Table of Contents

Volume 48, Number 19 · November 29, 2001

Tony Judt, On 'The Plague'

John Updike, The Thing Itself

Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Drawings and Prints catalog of the exhibition edited by Nadine M. Orenstein, with additional contributions by Manfred Sellink, Jürgen Müller, Michiel C. Plomp, Martin Royalton-Kisch, and Larry Silver

Tim Judah, War in the Dark

John Bayley, Fresh Oysters

Reading Chekhov: A Critical Journey by Janet Malcolm

The Complete Early Short Stories of Anton Chekhov, Volume One (1880–82): 'He and She' and Other Stories translated from the Russian by Peter Sekirin

William Pfaff, Afghanistan: The Moving Target

Thomas Flanagan, Western Star

Searching for John Ford: A Life by Joseph McBride

Alastair Reid, When the Era Was an Era

The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa, translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman

Timothy Garton Ash, Is There a Good Terrorist?

Sanford Schwartz, To Be a Pilgrim

Gwen John: A Life by Sue Roe

Eric L. McKitrick, The Good Loser

Jefferson Davis, American by William J. Cooper Jr.

Jefferson Davis: Unconquerable Heart by Felicity Allen

Benjamin DeMott, The Sad Tale of Newton Arvin

The Scarlet Professor: Newton Arvin: A Literary Life Shattered by Scandal by Barry Werth

Aileen Kelly, In the Promised Land

Thank You, Comrade Stalin! Soviet Public Culture from Revolution to Cold War by Jeffrey Brooks

Stalinism as a Way of Life: A Narrative in Documents by Lewis Siegelbaum and Andrei Sokolov

James Fenton, Beautiful Objects

Mermaids Explained by Christopher Reid, with a foreword by Charles Simic

Electric Light by Seamus Heaney

Hilary Mantel, A Past Recaptured

A Favourite of the Gods by Sybille Bedford

A Compass Error by Sybille Bedford

Jigsaw: An Unsentimental Education by Sybille Bedford

John Gross, The Reader Strikes Back

Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books by H.J. Jackson

Christopher Jencks, Who Should Get In?

The Ecological Indian: Myth and History by Shepard Krech III

The Case Against Immigration by Roy Beck

Heaven's Door: Immigration Policy and the American Economy by George J. Borjas

America's Demography in the New Century: Aging Baby Boomers and New Immigrants as Major Players by William Frey and Ross DeVol

The Handbook of International Migration: The American Experience edited by Charles Hirschman, Philip Kasinitz, and Josh DeWind

Immigration from Mexico: Assessing the Impact on the United States by Steven Camarota

The New Americans: Economic, Demographic, and Fiscal Effects of Immigration edited by James P. Smith and Barry Edmonston

Charles Gross, Benjamin Kissin, Alvin Plantinga, et al. 'Saving Us from Darwin': An Exchange

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Letters

Stanley Crouch, Richard L. Garwin, 'Facing Up to Things'
Aryeh Neier, A Court for Terrorists
Morris Dickstein, The Irving Howe Lecture
Ives Goddard, 'The Road to Babel'
Frederick J. Augustyn Jr., Early Feminists for Life
Mark Baker, M.B.B. Biskupski, et al. Bruno Schultz's Frescoes

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Contributors

John Bayley has written two books about his wife, the novelist Iris Murdoch, Elegy for Iris and Iris and Her Friends. (July 2004)

Benjamin Demott is Mellon Professor of Humanities Emeritus at Amherst. His most recent book is Junk Politics: The Trashing of the American Mind. (May 2005)

James Fenton is the editor of The New Faber Book of Love Poems and D.H. Lawrence’s Selected Poems. (November 2008)

Thomas Flanagan (1923-2002) was a novelist, scholar, and critic. He was the author of The Irish Novelists, 1800–1850 (1959) and the novels The Year of the French (1979), The Tenants of Time (1988), and The End of the Hunt (1994).

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. His most recent book is Free World. (November 2008)

John Gross’s most recent book is A Double Thread, a memoir. He is the editor of The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes, which will be published in paperback in September. (May 2008)

Christopher Jencks is the Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy at Harvard. He is working on a book about the social and political consequences of growing inequality. (September 2007)

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)

Tony Judt is University Professor at NYU. His new book, Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century, will be published in April. (May 2008)

Aileen Kelly, a fellow of King’s College, Cambridge, is the author of Toward Another Shore: Russian Thinkers Between Necessity and Chance and, most recently, Views from the Other Shore: Essays on Herzen, Chekhov, and Bakhtin. (April 2007)

Hilary Mantel is the author of nine novels, including Beyond Black. The excerpt in this issue is drawn from her new novel, Wolf Hall, which will be published by Henry Holt/John Macrae Books in 2009. (August 2008)

Eric L. McKitrick is Professor of History Emeritus at Columbia. He is the author, with Stanley Elkins, of The Age of Federalism. (November 2001)

William Pfaff is an American author and syndicated columnist in Paris. His most recent book is The Bullet’s Song. (December 2007)

Alastair Reid received the PEN Kolovakos Award for Translation in 2001, along with Gregory Rabassa. (January 2004)

Sanford Schwartz's essays and reviews have been collected in The Art Presence and Artists and Writers. (January 2009)

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.

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