ARTICLES AND SHORT STORIES READ (Starting July 1997)

Richard Seltzer, seltzer@samizdat.comwww.samizdat.com

July

• "An Orthodox Partnership" chapter 10 by Pascal Imperato (manuscript.)
• "Damme, This is the Oriental Scene for You!" by Salman Rushdie, New Yorker, June 23, 1997
• "India, for the Plain Hell of it" by G. V. Desani, New Yorker, June 23, 1997
• "The Cowpath to America" by Abraham Berghese, New Yorker, June 23, 1997
• "The Sermon in the Guava to a Tree" by Kiran Desai (short story), New Yorker, June 23, 1997
• "Beyond Translation" by Amit Chaudhuri, New Yorker, June 23, 1997
• "India's Untold War of Independence" by Amitav Ghosh, New Yorker, June 23, 1997
• "The Firebird's Nest" by Salman Rushdie (short story), New Yorker, June 23, 1997
• "The Bombay Gymkhana Club" by Max Vadukul and Mihi Bose, New Yorker, June 23, 1997

• "Eternal Don" by Vikram Chandra (short story), New Yorker, June 23, 1997
• "Husband and Son" by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (short story), New Yorker, June 23, 1997
• Review by John Updike of The God of Small Things and Beach Boy, New Yorker, June 23, 1997
• "Carlyle Tries Polygamy" by William Melvin Kelley (short story), New Yorker, August 4, 1997
• Review by John Updike of The Complete Fiction of W.M. Spackman, New Yorker, August 4, 1997

• "The Force of an Idea: What's really behind the case against Bill Gates?" by John Cassidy, New Yorker, Jan. 12, 1998

• "Beyond the Campus: Virtual education. In the wild West, state governments and corporate donations fuel a controversial effort to broker online courses" by Anne Stuart, CIO WebBusiness, Sept. 1, 1998
• "Tales of a Web Customer: Customer service. How well do companies serve their customers online?" by Sari Kalin, CIO WebBusiness, Sept. 1, 1998
• "The Web's Unelected Government, a little-known group that holds closed meetings is the closest thing the Web has to a central authority" by Simson Garfinkel, Technology Review, November/December 1998.
• "Virus Hunting on the Web: Cholera in Pakistan, Rift Valley fever in Kenya. News of epidemics spreads through the online CNN of outbreaks." by Gary Taubes, Technology Review, November/December 1998.
• "Egghead Scrambles to Virtual Retailing: Its shops are shuttered, victims of superstore competition. It's e-commerce or bust" by Steve Ditlea, Technology Review, November/December 1998.
• "Bandwidth's New Bargaineers: Some brash startups are trading telecom capacity as if it were pork bellies" by Katherine Cavanaugh, Technology Review, November/December 1998.
• "Web Crawl: Radio Daze: A collector of vintage radios discovers the thrill of online auctions" by Jeff Kennedy, Technology Review, November/December 1998.

