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July 15, 1999 • Volume 46, Number 12

  • James Fenton

    Degas in New Orleans e-edition

    Degas and New Orleans: A French Impressionist in America an exhibition at the New Orleans Museum of Art, May 1-August 29, 1999., Catalog of the exhibition by Gail Feigenbaum, by Jean Sutherland Boggs

  • Lars-Erik Nelson

    Washington: The Yellow Peril e-edition

    Report of the Select Committee on US National Security and Military/Commercial Concerns with the People’s Republic of China submitted by Mr. Cox of California, Chairman.

    Year of the Rat: How Bill Clinton Compromised US Security for Chinese Cash by Edward Timperlake, by William C. Triplett II

  • Wisława Szymborska

    The She-Pharaoh e-edition

  • John Gregory Dunne

    Birth of a Salesman

    Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made by David Halberstam

    For the Love of the Game: My Story by Michael Jordan

    The Best American Sports Writing of the Century edited by. David Halberstam

  • Avi Shlaim,
    King Hussein

    His Royal Shyness: King Hussein and Israel e-edition

  • Tim Parks

    Sentimental Education e-edition

    An Equal Music by Vikram Seth

  • Garry Wills

    A Reader’s Guide to the Century e-edition

    The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991 by Eric Hobsbawm

    Modern Times, Modern Places by Peter Conrad

    A History of the World in the Twentieth Century by J.A.S. Grenville

    The Century by Peter Jennings, by Todd Brewster

    The American Century by Harold Evans, with Gail Buckland, by Kevin Baker

    The Oxford History of the Twentieth Century edited by Michael Howard, by William Roger Louis

    The Columbia History of the Twentieth Century edited by Richard W. Bulliet

    Why the American Century? by Olivier Zunz

    The Twentieth Century: A World History by Clive Ponting

    Our Times: The Illustrated History of the 20th Century edited by Lorraine Glennon

    Chronicle of the 20th Century edited by Clifton Daniel, by John W. Kirshon, foreword by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., by An updated edition will be published in November.

    National Geographic Eyewitness to the 20th Century by National Geographic Society

  • David Lodge

    Waugh’s Comic Waste Land e-edition

  • Jonathan Mirsky

    Holding Out in Hong Kong e-edition

  • Joseph McBride

    The Joys of Necrophilia e-edition

    Gods and Monsters a film written and directed by Bill Condon. Condon's screenplay appears in Scenario: The Magazine of Screenwriting Art, Vol. 4, No. 4 (Winter 1998-1999).

    Father of Frankenstein by Christopher Bram

    James Whale: A New World of Gods and Monsters by James Curtis

    Bride of Frankenstein by Alberto Manguel. (distributed in the US by Indiana University Press)

    Open Secret: Gay Hollywood 1928-1998 by David Ehrenstein

  • Benjamin M. Friedman

    The Power of the Electronic Herd e-edition

    The Lexus and the Olive Tree by Thomas L. Friedman

  • Leo Marx

    The Full Thoreau e-edition

    The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture by Lawrence Buell

    Seeing New Worlds: Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenth-Century Natural Science by Laura Dassow Walls

  • Alexander Stille

    Palermo: The Photography of Death e-edition

  • Mark Danner

    Kosovo: The Meaning of Victory e-edition

Contributors

Mark Danner is the author, most recently, of Stripping Bare the Body: Politics Violence War. He is Chancellor’s Professor of English, Journalism and Politics at the University of California at Berkeley and James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs, Politics and the Humanities at Bard College and is currently teaching at Al Quds University in East Jerusalem. His book Torture and the Forever War will be published in the spring of 2013. His writing and other work can be found at markdanner.com.

John Gregory Dunne (1932–2003) was a novelist, screenwriter and critic. His final novel is entitled Nothing Lost.

James Fenton is a British poet and literary critic. From 1994 until 1999, Fenton was Oxford Professor of Poetry; in 2007 he was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry.

Benjamin M. Friedman is the William Joseph Maier Professor of Political Economy at Harvard. His most recent book is The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth.
 (October 2012)

David Lodge is a novelist and critic and Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Birmingham, England. His novels include Changing Places, Small World, Nice Work, Author, Author and A Man of Parts. His most recent works of criticism are Consciousness and the Novel and The Year of Henry James.

Leo Marx is the Kenan Professor of American Cultural History (Emeritus) at MIT and most recently the editor, with Bruce Mazlish, of Progress:Fact or Illusion? (July 1999)

Joseph McBride’s books include Steven Spielberg: A Biography, Frank Capra: The Catastrophe of Success, Orson Welles, and Hawks on Hawks. His biography Searching for John Ford will be published in December. He writes a regular column on film for Irish America magazine. (July 1999)

Jonathan Mirsky, a journalist and historian of China, is the former East Asia Editor of The Times of London.
 (May 2013)

Lars-Erik Nelson (1941-2000) was the Washington columnist for the New York Daily News, and a frequent contributor to the Review.

Tim Parks, a novelist, essayist, and translator, is Associate Professor of Literature and Translation at IULM University in Milan. His books include Teach Us to Sit Still: A Skeptic’s Search for Health and Healing and The Server.

Avi Shlaim is Professor of International Relations at Oxford University. His new book, The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World since 1948, will be published in October. (July 1999)

King Hussein died on February 7, 1999. (July 1999)

Alexander Stille is San Paolo Professor of International Journalism at Columbia. His memoir, The Force of Things: A Marriage in War in Peace, will be published next February. (October 2012)

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.

Wisława Szymborska, who died on February 1, 2012, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1996. (March 2012)