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April 12, 2001 • Volume 48, Number 6

  • Charles Simic

    Miraculous Mandarin

    Collected Poems James Merrill, edited by J.D. McClatchy and Stephen Yenser

    Familiar Spirits Alison Lurie

  • James Traub

    Excelsior! e-edition

    Hillary’s Turn: Inside Her Improbable, Victorious Senate Campaign Michael Tomasky

  • Gabriele Annan

    Act Two e-edition

    Love, Etc. Julian Barnes

  • Anthony Hecht

    Mirror (poem)

  • James Fenton

    Wounded by Un-Shrapnel e-edition

  • James M. McPherson

    Southern Comfort e-edition

    The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History edited by Gary W. Gallagher and Alan T. Nolan

    Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War Charles B. Dew

    The Slave Power: The Free North and Southern Domination, 1780–1860 Leonard L. Richards

  • W.S. Merwin

    To My Father’s Houses (poem) e-edition

  • Helen Epstein

    Time of Indifference

    Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health Laurie Garrett

    Dying for Growth: Global Inequality and the Health of the Poor edited by Jim Yong Kim, Joyce V. Millen, Alec Irwin, and John Gershman

    Poverty, Inequality, and Health edited by David A. Leon and Gill Walt

  • Andrew Hacker

    The Big College Try e-edition

    Intercollegiate Athletics and the American University: A University President’s Perspective James J. Duderstadt

    Beer and Circus: How Big-Time College Sports Is Crippling Undergraduate Education Murray Sperber

    The Game of Life: College Sports and Educational Values James L. Shulman and William G. Bowen

  • Hermione Lee

    Tracking the Untrackable e-edition

    Sidetracks: Explorations of a Romantic Biographer Richard Holmes

    Literary Lives: Biography and the Search for Understanding David Ellis

    Reflections on Biography Paula R. Backscheider

  • Gordon A. Craig

    The X-Files e-edition

    The “Jewish Threat”: Anti-Semitic Politics of the US Army Joseph W. Bendersky

    “Communazis”: FBI Surveillance of German Emigré Writers Alexander Stephan

  • J.S. Marcus

    Shadows on the Danube e-edition

    The Struggle for a Democratic Austria: Bruno Kreisky on Peace and Social Justice edited by Matthew Paul Berg, in collaboration with Jill Lewis and Oliver Rathkolb; translated from the German by Helen Atkins and Matthew Paul Berg; with a preface by John Kenneth Galbraith

    Haider: Licht und Schatten einer Karriere [Light and Shadows of a Career] Christa Zöchling

  • Larry McMurtry

    Grand Canyon Sweet e-edition

    A River Running West: The Life of John Wesley Powell Donald Worster

  • Frank Kermode

    But Could She Cook? e-edition

    Elizabeth I: Collected Works edited by Leah S. Marcus, Janel Mueller, and Mary Beth Rose

  • David Gilmour

    Little War, Big Mess e-edition

    Crimea: The Great Crimean War 1854–1856 Trevor Royle

  • Al Alvarez

    The Prodigal Prodigy e-edition

    Learning Human: Selected Poems Les Murray

  • Robert Darnton

    Un-British Activities e-edition

LETTERS

Contributors

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.

James Traub is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine. He is currently writing a book about Times Square. (February 2002)

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

Anthony Hecht’sCollected Later Poems and Melodies Unheard: Essays on the Mysteries of Poetry were published in 2003. He died on October 20. (December 2004)

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.

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.

W.S. Merwin was born in New York City in 1927 and grew up in Union City, New Jersey, and in Scranton, Pennsylvania. From 1949 to 1951 he worked as a tutor in France, Portugal, and Majorca. He has since lived in many parts of the world, most recently on Maui in the Hawaiian Islands. He is the author of many books of poems, prose, and translations and has received both the Pulitzer and the Bollingen Prizes for poetry, among numerous other awards.

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

Hermione Lee is President of Wolfson College, Oxford. Her books include biographies of Virginia Woolf and Edith Wharton. She is currently working on a life of Penelope Fitzgerald.
 (January 2013)

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.

J. S. Marcus’s most recent novel is The Captain’s Fire. He is currently a fellow at the Santa Maddalena Foundation, near Florence. (April 2001)

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.

Frank Kermode (1919–2010) was a British critic and literary theorist. Born on the Isle of Man, he taught at University College London, Cambridge, Columbia and Harvard. Adapted from a series of lectures given at Bryn Mawr College, Kermode’s Sense of An Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction remains one of the most influential works of twentieth-century literary criticism.

David Gilmour is the author of The Last Leopard: A Life of Giuseppe di Lampedusa, which was published in a revised and enlarged edition last year. He has written biographies of Rudyard Kipling and Lord Curzon. (June 2008)

Al Alvarez is the author of Risky Business, a selection of essays, many of which first appeared in The New York Review of Books.

Robert Darnton is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and University Librarian at Harvard. His latest book is Poetry and the Police: Communication Networks in Eighteenth-Century Paris.


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.

Helen Epstein is an independent consultant and writer specializing in public health in developing countries, and an adjunct assistant professor at the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs. She has advised numerous organizations, including the United States Agency for International Development, the World Bank, Human Rights Watch, and UNICEF. She writes frequently for various publications, including The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine, and Granta, and is the author of The Invisible Cure: Why We Are Losing the Fight Against AIDS in Africa.