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August 10, 2000 • Volume 47, Number 13

  • Russell Baker

    A Boy’s Life e-edition

  • John Updike

    ‘Nature Itself’ e-edition

    Chardin 27-September 3, 2000. an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, June, Catalog of the exhibition edited by Pierre Rosenberg, with essays by Rosenberg, Colin B. Bailey, René Démoris, Marie-Laure de Rochebrune and Antoine Schnap

    Chardin: An Intimate Art by Hélène Prigent, by Pierre Rosenberg

  • Lars-Erik Nelson

    Party Going

    Campaign Talk: Why Elections Are Good for Us by Roderick P. Hart

    No Way to Pick a President by Jules Witcover

  • Henri Zerner,
    Charles Rosen

    Scenes from the American Dream e-edition

    Norman Rockwell: Pictures for the American People 17- September 24, 2000. by June an exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Catalog of the exhibition edited by Maureen Hart Hennessey, by Anne Knutson

  • Tim Judah

    Croatia Reborn e-edition

  • Larry McMurtry

    Inventing the West

    A Newer World: Kit Carson, John C. Frémont, and the Claiming of the American West by David Roberts

    The Lives and Legends of Buffalo Bill by Don Russell

    Buffalo Bill’s Wild West: Celebrity, Memory, and Popular History by Joy S. Kasson

    The Business of Being Buffalo Bill: Selected Letters of William F. Cody, 1879-1917 by Sarah J. Blackstone

    The Real Wild West: The 101 Ranch and the Creation of the American West by Michael Wallis

    The Life and Legacy of Annie Oakley by Glenda Riley

    Annie Oakley and Buffalo Bill’s Wild West by Isabelle S. Sayers

    Will Rogers by Ben Yagoda

  • Murray Kempton

    The Brawls of Yesteryear e-edition

  • Richard Horton

    In the Danger Zone

    Intensive Care: A Doctor’s Journal by John F. Murray

  • John Bayley

    The Greatest! e-edition

    William Shakespeare: The Man Behind the Genius by Anthony Holden

    Shakespeare’s Language by Frank Kermode

  • Jeff Madrick

    All Too Human e-edition

    Irrational Exuberance by Robert J. Shiller

    A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton G. Malkiel

    Stocks for the Long Run by Jeremy J. Siegel

    Dow 36,000 by James K. Glassman, by Kevin A. Hassett

    Famous First Bubbles by Peter M. Garber

    Social Security: The Phony Crisis by Dean Baker, by Mark Weisbrot

    On Money and Markets: A Wall Street Memoir by Henry Kaufman

  • John Banville

    Coupling e-edition

    The Married Man by Edmund White

    Edmund White: The Burning World by Stephen Barber

    The Boy with the Thorn in His Side: A Memoir by Keith Fleming

  • Gordon A. Craig

    Not Wholly Holy e-edition

    Oberammergau: The Troubling Story of the World’s Most Famous Passion Play by James Shapiro

    The Passion Play 2000: Oberammergau edited by the Community of Oberammergau, with contributions by Otto Huber and Christian Stückl, photographs by Brigitte Maria Mayer

  • Alan Ryan

    My Way e-edition

    Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community by Robert D. Putnam

  • Garry Wills

    Fatima: ‘The Third Secret’ e-edition

  • Charles Simic

    On the Night Train e-edition

    The Weather of Words: Poetic Invention by Mark Strand

    Blizzard of One by Mark Strand

    Chicken, Shadow, Moon & more by Mark Strand

  • D.J. Enright

    Speaking in Tongues e-edition

    Destiny by Tim Parks

  • Adam Zagajewski

    My Krakow e-edition

  • Daniel Mendelsohn

    The Tale of Two Housmans e-edition

    The Invention of Love a play by Tom Stoppard, directed by Blanka Ziska. February 9-April 2, 2000, at the Wilma Theater, Philadelphia.