• "How Hackers Break In... and How They Are Caught" by Carolyn P. Meinel, Scientific American, Oct. 1998.
• "How Computer Security Works", Scientific American, Oct. 1998.
• "Cryptography for the Internet" by R. Zimmermann, Scientific American, Oct. 1998.
• "What if Women Ran the World?" by Francis Fukuyama, Foreign Affairs, Sept./Oct. 1998.
• "India's Case for Nukes," by Jaswant Singh, Foreign Affairs, Sept./Oct. 1998.
• "Russia's Virtual Economy," by Clifford Gaddy and Barry Ickes, Foreign Affairs, Sept./Oct. 1998.
• "Defending Japanese Bureaucrats," by Peter Drucker, Foreign Affairs, Sept./Oct. 1998.
• **"States and the Information Revolution," by Robert Keohane and Joseph Nye, Jr., Foreign Affairs, Sept./Oct. 1998. review
• "Siberia" by Colin Thubron, Granta 64.
• "Survivors" by Angus Macqueen, Granta 64.
• **"Moscow Dynamo" by Victor Pelevin, Granta 64. review. = excerpt from the novel Buddha's Little Finger
• **"The River Potudan" by Andrei Platonov, Granta 64.
• "Siberia" by Colin Thubron, Granta 64
• "Survivors" by Angus Macqueen, Granta 64
• "Burying the Bones" by Orlando Figes, Granta 64
• "The Lost Boys" by Anna Pyasetskaya and Heidi Bradner, Granta 64
• "My Grandmother, the Censor" by Masha Gessen, Granta 64
• "The Last Eighteen Drops" Vitali Vitaliev, Granta 64
• "Peter Truth" by Charlotte Hobson, Granta 64
• "The Romanovs Come to Stay" by Frances Welch, Granta 64
• "Naples is Closed," by Barry Unsworth, Granta 64
• "The Great Technology Giveaway?" by Michael Hirsh, Foreign Affairs, Sept./Oct. 1998
• "Downsizing German Politics" by John Vinocur, Foreign Affairs, Sept./Oct. 1998
• "The Triage of Dayton" by Warren Bass, Foreign Affairs, Sept./Oct. 1998
• "Ireland's Uncertain Peace" by John Lloyd, Foreign Affairs, Sept./Oct. 1998
• "Imagining Kosovo" by Aleksa Djilas, Foreign Affairs, Sept./Oct. 1998
• "How the West Won" by David Frum, Foreign Affairs, Sept./Oct. 1998
• "To Better Order the Universe" by Roy Jenkins, Foreign Affairs, Sept./Oct. 1998
• "83 Reasons Why Bill Gates's Reign Is Over" by James Walace, Wired, Dec. 1998

• "The Inner Bezos" (about Amazon.com) by Chip Bayers, Wired, March 1999
• "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" by Eric S. Raymond (www.kde.burken.nu/food/cathedral/cathedral-paper.html#toc1)

• "I Can Speak" by George Saunders, New Yorker: The Future of American Fiction, June 21, 1999
• "The Toughest Indian in the World" by Sherman Alexie, New Yorker: The Future of American Fiction, June 21, 1999
• "Hawaiian Night" by Rick Moody, New Yorker: The Future of American Fiction, June 21, 1999
• "Raft in Water, Floating" by A.M. Holmes, New Yorker: The Future of American Fiction, June 21, 1999
• "The Local Production of Cinderella" by Allegra Goodman, New Yorker: The Future of American Fiction, June 21, 1999
• "The Saviors" by William Vollmann, New Yorker: The Future of American Fiction, June 21, 1999
• "Party of One" by Antonya Nelson, New Yorker: The Future of American Fiction, June 21, 1999
• "The Volunteers" by Chang-rae Lee, New Yorker: The Future of American Fiction, June 21, 1999
• "An Actor Prepares" by Donald Antrim, New Yorker: The Future of American Fiction, June 21, 1999
• "The Wide Sea" by Tony Earley, New Yorker: The Future of American Fiction, June 21, 1999
• "The Oracular Vulva" by Jeffrey Eugenides, New Yorker: The Future of American Fiction, June 21, 1999
• "Otra Vida, Otra Vez" by Junot Diaz, New Yorker: The Future of American Fiction, June 21, 1999
• "The Book of the Dead" by Edwidge Danicat, New Yorker: The Future of American Fiction, June 21, 1999
• "The Third and Final Continent" by Jhumpa Lahiri, New Yorker: The Future of American Fiction, June 21, 1999
• "Pinker and the Brain" about Steven Pinker by Alden Hayaski, Scientific American, July 1999.

• "The Power of Garcia Marques by Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, Sept. 27, 1999.
• "The Taliban: Exporting Extremism by Ahmed Rashid, Foreign Affairs, Nov./Dec. 1999.

