Table of Contents

Volume 48, Number 15 · October 4, 2001

Brian Urquhart, The Tragedy of Lumumba

The Assassination of Lumumba by Ludo De Witte, translated from the Dutch by Ann Wright and Renée Fenby

John Russell, Face to Face with Seurat

Seurat: Drawings and Paintings by Robert L. Herbert

Rosemary Dinnage, The Crack-Up

The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression by Andrew Solomon

Where the Roots Reach for Water: A Personal and Natural History of Melancholia by Jeffery Smith

The Nature of Melancholy: From Aristotle to Kristeva edited by Jennifer Radden

James Traub, Judgment Day

A Trial by Jury by D. Graham Burnett

A Cold Case by Philip Gourevitch

Hermione Lee, The Unknown Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton: Collected Stories, 1891–1910 selected and with notes by Maureen Howard

Edith Wharton: Collected Stories, 1911–1937 selected and with notes by Maureen Howard

Frederick C. Crews, Saving Us from Darwin

The Wedge of Truth: Splitting the Foundations of Naturalism by Phillip E. Johnson

Icons of Evolution: Science or Myth? Why Much of What We Teach About Evolution Is Wrong by Jonathan Wells

Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution by Michael J. Behe

Mere Creation: Science, Faith and Intelligent Design edited by William A. Dembski

Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between Science and Theology by William A. Dembski

Tower of Babel: The Evidence Against the New Creationism by Robert T. Pennock

Finding Darwin's God: A Scientist's Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution by Kenneth R. Miller

Daniel Mendelsohn, Harold Pinter's Celebration

Harold Pinter Festival presented by the Lincoln Center Festival 2001

The Spaces Between the Words: A Tribute to Harold Pinter presented by the Film Society of Lincoln Center

The Room by Harold Pinter

The Homecoming by Harold Pinter

Landscape by Harold Pinter

Monologue by Harold Pinter

A Kind of Alaska by Harold Pinter

One for the Road by Harold Pinter

Mountain Language by Harold Pinter

Ashes to Ashes by Harold Pinter

Celebration by Harold Pinter

Robert Cottrell, Russia: Was There a Better Way?

The Tragedy of Russia's Reforms: Market Bolshevism Against Democracy by Peter Reddaway and Dmitri Glinski

John Leonard, Puppet Show

Fury by Salman Rushdie

John Banville, Fathers and Sons

The Crisis of Reason: European Thought, 1848–1914 by J.W. Burrow

Caroline Fraser, Pretty in the Sunlight

Paradise by Larry McMurtry

Peter Gay, Witness to Fascism

Journal, 1935–1944 by Mihail Sebastian,translated from the Romanian by Patrick Camiller, with an introduction by Radu Ioanid

Keith Thomas, 'A Modern Socrates'

Peiresc's Europe: Learning and Virtue in the Seventeenth Century by Peter N. Miller

Stephen Jay Gould, The Man Who Set the Clock Back

The Map that Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology by Simon Winchester

Colleen Fuller, Erik Lichtenberg, M.F. Perutz, et al. 'Genes in the Food': An Exchange

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Letters

Jamyang Norbu, Ian Buruma, The Muslims of Tibet

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Contributors

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.

Robert Cottrell has served as a Moscow bureau chief for both The Economist and the Financial Times. (June 2007)

Frederick Crews's most recent book is Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays. (December 2007)

Rosemary Dinnage's books include The Ruffian on the Stair, One to One: Experiences of Psychotherapy, and Annie Besant.

Caroline Fraser is the author of God's Perfect Child: Living and Dying in the Christian Science Church. (December 2004)

Peter Gay is Director of the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. His Schnitzler's Century: The Making of Middle-Class Culture, 1815–1914 will be published in late October. (October 2001)

Stephen Jay Gould teaches Geology, Biology, and the History of Science at Harvard and is the Vincent Astor Visiting Professor of Biology at NYU. His latest book is The Lying Stones of Marrakech. (October 2001)

Hermione Lee is the author of a biography of Virginia Woolf and of Virginia Woolf’s Nose: Essays on Biography, which has recently appeared in paperback. Her new biography, Edith Wharton, has just been published. (May 2007)

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

Daniel Mendelsohn 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 Complete Works and Unfinished Poems will be published next spring. (November 2008)

John Russell was formerly Chief Art Critic of The New York Times, to which he continues to be a contributor. He is at work on a short history of the museum since 1800. (March 2003)

Keith Thomas is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. His books include Religion and the Decline of Magic, Man and the Natural World, and The Oxford Book of Work. (April 2007)

James Traub is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine. He is currently writing a book about Times Square. (February 2002)

Brian Urquhart is a former Undersecretary-General of the United Nations. His books include Hammarskjöld, A Life in Peace and War, and Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey. (November 2008)

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