    The Invention of Love by Tom Stoppard

LETTERS

Contributors

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.

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)

Jeff Madrick writes an economics column for Harper’s Magazine, is editor of Challenge Magazine, and is director of the Rediscovering Government Initiative at the Roo­sevelt Institute. His most recent book is Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America.

Larry McMurtry lives in Archer City, Texas. His novels include The Last Picture Show, Terms of Endearment, Lonesome Dove (winner of the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction), Folly and Gloryand Rhino Ranch. His nonfiction works include a biography of Crazy Horse, Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen, Paradise, Sacagawea’s Nickname: Essays on the American West and, most recently, Custer.

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

Henri Zerner, Professor of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard, is the author of Renaissance Art in France: The Invention of Classicism and Écrire l’histoire de l’art: Figures d’une discipline.

Charles Rosen is a pianist and music critic. In 2011 he was awarded a National Humanities Medal.

Sadik J. Al-Azm is Emeritus Professor of Modern European Philosophy at the University of Damascus. His writings include The Origins of Kant’s Arguments in the Antinomies and The Tabooing Mentality: Salman Rushdie and the Truth of Literature (in Arabic), and the long essay “The Importance of Being Earnest about Salman Rushdie.” (June 2000)

John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland in 1945. He is the author of many novels, including The Book of Evidence, The Untouchable, Eclipse, The Sea (winner of the Man Booker Prize), and Ancient Light. As Benjamin Black he has written six crime novels, including Vengeance.

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

Gordon A. Craig (1913–2005) was a Scottish-American historian of Germany. He taught at both Princeton and Stanford, where he was named the J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor of Humanities in 1979.

Richard Horton is a physician. He edits The Lancet, a weekly medical journal based in London and New York. He is also a visiting professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Murray Kempton (1917-1997) was a columnist for Newsday, as well as a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books. His books include Rebellions, Perversities, and Main Events and The Briar Patch, as well as Part of Our Time. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1985.

D.J. Enright (1920–2002) was a British poet, novelist and critic. He held teaching positions in Egypt, Japan, Thailand, Singapore and the United Kingdom. In 1981 Enright was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry.

Daniel Mendelsohn’s reviews and essays on literary and cultural subjects appear frequently in The New York Review of Books and The New Yorker. He is the author, most recently, of the collection Waiting for the Barbarians: Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture, which was a finalist for the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award. His other books include two memoirs, a translation of the complete works of C.P. Cavafy, and a study of Greek tragedy, Gender and the City in Euripides’ Political Plays. He teaches at Bard College.

Joyce Carol Oates is the author most recently of the novel The Accursed. She is Roger S. Berlind Professor in the Arts and the Humanities at Princeton.


Charles Simic is a poet, essayist, and translator. He has published some twenty collections of poetry, six books of essays, a memoir, and numerous translations. He is the recipient of many awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Griffin Prize, and a MacArthur Fellowship. Simic’s recent works include Voice at 3 a.m., a selection of later and new poems; Master of Disguises, new poems; and Confessions of a Poet Laureate, a collection of short essays that was published by New York Review Books as an e-book original. In 2007 Simic was appointed the fifteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. His New and Selected Poems: 1962–2012 was published in March 2013.

Alan Ryan teaches at Princeton. His recent works include The Making of Modern Liberalism and On Politics: A History of Political Thought.

John Updike (1932–2009) was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania. In 1954 he began to publish in The New Yorker, where he continued to contribute short stories, poems, and criticism until his death. His major work was the set of four novels chronicling the life of Harry “Rabbit: Angstrom, he two of which, Rabbit is Richand Rabbit at Rest, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His last books were the novel The Widows of Eastwick and Due Considerations, a collection of his essays and criticism.

Adam Zagajewski’s books include Eternal Enemies 
and Without End: New and Selected Poems. The poems in this issue are from his new book, Unseen Hand, published in May by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. (May 2011)

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.