• "Kashmir: Fundamentalism Takes Root" by Jonah Blank, Foreign Affairs, Nov./Dec. 1999.
• "Saving NATO's Foundation" by John Deutch et al., Foreign Affairs, Nov./Dec. 1999.
• "Star Wars Strikes Back" by Michael O'Hanlon, Foreign Affairs, Nov./Dec. 1999.
• "Mbeki's Uphill Challenge" by Leonard Thompson, Foreign Affairs, Nov./Dec. 1999.
• "A European 'New Deal' for the Balkans" by Benn Steil and Susan Woodward, Foreign Affairs, Nov./Dec. 1999.
• "Dayton's Incomplete Peace" by Ivo Daalder and Michael Froman, Foreign Affairs, Nov./Dec. 1999.
• "NATO's Success in Kosovo" by Javier Solania, Foreign Affairs, Nov./Dec. 1999.

• "Quality Time" by Richard Ford, New Yorker, Jan. 31, 2000.
• "The Seven Circles" by Manil Suri, New Yorker, Feb. 14, 2000.

• "Indian Country" by Sherman Alexie, New Yorker, March 13, 2000.

• "Lost in Cathay" by Richard Calder (in Leviathan, volume 2, published by Ministry of Whimsy Press)
• "Uses of Great Men" by Ralph Waldo Emerson (in Representative Men)
• "Plato; or, the Philosopher" by Ralph Waldo Emerson (in Representative Men)

• "The Universe's Unseen Dimensions" by Nima Arkani-Hamed, Savas Dimopoulos, and Georgi Dvali, Scientific American, August 2000

• "Plato: New Readings" by Ralph Waldo Emerson (in Representative Men)
• "Swedenborg; or, the Mystic" by Ralph Waldo Emerson (in Representative Men)
• "Where Are They? Maybe we are alone in the galaxy after all" by Ian Crawfod, Scientific American, July 2000.
• "Intergalactically Speaking: The vastness and vagaries of space will force interstellar correspondents into extreme measures by George Swenson, Scientific American, July 2000.
• "The Large Hadron Collider" by Chris Llewellyn Smith, Scientific American, July 2000.
• "The Human Genome Business Today" by Kathryn Brown, Scientific American, July 2000.
• "The Bioinformatics Gold Rush" by Ken Howard, Scientific American, July 2000.
• "Beyond the Human Genome" by Carol Ezzell, Scientific American, July 2000.
• *"Forecast from the Retail Desk" (short story) by Rick Moody, New Yorker, June 12, 2000.
• *"The Story of Mats Israelson" (short story) by Julian Barnes, New Yorker, July 24, 2000.
• **"Revival Road" by (short story) Louise Erdrich, New Yorker, April 17, 2000.
• *"New New World" by Peter Conrad, Granta #70, Australia
• "Aquifer" by Tim Winton, Granta #70, Australia
• "Marrying Eddie" by Robyn Davidson, Granta #70, Australia
• *"True History of the Kelly Gang, First Part" by Peter Carey, Granta #70, Australia
• "The New Hieroglyphics" by Les Murray, Granta #70, Australia
• "Growing Up" by David Moore, Granta #70, Australia
• **"Pobby and Dingan" by Ben Rice, Granta #70, Australia
• "The Weeping Pom" by Howard Jacobson, Granta #70, Australia
• "The Road to Ginger Riley's" by Paul Toohey, Granta #70, Australia
• "Grog" by Polly Borland, Granta #70, Australia
• "The Germaine Tape" by Georgia Blain, Granta #70, Australia
• "War Work" by Frank Moorhouse, Granta #70, Australia
• "Mate" by Kate Grenville, Granta #70, Australia
• "Voyage South" by Murray Bail, Granta #70, Australia
• "My Father's Australia" by Thomas Keneally, Granta #70, Australia

• "The Secret Life of the Wizard of Oz" by John Updike, New Yorker, September 25, 2000
• **"Nelson and Annabelle" Part 1, by John Updike, New Yorker, October 2, 2000
• "Montaigne; or, the Skeptic" by Ralph Waldo Emerson (in Representative Men)
• "Shakespeare; or, the Poet" by Ralph Waldo Emerson (in Representative Men)
• "Napoleon; or, the Man of the World" by Ralph Waldo Emerson (in Representative Men)
• "Goethe; or, the Writer" by Ralph Waldo Emerson (in Representative Men)

