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February 13, 2003 • Volume 50, Number 2

  • Anthony Lewis

    On the West Wing e-edition

    Bush at War by Bob Woodward

    The Right Man: The Surprise Presidency of George W. Bush by David Frum

  • Sanford Schwartz

    The Tiny Grandeur of Max Beerbohm e-edition

    Max Beerbohm: A Kind of a Life by N. John Hall

  • Freeman Dyson

    The Future Needs Us!

    Prey by Michael Crichton

  • Suki Kim

    A Visit to North Korea

  • Daniel Mendelsohn

    The Bad Boy of Athens

    Medea by Euripides, directed by Deborah Warner

    The Children of Herakles by Euripides, directed by Peter Sellars

  • Jennifer Schuessler

    Hello, Dolly! e-edition

    Edison’s Eve: A Magical History of the Quest for Mechanical Life by Gaby Wood

    Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us by Rodney A. Brooks

  • Timothy Garton Ash

    Anti-Europeanism in America e-edition

  • Charles Simic

    Tsvetaeva: The Tragic Life e-edition

    Earthly Signs: Moscow Diaries, 1917–1922 by Marina Tsvetaeva, edited, translated, and with an introduction by Jamey Gambrell

    Milestones by Marina Tsvetaeva, translated and with an introduction by Robin Kemball

  • Gordon S. Wood

    Creating the Revolution e-edition

    To Begin the World Anew: The Genius and Ambiguities of the American Founders by Bernard Bailyn

    Education in the Forming of American Society: Needs and Opportunites for Study by Bernard Bailyn

    The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by Bernard Bailyn

    The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson by Bernard Bailyn

    The Peopling of British North America: An Introduction by Bernard Bailyn

    Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution by Bernard Bailyn, with Barbara DeWolfe

    The New England Merchants in the Seventeenth Century by Bernard Bailyn

    Pamphlets of the American Revolution edited by Bernard Bailyn and Jane N. Garrett

  • W.S. Merwin

    Noble Shadow e-edition

    Ermengard of Narbonne and the World of the Troubadours by Fredric L. Cheyette

  • James Fenton

    Turgenev’s Banana e-edition

    On Being Ill by Virginia Woolf, with an introduction by Hermione Lee

    In the Land of Pain by Alphonse Daudet, edited and translated from the Frenchby Julian Barnes

    Devotions upon Emergent Occasions and Death’s Duel by John Donne, with a preface by Andrew Motion

    A Memorial of the Last Days on Earth of Emily Gosse by Her Husband Philip Henry Gosse, FRS by Philip Henry Gosse

LETTERS

Contributors

Sanford Schwartz’s reviews have been collected in The Art Presence and Artists and Writers. (May 2013)

Freeman Dyson has spent most of his life as a professor of physics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, taking time off to advise the US government and write books for the general public. He was born in England and worked as a civilian scientist for the Royal Air Force during World War II. He came to Cornell University as a graduate student in 1947 and worked with Hans Bethe and Richard Feynman, producing a user-friendly way to calculate the behavior of atoms and radiation. He also worked on nuclear reactors, solid-state physics, ferromagnetism, astrophysics, and biology, looking for problems where elegant mathematics could be usefully applied.

Dyson’s books include Disturbing the Universe (1979), Weapons and Hope (1984), Infinite in All Directions (1988), Origins of Life (1986, second edition 1999), The Sun, the Genome and the Internet (1999), and A Many-Colored Glass: Reflections on the Place of Life in the Universe (2010). He is a fellow of the American Physical Society, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and a fellow of the Royal Society of London. In 2000 he was awarded the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion.

Suki Kim’s first novel, The Interpreter, has just been published. (February 2003)

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.

Jennifer Schuessler is an editor at The New York Times Book Review. (March 2011)

Timothy Garton Ash is Professor of European Studies and Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St. Antony’s College, Oxford, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford. He is the author of many books, including The Magic Lantern, an eyewitness account of the velvet revolutions of 1989. His most recent book is Facts Are Subversive: Political Writing from a Decade Without a Name. He is currently leading an Oxford University 
research project for the discussion of global free speech norms (www.freespeechdebate.com) and working on a book about free speech.

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.

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.

Anthony Lewis, a former columnist for The New York Times, has twice won the Pulitzer Prize. His latest book is Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment.

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.

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

John Ashbery is the author of several books of poetry, including Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (1975), which received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the National Book Award. His first collection, Some Trees (1956), was selected by W. H. Auden for the Yale Younger Poets Series. He has also published art criticism, plays, and a novel. From 1990 until 2008 Ashbery was the Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard College.

Alison Lurie is a former Professor of English at Cornell. She is the author of two collections of essays on children’s literature, Don’t Tell the Grownups and Boys and Girls Forever, and the editor of The Oxford Book of Fairy Tales. Her most recent novel is Truth and Consequences.


Derek Walcott is a poet, playwright, essayist, and visual artist. Born in Castries, St. Lucia, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992. His epic poem Omerosis a reworking of the Homeric story and tradition into a journey around the Caribbean and beyond to the American West and London.

Richard Wilbur’s book Mayflies: New Poems and Translations will be published in April. (November 2000)

Billy Collins is the author of five books of poetry, including Nine Horses, Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems, The Art of Drowning, The Apple That Astonished Paris, and Questions About Angels. He is a regular contributor to The New Yorker, Poetry, The Paris Review, Harper’s, and The Atlantic Monthly, among other publications. He has received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation, and is the winner of numerous awards. In 1992, he was chosen by the New York Public Library to serve as “Literary Lion,” and is currently serving as the 2001-2003 Poet Laureate of the United States. A Distinguished Professor of English at Lehman College (CUNY), Collins lives with his wife, Diane, in northern Westchester County, New York.

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.