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by Tatyana Tolstaya

The New York Review of Books, April 13, 2000, pp. 50-51

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        Tea with Okakura by Christopher Benfey, pp. 43-47 - 1 Review
        The Book of Tea by Kakuzo Okakura
      17. [+]
        Acquaintance of the Earth by Bill McKibben, pp. 48-50 - 2 Reviews
        Hard Green by Peter Huber
        Natural Capitalism by Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins
      18. [+]
        Not-So-Great Expectations by Julian Moynahan, pp. 51-53 - 3 Reviews
        Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
        'Tis: A Memoir by Frank McCourt
        All Souls by Michael Patrick MacDonald
      19. [+]
        The Never-Ending War by Jonathan Mirsky, pp. 54-62 - 13 Reviews
        Argument Without End by Robert S. McNamara, James G. Blight, and Robert K. Brigham, ...
        Reporting Vietnam, Part Two by Ward Just
        Reporting Vietnam, Part One by Ward Just
        American Tragedy by David E. Kaiser
        Guerrilla Diplomacy by Robert K. Brigham
        Choosing War by Fredrik Logevall
        Dragon Ascending by Henry Kamm
        The Secret War Against Hanoi by Richard H. Shultz, Jr.
        In the Jaws of History by Bui Diem and David Chanoff
        A Better War by Lewis Sorley
        Vietnam: The Necessary War by Michael Lind
        America's War in Vietnam by Larry H. Addington
        Memories of Pure Spring by Duong Thu Huong
      20. Letters by John P. Frank, Ronald Dworkin, Martin Malia, and Aileen Kelly, ..., pp. 63-68
      21. Cover photograph by Robert J. Ellison
    5. [+]
      June 15, 2000 Issue = 22 Articles
      1. [+]
        A Child of the Age by John Leonard, pp. 6-9 - 1 Review
        The Human Stain by Philip Roth
      2. [+]
        Artist with a Calling by Sanford Schwartz, pp. 10-14 - 5 Reviews
        Fairfield Porter by Justin Spring
        Art in Its Own Terms by Fairfield Porter and Rackstraw Downes
        Fairfield Porter: An American Classic by John T. Spike
        Fairfield Porter by John Yau, David Kermani, and Fairfield Porter
        Thomas Eakins by Fairfield Porter
      3. Melville in Love by Elizabeth Hardwick, pp. 15-19
      4. Some Thoughts on Sierra Leone by Brian Urquhart, p. 20
      5. [+]
        Her Story by Luc Sante, pp. 21-23 - 1 Review
        Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates
      6. Mexico by Michael Massing, pp. 24-29
      7. [+]
        Friendship by David Lodge, pp. 30-31 - 1 Review
        Greene on Capri: A Memoir by Shirley Hazzard
      8. Usage by W.S. Merwin, p. 32
      9. [+]
        Inside the Gulag by Anne Applebaum, pp. 33-35 - 2 Reviews
        Labor Camp Socialism by Galina Mikhailovna Ivanova
        Till My Tale is Told by Simeon Vilensky
      10. [+]
        When in Rome... by Ingrid Rowland, pp. 36-40 - 2 Reviews
        Taking Positions by Bette Talvacchia
        Hypnerotomachia Poliphili by Francesco Colonna
      11. [+]
        Back to Nature by Andrew Hacker, pp. 41-44 - 2 Reviews
        The Nature of Economies by Jane Jacobs
        The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
      12. [+]
        Separate Beds by James Fenton, pp. 45-46 - 1 Review
        Boss Cupid by Thom Gunn
      13. [+]
        In Search of Bach by Robert L. Marshall, pp. 47-51 - 1 Review
        Johann Sebastian Bach by Christoph Wolff
      14. [+]
        The Hunter by Tim Parks, pp. 52-56 - 1 Review
        Vertigo by W.G. Sebald
      15. [+]
        A Frowsty Fragrance by Derek Walcott, pp. 57-61 - 1 Review
        Caribbeana by Thomas W. Krise
      16. [+]
        Sign Language by Colin McGinn, pp. 62-65 - 1 Review
        Kant and the Platypus by Umberto Eco
      17. [+]
        Camping in Washington by Garry Wills, p. 66 - 1 Review
        Delancey's Way by James McCourt
      18. [+]
        Bizarre New World by Jasper Griffin, pp. 67-69 - 1 Review
        Interpreting Late Antiquity by G.W. Bowersock, Peter Brown, Oleg Grabar, and Peter Robert Lamont Brown, ...
