Table of Contents
Volume 50, Number 5 · March 27, 2003
John Bayley, Not Just for Children 
Boys and Girls Forever: Children's Classics from Cinderella to Harry Potter by Alison Lurie
Tony Judt, The Way We Live Now
The War over Iraq: Saddam's Tyranny and America's Mission by Lawrence F. Kaplan and William Kristol
Hilton Als, Girls & Guns
Chicago a film directed by Rob Marshall, based on the musical by Bob Fosse
Dana Goodyear, Sleep Talk (poem)
Andrew Hacker, Gays and Genes
Reinventing the Male Homosexual: The Rhetoric and Power of the Gay Gene by Robert Alan Brookey
The World Turned: Essays on Gay History, Politics, and Culture by John D'Emilio
Normal: Transsexual CEOs, Crossdressing Cops, and Hermaphrodites with Attitude by Amy Bloom
Left Out: The Politics of Exclusion, Essays 1964–2002 by Martin Duberman
Pankaj Mishra, The Man, or the Tiger?
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Thomas Powers, War and Its Consequences
The New Face of War by Bruce Berkowitz
The Mission: Waging War and Keeping Peace with America's Military by Dana Priest
War Without End: The Rise of Islamist Terrorism and Global Response by Dilip Hiro
Iraq: In the Eye of the Storm by Dilip Hiro
Aileen Kelly, The Two Dostoevskys
Dostoevsky: The Mantle of the Prophet, 1871–1881 by Joseph Frank
Jack Flam, Twin Peaks
Matisse Picasso Catalog of the exhibition by Elizabeth Cowling, John Golding, Anne Baldassari, Isabelle Monod-Fontaine, John Elderfield, and Kirk Varnedoe
Tim Judah, Waiting for the War
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., On Henry Adams's 'Democracy'
Timothy Ferris, The Gentleman Scientist
Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II by Jennet Conant
John Russell, Geniuses Together
Seek My Face by John Updike
Philip Gossett, The Case for Puccini
Puccini: A Biography by Mary Jane Phillips-Matz
Puccini: His Life and Works by Julian Budden
Puccini: His International Art by Michele Girardi, translated from the Italian by Laura Basini
Peter Dailey, Haiti's Betrayal
Haiti's Predatory Republic: The Unending Transition to Democracy by Robert Fatton Jr.
Caroline Fraser, Customs of the Country
That Old Ace in the Hole by Annie Proulx
Norman Mailer, Only in America
Letters
J. Patrice Marandel, James Fenton, 'Don't Take Our Raphael!'
Contributors
Hilton Als is the author of The Women. He is on the staff of The New Yorker. (March 2003)
John Bayley has written two books about his wife, the novelist Iris Murdoch, Elegy for Iris and Iris and Her Friends. (July 2004)
Peter Dailey is a New York attorney and writer. For much of the Nineties he worked on Haitian human rights and political cases. (March 2003)
Timothy Ferris, Emeritus Professor of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, is the author, most recently, of Seeing in the Dark. (March 2003)
Jack Flam is Distinguished Professor of Art History at Brooklyn College and at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His new book, Matisse and Picasso: The Story of Their Rivalry and Friendship, has just been published. (March 2003)
Caroline Fraser is the author of God's Perfect Child: Living and Dying in the Christian Science Church. (December 2004)
Dana Goodyear is an editor at The New Yorker. (October 2003)
Philip Gossett is the Robert W. Reneker Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. His reconstruction of Gustavo III, the original version of Verdi's Un ballo in maschera, had its première at the Göteborg Opera in Sweden this past September. (March 2003)
Andrew Hacker teaches political science at Queens College. He is currently writing a book on higher education in collaboration with Claudia Dreifus. (September 2008)
Tim Judah is the author of Kosovo: War and Revenge and The Serbs: History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia. He has reported on the Balkans, Afghanistan, Kurdistan, Iraq, and Sudan for The New York Review. (October 2006)
Tony Judt is University Professor at NYU. His new book, Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century, will be published in April. (May 2008)
Aileen Kelly, a fellow of King’s College, Cambridge, is the author of Toward Another Shore: Russian Thinkers Between Necessity and Chance and, most recently, Views from the Other Shore: Essays on Herzen, Chekhov, and Bakhtin. (April 2007)
Norman Mailer (1923-2007) was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. In 1955 he co-founded The Village Voice. He is the author of more than thirty books, including The Naked and the Dead; The Armies of the Night, for which he won a National Book
Award and the Pulitzer Prize; The Executioner's Song, for which he won his second Pulitzer Prize; Harlot's Ghost; Oswald's Tale; The Gospel According to the Son; and The
Castle in the Forest.
Pankaj Mishra was born in North India in 1969 and now lives in London and India. He is the author of The Romantics, winner of the Los Angeles Times's Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, and An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and The Guardian. His most recent book is Temptations of the West: How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet, and Beyond.
Thomas Powers is the author of The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA (1979), Heisenberg's War: The Secret History of the German Bomb (1993), Intelligence Wars: American Secret History from Hitler to al-Qaeda (2002; revised and expanded edition, 2004), and The Confirmation (2000), a novel. He won a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1971 and has contributed to The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, Harper's, The Nation, The Atlantic, and Rolling Stone.
John Russell was formerly Chief Art Critic of The New York Times, to which he continues to be a contributor. He is at work on a short history of the museum since 1800. (March 2003)
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., the author of numerous books on American history, served as adviser to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. He died this year. His Journals: 1952– 2000, from which an excerpt appears in this issue, will be published in October by Penguin. (October 2007)
