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February 22, 2001 • Volume 48, Number 3

  • Paul Berman

    Rabbit Undone

    Licks of Love: Short Stories and a Sequel by John Updike

  • Charles Fried,
    Ronald Dworkin

    ‘A Badly Flawed Election’: An Exchange

  • Gordon S. Wood

    All in the Family e-edition

    An American Family: The Kennans—The First Three Generations by George F. Kennan

  • John Leonard

    The Hunger Artist e-edition

    The Body Artist by Don DeLillo

  • Alan Ryan

    Schools: The Price of ‘Progress’ e-edition

    Left Back: A Century of Failed School Reforms by Diane Ravitch

  • Roger Shattuck

    Farce & Philosophy e-edition

    Stories & Remarks by Raymond Queneau, with a preface by Michel Leiris, translated and with an introduction by Marc Lowenthal

    The Bark Tree[Le Chiendent] by Raymond Queneau, translated from the French by Barbara Wright

    Odile by Raymond Queneau,translated from the French by Carol Sanders

    Raymond Queneau (1985) by Allen Thiher

    Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau,translated from the French by Barbara Wright

    Zazie[Zazie dans le métro] by Raymond Queneau, translated from the French by Barbara Wright

    å?uvres complètes, Volume One by Raymond Queneau, edited by Claude Debon

    We Always Treat Women Too Well [On est toujours trop bon avec les femmes] by Raymond Queneau. translated from the French by Barbara Wright

  • James Fenton

    The Heroes of Kwangju e-edition

    Kwangju Diary: Beyond Death, Beyond the Darkness of the Age by Lee Jai-eui, translated from the Korean by Kap Su Seol and Nick Mamatas

    The Kwangju Uprising: Eyewitness Press Accounts of Korea’s Tiananmen edited by Henry Scott-Stokesand Lee Jai-eui, with a foreword by President Kim Dae-jung

  • Ingrid D. Rowland

    Star Trek e-edition

    Cardano’s Cosmos: The Worlds and Works of a Renaissance Astrologer by Anthony Grafton

    Giordano Bruno and Renaissance Science by Hilary Gatti

    Galileo’s Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love by Dava Sobel

    The Sun in the Church: Cathedrals as Solar Observatories by J.L. Heilbron

  • Charles Simic

    Intensive Care e-edition

    The Diagnosis by Alan Lightman

    Einstein’s Dreams by Alan Lightman

    Good Benito by Alan Lightman

    Dance for Two by Alan Lightman

  • Tony Judt

    Could the French Have Won? e-edition

    Strange Victory: Hitler’s Conquest of France by Ernest R. May

  • Denis Donoghue

    The World Seen and Half-Seen e-edition

    The Hill Bachelors by William Trevor

    Death in Summer (1998) by William Trevor

    After Rain (1996) by William Trevor

    Excursions in the Real World (1994) by William Trevor

    Felicia’s Journey (1994) by William Trevor

    The Collected Stories (1993) by William Trevor

    Two Lives (1991) by William Trevor

    Nights at the Alexandra (1987) by William Trevor

    Fools of Fortune (1983) by William Trevor

  • Pankaj Mishra

    The Great Narayan

    The English Teacher (1945) by R.K. Narayan

    Swami and Friends (1935) by R.K. Narayan

    The Bachelor of Arts (1937) with an introductionby Graham Greene

    The Dark Room (1938) by R.K. Narayan

    Mr. Sampath: The Printer of Malgudi (1949) by R.K. Narayan

    Waiting for the Mahatma (1955) by R.K. Narayan

    The Vendor of Sweets (1967) by R.K. Narayan

    The Painter of Signs (1977) by R.K. Narayan

    My Dateless Diary: An American Journey (1988) by R.K. Narayan

    The Financial Expert (1952) by R.K. Narayan

    The Guide (1958) by R.K. Narayan

    My Days (1973) by R.K. Narayan

    Malgudi Days (1982) by R.K. Narayan

  • Mark Danner

    The Road to Illegitimacy e-edition

  • Darryl Pinckney

    Beyond the Fringe e-edition

LETTERS

Contributors

Paul Berman is the author of A Tale of Two Utopias: The Political Journey of the Generation of 1968. (October 2001)

Ronald Dworkin (1931–2013) was Professor of Philosophy and Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law at NYU. His books include Is Democracy Possible Here?, Justice in Robes, Freedom’s Law, and Justice for Hedgehogs. He was the 2007 winner of the Ludvig Holberg International Memorial Prize for “his pioneering scholarly work” of “worldwide impact” and he was recently awarded the Balzan Prize for his “fundamental contributions to Jurisprudence.”


Gordon Wood is the Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History Emeritus at Brown. His latest book is The Idea of America: Reflections on the Birth of the United States.

John Leonard writes on books every month for Harper’s and on television every week for New York magazine. (June 2007)

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

Roger Shattuck (1923–2005) was an American writer and scholar of French culture. He taught at Harvard, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Virginia, and Boston University, where he was named University Professor. His books includeForbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography.

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.

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.

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.

Denis Donoghue is University Professor at New York University, where he holds the Henry James Chair of English and American Letters. His works include The Practice of Reading, Words Alone: The Poet T.S. Eliot, and The American Classics.

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.

Ingrid D. Rowland is a professor, based in Rome, at the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture. A frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, she is the author of The Culture of the High Renaissance: Ancients and Moderns in Sixteenth-Century Rome and The Scarith of Scornello: A Tale of Renaissance Forgery. She has also published a translation of Vitruvius’ Ten Books of Architecture and a history of Villa Taverna, the US ambassador’s residence in Rome.

Darryl Pinckney is the author of a novel, High Cotton, and, in the Alain Locke Lecture Series, Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature.

Pankaj Mishra lives in London and India. He is the author of The Romantics, winner of the Los Angeles Times’s Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, and An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and The Guardian. Mishra’s recent books include Temptations of the West: How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet, and Beyond and From the Ruins of Empire: The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia.