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Contents

May 29, 2003 • Volume 50, Number 9

  • Amos Elon

    An Unsentimental Education e-edition

    Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life by Queen Noor

  • Sanford Schwartz

    Wölfli’s Empire e-edition

    The Art of Adolf Wölfli: St. Adolf-Giant-Creation Catalog of the exhibition by Elka Spoerri and Daniel Baumann, with an essay by Edward M. Gomez and a foreword by Gerard C. Werkin

    Madness and Art: The Life and Works of Adolf Wölfli by Walter Morgenthaler, M.D., translated from the German and with an introduction and notes by Aaron H. Esman, M.D., with Elka Spoerri

    Beyond Reason: Art and Psychosis, Works from the Prinzhorn Collection by Bettina Brand-Claussen, Inge Jádi, and Caroline Douglas

    The Discovery of the Art of the Insane by John M. MacGregor

  • Joseph Lelyveld

    In Clinton’s Court

    The Clinton Wars by Sidney Blumenthal

  • Michael Massing

    The Unseen War e-edition

  • Russell Smith

    The New Newsspeak e-edition

  • Sue Halpern

    Evangelists for Kids

    Raising America: Experts, Parents, and a Century of Advice About Children by Ann Hulbert

    Anxious Parents: A History of Modern Childrearing in America by Peter N. Stearns

    Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser

    A Mind at a Time by Mel Levine, M.D.

    The Myth of Laziness by Mel Levine, M.D.

  • John Gregory Dunne

    The Horror Is Seductive e-edition

    Jarhead: A Marine’s Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles by Anthony Swofford

  • Christian Caryl

    Window on Russia e-edition

    Dostoevsky: The Mantle of the Prophet, 1871–1881 by Joseph Frank

    Sunlight at Midnight: St. Petersburg and the Rise of Modern Russia by W. Bruce Lincoln

    Russia in the Age of Peter the Great by Lindsey Hughes

    Peter the Great by Lindsey Hughes

    St. Petersburg: A Cultural History by Solomon Volkov,translated from the Russian by Antonina W. Bouis

    Natasha’s Dance: A Cultural History of Russia by Orlando Figes

    Prince of Princes: The Life of Potemkin by Simon Sebag Montefiore

  • Tim Judah

    ‘Welcome to al-Sadr City!’ e-edition

  • Larry McMurtry

    The Perfect Secretary e-edition

    Lloyd George: War Leader, 1916–1918 by John Grigg

    The Years That Are Past by Frances Lloyd George

    Frances, Countess Lloyd George: More than a Mistress by Ruth Longford

    The Decline and Fall of Lloyd George by Max Aitkens Beaverbrook

    Lloyd George: A Diary by Frances Stevenson, edited by A.J.P. Taylor

    Stranger on the Square by Arthur and Cynthia Koestler

  • James Fenton

    A New Victorian e-edition

    Reviewery by Christopher Ricks

    Selected Poems of James Henry edited by Christopher Ricks

  • David Brion Davis

    Catching the Conquerors e-edition

    Captives by Linda Colley

  • Jim Holt

    A Comedy of Colors e-edition

    Four Colors Suffice: How the Map Problem Was Solved by Robin Wilson

  • Jonathan Mirsky

    How the Chinese Spread SARS e-edition

  • Robert Darnton

    The Heresies of Bibliography e-edition

    Making Meaning: “Printers of the Mind” and Other Essays by D.F. McKenzie, edited by Peter D. McDonald and Michael F. Suarez

    Books and Bibliography: Essays in Commemoration of Don McKenzie edited by John Thomson

LETTERS

Contributors

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

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.

Amos Elon (1926–2009) was an Israeli journalist. His final book was The Pity of It All: A Portrait of Jews In Germany 1743 – 1933.

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

Joseph Lelyveld is a former correspondent and Editor of The New York Times. His latest book is Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India.

 (June 2013)

Michael Massing, a contributing editor of the Columbia Journalism Review, writes frequently on the press and foreign affairs.

Russell Smith is the author of the novels How Insensitive and Noise; Young Men, a story collection; and the illustrated fable The Princess and the Whiskheads. He writes a weekly column for the Toronto Globe and Mail, in which a different version of the article in this issue appeared. (May 2003)

Sue Halpern is the editor of NYRB Lit and scholar-in-residence at Middlebury College. Her new book, A Dog Walks into a Nursing Home, will be published in May.
 (March 2013)

John Gregory Dunne (1932–2003) was a novelist, screenwriter and critic. His final novel is entitled Nothing Lost.

Christian Caryl is a Senior Fellow at the Legatum Institute and the Editor of Foreign Policy’s Democracy Lab website.
 His book Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century was published in April 2013.

Tim Judah has written widely on foreign affairs. He reports on the Balkans for The Economist and its online column Eastern Approaches. He is the author of books about the region and a biography of Abebe Bikila, the first black African to win a gold medal at the Olympics.
 (May 2012)

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.

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.

David Brion Davis is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale and Director Emeritus of Yale’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. He is the author of Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World.

Jim Holt writes about science and philosophy. His latest book, Why Does the World Exist? An Existential Detective Story, is out now in paperback.
 (May 2013)

Jonathan Mirsky is the former East Asia Editor of The Times of London. (June 2013)

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.