• **"Nelson and Anabelle" Part 2, by John Updike, New Yorker, October 9, 2000
• "Re-reading the novels of Saul Bellow by Philip Roth, New Yorker, October 9, 2000
• "We Are the Kings" by Michel Houllebecq, Granta #59, France
• "A Different Country" by John Davies, Granta #59, France
• "A Sentence of Love" by Assia Djebar, Granta #59, France
• "Fort-de-France" by David Macey, Granta #59, France
• "The Rat" by Patrick Chamoiseau, Granta #59, France
• "Night in the Afternoon" by Caroline Lamarche, Granta #59, France
• "Lingua Franca" by Luc Sante, Granta #59, France
• "Whooah... Pizza!" by Pierre Merle, Granta #59, France
• "Agnes" by Rene Belletto, Granta #59, France
• "The Farm at Le Garet" by Raymond Depardon, Granta #59, France
• "Stephen Lawrence" by Brian Cathcart, Granta #59, France
• "Don't Forsake Me" by Ivan Klima, Granta #59, France
• "Love of the World" by John McGahern, Granta #59, France
• "A Note on Shakespeare" by Harold Pinter, Granta #59, France
• "Call if you need me" by Raymond Carver, Granta #68, Love Stories.
• "Habibi" by Ruth Gershon, Granta #68, Love Stories.
• "Famous People" by Orhan Pamuk, Granta #68, Love Stories.
• "Fit Mother" by Peter Ho Davies, Granta #68, Love Stories.
• "Then and Now" by Daniel Meadows, Granta #68, Love Stories.
• "Exchange of Pleasant Words" by Aleksandar Hemon, Granta #68, Love Stories.
• "Uncle Ed" by Keith Fleming, Granta #68, Love Stories.
• "Going Abroad" by W.G. Sebald, Granta #68, Love Stories.
• "The Furnace" by Lydia Davis, Granta #68, Love Stories.
• "Closer" by David Malouf, Granta #68, Love Stories.
• "Asking for It" by James Hamilton-Paterson, Granta #68, Love Stories.
• "First Cut" by Jonathan Kaplan, Granta #68, Love Stories.
• "Nominalist and Realist" by Ralph Waldo Emerson (from Second Series of Essays)
• "Memoirs of a Bootlegger's Son" by Saul Bellow, Granta #41, Biography
• "Starting Out in Chicago (about Saul Bellow)" by James Atlas, Granta #41, Biography
• "Dreams for Hire (about Frau Frida)" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Granta #41, Biography
• "When did you last see your father? (about Dr. Arthur Morrison)" by Blake Morrison, Granta #41, Biography
• "A Very Young Dancer (about Moira)" by Todd McEwan, Granta #41, Biography
• "The Names of Women (about Viginia Grandbois, Elise Eliza McCloud, and Justine Gourneau)" by Louise Erdrich, Granta #41, Biography
• "The Contents of Pockets" by Luc Sante, Granta #41, Biography
• "Breaking In (about Philip Larkin)" by Andrew Motion, Granta #41, Biography
• "Among the Tulips (about James Boswell)" by Richard Holmes, Granta #41, Biography
• "A Colossal Hoard (about the dscendants of James Boswell)" by Ian Hamilton, Granta #41, Biography
• "Life and Art (about Jean Vaublin)" by John Banville, Granta #41, Biography
• "Death of an Author (about Angela Carter)" by Lorna Sage

• "Foreword to Rabelais and His World by Mikhail Bakhtin" by Michael Holquist.
• "Introduction," The Arabian Nights, trans. by Edward Lane
• "Story of the Merchant and the Jinni," "The Story of the Fisherman," "The Story of the Porter and the Ladies of Baghdad, and of the Three Royal Mendicants, etc.," from The Arabian Nights, trans. by Edward Lane
• "Translator's Foreword to The Meaning of the Glorious Koran" by Mohammed Marmaduke Pickthall
• "By Diverse Means We Arrive at the Same End" from Complete Essays of Montaigne, translated by Donald Frame

