Table Of ContentInDEx TO VOLUME 69
The abbreviations preceding page numbers designate the season in 2000 UO 1n which the issue appeared
Wi = Winter, Sp Spring, Su Summer, Au Autumn
Acupuncture and Science (THE UNCERTAIN Biography of a Rented Space (Poem), Malcolm
ART), Sherwin B. Nuland, Wi 123 Farley, Sp 92
1. F (Anne Fadiman), LETTER FROM THE EDITOR: Birth (COMMONPLACE BOOK), André Bernard, Wi 12
Art as It Is Made, Wi 4: There Is a Season, Bittersweet (Poem), Susan Donnelly, Au 84
Sp 2: Grief, Su 4; Commonplace Books, Black, Douglas, Straw Men: An Exercise in Vir-
Au 2 tual Unreality, Sp 93
\liport, Susan, The Mating Game (Books), Boca Grande Sunset (Poem), John Updike, Au 78
Au 149 Book Like No Other, A (BOOKS), Aaron EF.
Alone with the Cat, Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Wi 59 Hhrsh, Sp 145
Americanophilia, George Watson, Sp 119 Bookman’s Year, A (JOURNAL), Roge
Anatomy of Wildflowers, The (Poem), M. Wi 128
Rukmini Callimachi , Su 100 Books: Wi 142; Sp 142; Su 142; Au 140
Anderson, Jervis, England in Jamaica: Memories Life in the Diggings, Richard Nicholls, Wi 142
from a Colonial Boyhood, Sp 15 review of Roaring Camp: The Social World of the
Annotating Mr. Fitzgerald, James L. W. West II, California Gold Rush by Susan Lee Johnson.
Sp 82 Caveat Lector, Jeremy Bernstein, Wi 149, re-
Art as It Is Made (LETTER FROM THE EDITOR), view of Almost Everyone’s Guide to Science by
A. F (Anne Fadiman), Wi 4 John Gribbin.
Artist as Prophet and Jester, The, Jacques Bar- Is John Updike a Dinosaur?, Sanford Pinsker,
zun, Wi 15 Wi 150, review of More Matter: Essays and
Asleep with the Dog (Poem), Andrew Hudgins, Criticism by John Updike.
Sp 68 Signals and Noise, James ]. O'Donnell, Wi 153,
AT LARGE AND AT SMALL: Mail, Philonoé, Wi 7; On review of Speaking into the Aw: A History of the Idea
Not Being a Poet, Thomas Mallon, Sp 5; The of Communication by John Dunham Peters.
Work of Mourning, Francine du Plessix Gray, A Poet Parsed, Susan Miron, Wi 155, review
Su 7; Narrow Ruled, Nicholson Baker, Au 5 of Reading Rilke: Reflections on the Problems of
Authority of Failure, The, Morris Dickstein, Sp 69 Translation by William H. Gass
Leveling Bohemia, Rochelle Gurstein, Sp 142,
Baker, Nicholson, Narrow Ruled (AT LARGE AND review of American Moderns: Bohemian New
AT SMALL), Au 5 York and the Creation of a New Century by
Barzun, Jacques, The Artist as Prophet and Christine Stansell.
Jester, Wi 15 A Book Like No Other, Aaron E. Hirsh,
Berkeley’s Right Angles: A Social Science Ideal Sp 145, review of Genome: The Autobiography
in Perpendicular Stucco, 7odd Gitlin, Au 107 of a Species in 23 Chapters by Matt Ridley.
Bernard, André, COMMONPLACE BOOK: Birth Metropolis East, Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, Sp 147
Wi 12; Money. Sp 12; Marriage, Su 14; review of Shanghai, 1842-1949: The Rise and
Sports and Games, Au 10 Fall of a Decadent City by Stella Dong.
Bernays, Anne and Justin Kaplan, Indestructible Revolution in Retrospect, Linda K. Kerber,
Alice (REREADING), Sp 138 Sp 150, review of The World Split Open: How
Bernstein, Jeremy, Caveat Lector (Books), Wi 149 the Modern Women’s Movement Changed Amer-
Billion Heartbeats of the Mammal, The ica by Ruth Rosen and Cnitical Condition: Femi-
(Poem), Gary Fincke, Wi 74 nism at the Turn of the Century by Susan Gubar.