      19. The View from Damascus by Sadik J. Al-Azm, pp. 70-77
      20. 'The Uses of Hell' by Peter Novick, Tad Szulc, Steven T. Katz, and Eva Hoffman, ..., pp. 78-79
      21. Letters by Istvan Deak, Stuart Hampshire, Mark Lilla, and George M. Fredrickson, ..., pp. 80-84
      22. Cover photograph: Golan Heights, 1967 by Micha Bar'Am
    6. [+]
      June 29, 2000 Issue = 19 Articles
      1. [+]
        Conservative Rebel by Hilary Mantel, p. 4 - 1 Review
        Selected Letters of Rebecca West by Bonnie Kime Scott and Rebecca West
      2. A Short History of Humanity by William H. McNeill, pp. 5-11
      3. [+]
        Found Horizon by Ian Buruma, pp. 12-16 - 2 Reviews
        Virtual Tibet by Orville Schell
        The Search for the Panchen Lama by Isabel Hilton
      4. Crossroads in the Past by John Ashbery, p. 17
      5. [+]
        Close to the Edge by Gabriele Annan, pp. 18-19 - 1 Review
        Mr. Phillips by John Lanchester
      6. [+]
        Our Fellow Animals by Ian Hacking, pp. 20-26 - 2 Reviews
        The Lives of Animals by J.M. Coetzee
        Ethics into Action by Peter Singer
      7. [+]
        Born Again in Rome by Ingrid Rowland, pp. 27-30 - 1 Review
        Unearthing the Past by Leonard Barkan
      8. [+]
        The Devil & Mr. Ruskin by John D. Rosenberg, pp. 31-35 - 2 Reviews
        John Ruskin: The Early Years, 1819-1859 by Timothy Hilton
        John Ruskin: The Later Years by Tim Hilton
      9. 'Taiwan Stands Up' by Jonathan Mirsky, pp. 36-37
      10. [+]
        An Endangered Species by Joyce Carol Oates, pp. 38-41 - 5 Reviews
        Everything in This Country Must by Colum McCann
        Scar Vegas, and Other Stories by Tom Paine#2
        Dressing up for the Carnival by Carol Shields
        In the Gloaming by Alice Elliott Dark
        Pastoralia by George Saunders
      11. Paris by Robert Darnton, pp. 42-46
      12. [+]
        Under Siege by Neal Ascherson, pp. 47-49 - 1 Review
        Ladysmith by Giles Foden
      13. [+]
        Early American Get-Up-and-Go by Gordon S. Wood, pp. 50-52 - 1 Review
        Inheriting the Revolution by Joyce Appleby
      14. [+]
        Phantom Observations by John Bayley, pp. 53-54 - 1 Review
        Music and Silence by Rose Tremain
      15. [+]
        Decline and Fall? by Roger Shattuck, pp. 55-58 - 1 Review
        From Dawn to Decadence by Jacques Barzun
      16. [+]
        Gaiety Redeemed by Brad Leithauser, pp. 59-60 - 1 Review
        Mayflies by Richard Wilbur
      17. Sierra Leone by James Traub, pp. 61-65
      18. Letters by Michael Isikoff, S. Asherah Stern, and Alison Lurie, ..., pp. 66-72
      19. Cover photograph: Sierra Leonean soldiers by Brennan Linsley
  3. [+]
    Issues of Jul.-Sep. 2000 = 3 Issues, 63 Articles
    1. [+]
      July 20, 2000 Issue = 16 Articles
      1. [+]
        The Wise Woman and the Whale by John Leonard, pp. 4-7 - 1 Review
        Herman Melville by Elizabeth Hardwick
      2. [+]
        The Triumph of Marxism by Geoffrey O'Brien, pp. 8-12 - 3 Reviews
        Groucho by Stefan Kanfer
        The Essential Groucho by Stefan Kanfer
        Monkey Business by Simon Louvish
      3. [+]
        Watch Out, Democrats! by Lars-Erik Nelson, pp. 13-17 - 5 Reviews
        America's Forgotten Majority by Ruy A. Teixeira and Joel Rogers
        Government Works by Milton J. Esman
        The Selling of Free Trade by John R. MacArthur
        Democracy Derailed by David S. Broder
        The New Prince by Dick Morris
      4. [+]
        The Geat of Geats by Frank Kermode, pp. 18-20 - 2 Reviews
        Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney
        Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by R.M. Liuzza
      5. [+]
        Haunted by Salmon by Joyce Carol Oates, p. 21 - 1 Review
        The Toughest Indian in the World by Sherman Alexie
      6. Tibet Dienchanted by Ian Buruma, pp. 22-25
      7. [+]
        London's New Left Bank by James Fenton, pp. 26-29 - 2 Reviews
        Tate Modern: The Handbook by Iwona Blazwick and Simon Wilson
        Representing Britain 1500-2000 by Matin Myrone
      8. [+]
        Strangers at Home by Istvan Deak, pp. 30-32 - 1 Review
        Sunshine (1999 Film) by Istvan Szabo
      9. East and West by Amartya Sen, pp. 33-37
      10. [+]
        Fascinatin' Rhythm by David Hajdu, pp. 38-41 - 4 Reviews
        Harry Partch by Bob Gilmore
        Harry Partch by Philip Blackburn and Harry Partch
        Bitter Music by Harry Partch and Thomas McGeary
        Genesis of a Music by Harry Partch
      11. [+]
        The New American Way of War by Michael Ignatieff, pp. 42-46 - 6 Reviews
        Lifting the Fog of War by William A. Owens and Ed Offley
        Private Warriors by Ken Silverstein
        Fire in the East by Paul Bracken
        Total War 2006 by Simon Pearson
        Gulf War Air Power Survey by Thomas A. Keaney and Eliot A. Cohen
        Iraq and the War of Sanctions by Anthony H. Cordesman
      12. [+]
        Back to Basics by Edmund S. Morgan, pp. 47-49 - 1 Review
        Serving the Word by Vincent Crapanzano
      13. The Mystery of AIDS in South Africa by Helen Epstein, pp. 50-55
      14. United States v. Leonard Peltier by Peter Matthiessen, E.L. Doctorow, and Kurt Vonnegut Jr., ..., p. 56
      15. Letters by Jeffrey Toobin, Antony Beevor, Moshe Ma'oz, and Amos Elon, ..., pp. 57-60
      16. Cover drawing by David Levine
    2. [+]
      August 10, 2000 Issue = 21 Articles
      1. [+]
        A Boy's Life by Russell Baker, pp. 4-7 - 1 Review
        The Chief by David Nasaw
      2. [+]
        'Nature Itself' by John Updike, pp. 8-11 - 2 Reviews
        Chardin, 1699-1779 by Pierre Rosenberg
        Chardin: An Intimate Art by Helene Prigent and Pierre Rosenberg
      3. [+]
        Party Going by Lars-Erik Nelson, pp. 12-15 - 2 Reviews
        Campaign Talk by Roderick P. Hart
        No Way to Pick a President by Jules Witcover
      4. [+]
        Scenes from the American Dream by Charles Rosen and Henri Zerner, pp. 16-19 - 1 Review
        Norman Rockwell: Pictures for the American People by Judy L. Larson and Maureen Hart Hennessey
      5. Croatia Reborn by Tim Judah, pp. 20-23
      6. [+]
        Inventing the West by Larry McMurtry, pp. 24-28 - 8 Reviews
        A Newer World by David Roberts
        The Lives and Legends of Buffalo Bill by Don Russell
        Buffalo Bill's Wild West by Joy S. Kasson
        The Business of Being Buffalo Bill by Sarah J. Blackstone
        The Real Wild West by Michael Wallis
        The Life and Legacy of Annie Oakley by Glenda Riley
        Annie Oakley and Buffalo Bill's Wild West by Isabelle S. Sayers
        Will Rogers by Ben Yagoda
      7. The Brawls of Yesterday by Murray Kempton, p. 29
      8. [+]
        In the Danger Zone by Richard Horton, pp. 30-34 - 1 Review
        Intensive Care by John F. Murray
      9. [+]
        The Greatest! by John Bayley, pp. 35-37 - 2 Reviews
        William Shakespeare by Anthony Holden
        Shakespeare's Language by Frank Kermode
      10. [+]
        All Too Human by Jeff Madrick, pp. 38-41 - 8 Reviews
        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 and Kevin A. Hassett
        Famous First Bubbles by Peter M. Garber
        Devil Take the Hindmost by Edward Chancellor
        Social Security: The Phony Crisis by Dean Baker and Mark Weisbrot
        On Money and Markets by Henry Kaufman
      11. [+]
        Coupling by John Banville, pp. 42-44 - 3 Reviews
        The Married Man by Edmund White
        Edmund White: The Burning World by Stephen Barber
        The Boy with the Thorn in His Side by Keith Fleming
      12. [+]
        Not Wholly Holy by Gordon A. Craig, pp. 45-46 - 2 Reviews
        Oberammergau by James S. Shapiro
        The Passion Play 2000 by Otto Huber and Christian Stuckl
      13. [+]
        My Way by Alan Ryan, pp. 47-50 - 1 Review
        Bowling Alone by Robert D. Putnam
      14. Fatima by Garry Wills, p. 51
      15. [+]
        On the Night Train by Charles Simic, pp. 52-54 - 3 Reviews
        The Weather of Words by Mark Strand
        Blizzard of One by Mark Strand
        Chicken, Shadow, Moon and More by Mark Strand
      16. [+]
        Speaking in Tongues by D.J. Enright, pp. 55-56 - 1 Review
        Destiny by Tim Parks
      17. My Krakow by Adam Zagajewski, p. 57
      18. [+]
        The Tale of Two Housmans by Daniel Mendelsohn, pp. 58-64 - 1 Review
        The Invention of Love by Tom Stoppard
      19. 'The View from Damascus', cont'd by Sadik J. Al-Azm, p. 65
      20. Letters by Dorothy Huff Oberhaus, Benjamin Lease, and Joyce Carol Oates, ..., pp. 66-68
      21. Cover: detail from "The Gossips" by Norman Rockwell
    3. [+]
      September 21, 2000 Issue = 26 Articles
      1. The Odds Against Barak by Avishai Margalit, pp. 6-11
      2. [+]
        The Invented Man by Jasper Griffin, pp. 12-15 - 1 Review
        Pontius Pilate by Ann Wroe
      3. A Scandal in Moscow by Viktor Erofeyev, pp. 16-17
      4. Apart by Robin Robertson, pp. 18-19
      5. [+]
        A Finished Woman by A.O. Scott, pp. 20-25 - 1 Review
        Seeing Mary Plain by Frances Kiernan
      6. [+]
        Lord Trouble by Christopher Hitchens, pp. 26-29 - 1 Review
        Bosie by Murray Douglas
      7. [+]
        The Non-Conformist by Tim Parks, pp. 30-35 - 1 Review
        Mario Sironi and Italian Modernism by Emily Braun
      8. Death in Kashmir by Pankaj Mishra, pp. 36-43
      9. [+]
        Notes of a Son and Brother by Benjamin DeMott, pp. 44-46 - 1 Review
        A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
      10. [+]
        Lost World by Rosemary Dinnage, pp. 47-49 - 1 Review
        Rodinsky's Room by Rachel Lichtenstein and Iain Sinclair
      11. [+]
        Kosovo by Timothy Garton Ash, pp. 50-60 - 5 Reviews
        Kosovo: War and Revenge by Tim Judah
        Winning Ugly by Ivo H. Daalder and Michael E. O'Hanlon
        Virtual War by Michael Ignatieff
        The Crisis in Kosovo, 1989-1999 by Marc Weller
        Kosovo by William Joseph Buckley
      12. [+]
        A New Vision of Vision by Israel Rosenfield, pp. 61-64 - 2 Reviews
        Inner Vision by Semir Zeki
        Visual Intelligence by Donald D. Hoffman
      13. [+]
        The Henry James of Crime by Luc Sante, p. 65 - 1 Review
        Classic Crimes by William Roughead and Luc Sante
      14. [+]
        The Story of Everything by Tony Judt, pp. 66-69 - 2 Reviews
        One World Divisible by David Reynolds
        Twentieth Century by J.M. Roberts
      15. [+]
        No Laughing Matter by Brad Leithauser, pp. 70-73 - 2 Reviews
        American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Vol. I
        American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Vol. II
      16. [+]
        Mad Genius by Whitney Balliett, pp. 74-75 - 1 Review
        God's Perfect Child by Caroline Fraser
      17. [+]
        How Not to Deal with Bullies by Brian Urquhart, pp. 76-79 - 3 Reviews
        The Greatest Threat by Richard Butler
        The Sanctions Decade by David Cortright and George A. Lopez
        We the Peoples by Kofi A. Annan
      18. [+]
        Apocalypse Now by J.S. Marcus, pp. 80-87 - 6 Reviews
        My Year in the No-Man's-Bay by Peter Handke
        A Journey to the Rivers by Peter Handke
        A Sorrow Beyond Dreams by Peter Handke
        Repetition by Peter Handke
        Handke: Plays One by Peter Handke
        On a Dark Night I Left My Silent House by Peter Handke
      19. [+]
        Stairway to Heaven by Bernard Knox, pp. 88-89 - 1 Review
        Purgatorio by Dante and W.S. Merwin
      20. [+]
        Twin Peaks by Gabriele Annan, pp. 90-91 - 1 Review
        What Are You Like? by Anne Enright
      21. Swissair 111, TWA 800, and Electromagnetic Interference by Elaine Scarry, pp. 92-100
      22. The Shame of Political TV by Mark Danner, p. 101
      23. 'The Never-Ending War' by James G. Blight, David Chanoff, and Jonathan Mirsky, ..., p. 102
      24. 'The Invention of Love' by Tom Stoppard and Daniel Mendelsohn, pp. 103-104
      25. Letters by Martin Macpherson and John Ryle, pp. 105-108
      26. Cover photograph by Steve Russell
  4. [+]
    Issues of Oct.-Dec. 2000 = 6 Issues, 108 Articles
    1. [+]
      October 5, 2000 Issue = 14 Articles
      1. [+]
        Foreign Affair by Pico Iyer, pp. 4-6 - 1 Review
        When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
      2. Should We Pay Off the Debt? by Robert M. Solow, pp. 7-9
      3. [+]
        Are the Troubles Over? by Fintan O'Toole, pp. 10-13 - 5 Reviews
        Lost Lives by David McKittrick, Seamus Kelters, and Brian Feeney, ...
