhart

    Looking for the Sheriff e-edition

    FDR and the Creation of the UN by Townsend Hoopes, by Douglas Brinkley

    United Nations: The First Fifty Years by Stanley Meisler

    The Reluctant Sheriff: The United States After the Cold War by Richard N. Haass

    Preventing Deadly Conflict: Final Report by the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict.

  • Elaine Scarry,
    James E. Hall

    An Exchange on TWA 800

LETTERS

Contributors

Noel Malcolm is a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. His books include Bosnia: A Short History and Kosovo: A Short History. (December 2007)

Gabriele Annan is a book and film critic living in London. (March 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.

John Bayley is a critic and novelist. His books include Elegy for Iris and The Power of Delight: A Lifetime in Literature.

Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard. His books include Murderer in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo Van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance, Taming the Gods: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents, and the novel The China Lover. His book Year Zero: A History of 1945 will be published in September 2013.

Andrew Delbanco is Mendelson Family Chair of American Studies at Columbia. His new books, College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be and The Abolitionist Imagination, will be published in April.
 (February 2012)

Tim Judah has written widely on foreign affairs. He reports on the Balkans for The Economist and its online column Eastern Approaches. He is the author of books about the region and a biography of Abebe Bikila, the first black African to win a gold medal at the Olympics.
 (May 2012)

Helen Epstein is an independent consultant and writer specializing in public health in developing countries, and an adjunct assistant professor at the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs. She has advised numerous organizations, including the United States Agency for International Development, the World Bank, Human Rights Watch, and UNICEF. She writes frequently for various publications, including The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine, and Granta, and is the author of The Invisible Cure: Why We Are Losing the Fight Against AIDS in Africa.

Diane Johnson is a novelist and critic. Her books include Lulu in Marrakechand Le Divorce. Her new book, Flyover Lives, will be published in January 2014.

Geoffrey O’Brien is Editor in Chief of the Library of America. His recent works include Early Autumn and The Fall of the House of Walworth. His new book Stolen Glimpses, Captive Shadows: Writing on Film 2002–2012 will be published in 2013.


Henry Allen is a cultural critic at The Washington Post. His new book, What It Felt Like, will be published in the fall. (March 2000)

Joyce Carol Oates is Visiting Professor in the English Department at the University of California at Berkeley. Her new novel is Daddy Love.


Elaine Scarry is the author of On Beauty and Being Just and recently received the Truman Capote Prize for Dreaming by the Book. She teaches at Harvard, where she is completing a project on war and the social contract. (October 2000)

Cathleen Schine is the author of several novels, including Rameau’s Niece, The Love Letter, She is Me, The New Yorkers, and The Three Weissmanns of Westport. Her latest novel, Fin & Lady, will be published in July 2013. She is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books.

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), The Sun, the Genome and the Internet (1999), and A Many-Colored Glass: Reflections on the Place of Life in the Universe (2010). 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.

Garry Wills is Professor of History Emeritus at Northwestern. His study of Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1993. His latest book, Why Priests? A Failed Tradition, was published in February 2013.

Michael Wood is the Charles Barnwell Straut Class of 1923 Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton. His books include Literature and the Taste of Knowledge and Yeats and Violence

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. His article in this issue draws on his essay in Tyringham Topics.
 (February 2013)