Warring with Time, Aaron Matz, Sp 154, review of Crimes of Language (Books), David Carroll, Su 142
Marcel Proust: A Life by William C. Carter. Crowning Work, A (Books), Richard Howard,
Crimes of Language, David Carroll, Su 142, Su 146
review of The Collaborator: The Trial and Ex Cut Time: Four-Handed Etudes for Boxers,
ecution of Robert Brasillach by Alice Kaplan. Carlo Rotella, Sp 53
A Crowning Work, Richard Howard, Su 146,
review of Shakespeare's Language by Frank Dacey, Philip, The Mystery of Max Schmitt
Kermode (Poem), Sp 32
Farming for Democracy, Charles Fish, Su 149, Das, Santanu, The Dying Kiss (THE PopbiuM),
review of The Land Was Everything: Letters Au 160
from an American Farmer by Victor Davis Dialogue Between Poetry and Grief, A (Poem),
Hanson Robert Pinsky, Su 68
Publisher-King, Herbert Mitgang, Su 151, re- Dickstein, Morris, The Authority of Failure, Sp 69
view of The Chief The Life of William Randolph Diski, Jenny, Elements of an English Upbringing
Hearst by David Nasaw. (Books), Au 140
Out of the Arctic, Roger Gathman, Su 153, Donnelly, Susan, Bittersweet (Poem), Au 84
review of Give Me My Father’s Body by Kenn Doyle, Brian, Lines on Discovering the Result
Harper. of Barry McGuigan’s Championship Fight
Elements of an English Upbringing, /enny While Pausing at a Hotel in Wicklow for Tea
Diski, Au 140, review of The Knox Brothers by (Poem), Wi 84; The Soul of Plutarchos,
Penelope Fitzgerald. Su 1il
Two Lives, Keith Gessen, Au 143, review of My Duguid, John, Mr. Auden, Schoolmaster, Su 81]
Love Affair with America: The Cautionary Tale Dying Kiss, The (THE PopiumM), Santanu Das,
of a Cheerful Conservative by Norman Pod- Au 160
horetz and Blood of the Liberals by George
Packer. Ears (Poem), Richard Frost, Sp 50
The Endurance of Art, James Trilling, Au 146, Egret (Poem), Molly McQuade, Wi 76
review of Ruskin’s Venice: The Stones Revisited Electronic Book, The, D. 7. Max, Su 17
by Sarah Quill. Elements of an English Upbringing (Books),
The Mating Game, Susan Allport, Au 149, re- Jenny Diski, Au 140
view of Promiscuity: An Evolutionary History of Endurance of Art, The (Books), james Trilling,
Sperm Competition and Sexual Conflict by T. R. Au 146
Birkhead. England in Jamaica: Memories from a Colo-
Borden, William, Looking for Farley, Au 113 nial Boyhood, Jervis Anderson, Sp 15
Boruch, Marianne, On the Street (Poem),
Au 45 Fadiman, Anne (A.F.), LETTER FROM THE EDITOR:
Busch, Frederick, Truth, Lies, Fact, Fiction, Su 29 Art as It Is Made, Wi 4; There Is a Season,
Sp 2; Grief, Su 4; Commonplace Books, Au 2.
Callimachi, M. Rukmini, The Anatomy of Wild- (Philonoé), Mail (AT LARGE AND AT SMALL), Wi 7
flowers (Poem), Su 100 Falling in Love with Yiddish, Matthew Goodman,
Carroll, David, Crimes of Language (Books), Su 37
Su 142 Fallowell, Duncan, On Not Seeing Venice, Wi 77
Caveat Lector (Books), Jeremy Bernstein, Wi 149 Farley, Malcolm, Biography of a Rented Space