        Ireland North and South by Anthony F. Heath, Richard Breen, and Christopher T. Whelan, ...
        The Trouble with Guns by Malachi O'Doherty
        Those Are Real Bullets, Aren't They by Peter Pringle and Philip Jacobson
        Personal Accounts from Northern Ireland's Troubles by Marie Smyth, Marie-Therese Fay, and Mike Morrissey, ...
      4. [+]
        Master of the Misbegotten by Thomas Flanagan, pp. 14-18 - 1 Review
        O'Neill by Arthur Gelb and Barbara Gelb
      5. [+]
        Mr. Fix-It by Ronald Steel, pp. 19-21 - 1 Review
        Woodrow Wilson by Louis Auchincloss
      6. [+]
        The Master Builders by James Fenton, pp. 22-27 - 5 Reviews
        Wren's 'Tracts' on Architecture and Other Writings by Lydia M. Soo
        The City Churches of Sir Christopher Wren by Paul Jeffrey
        Inigo Jones by John Summerson
        Sir John Vanbrugh and Landscape Architecture in Baroque England, 1690-1730 by Christopher Ridgway, Robert Williams, and Kerry Downes, ...
        Hawksmoor's London Churches by Pierre de la Ruffiniere du Prey
      7. [+]
        Battle Hymn of the Republic by Robert Stone, pp. 28-31 - 1 Review
        Once an Eagle by Anton Myrer
      8. Kashmir by Pankaj Mishra, pp. 32-37
      9. David Schubert by John Ashbery, pp. 38-41
      10. [+]
        The Other Revolution by David Brion Davis, pp. 42-46 - 3 Reviews
        Joyous Greetings by Bonnie S. Anderson
        Not for Ourselves Alone by Geoffrey C. Ward, Ken Burns, and Paul Barnes
        Not for Ourselves Alone (1999 Film) by Ken Burns and Paul Barnes
      11. Clinton and Colombia by Mark Danner, pp. 47-48
      12. The Fall of EgyptAir 990 by Elaine Scarry, pp. 49-53
      13. Letters by Professor David Abraham, John Derbyshire, and Benjamin DeMott, ..., pp. 54-56
      14. Cover drawings by Thomas Nast and David Levine
    2. [+]
      October 19, 2000 Issue = 17 Articles
      1. [+]
        Gore in the Balance by Lars-Erik Nelson, pp. 4-8 - 3 Reviews
        Inventing Al Gore by Bill Turque
        The Prince of Tennessee by David Maraniss and Ellen Y. Nakashima
        In Praise of Public Life by Joseph I. Lieberman and Michael D'Orso
      2. [+]
        Working for the Dictionary by Charles Simic, pp. 9-12 - 1 Review
        Collected Poems in English by Joseph Brodsky and Ann Kjellberg
      3. [+]
        Mr. Bigsky by Robert Cottrell, pp. 13-16 - 2 Reviews
        Godfather of the Kremlin by Paul Klebnikov
        Sale of the Century by Chrystia Freeland
      4. [+]
        The Desert Prince by James Traub, pp. 17-20 - 2 Reviews
        Rudy! by Wayne Barrett and Adam Fifield
        Rudy Giuliani: Emperor of the City by Andrew Kirtzman
      5. [+]
        The Best Men? by Diane Johnson, pp. 21-22 - 1 Review
        The Golden Age by Gore Vidal
      6. Kashmir by Pankaj Mishra, pp. 23-29
      7. [+]
        In Love with Guns by Edmund S. Morgan, pp. 30-38 - 1 Review
        Arming America by Michael A. Bellesiles
      8. [+]
        On Max Beerbohm's Seven Men by John Updike, p. 39 - 1 Review
        Seven Men by Max Beerbohm
      9. Gore vs. Bush by Benjamin M. Friedman, pp. 40-43
      10. [+]
        Paroxysms of Choice by Howard Gardner, pp. 44-49 - 5 Reviews
        Charter Schools in Action by Chester E. Finn, Jr., Bruno V. Manno, and Gregg Vanourek, ...
