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June 21, 2001 • Volume 48, Number 10

  • Garry Wills

    The Dramaturgy of Death e-edition

  • Daniel Mendelsohn

    Double Take

    The Producers book by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan, music and lyrics by Mel Brooks, directed and choreographed by Susan Stroman

  • Janet Malcolm

    Justice to J.D. Salinger

  • Susan Sontag

    In Jerusalem e-edition

  • John Updike

    The Imaginary Builder e-edition

    Piranesi and Architectural Fantasy

  • Neal Ascherson

    In the Pit of History e-edition

    The Shadow of the Sun Ryszard Kapuscinski, translated from the Polish by Klara Glowczewska

    Looking for Lovedu: Days and Nights in Africa Ann Jones

  • Charles Rosen

    Within a Budding Grove e-edition

    The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Second Edition edited by Stanley Sadie

  • Gordon S. Wood

    In the American Grain e-edition

    John Adams David McCullough

  • Michael Wood

    Nabokov on the Wing e-edition

    Dear Bunny, Dear Volodya: The Nabokov–Wilson Letters, 1940–1971 edited, annotated, and with an introduction by Simon Karlinsky

    Nabokov’s Blues: The Scientific Odyssey of a Literary Genius Kurt Johnson and Steve Coates

    Nabokov’s Butterflies: Unpublished and Uncollected Writings edited and annotated by Brian Boyd and Robert Michael Pyle, with new translations from the Russian by Dmitri Nabokov

    Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) Stacy Schiff

  • Robert L. Herbert

    Spirits on Canvas e-edition

    Technique and Meaning in the Paintings of Paul Gauguin Vojtech Jirat-Wasiutynski and H. Travers Newton Jr.

    Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Search for Sacred Art Debora Silverman

  • David Hajdu

    The Spirit of the Spirit e-edition

    The Spirit Archives Will Eisner

    Outer Space Spirit: 1952 by Will Eisner, Jules Feiffer, and Wally Wood

    A Contract with God and Other Tenement Stories Will Eisner

    Life on Another Planet Will Eisner

    New York: The Big City Will Eisner

    Dropsie Avenue: The Neighborhood Will Eisner

    The Building Will Eisner

    Invisible People Will Eisner

    Minor Miracles Will Eisner

    Family Matter Will Eisner

    Will Eisner Reader: Seven Graphic Stories by a Comics Master

  • Thomas Powers

    Notes from Underground e-edition

    Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency from the Cold War through the Dawn of a New Century James Bamford

    Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government—Saving Privacy in the Digital Age Steven Levy

  • Richard Seaver

    On Jérôme Lindon, 1926–2001 e-edition

  • Stephen Kinzer

    Guatemala: The Unfinished Peace e-edition

    Of Centaurs and Doves: Guatemala’s Peace Process Susanne Jonas

    Los Difíciles Senderos de la Paz en Guatemala Gudrun Molkentin

    Memoria Verdad y Esperanza: Version Popular del Informe Guatemala: Nunca Más a report by the Archbishopric of Guatemala

    El Guerrillero y el General: Rodrigo Asturias y Julio Balconi Sobre la Guerra y la Paz en Guatemala Dirk Kruijt and Rudie Van Meurs

    El Drama de la Pobreza en Guatemala: Sus Rasgos y Efectos Sobre la Sociedad a report by the government of the Republic of Guatemala

  • William Empson

    Sartre Resartus e-edition

    No Exit and The Flies Jean-Paul Sartre, translated from the French by Stuart Gilbert

  • Joyce Carol Oates

    The Wind Done Gone e-edition

    Clotel; or, The President’s Daughter William Wells Brown, with an introduction by Hilton Als

    Passing Nella Larsen, with an introduction by Ntozake Shange

  • Witold Rybczynski

    City Lights e-edition

    The Seduction of Place: The City in the Twenty-First Century Joseph Rykwert

    Laws of the Landscape: How Policies Shape Cities in Europe and America Pietro S. Nivola

  • Thomas R. Edwards

    The Great Sultan e-edition

    A Few Corrections Brad Leithauser

  • Alexander Stille

    Making Way for Berlusconi e-edition

  • Anthony Quinton

    Springtime for Hegel e-edition

    Hegel: A Biography Terry Pinkard

  • Richard C. Lewontin

    Genes in the Food!

