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November 30, 2000 • Volume 47, Number 19

  • Anthony Grafton

    Over the Rainbow e-edition

    Utopia: The Search for the Ideal Society in the Western World an exhibition at the New York Public Library, October 14,2000-January 27, 2001

    Utopia: The Search for the Ideal Societyin the Western World edited by Roland Schaer, Gregory Claeys, Lyman Tower Sargent

  • Charles Simic

    Tragicomic Soup e-edition

    Your Name Here by John Ashbery

    Other Traditions the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, by John Ashbery

  • Andrew Hacker

    The Case Against Kids

    The Baby Boon: How Family-Friendly America Cheats the Childless by Elinor Burkett

    The Economics of Reciprocity, Giving and Altruism edited by Louis-André Gérard-Varet, edited by Serge-Christophe Kolm, edited by Mercier Ythier Jean

    Tuition Rising: Why College Costs So Much by Ronald G. Ehrenberg

  • Mark Lilla

    Night Thoughts e-edition

    The Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq, Translated from the French by Frank Wynne

    Whatever by Michel Houellebecq, Translated from the Frenchby Paul Hammond

    Rester vivant et autres textes by Michel Houellebecq

    H.P. Lovecraft: Contre le monde, contre la vie by Michel Houellebecq

  • Sam Tanenhaus

    Un-American Activities

    Joseph McCarthy: Reexamining the Life and Legacy of America’s Most Hated Senator by Arthur Herman

  • Hilary Mantel

    Staring at the Medusa’s Head e-edition

    Abyssinian Chronicles by Moses Isegawa

  • Jonathan Raban

    The Last Harpoon e-edition

    A Whale Hunt: Two Years on the Olympic Peninsula with the Makah and Their Canoe by Robert Sullivan

  • James M. McPherson

    Blitzkrieg in Georgia e-edition

    Atlanta 1864: Last Chance for the Confederacy by Richard M. McMurry

    Sherman’s Civil War: Selected Correspondence of William T. Sherman, 1860-1865 edited by Brooks D. Simpson, by Jean V. Berlin

  • Gabriele Annan

    Turncoats e-edition

    Too Far Afield by Günter Grass, Translated from the Germanby Krishna Winston

  • Eric Christiansen

    A Fine Life e-edition

    The Hundred Years War: Volume 2, Trial by Fire by Jonathan Sumption

  • Edward W. Said

    The Cruelty of Memory e-edition

    Akhenaten, Dweller in Truth by Naguib Mahfouz, Translated from the Arabic by Tagreid Abu-Hassabo

    Amam al-‘Arsh [Before the Throne] by Naguib Mahfouz

    Adrift on the Nile by Naguib Mahfouz, Translated from the Arabic by Frances Liardet

    Taht al-Mazella [Under the Shelter] by Naguib Mahfouz

    Palace Walk: The Cairo Trilogy Part 1 by Naguib Mahfouz, Translated from the Arabic by William Maynard Hutchins, by Olive E. Kenny

    Palace of Desire: The Cairo Trilogy Part 2 by Naguib Mahfouz, Translated from the Arabic by William Maynard Hutchins, by Lorne M. Kenny, by Olive E. Kenny

    Sugar Street: The Cairo Trilogy Part 3 by Naguib Mahfouz, Translated from the Arabic by William Maynard Hutchins, by Angele Botros Samaan

    Children of Gebelaawi by Naguib Mahfouz, Translated from the Arabic by Philip Stewart

    The Harafish by Naguib Mahfouz, Translated from the Arabic by Catherine Cobham

    Echoes from an Autobiography by Naguib Mahfouz, Translated from the Arabic by Denys Johnson-Davies

    Miramar by Naguib Mahfouz, Translated from the Arabic by Fatma Moussa-Mahmoud

  • A.S. Byatt

    Justice for Willa Cather e-edition

    Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism by Joan Acocella

  • Tim Parks

    On ‘Party Going’ e-edition

  • P. N. Furbank

    Epic-Making e-edition

    Barbarism and Religion Volume 1: The Enlightenments of Edward Gibbon, 1737-1764Volume 2: Narratives of Civil Government by J.G.A. Pocock

  • David J. Rothman

    The Shame of Medical Research e-edition

  • Lars-Erik Nelson

    The Perils of Secrecy e-edition

LETTERS

Contributors

David J. Rothman is Bernard Schoenberg Professor of Social Medicine and History at the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons and president of the Institute on Medicine as a Professor.

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.

A. S. Byatt’s book of essays On Histories and Stories will be published in the US next year. Her new novel, The Biographer’s Tale, will be published here in January. (November 2000)

Edward W. Said is University Professor at Columbia University and the author of Orientalism and Culture and Imperialism. His The End of the Peace Process: Oslo and After was published last spring. Reflections on Exile will appear in early 2001. (November 2000)

Andrew Hacker teaches political science at Queens College. He is currently working on a book on mathematics with Claudia Dreifus.
 (January 2013)

Sam Tanenhaus is the editor of The New York Times Book Review and the author of The Death of Conservatism.
 (May 2012)

Gabriele Annan is a book and film critic living in London. (March 2006)

Eric Christiansen is Tutor in History at New College, Oxford, and the author of The Northern Crusades. (November 2000)

P. N. Furbank is the author of nine books, including biographies of Samuel Butler, Italo Svevo, and E.M. Forster.

Anthony Grafton is Henry Putnam University Professor of History and the Humanities at Princeton University. His most recent book is The Culture of Correction in Renaissance Europe.


Mark Lilla is Professor of the Humanities at Columbia and author of The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics. His article in the April 25, 2013 issue will appear as the introduction to Against the Current by Isaiah Berlin, to be published in a new edition by Prince­ton University Press in May 2013.

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

James McPherson is George Henry Davis ’86 Professor of American History Emeritus at Princeton. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1989 for Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. His most recent book is War on the Waters: The Union and Confederates Navies, 1861-1865.

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.

Jonathan Raban’s books include Surveillance, My Holy War, Arabia, Old Glory, Hunting Mister Heartbreak, Bad Land, Passage to Juneau, and Waxwings. He is the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Heinemann Award of the Royal Society of Literature, the PEN/West Creative Nonfiction Award, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers’ Award, and the Governor’s Award of the State of Washington. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, The Guardian, and The Independent. He lives in Seattle.

M. F. Perutz (1914–2002) was an Austrian molecular biologist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1962. He is the author of Is Science Necessary?, Protein Structure, and I Wish I’d Made You Angry Earlier.

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