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InDEx 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 15)8 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