Clausen, Christopher, Lord Acton and the Lost (Poem), Sp 92
Cause, Wi 49 Farming for Democracy (BOOKS), Charles Fish,
COMMONPLACE BOOK, André Bernard: Birth, Su 149
Wi 12; Money, Sp 12; Marriage, Su 14; Fincke, Gary, The Billion Heartbeats of the
Sports and Games, Au 10) Mammal (Poem), Wi 74
Commonplace Books (LETTER FROM THE EDI- Fire, Edward Hoagland, Au 57
roR), A. F (Anne Fadiman), Au 2 Fireworks (THE PopiuM), George Plimpton, Su 160
Computable Cosmos of David Deutsch, The, Fish, Charles, Farming for Democracy (Books),
Oliver Morton, Su 51 Su 149
i56
Fish, Flesh, and Foul: The Anti-Vegetarian Ani- Hosanna in the Family (Poem), Walt M
mus, Steven G. Kellman, Au 85 Donald, Su 99
Frog Doctor (Poem), Rachel Hadas, Su 48 Howard, Richard, A Crowning Work { B>e IOK1 S),
Frost, Richard, Ears (Poem), Sp 50 Su 146
Furnas, ]. C., Millennial Sideshow, Wi 87 Hudgins, Andrew, Asleep with the Dog (Poem),
Sp 68; Like Hyenas, Like Baudelaire, Like
Gathman, Roger, Out of the Arctic (BOOKS), Su 153 the Angel of the Resurrection, Su 69
Gessen, Keith, Two Lives (Books), Au 143
Get Up to Dance (Poem), Edwin Honig, Wi 94 Indesiructible Alice (REREADING
inne Be rays
Giilin, Todd, Berkeley’s Right Angles: A Social and Justin Kaplan, Sp 138
Science Ideal in Perpendicular Stucco, Au 107 India’s American Imports {dam Hor hschild
Glass Flowers (Poem), Carolyn West, Wi 86 Wi 111
Goodheart, Adam, The Last Island of the Sav- Is John Updike a Dinosaur? (Books), Sanford
ages, Au 13 Pinsker, Wi 150
Goodman, Matthew, Falling in Love with Yid- Is There a Doctor in the House? (THE UNCER-
dish, Su 37 TAIN ART), Sherwin B. Nuland, Au 125
Gordon, Mary, Manhattan/New Paltz, Winter
2000 (JOURNAL), Sp 133 Jones, Roger, A Bookman’s Year (JOURNAL),
Gornick, Vivian, Love with a Capital L (REREAD- Wi 128
ING), Au 136 JOURNAL: A Bookman’s Year, Roger Jones,
Gould, Stephen Jay, The True Embodiment of Wi 128; Manhattan/New Paltz, Winter 2000,
Everything That’s Excellent: The Strange Mary Gordon, Sp 133; Provincetown, David
Adventure of Gilbert and Sullivan, Sp 35 Michaelis, Su 129; Writing Class, Christophe
Gray, Francine du Plessix, The Work of Mourn- Hallowell, Au 129
ing (AT LARGE AND AT SMALL), Su 7 Jump (Poem), Karl Kirchwey, Su 110
Grief (LETTER FROM THE EpITOR), A. F (Anne
Fadiman), Su 4 Kaplan, Justin and Anne Bernays, Indestructible
Gullette, Margaret Morganroth, “Xers” vs. Alice (REREADING), Sp 138
“Boomers”: A Contrived War, Sp 105 Kellman, Steven G., Fish, Flesh, and Foul: The
Gurstein, Rochelle, Leveling Bohemia (BOOKS), Anti-Vegetarian Animus, Au 85
Sp 142 Kerber, Linda K., Revolution in Retrospect
(Books), Sp 150
Hadas, Rachel, Frog Doctor (Poem), Su 48 Kirchwey, Karl, Jump (Poem), Su 110
Hahn, Susan, Relief (Poem), Su 102 Knegel, Leonard, Synagogues: On Being a Be-
Hallowell, Christopher, Writing Class (JOURNAL), lieving Nonbeliever, Au 61
Au 129
Harper, Michael S., Ray Brown: “If You Don’t Lamy, Nicole, Life in Motion, Au 79
