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March 23, 2000 • Volume 47, Number 5

  • Russell Baker

    The Love Boat e-edition

    About Town: The New Yorker and the World It Made by Ben Yagodam

    Letters from the Editor: The New Yorker’s Harold Ross edited by Thomas Kunkel

    Remembering Mr. Shawn’s New Yorker: The Invisible Art of Editing by Ved Mehta

    Gone: The Last Days of The New Yorker by Renata Adler

    Here But Not Here by Lillian Ross

    Here at The New Yorker by Brendan Gill

    The Years with Ross by James Thurber

  • Tony Judt

    Tale from the Vienna Woods

  • Henry Allen

    The Great Voyeur e-edition

    Walker Evans 1-May 14, 2000; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, June 2-September 12, 2000; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, December 17, 2000-March 11, 2001. an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, February, Catalog of the exhibition by Maria Morris Hambourg, by Jeff L. Rosenheim, by Douglas Eklund, by Mia Fineman

    Unclassified: A Walker Evans Anthology by Jeff L. Rosenheim, by Douglas Eklund

  • John Bayley

    It Happened at Elsinore

    Gertrude and Claudius by John Updike

  • Elizabeth Hardwick

    Far from Rome e-edition

  • Robert M. Solow

    Welfare: The Cheapest Country e-edition

    The Real Worlds of Welfare Capitalism by Robert E. Goodin, by Bruce Headey, by Ruud Muffels, by Henk-Jan Dirven

  • James Fenton

    Auden’s Shakespeare e-edition

  • Ian Buruma

    East Is West e-edition

    A Gesture Life by Chang-rae Lee

    Waiting by Ha Jin

  • Joseph Kerman

    The Miracle Worker e-edition

    Mozart by Peter Gay

    The Life of Mozart by John Rosselli

    Mozart in Revolt: Strategies of Resistance, Mischief and Deception by David Schroeder

    Mozart: A Cultural Biography by Robert W. Gutman

  • Michael Ignatieff

    The Man Who Was Right e-edition

    Reflections on a Ravaged Century by Robert Conquest

  • Tim Parks

    In Love with Leopardi e-edition

    Leopardi: A Study in Solitude by Iris Origo

    Images and Shadows: Part of a Life by Iris Origo

    All’apparir del vero: Vita di Giacomo Leopardi by Rolando Damiani

  • Gabriele Annan

    On Borrowed Time e-edition

    The Book of Franza and Requiem for Fanny Goldmann by Ingeborg Bachmann, Translated from the German and with an introduction by Peter Filkins

  • István Deák

    The Pope, the Nazis & the Jews e-edition

    Hitler’s Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII by John Cornwell

    The Vatican and the Red Flag: The Struggle for the Soul of Eastern Europe by Jonathan Luxmoore, by Jolanta Babiuch

    The Catholic Church and the Holocaust, 1930-1965 by Michael Phayer

    Controversial Concordats: The Vatican’s Relations with Napoleon, Mussolini, and Hitler edited by Frank J. Coppa

    The Hidden Encyclical of Pius XI edited by Georges Passelecq, and Bernard Suchecky, Translated from the French by Steven Rendall, with an introduction by Garry Wills

LETTERS

Contributors

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)

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.

István Deák is Seth Low Professor Emeritus at Columbia. He is the author, with Jan Gross and Tony Judt, of The Politics of Retribution in Europe: World War II and Its Aftermath.

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.

Elizabeth Hardwick (1916-2007) was born in Lexington, Kentucky, and educated at the University of Kentucky and Columbia University. A recipient of a Gold Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she is the author of three novels, a biography of Herman Melville, and four collections of essays. She was a co-founder and advisory editor of The New York Review of Books and contributed more than one hundred reviews, articles, reflections, and letters to the magazine. NYRB Classics publishes Sleepless Nights, a novel, and Seduction and Betrayal, a study of women in literature.

Michael Ignatieff, a former leader of Canada’s Liberal Party, is a fellow at Massey College and teaches human rights and international politics at the University of Toronto.
 (December 2012)

Tony Judt (1948–2010) was the founder and director of the Remarque Institute at NYU and the author of Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945, Ill Fares the Land, and The Burden of Responsibility: Blum, Camus, Aron, and the French Twentieth Century, among other books.

William Styron (1925–2006) was the author of several novels, including Sophie’s Choice and The Confessions of Nat Turner.

Eliot Weinberger’s most recent book is the essay collection Oranges & Peanuts for Sale.

Joseph Kerman is emeritus professor of music at the University of California, Berkeley. He began writing music criticism for The Hudson Review in the 1950s, and is a longtime contributor to The New York Review of Books and many other journals. His books include Opera as Drama (1956; new and revised edition 1988), The Beethoven Quartets (1967), Contemplating Music (1986), Concerto Conversations (1999), and The Art of Fugue (2005).

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.

Robert M. Solow, Institute Professor Emeritus of Economics at MIT, won the 1987 Nobel Prize in economics. His most recent book is Work and Welfare. (May 2009)