Table of Contents
Volume 50, Number 1 · January 16, 2003
Daniel Mendelsohn, Novel of the Year 
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Russell Baker, Thus Spake Henry
The Skeptic: A Life of H.L. Mencken by Terry Teachout
The Diary of H.L. Mencken edited by Charles A. Fecher
My Life as Author and Editor by H.L. Mencken, edited and with an introduction by Jonathan Yardley
Disturber of the Peace: The Life of H.L. Mencken by William Manchester
Mencken: A Life by Fred Hobson
In Defense of Marion: The Love of Marion Bloom and H.L. Mencken edited by Edward A. Martin
The Vintage Mencken edited by Alistair Cooke
The Impossible H.L. Mencken: A Selection of His Best Newspaper Stories edited by Marion Elizabeth Rodgers
Mencken and Sara: A Life in Letters: The Private Correspondence of H.L. Mencken and Sara Haardt edited by Marion Elizabeth Rodgers
Charles Simic, 'The Water Hose Is on Fire'
Sun Out: Selected Poems, 1952–1954 by Kenneth Koch
A Possible World by Kenneth Koch
Joseph Lelyveld, Rudy Rules!
Leadership by Rudolph W. Giuliani, with Ken Kurson
The Lost Son: A Life in Pursuit of Justice by Bernard B. Kerik
Helen Epstein, Bugs Without Borders
The Demon in the Freezer: A True Story by Richard Preston
Federal Bodysnatchers and the New Guinea Virus: People, Parasites, Politics by Robert S. Desowitz
Henry Siegman, Partners for War
Margaret Atwood, 'Castle of the Imagination'
Child of My Heart by Alice McDermott
Norman Rush, Apocalypse When?
The Heart of Redness by Zakes Mda
Ways of Dying by Zakes Mda
John Golding, Divide and Conquer
Barnett Newman Catalog of the exhibition edited by Ann Temkin, with essays by Ann Temkin and Richard Shiff, and contributions by Suzanne Penn and Melissa Ho
Avishai Margalit, The Suicide Bombers
Jamey Gambrell, Russia's New Vigilantes
Alan Ryan, The Power of Positive Thinking
A Berlin Republic: Writings on Germany by Jürgen Habermas, translated from the German by Steven Rendall, with an introduction by Peter Hohendahl
The Past as Future by Jürgen Habermas, interviewed by Michael Haller, translated from the German and edited by Max Pensky, with an introduction by Peter Hohendahl
The Inclusion of the Other by Jürgen Habermas, edited by Ciaran Cronin and Pablo De Greiff
Knowledge and Human Interests by Jürgen Habermas
Religion and Rationality by Jürgen Habermas, edited and with an introduction by Eduardo Mendieta
Jürgen Habermas: A Philosophical-Political Profile by Martin Beck Matustík
Another Country: German Intellectuals, Unification and National Identity by Jan-Werner Müller
Samantha Power, Rwanda: The Two Faces of Justice
Christopher de Bellaigue, 'The Loneliness of the Supreme Leader'
Joan Didion, Fixed Opinions, or The Hinge of History
Letters
Ralph P. Locke, Charles Rosen, Multicultural Correctness
Harvey Shepard, Steven Weinberg, 'Is the Universe a Computer?'
Rebecca Pechefsky, Erik Ryding, Walter's Delia
James O. Goldsborough, Felix Oppenheim, et al. 'Could the French Have Won?'
Contributors
Margaret Atwood is the author of eleven novels, among them The Handmaid’s Tale, Cat’s Eye, Alias Grace, and The Blind Assassin. Her most recent works of fiction are Oryx and Crake, The Tent, and Moral Disorder. (December 2006)
Russell Baker is a former columnist and correspondent for The New York Times and The Baltimore Sun. His books include The Good Times, Growing Up, and Looking Back. (November 2008)
Joan Didion is the author of The Year of Magical Thinking and We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction. (December 2008)
Helen Epstein's book book The Invisible Cure: Why We Are Losing the Fight Against AIDS in Africa was published last year. (August 2008)
Jamey Gambrell is a writer on Russian art and culture. Her translations include Marina Tsvetaeva's Earthly Signs: Moscow Diaries, 1917–1922, a volume of Aleksandr Rodchenko's writings, Experiments for the Future, and many of the stories included in Tatyana Tolstaya's White Walls. Her translation of Vladimir Sorokin's Ice has recently been published by NYRB Classics.
John Golding is a painter and writer. His most recent book, Paths to the Absolute, was awarded the Mitchell Prize for the History of Art. (February 2008)
Joseph Lelyveld is a former correspondent and editor of The New York Times. He is the author of Omaha Blues: A Memory Loop. (November 2008)
Avishai Margalit is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is currently the George Kennan Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He has just been awarded the 2007 Emet Prize by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for his work in political thought, ethics, and philosophy. (December 2007)
Daniel Mendelsohn, a frequent contributor to The New York Review, is the author, most recently, of How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken, a collection of essays mostly from these pages. His translations, with commentary, of Constantine Cavafy's Collected Poems and Unfinished Poems will be published this spring. (January 2009)
Samantha Power is the Anna Lindh Professor of the Practice of Global Leadership at Harvard’s Kennedy School. Her latest book, Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World, was published in February. (August 2008)
Norman Rush was raised in Oakland, California, and graduated from Swarthmore College in 1956. He has been an antiquarian book dealer, a college instructor, and, with his wife Elsa, he lived and worked in Africa from 1978 to 1983. They now reside in Rockland County, New York. His stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and Best American Short Stories. Whites, a collection of stories, was published in 1986, and his first novel, Mating, the recipient of the National Book Award, was published in 1991. Mortals is his second novel.
Alan Ryan is Warden of New College, Oxford, and the author of biographies of John Stuart Mill, Bertrand Russell, and John Dewey. (October 2008)
Henry Siegman is a Senior Fellow on the Middle East at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is a former executive head of the American Jewish Congress and the Synagogue Council of America, and has served as general secretary of the American Association for Middle East Studies. (April 2006)
Charles Simic is a poet, essayist and translator. He has published twenty collections of his own poetry, five books of essays, a memoir, and numerous of books of translations. He has received many literary awards for his poems and his translations, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Griffin Prize and the MacArthur Fellowship. Voice at 3 A.M., his selected later and new poems, was published in 2003 and a new book of poems My Noiseless Entourage came out in the spring of 2005.
Christopher de Bellaigue was born in London in 1971 and has worked as a journalist in the Middle East and South Asia since 1994. His first book, In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs: A Memoir of Iran, was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize. He lives in Tehran with his wife and two children.