Force It” (Poem), Wi 34; RELEASE: Kind Last Island of the Savages, The. Adam Good-
of Blue (Poem), Wi 35; The Poet’s Voice heart, Au 13
(Poem), Sp 52; “Use Trouble” (Poem), Leopold, Nikia, Traveling (Poem), Sp 65
Au 46 Lesser, Wendy, Recollected in Tranquillity (Rr-
Hazo, Samuel, Life Painting (Poem), Sp 66 READING), Wi 134
Hazzard, Shiriey, Ultimately Inexplicable (THI Let Me Count the Ways, Dan Pinck, Sp 101
PopiuM), Sp 160 LETTER FROM THE EpiTor, A. F. (Anne Fadiman):
Hidden Meanings (THE UNCERTAIN ART), Art as It Is Made, Wi 4: There Is a Season,
Sherwin B. Nuland, Su 125 Sp 2; Grief, Su 4; Commonplace Books, Au 2
Hirsh, Aaron E., A Book Like No Other Leveling Bohemia (Books), Rochelle Gurstein,
(Books), Sp 145 Sp 142
Hoagland, Edward, Fire, Au 57 Life in Motion, Nicole Lamy, Au 7°
Hochschild, Adam, India’s American Imports, Life in the Diggings (Books), Richard Nichoils,
Wi 111 Wi 142
Honig, Edwin, Get Up to Dance (Poem), Wi 94 Life Painting (Poem), Samuel Hazo, Sp 66
Like Hyenas, Like Baudelaire, Like the An- My Supermarket, 77m Morris, Wi 37
gel of the Resurrection, Andrew Hudgins, Mystery of Max Schmitt, The (Poem), Philip
Su 69 Dacey, Sp 32
Lines on Discovering the Result of Barry
McGuigan’s Championship Fight While Nabokov’s Butterflies, Robert Michael Pyle, Wi 95
Pausing at a Hotel in Wicklow for Tea Narrow Ruled (AT LARGE AND AT SMALL),
(Poem), Brian Doyle, Wi 84 Nicholson Baker, Au 5
Looking for Farley, William Borden, Au 113 Nicholls, Richard, Life in the Diggings (Books),
Loon, The (Poem), Mary Oliver, Su 36 Wi 142
Lord Acton and the Lost Cause, Christopher Nobel Tics: Sins of Commission, Sins of Omis-
Clausen, Wi 45 sion, Grace Marmor Spruch, Au 97
Love with a Capital L (REREADING), Vivian Nuland, Sherwin B., THE UNCERTAIN ART: Acu-
Gornick, Au 136 puncture and Science, Wi 123; The Misty
Crystal Ball, Sp 129; Hidden Meanings,
McCorkle, Jill, S idewise (THE PopiuM), Wi: 160 Su 125; Is There a Doctor in the House?,
McCrum, Robert, The Wodehouse Jacquerie Au 125
(REREADING), Su 138
McDonald, Walt, Hosanna in the Family O'Donnell, James J., Signals and Noise (BOOKS)
(Poem), Su 99 Wi 153
McQuade, Molly, Egret (Poem), Wi 76 O’Keeffe’s Barn with Snow (Poem), Roy Scheele,
Mail (AT LARGE AND AT SMALL), Philonoé, Wi 7 Wi 36
Mallon, Thomas, On Not Being a Poet (A1 Oliver, Mary, The Loon (Poem), Su 36
LARGE AND AT SMALL), Sp 5 On Not Being a Poet (AT LARGE AND AT
Manhattan /New Paltz, Winter 2000 (JOURNAL), SMALL), Thomas Mallon, Sp 5
Mary Gordon, Sp 133 On Not Seeing Venice, Duncan Fallowell, Wi 77
Marriage (COMMONPLACI Bx YOK), \ndré Ber- On the Street (Poem), Marianne Boruch, Au 45
nard, Su l | Out of the Arctic (BOOKS), Roger Gathman, Su 153
Mating Game, The (Books), Susan Allport,
Au 149 Philonoé, Mail (AT LARGE AND AT SMALL), Wi 7
Matz, Aaron, Warring with Time (Books), Sp 154 Pinck, Dan, Let Me Count the Ways, Sp 101
Vax, D. T., The Electronic Book, Su 17 Pinsker, Sanford, Is John Updike a Dinosaur?