        When Schools Compete by Edward B. Fiske and Helen F. Ladd
        Inside Charter Schools by Bruce Fuller
        A Legacy of Learning by David T. Kearns and James Harvey
        The Market Approach to Education by John F. Witte
      11. [+]
        The Fatal Shore by Joyce Carol Oates, pp. 50-51 - 1 Review
        The Shark Net by Robert Drewe
      12. [+]
        Death on the Installment Plan by John Weightman, pp. 52-53 - 1 Review
        The Collaborator by Alice Kaplan
      13. The Arts in Russia Under Stalin by Isaiah Berlin, pp. 54-62
      14. Mbeki and AIDS in South Africa by Paul Trewhela, p. 63
      15. On 'The Invention of Love' by Tom Stoppard and Daniel Mendelsohn, p. 64
      16. Letters by Paul Lawrence Rose, Thomas Powers, and Michael Isikoff, ..., pp. 65-72
      17. Cover drawing by David Levine
    3. [+]
      November 2, 2000 Issue = 21 Articles
      1. The Coming Revolution by Jason Epstein, pp. 4-5
      2. [+]
        Fate & the Fuhrer by Gordon A. Craig, pp. 6-10 - 3 Reviews
        Hitler, 1936-1945: Nemesis by Ian Kershaw
        The Third Reich: A New History by Michael Burleigh
        The Social History of the Third Reich, 1933-1945 by Pierre Aycoberry
      3. From Milosz's ABC's by Czeslaw Milosz, pp. 11-12
      4. [+]
        The Genius of Robert Walser by J.M. Coetzee, pp. 13-16 - 2 Reviews
        The Robber by Robert Walser
        Jakob Von Gunten by Robert Walser
      5. [+]
        Durer and Christ by John Updike, pp. 17-19 - 1 Review
        Durer's Passions by Jordan Kantor and Albrecht Durer
      6. [+]
        The Interesting One by Thomas Powers, pp. 20-25 - 1 Review
        Robert Kennedy: His Life by Evan Thomas
      7. [+]
        Fun with Freud by Daniel Mendelsohn, pp. 26-29 - 1 Review
        Freud's Megalomania by Israel Rosenfield
      8. [+]
        Pilgrim's Progress by Joyce Carol Oates, pp. 30-32 - 1 Review
        Cherry by Mary Karr
      9. Making the Memorial by Maya Lin, pp. 33-35
      10. Wagner and Politics by Bernard Williams, pp. 36-43
      11. [+]
        A Passage to Colombo by John Bayley, pp. 44-45 - 1 Review
        Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje
      12. [+]
        How Sick Is Modern Medicine by Richard Horton, pp. 46-50 - 1 Review
        The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine by James Le Fanu
      13. [+]
        Pulpmaster by Larry McMurtry, pp. 51-52 - 2 Reviews
        Zane Grey by Stephen J. May
        Maverick Heart by Stephen J. May
      14. [+]
        Sentenced to Reality by Anthony Hecht, pp. 53-55 - 1 Review
        Open Closed Open by Yehuda Amichai
      15. [+]
        In the Primordial Soup by Tim Flannery, pp. 56-58 - 2 Reviews
        The Spark of Life by Christopher Wills and Jeffrey Bada
        Darwin's Ghost by Steve Jones
      16. [+]
        Did Roosevelt Know? by David Kahn, pp. 59-60 - 1 Review
        Day of Deceit by Robert Stinnett
      17. [+]
        The Skeleton in the Closet by George M. Fredrickson, pp. 61-65 - 3 Reviews
        Slave Narratives by William L. Andrews and Henry Louis Gates
        Born in Bondage by Marie Jenkins Schwartz
        Soul by Soul by Walter Johnson
      18. The Lost Olympics by Mark Danner, pp. 66-67
      19. God's Country by Joan Didion, pp. 68-76
      20. 'Should We Pay Off the Debt?' by Paul Samuelson and Robert Solow, p. 77
      21. Letters by Irving Greenberg, Morris Dickstein, and Jay Neugeboren, ..., pp. 77-80
    4. [+]
      November 16, 2000 Issue = 15 Articles
      1. [+]
        Where Has Joe Gone? by Russell Baker, pp. 4-7 - 1 Review
        Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life by Richard Ben Cramer
      2. The Last Revolution by Timothy Garton Ash, pp. 8-14
      3. [+]
        Honorable Man by Garry Wills, pp. 15-17 - 1 Review
        The Gentleman from New York by Godfrey Hodgson
      4. [+]
        The Torrents of Wolfe by Elizabeth Hardwick, pp. 18-23 - 8 Reviews
        O Lost by Thomas Wolfe, Arlyn Bruccoli, and Matthew Joseph Bruccoli, ...