• "Of Sadness," "Our Feelings Reach Out Beyond Us" from Complete Essays of Montaigne, translated by Donald Frame
• "The Story of the Humpback," The Story of Nr-Ed-Din and Enis-El-Jelis", The Story of Es-Sindibad of the Sea," "The Story of the City of Brass," "The Story of Jullanar of the Sea," "The Story of Ala-ed-Din and the Wonderful Lamp," and "The Story of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" from The Arabian Nights, trans. by Edward Lane

• "Blood" by Urvashi Butalia, Granta #57
• "Freedom" by Sanjeev Saith, Granta #57
• "Wild Things" by Edward Hoagland, Granta #57
• "Kashmir" by James Buchan, Granta #57
• "Five Hours to Simla" by Anita Desair, Granta #57
• "Mumbai" by Suketu Mehta and Sebastiao Salgado, Granta #57
• "Kabir Street" by R.K. Narayan, Granta #57
• "My Father's Raj" by Mark Tully, Granta #57
• "Coming Down" by Ved Mehta, Granta #57
• "After Gandhi" by Trevor Fishlock, Granta #57
• "Caste Wars" by William Dalrymple, Granta #57
• "Pariah" by Viramma, Granta #57
• "Notebooks" by V.S. Naipaul, Granta #57
• "My Hundredth Year" by Nirad Chaudhuri, Granta #57
• "An Accidental Spy" by Phillip Knightley, Granta #57
• "Mother India" by Dayanita Singh, Granta #57
• "Waking" by Amit Chaudhuri, Granta #57
• "Sampati" by Vikram Seth, Granta #57
• "What We Lost" by Michael Ondaatje, Granta #57
• "Clive's Castle" by Jan Morris, Granta #57
• "UFO in Kushiro" by Haruki Murami, New Yorker, March 19, 2001

• "The Pandolfini Defense: You don't have to be crazy to play great chess" by Paul Hoffman, New Yorker, June 4, 2001
• "Gunsmoke" by Marisa Silver, New Yorker, June 4, 2001
• "Dunkirk" by Ian McEwan, Granta #73
• "Yangdol's Journey" by Manuel Bauer, Granta #73
• "The 12:10 to Leeds " by Ian Jack, Granta #73
• "Burying the Emperor" [Haile Selassie of Ethiopia] by John Ryle, Granta #73
• "Lovely Girls, Very Cheap" by Decca Aitkenhead, Granta #73
• "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" by James Campbell, Granta #73
• "The Women's Ashram" by Dayanita Singh, Granta #73
• "Diego Garcia" by Simon Winchester, Granta #73
• "The Lazy River" by Ryszard Kapuscinski, Granta #73
• "The Lost City" by Isabel Hilton, Granta #73
• "Barn Burning" by William Faulkner (Collected Stories)
• "Shingles for the Lord" by William Faulkner (Collected Stories)
• "The Tall Men" by William Faulkner (Collected Stories)
• "A Bear Hunt" by William Faulkner (Collected Stories)
• "Two Soldiers" by William Faulkner (Collected Stories)
• "Shall Not Perish" by William Faulkner (Collected Stories)
• "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner (Collected Stories)
• "Marco Polo", three part article, May, June, July 2001, National Geographic
• "Laura's World" by Louis Menand (reviewing two books about Laura Bridman, blind-deaf), New Yorker, July 2, 2001

• "Introduction to Robert Fagles' translation of the Iliad" by Bernard Knox
• "Hair" by William Faulkner (Collected Stories)
• "Centaur in Brass" by William Faulkner (Collected Stories)
• "Dry September" by William Faulkner (Collected Stories)
• "Death Drag" by William Faulkner (Collected Stories)
• "Elly" by William Faulkner (Collected Stories)
• "Letter from Mongolia: The Nomad Vote: Campaigning for the Presidency in the Land of Genghis Khan" by Peter Hessler, New Yorker, July 16, 2001

• The Autobiography of Calamity Jane (electronic text)
• "Belated Guest" (about Bret Harte) by William Dean Howells (electronic text)

• "The Myth of the Beginning of Time" by Gabriele Veneziano, Scientific American, May 2004.

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