Volume 49, Number 1 (2002-01-17)

In Terrible Lizard, Deborah Cadbury sets herself the task of explaining how the curious Victorian image of dinosaurs—“Would it not be wonderful to meet a Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn Hill?” mused Charles Dickens in Bleak House—came to be.

Terrible Lizard: The First Dinosaur Hunters and the Birth of a New Science

by Deborah Cadbury

Drawing Out Leviathan: Dinosaurs and the Science Wars

by Keith M. Parsons

Walking on Eggs: The Astonishing Discovery of Thousands of Dinosaur Eggs in the Badlands of Patagonia

by Luis M. Chiappe and Lowell Dingus, with illustrations by Nicholas Frankfurt

The Road to Chilecito

by James A. Jensen

Time Traveler: In Search of Dinosaurs and Other Fossils from Montana to Mongolia

by Michael J. Novacek

Dinosaurs of Darkness

by Thomas H. Rich and Patricia Vickers-Rich

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Christopher Benfey

Emily Dickinson’s Secret Lives

My Wars Are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson

by Alfred Habegger

Lorrie Moore

Artship

“She is (to speak historically, and to speak even, say, in a Russian or French or Irish saloon, loudly and unarmed) one of the world’s greatest short-story writers. As the writer Ethan Canin once said, ‘The stories of Alice Munro make everyone else’s look like the work of babies.’”

Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage

by Alice Munro

Pankaj Mishra

The Afghan Tragedy

For the rural men who dominated the Taliban, women in Kabul and other Afghan cities, relatively modern Shiite and Persian-speaking minorities, Communists of the past, and foreign aid workers of today were part of the same large, undifferentiated threat to the Pashtun dictatorship that they wished to maintain.

Tony Judt,
Louise Weinberg