    The Ecological Risks ofEngineered Crops Jane Rissler and Margaret Mellon

    Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply Vandana Shiva

    Pandora’s Picnic Basket: The Potential and Hazards of Genetically Modified Foods Alan McHughen

    Genetically Modified Pest-Protected Plants: Science and Regulation a report by the Committee on Genetically Modified Pest-Protected Plants, Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources, National Research Council

Contributors

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.

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.

Susan Sontag (1933–2004) was a novelist, playwright, filmmaker, and one of the most influential critics of her generation. Her books include Against Interpretation, On Photography, Illness as Metaphor, and The Volcano Lover.

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.

Neal Ascherson is the author of The Struggles for Poland, The Black Sea, and Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland. He is an Honorary Professor at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London.


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

Michael Wood is the Charles Barnwell Straut Class of 1923 Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton. His books include Literature and the Taste of Knowledge and Yeats and Violence

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.

Robert L. Herbert, after a long career at Yale, is now Andrew W. Mellon Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Mount Holyoke. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, and has been named Officier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government. Among his books are Impressionism: Art, Leisure and Parisian Society, Nature’s Workshop: Renoir’s Writings on the Decorative Arts, and Seurat: Drawings and Paintings. His most recent book is Seurat and the Making of La Grande Jatte.

David Hajdu, author of Lush Life and Positively 4th Street, teaches at Syracuse University and is music critic for The New Republic. (June 2005)

Thomas Powers is the author of The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA (1979), Heisenberg’s War: The Secret History of the German Bomb (1993), Intelligence Wars: American Secret History from Hitler to al-Qaeda (2002; revised and expanded edition, 2004), and The Confirmation (2000), a novel. He won a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1971 and has contributed to The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, Harper’s, The Nation, The Atlantic, and Rolling Stone. His latest book, The Killing of Crazy Horse, won the 2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History. He is currently writing a memoir of his father, who once told him that the last time he met Clare Boothe Luce was in the office of Allen Dulles.


Richard Seaver, President of Arcade Publishing, has translated some forty books from the French. (June 2001)

Stephen Kinzer, a former New York Times bureau chief in Istanbul, teaches international relations at Boston University. He is writing a book about John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles. (August 2011)

William Empson (1906—1984) was the author of Seven Types of Ambiguity and Some Versions of Pastoral. His Complete Poems were recently published. (June 2001)

Joyce Carol Oates is Visiting Professor in the English Department at the University of California at Berkeley. Her new novel is Daddy Love.


Witold Rybczynski is the Meyerson Professor of Urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania, and is the architecture critic for Slate. His book on American building, Last Harvest, was published in 2007.

Thomas R. Edwards (1928–2005) was Professor of English at Rutgers and editor of Raritan. His last book was Over Here: Criticizing America.

Alexander Stille is San Paolo Professor of International Journalism at Columbia. His memoir, The Force of Things: A Marriage in War in Peace, will be published next February. (October 2012)

Anthony Quinton (1925–2010) was a British philosopher. Quinton served as president of Trinity College, Oxford and as chairman of the British Library. His works include The Nature of Things, Hume, and From Wodehouse to Wittgenstein.

Richard C. Lewontin is Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Professor of Biology at Harvard University. He is the author of The Genetic Basis of Evolutionary Change and Biology as Ideology, and the co-author of The Dialectical Biologist (with Richard Levins) and Not in Our Genes (with Steven Rose and Leon Kamin).

Janet Malcolm was born in Prague. She was educated at the High School of Music and Art, in New York, and at the University of Michigan. Along with In the Freud Archives, her books include Diana and Nikon: Essays on Photography, Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession, The Journalist and the Murderer, The Purloined Clinic: Selected Writings, The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, The Crime of Sheila McGough, and Reading Chekhov: A Critical Journey. She wrote about the trial of Mazoltuv Borukhova, the mother of Michelle, in her book Iphigenia in Forest Hills, just out in paperback. Her collection Forty-One False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers will be published in the spring of 2013.


She lives in New York.