        Notebooks of Thomas Wolfe by Richard S. Kennedy, Paschal Reeves, and Thomas Wolfe, ...
        Of Time and the River by Thomas Wolfe
        Look Homeward by David Herbert Donald
        The Web and the Rock by Thomas Wolfe
        You Can't Go Home Again by Thomas Wolfe
        Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe
        To Loot My Life Clean by Matthew J. Bruccoli, Park Bucker, and Thomas Wolfe, ...
      5. [+]
        What's Left of Marx? by Robert Skidelsky, pp. 24-27 - 1 Review
        Karl Marx: A Life by Francis Wheen
      6. [+]
        Internet Illusions by James Fallows, pp. 28-31 - 4 Reviews
        Vote.Com by Dick Morris
        Rich Media, Poor Democracy by Robert W. McChesney
        Prometheus Wired by Darin Barney
        You Say You Want a Revolution by Reed E. Hundt
      7. [+]
        Patios & Poolsides by Lorrie Moore, pp. 32-34 - 1 Review
        Sam the Cat by Matthew Klam
      8. [+]
        Renoir the Irregular by John Golding, pp. 35-38 - 1 Review
        Nature's Workshop by Robert L. Herbert
      9. Witch Hunt in Egypt by Max Rodenbeck, pp. 39-41
      10. Beethoven's Musical Characters by Alfred Brendel, pp. 42-47
      11. [+]
        Can Populism Be Popular? by Nicholas Lemann, pp. 48-51 - 2 Reviews
        The Missing Middle by Theda Skocpol
        The Paradox of American Democracy by John B. Judis
      12. [+]
        The Russians Are Coming! by Raymond Bonner, pp. 52-54 - 1 Review
        Red Mafiya by Robert I. Friedman
      13. [+]
        Dancing with the Moon by K. Anthony Appiah, pp. 55-60 - 1 Review
        In the Arms of Africa by Roy Richard Grinker
      14. Letters by Richard B. Woodward, Austin Briggs, and Charles Rosen, ..., pp. 61-64
      15. Cover drawing by David Levine
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      November 30, 2000 Issue = 18 Articles
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        Over the Rainbow by Anthony Grafton, pp. 4-7 - 1 Review
        Utopia by Roland Schaer, Gregory Claeys, and Lyman Tower Sargent, ...
      2. [+]
        Tragicomic Soup by Charles Simic, pp. 8-11 - 2 Reviews
        Your Name Here by John Ashbery
        Other Traditions by John Ashbery
      3. [+]
        The Case Against Kids by Andrew Hacker, pp. 12-17 - 3 Reviews
        The Baby Boon by Elinor Burkett
        The Economics of Reciprocity, Giving and Altruism by Jean Mercier Ythier and Serge-Christophe Kolm, ...
        Tuition Rising by Ronald G. Ehrenberg
      4. [+]
        Night Thoughts by Mark Lilla, pp. 18-21 - 3 Reviews
        The Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq
        Whatever by Michel Houellebecq
        H. P. Lovecraft by Michel Houellebecq
      5. [+]
        Un-American Activities by Sam Tanenhaus, pp. 22-27 - 1 Review
        Joseph McCarthy by Arthur Herman
      6. [+]
        Staring at the Medusa's Head by Hilary Mantel, pp. 28-31 - 1 Review
        Abyssinian Chronicles by Moses Isegawa
      7. [+]
        The Last Harpoon by Jonathan Raban, pp. 32-35 - 1 Review
        A Whale Hunt by Robert Sullivan
      8. [+]
        Blitzkrieg in Georgia by James M. McPherson, pp. 36-38 - 2 Reviews
        Atlanta 1864 by Richard M. McMurry
        Sherman's Civil War by William T. Sherman, Brooks D. Simpson, and Jean V. Berlin, ...