Max Weber in America, Wolfgang ]. Mommsen, (Books), Wi 150
Su 103 Pinsky, Robert, A Dialogue Between Poetry and
Metropolis East (Books), Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, Grief (Poem), Su 68
Sp 147 Plimpton, George, Fireworks (THE Popium), Su 160
Michaelis, David, Provincetown (JOURNAL), PopiuM, THE: Sidewise, Jill McCorkle, Wi 160;
Su 129 Ultimately Inexplicable, Shirley Hazzard,
Millennial Sideshow, /. C. Furnas, Wi 87 Sp 160; Fireworks, George Plimpton, Su 160;
Miron, Susan, A Poet Parsed (Books), Wi 155 The Dying Kiss, Santanu Das, Au 160
Misty Crystal Ball, The (THE UNCERTAIN ART), Poet Parsed, A (BOoKs), Susan Miron, Wi 155
Sherwin B. Nuland, Sp 129 Poet’s Voice, The (Poem), Michael S. Harper, Sp 52
Mitgang, Herbert, Publisher-King (BOoOkKs), Provincetown (JOURNAL), David Michaelis,
Su 15] Su 129
Mommsen, Wolfgang ]., Max Weber in America, Publisher-King (Books), Herbert Mitgang,
Su 103 Su 151
Money (COMMONPLACE BOOK), André Bernard, Pyle, Robert Michael, Nabokov’s Butterflies,
Sp 12 Wi 95
Morality Plays, Andrew Stark, Wi 65
Morris, Tim, My Supermarket, Wi 37 Ray Brown: “If You Don’t Force It” (Poem),
Morton, Oliver, The Computable Cosmos of Michael S. Harper, Wi 34
David Deutsch, Su 51 READER REPLIES, THE: Wi 159; Sp 157; Su 157;
Mr. Auden, Schoolmaster, John Duguid, Su 81 Au 151
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Recollected in Tranquiility (REREADING), Wendy There Is a Season (LETTER FROM THE EpiTror),
Lesser, Wi 134 1. F (Anne Fadiman), Sp 2
RELEASE: Kind of Blue (Poem), Vichael S. Transparent Stratagems (Poem Joh n Updike,
Harper, Wi 35 \u 76
Relief (Poem), Susan Hahn, Su 102 Traveling (Poem), Nikia Leopold, Sp 65
Reminiscing Concerning an Edenic Scene, Irilling, James, The Endurance of Art (BOOks),
John Tagliabue, Su 80 \u 146
REREADING: Recollected in Tranquillity, Wendy True Embodiment of Everything That’s Excel-
Lesser, Wi 134; Indestructible Alice, Ann lent, The: The Strange Adventure of Gilbert
Bernays and Justin Kaplan, Sp 138; The and Sullivan, Stephen Jay Gould, Sp 35
Wodehouse Jacquerie, Robert McCrum, Su 138; Truth, Lies, Fact, Fiction, Frederick Busch,
Love with a Capital L, Vivian Gornick, Au 136 Su 29
Revolution in Retrospect (Books), Linda K Two Lives (Books), Keith Gessen, Au 143
Kerber, Sp 150
Roberts, Len, Spring Peepers. April, Wassergass Ultimately Inexplicable (THE PopiuM),
(Poem), Sp 31 Hazzard, Sp 160
Rotella, Carlo, Cut Time: Four-Handed Etudes UNCERTAIN ArT, THE, Sherwin B. Nuland: Acu-
for Boxers, Sp 53 puncture and Science, Wi 123; The Misty
Crystal Ball, Sp 129; Hidden Meanings,
Scheele, Roy, O’Keeffe’s Barn with Snow (Poem), Su 125: Is There a Doctor in the House?,
Wi 36 Au 125
Schwartz, Lynne Sharon, Alone with the Cat, Wi 59 Updike, John, Transparent Stratagems (Poem),
Shattuck, Roger, Starting from Scratch, Au 47 \u 76: Boca Grande Sunset Poem), Au 78
Sidewise (THE PopiuM), Jill McCorkle, Wi 160 “Use Trouble” (Poem), Viichael S. Harper, Au 46
Signals and Noise (Books), james /. O'Donnell
Wi 153 Vacationing in Croatia, Matthew
Soul of Plutarchos, The, Brian Doyle, Su 111
Su 87
Sports and Games (COMMONPLACI Bx MOK).
\ndré Bernard, Au 10 Warring with Time (Books), Aaron Matz, Sp 154
Spring Peepers, April, Wassergass (Poem). Len Wasserstrom, Jeffrey \., Metropolis East (BOOKS
Rober 1s. Sp 3] Sp 147
Spruch, Grace Marmor, Nobel Tics: Sins of Com- Watson, George, Americanophilia, Sp 119
mission, Sins of Omission, Au 97 West, Carolyn, Glass Flowers (Poem), Wi 86
Stark, Andrew, Morality Plays, Wi 65 West, James L. W., III, Annotating Mr. Fitz-
Starting from Scratch, Roger Shattuck, Au 47 gerald, Sp 82
Stevenson, Matthew Vacationing in Croatia, Wodehouse Jacquerie, The (REREADING), Robert
Su 87 VUicCrum, Su 138
Straw Men: An Exercise in Virtual Unreality, Work of Mourning, The (A!
Douglas Black, Sp 93 SMALL), Francine du Plessix Gra
Synagogues: On Being a Believing Nonbe- Writing Class (JOURNAL), Chr
liever, Leonard Kriegel, Au 61 Au 129
lagliabue, John, Reminiscing Concerning an “Xers” vs. “Boomers”: A Contrived War,
Edenic Scene (Poem), Su 80 garet Morganroth Gullette. Sp L105
