Table of Contents
Volume 50, Number 18 · November 20, 2003
Paul Krugman, Strictly Business 
Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush's America by Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose
Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truth by Joe Conason
David Lodge, Disturbing the Peace
Elizabeth Costello by J.M. Coetzee
Michael Kimmelman, The Saint
Alfred H. Barr, Jr. and the Intellectual Origins of the Museum of Modern Art by Sybil Gordon Kantor
Cees Nooteboom, Basho (poem)
Lorrie Moore, Home Truths
The Early Stories, 1953–1975 by John Updike
Elizabeth Drew, Waiting for the General
Mark Ford, Playing with Today
The Voice at 3:00 AM: Selected Late and New Poems by Charles Simic
The Metaphysician in the Dark by Charles Simic
Charles Simic in Conversation with Michael Hulse
Ronald Steel, The Missionary
Wilsonianism: Woodrow Wilson and His Legacy in American Foreign Relations by Lloyd E. Ambrosius
Woodrow Wilson by H.W. Brands
Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan, with a foreword by Richard Holbrooke
Breaking the Heart of the World: Woodrow Wilson and the Fight for the League of Nations by John Milton Cooper Jr.
Edith and Woodrow: The Wilson White House by Phyllis Lee Levin
Larry McMurtry, Lady Sings the Blues
America's Women: Four Hundred Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines by Gail Collins
Neal Ascherson, In the Black Garden
Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan Through Peace and War by Thomas de Waal
Armenia: Portraits of Survival and Hope by Donald E. Miller and Lorna Touryan Miller, with photographs by Jerry Berndt
J.H. Elliott, Snakes in Paradise
Naked Tropics: Essays on Empire and Other Rogues by Kenneth Maxwell
Tony Judt, The Last Romantic
Interesting Times: A Twentieth-Century Life by Eric Hobsbawm
John Bayley, Silent Music
Melodies Unheard: Essays on the Mysteries of Poetry by Anthony Hecht
Collected Later Poems by Anthony Hecht
Coming of Age as a Poet: Milton, Keats, Eliot, Plath by Helen Vendler
Speaking of Beauty by Denis Donoghue
Jonathan Mirsky, The Hong Kong Gesture
Daniel Mendelsohn, The Fate of a Humanist
Pushing Time Away: My Grandfather and the Tragedy of Jewish Vienna by Peter Singer
Letters
Jacquelyn Seevak Sanders, Robert Gottlieb, Defending Bruno Bettelheim
Alan Kennis, Jerome S. Bruner, Lynching
Keith Hansen, Nancy Scheper-Hughes, et al. 'Aids in South Africa: the Invisible Cure'
Contributors
Neal Ascherson is the author of The Struggles for Poland, The Black Sea, and Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland. He is the editor of the journal Public Archaeology at University College London. (November 2008)
John Bayley has written two books about his wife, the novelist Iris Murdoch, Elegy for Iris and Iris and Her Friends. (July 2004)
Elizabeth Drew, who lives in Washington, is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books. She is the author of twelve books.
J. H. Elliott is Regius Professor Emeritus of Modern History at the University of Oxford. His books include The Count-Duke of Olivares and Spain and Its World. Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1492– 1830 has just been published. (June 2006)
Mark Ford teaches in the English Department at University College London. His most recent collection of poetry, Soft Sift, takes its title from Gerard Manley Hopkins's “The Wreck of the Deutschland. ” This year he has published editions of the poetry of Frank O'Hara and John Ashbery. (January 2009)
Tony Judt is University Professor at NYU. His new book, Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century, will be published in April. (May 2008)
Michael Kimmelman is chief art critic of The New York Times . He is now based in Berlin, writing the Abroad column for the Times on culture and society across Europe. He is the author of The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa. (September 2008)
Paul Krugman is a columnist for The New York Times and Professor of Economics and International Affairs at Princeton. He was awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize in Economics. The article in this issue is drawn from The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008, just published by Norton. (December 2008)
David Lodge is a novelist and critic and Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Birmingham, England. His novels include Changing Places, Small World, Nice Work, and Author, Author. His most recent works of criticism are Consciousness and
the Novel and The Year of Henry James.
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)
Jonathan Mirsky is a journalist and historian specializing in Chinese affairs. He reported from Vietnam in 1965 and 1967. (November 2008)
Lorrie Moore teaches at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Her most recent book is the story collection Birds of America. She has won the Rea Award and the PEN/Malamud Award for Short Fiction. (September 2007)
Cees Nooteboom, who lives in Amsterdam, is the author of numerous books of poetry and of the novels Rituals and All Soul's Day, available in English. His poem in this issue will be included in Landscape with Powers: Poetry from the Netherlands, published in February 2004 by Princeton University Press. (November 2003)
Ronald Steel is Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California, a recent fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, and the author of biographies of Walter Lippmann and Robert Kennedy. (June 2006)
