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December 16, 1999 • Volume 46, Number 20

  • Alison Lurie

    Not for Muggles e-edition

    Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling

    Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling

    Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling

  • James Fallows

    Billion-Dollar Babies

    The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story by Michael Lewis

    High Stakes, No Prisoners: A Winner’s Tale of Greed and Glory in the Internet Wars by Charles H. Ferguson

  • James Fenton

    Giving Offense e-edition

    Clemente 1999-January 9, 2000. an exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum, New York, October 8,, Catalog of the exhibition by Lisa Dennison

    Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection 9, 2000. an exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, October 2, 1999-January, Catalog of the exhibition by Norman Rosenthal, by Richard Shone, by Martin Maloney, by Brooks Adams, by Lisa Jardine

    Saul Steinberg: Drawing into Being 1-October 30, 1999. an exhibition at the PaceWildenstein Gallery, New York, October, Catalog of the exhibition by Bernice Rose, by Arne Glimcher

  • Robert Skidelsky

    Family Values e-edition

    The House of Rothschild: The World’s Banker, 1849-1999 by Niall Ferguson

    The House of Rothschild: Money’s Prophets, 1798-1848 by Niall Ferguson

  • Hilary Mantel

    A Legacy e-edition

    Our Fathers by Andrew O'Hagan

  • Robert O. Paxton

    The Trial of Maurice Papon e-edition

  • Gore Vidal

    Chaos e-edition

  • Geoffrey O’Brien

    Rock of Ages e-edition

    Flowers in the Dustbin: The Rise of Rock and Roll, 1947-1977 by James Miller

  • John Banville

    The Motherless Child e-edition

    James Joyce by Edna O'Brien

  • Christopher de Bellaigue

    The Struggle for Iran e-edition

    Iran: Comment sortir d’une revolution religieuse by Farhad Khosrokhavar, by Olivier Roy

    Islam and Gender: The Religious Debate in Contemporary Iran by Ziba Mir-Hosseini

    Khomeini: Life of the Ayatollah by Baqer Moin

    Being Modern in Iran by Fariba Adelkhah, Translated from the French by Jonathan Derrick

  • Václav Havel,
    Paul Wilson

    The First Laugh e-edition

  • Hermione Lee

    Unfinished Women e-edition

    Ellen Glasgow: A Biography by Susan Goodman

  • Enrique Krauze

    Chiapas: The Indians’ Prophet e-edition

    Rebellion in Chiapas: An Historical Reader by John Womack Jr.

    Marcos: La genial impostura by Bertrand De la Grange, by Maité Rico

    Religión, política y guerrilla en Las Cañadas de la Selva Lacandona by Maria del Carmen Legorreta Díaz

  • Tim Flannery

    Wonders of a Lost World e-edition

    The Ambonese Curiosity Cabinet by by Georgius Everhardus Rumphius, translated, edited, annotated, and with an introduction E.M. Beekman

  • Conor Cruise O’Brien

    Buried Lives e-edition

    The Oxford History of the British Empire, Volume I: The Origins of Empire: British Overseas Enterprise to the Close of the Seventeenth Century by William Roger Louis editor-in-chief, edited by Nicholas Canny

    The Oxford History of the British Empire, Volume II: The Eighteenth Century by William Roger Louis editor-in-chief, edited by P.J. Marshall

  • Garth Fowden

    Varieties of Polytheistic Experience e-edition

    Christianity and Paganism in the Fourth to Eighth Centuries by Ramsay MacMullen

  • John Bayley

    It Happened One Night e-edition

    The Guest from the Future:Anna Akhmatova and Isaiah Berlin by György Dalos, Translated from the German by Antony Wood

    The Diaries of Nikolay Punin edited by Sidney Monas, and Jennifer Greene Krupala, Translated from the Russian by Jennifer Greene Krupala

  • Pankaj Mishra

    The Other India e-edition

LETTERS

Contributors

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. A Death in Summer, a novel written under the pseudonym Benjamin Black, was published in July 2011.


John Bayley has written two books about his wife, the novelist Iris Murdoch, Elegy for Iris and Iris and Her Friends. (July 2004)

James Fallows is National Correspondent for The Atlantic and author, most recently, of Free Flight. (March 2002)

James Fenton is a visiting fellow at the Cullman Center of the New York Public Library.
 (March 2012)

Tim Flannery is Panasonic Professor of Environmental Sustainability at Macquarie University in Sydney. His latest book is Here on Earth: A Natural History of the Planet.
 (February 2012)

Garth Fowden is Research Professor at the Centre for Greek and Roman Antiquity of the National Research Foundation, Athens. He is the author of The Egyptian Hermes: A Historical Approach to the Late Pagan Mind and Empire to Commonwealth: Consequences of Monotheism in Late Antiquity. (December 2000)

Václav Havel, one of the six signers of the statement “Tibet: The Peace of the Graveyard,” is former president of the Czech Republic. (May 2008)

Paul Wilson is a writer based in Toronto and the translator of several books, plays, and essays by Václav Havel. (February 2012)

Hermione Lee is the author of a biography of Virginia Woolf and of Virginia Woolf’s Nose: Essays on Biography, which has recently appeared in paperback. Her new biography, Edith Wharton, has just been published. (May 2007)

Enrique Krauze is the author of Mexico: Biography of Power. He is Editor-in-Chief of the magazine Letras Libres and was, for twenty years, Deputy Editor of Vuelta, whose editor was Octavio Paz. (December 2000)

Alison Lurie is a former Professor of English at Cornell. Her most recent novel is Truth and Consequences.

Hilary Mantel is an English novelist, short story writer, and critic. Her novel, Wolf Hall, won the Man Booker Prize in 2009.

Pankaj Mishra was born in North India in 1969 and now lives in London and India. He is the author of The Romantics, winner of the Los Angeles Times‘s Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, and An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and The Guardian. His most recent book is Temptations of the West: How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet, and Beyond.

Conor Cruise O’Brien’s many books include God Land: Reflections on Religion and Nationalism and The Long Affair: Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution. His Memoir: My Life and Themes will be published in the US in May. (December 2000)

Robert O. Paxton is Mellon Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus at Columbia. His latest book is The Anatomy of Fascism. (April 2009)

Robert Skidelsky is Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at Warwick University, England. His latest book is Keynes: The Return of the Master. Felix Martin, an economist at Thames River Capital LLP, worked at the World Bank for two stretches between 1998 and 2008. He was formerly an executive board member and analyst at the European Stability Initiative.
 www.skidelskyr.com. (April 2011)

Thomas Flanagan (1923-2002) was a novelist, scholar, and critic. He was the author of The Irish Novelists, 1800–1850 (1959) and the novels The Year of the French (1979), The Tenants of Time (1988), and The End of the Hunt (1994).

Gore Vidal’s most recent novel is The Golden Age. (February 2002)

Charles Rosen’s recording The Romantic Generation, which contains a performance of Franz Liszt’s Reminiscences of Don Juan, was recently reissued. (February 2012)

Christopher de Bellaigue was born in London in 1971 and has worked as a journalist in the Middle East and South Asia since 1994. His first book, In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs: A Memoir of Iran, was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature’s Ondaatje Prize. He lives in Tehran with his wife and two children.

Geoffrey O’Brien is Editor in Chief of the Library of America. His latest books are The Fall of the House of Walworth and Early Autumn. 
(September 2011)