Table of Contents
Volume 47, Number 13 · August 10, 2000
Russell Baker, A Boy's Life 
The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst by David Nasaw
John Updike, 'Nature Itself'
Chardin 27-September 3, 2000. an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, June, Catalog of the exhibition edited by Pierre Rosenberg, with essays by Rosenberg, Colin B. Bailey, René Démoris, Marie-Laure de Rochebrune and Antoine Schnap
Chardin: An Intimate Art by Hélène Prigent, by Pierre Rosenberg
Lars-Erik Nelson, Party Going
Campaign Talk: Why Elections Are Good for Us by Roderick P. Hart
No Way to Pick a President by Jules Witcover
Charles Rosen, Henri Zerner, Scenes from the American Dream
Norman Rockwell: Pictures for the American People 17- September 24, 2000. by June an exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Catalog of the exhibition edited by Maureen Hart Hennessey, by Anne Knutson
Tim Judah, Croatia Reborn
Larry McMurtry, Inventing the West
A Newer World: Kit Carson, John C. Frémont, and the Claiming of the American West by David Roberts
The Lives and Legends of Buffalo Bill by Don Russell
Buffalo Bill's Wild West: Celebrity, Memory, and Popular History by Joy S. Kasson
Annie Oakley and Buffalo Bill's Wild West by Isabelle S. Sayers
Will Rogers by Ben Yagoda
The Life and Legacy of Annie Oakley by Glenda Riley
The Real Wild West: The 101 Ranch and the Creation of the American West by Michael Wallis
The Business of Being Buffalo Bill: Selected Letters of William F. Cody, 1879-1917 by Sarah J. Blackstone
Murray Kempton, The Brawls of Yesteryear
Richard Horton, In the Danger Zone
Intensive Care: A Doctor's Journal by John F. Murray
John Bayley, The Greatest!
William Shakespeare: The Man Behind the Genius by Anthony Holden
Shakespeare's Language by Frank Kermode
Jeff Madrick, All Too Human
Irrational Exuberance by Robert J. Shiller
A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton G. Malkiel
Stocks for the Long Run by Jeremy J. Siegel
Dow 36,000 by James K. Glassman, by Kevin A. Hassett
Famous First Bubbles by Peter M. Garber
Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation by Edward Chancellor
Social Security: The Phony Crisis by Dean Baker, by Mark Weisbrot
On Money and Markets: A Wall Street Memoir by Henry Kaufman
John Banville, Coupling
The Married Man by Edmund White
Edmund White: The Burning World by Stephen Barber
The Boy with the Thorn in His Side: A Memoir by Keith Fleming
Gordon A. Craig, Not Wholly Holy
Oberammergau: The Troubling Story of the World's Most Famous Passion Play by James Shapiro
The Passion Play 2000: Oberammergau edited by the Community of Oberammergau, with contributions by Otto Huber and Christian Stückl, photographs by Brigitte Maria Mayer
Alan Ryan, My Way
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community by Robert D. Putnam
Garry Wills, Fatima: 'The Third Secret'
Charles Simic, On the Night Train
The Weather of Words: Poetic Invention by Mark Strand
Blizzard of One by Mark Strand
Chicken, Shadow, Moon & more by Mark Strand
D.J. Enright, Speaking in Tongues
Destiny by Tim Parks
Adam Zagajewski, My Krakow
Daniel Mendelsohn, The Tale of Two Housmans
The Invention of Love a play by Tom Stoppard, directed by Blanka Ziska. February 9-April 2, 2000, at the Wilma Theater, Philadelphia.
The Invention of Love by Tom Stoppard
Letters
Sadik J. Al-Azm, 'The View from Damascus,' cont'd.
Benjamin Lease, Dorothy Huff Oberhaus, et al. Dickinson's Civil War
Contributors
Russell Baker is a former columnist and correspondent for The New York Times and The Baltimore Sun. His books include The Good Times, Growing Up, and Looking Back. (November 2008)
John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He is the author of many novels, including The Book of Evidence, The Untouchable, and Eclipse. Banville's novel The Sea was awarded the 2005 Man Booker Prize. On occasion he writes under the pen name Benjamin Black.
John Bayley has written two books about his wife, the novelist Iris Murdoch, Elegy for Iris and Iris and Her Friends. (July 2004)
Gordon A. Craig is J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Stanford. His latest book is Politics and Culture in Modern Germany. (December 2003)
D. J. Enright's books include The Alluring Problem, Fields of Vision, Collected Poems 1948—1998, and, most recently, Interplay: A Kind of Commonplace Book. (August 2000)
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.
Tim Judah is the author of Kosovo: War and Revenge and The Serbs: History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia. He has reported on the Balkans, Afghanistan, Kurdistan, Iraq, and Sudan for The New York Review. (October 2006)
Murray Kempton (1917-1997) was a columnist
for Newsday, as well as a regular contributor to The New York Review of
Books. His books include Rebellions, Perversities, and Main Events
and The Briar Patch, as well as Part of Our Time. He won the Pulitzer
Prize in 1985.
Jeff Madrick is editor of Challenge Magazine, Visiting Professor at Cooper Union, and Senior Fellow at the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis at the New School. His book The Case for Big Government will be published this fall. (September 2008)
Larry McMurtry is the author of twenty-four novels, including The Last Picture Show, Terms of Endearment, Lonesome Dove, winner of the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and, most recently, Folly and Glory. His nonfiction works include a biography of Crazy Horse, Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen, Paradise, and Sacagawea’s Nickname: Essays on the American West (published by New York Review Books). He lives in Archer City, Texas.
Daniel Mendelsohn, a frequent contributor to The New York Review, is the author, most recently, of How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken, a collection of essays mostly from these pages. His translations, with commentary, of Constantine Cavafy's Collected Poems and Unfinished Poems will be published this spring. (January 2009)
Lars-Erik Nelson (1941-2000) was the Washington columnist for the New York Daily News, and a frequent contributor to the Review.
Charles Rosen's most recent book is Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist. (November 2008)
Alan Ryan is Warden of New College, Oxford, and the author of biographies of John Stuart Mill, Bertrand Russell, and John Dewey. (October 2008)
Charles Simic is a poet, essayist and translator. He has published twenty collections of his own poetry, five books of essays, a memoir, and numerous of books of translations. He has received many literary awards for his poems and his translations, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Griffin Prize and the MacArthur Fellowship. Voice at 3 A.M., his selected later and new poems, was published in 2003 and a new book of poems My Noiseless Entourage came out in the spring of 2005.
John Updike was born in 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania. In 1954 he began to publish in The New Yorker, where he continues to contribute short stories, poems, and criticism. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, among other awards. His most recent books are the novel Terrorist and Due Considerations, a collection of his essays and criticism.
Garry Wills was born in Atlanta, Georgia. One of our most distinguished
historians and critics, he is the author of numerous books, including Saint Augustine, Papal
Sin, and the Pulitzer Prize–winning Lincoln at Gettysburg. He has won many other awards,
among them two National Book Critics Circle Awards and the 1998 National Medal for the Humanities.
He is currently Professor of History Emeritus at Northwestern University. A regular contributor
to the New York Review of Books, he lives in Evanston, Illinois.
Adam Zagajewski's books include Another Beauty and Without End: New and Selected Poems. The poem in this issue is from his new book, Eternal Enemies, just published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. (April 2008)
Henri Zerner, Professor of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard, is the author, most recently, of Renaissance Art in France: The Invention of Classicism and Écrire l'histoire de l'art: Figures d'une discipline. (January 2005)