      9. [+]
        Turncoats by Gabriele Annan, pp. 39-41 - 1 Review
        Too Far Afield by Gunter Grass
      10. [+]
        A Fine Life by Eric Christiansen, pp. 42-45 - 1 Review
        The Hundred Years War, Vol. II by Jonathan Sumption
      11. [+]
        The Cruelty of Memory by Edward W. Said, pp. 46-50 - 11 Reviews
        Akhenaten: Dweller in Truth by Naguib Mahfouz
        Before the Throne by Naguib Mahfouz
        Adrift on the Nile by Naguib Mahfouz
        Under the Shelter by Naguib Mahfouz
        Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz
        Palace of Desire by Naguib Mahfouz
        Sugar Street by Naguib Mahfouz
        The Children of Gebelawi by Naguib Mahfouz
        The Harafish by Naguib Mahfouz
        Echoes of an Autobiography by Naguib Mahfouz
        Miramar by Naguib Mahfouz
      12. [+]
        Justice for Willa Cather by A.S. Byatt, pp. 51-53 - 1 Review
        Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism by Joan Acocella
      13. [+]
        On 'Party Going' by Tim Parks, pp. 54-56 - 1 Review
        Party-Going by Henry Green
      14. [+]
        Epic-Making by P.N. Furbank, pp. 57-59 - 2 Reviews
        Barbarism and Religion, Vol. I by J.G.A. Pocock
        Barbarism and Religion, Vol. II by J.G.A. Pocock
      15. The Shame of Medical Research by David J. Rothman, pp. 60-64
      16. The Perils of Secrecy by Lars-Erik Nelson, p. 65
      17. Letters by Yvonne Cloetta, Shirley Hazzard, and M.F. Perutz, ..., pp. 65-68
      18. Cover photograph by Paolo Cocco
    6. [+]
      December 21, 2000 Issue = 23 Articles
      1. [+]
        Military-Industrial Man by Lars-Erik Nelson, pp. 6-15 - 1 Review
        Henry M. Jackson: A Life in Politics by Robert G. Kaufman
      2. [+]
        The Oddness of Oz by Alison Lurie, pp. 16-27 - 1 Review
        The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
      3. [+]
        Hometown America's Black Book by Larry McMurtry, pp. 28-30 - 1 Review
        Without Sanctuary by James Allen, Hilton Als, Jon Lewis, and Leon F. Litwack, ...
      4. [+]
        Golden Boy by James Traub, pp. 31-33 - 1 Review
        The Trumps by Gwenda Blair
      5. None but the Lonely Trout by Prudence Crowther, pp. 34-35
      6. Johann Sebastian Bach by Charles Rosen, pp. 36-37
      7. [+]
        Fitzgerald's 'Radiant World' by Thomas Flanagan, pp. 38-42 - 3 Reviews
        Novels and Stories, 1920-1922 by F. Scott Fitzgerald
        Trimalchio: An Early Version of 'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald and James L.W. West
        Trimalchio by F. Scott Fitzerald by Matthew J. Bruccoli
      8. [+]
        The Cheshire Cat's DNA by John Maynard Smith, pp. 43-47 - 1 Review
        The Century of the Gene by Evelyn Fox Keller
      9. [+]
        The Neapolitan Finger by Joan Acocella, pp. 48-55 - 1 Review
        Gesture in Naples and Gesture in Classical Antiquity by Andrea de Jorio
      10. [+]
        Valentine in Sepia by Joyce Carol Oates, pp. 56-59 - 1 Review
        What It Felt Like by Henry Allen
      11. [+]
        The Exhibition Follies by James Fenton, pp. 60-64 - 1 Review
        The Ephemeral Museum by Francis Haskell
      12. [+]
        The Age of Schlesinger by James Chace, pp. 65-68 - 1 Review
        A Life in the Twentieth Century by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
      13. [+]
        Wrapping It Up by Keith Thomas, pp. 69-71 - 1 Review
        The Gift in Sixteenth-Century France by Natalie Zemon Davis
      14. [+]
        Passion in Lahore by Anita Desai, pp. 72-74 - 1 Review
        Moth Smoke by Mohsin Hamid
      15. [+]
        The Luck of the English by Eamon Duffy, pp. 75-77 - 1 Review
        A History of Britain, Vol. I by Simon Schama
      16. [+]
        Dog Spelled Backwards by Dan Jacobson, pp. 78-81 - 1 Review
        Only Yesterday by S.Y. Agnon
      17. [+]
        Extraordinary Commonplaces by Robert Darnton, pp. 82-89 - 2 Reviews
        Reading Revolution by Kevin Sharpe
        Geoffrey Madan's Notebooks by J.A. Gere, John Sparrow, and Geoffrey Madan
      18. [+]
        Great Days by Clive James, pp. 90-95 - 1 Review
        Dream Stuff by David Malouf
      19. On the Election by Mark Danner, p. 96
      20. The Phantom Poll Booth by Ronald Dworkin, pp. 96-97
      21. The White House & the World by Tony Judt, pp. 98-99
      22. Letters by Israel Rosenfield, Frederick Crews, and A.S. Byatt, ..., pp. 100-104
      23. Cover drawing by Saul Steinberg
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3. [+]
  Issues of 2006 = 6 Issues, 97 Articles
4. [+]
  Issues of 2007 = 9 Issues, 166 Articles
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  Issues of 2008 = 13 Issues, 286 Articles
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  Issues of 2009 = 17 Issues, 324 Articles
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Issues of the 2010s = 1 Year, 19 Issues, 402 Articles
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  Issues of 2010 = 19 Issues, 402 Articles