Table of Contents

Volume 51, Number 16 · October 21, 2004

Stanley Hoffmann, Out of Iraq

Kofi Annan, An Illegal War

Ian Buruma, The Destruction of Germany

Der Brand: Deutschland im Bombenkrieg 1940–1945(The Fire: Germany in the Bombing War, 1940–1945) by Jörg Friedrich

Brandstätten: Der Anblick des Bombenkriegs(Scenes of Fire: A View of the Bombing War) by Jörg Friedrich

Anthony Hecht, Aubade (poem)

Darryl Pinckney, Gone with the Wind

The Known World by Edward P. Jones

Jasper Griffin, The Myth of the Olympics

The Ancient Olympics: A History by Nigel Spivey

Games and Sanctuaries in Ancient Greece: Olympia, Delphi, Isthmia, Nemea, Athens by Panos Valavanis

Wrestling with the Ancients: Modern Greek Identity and the Olympics by Alexander Kitroeff

Olympics in Athens, 1896: The Invention of the Modern Olympic Games by Michael Llewellyn Smith

Ancient Greek Athletics by Stephen G. Miller

Max Rodenbeck, Unloved in Arabia

House of Bush, House of Saud: The Secret Relationship Between the World's Two Most Powerful Dynasties by Craig Unger

Saudi Arabia and the Politics of Dissent by Mamoun Fandy

Hatred's Kingdom: How Saudi Arabia Supports the New Global Terrorism by Dore Gold

Inside the Mirage: America's Fragile Partnership with Saudi Arabia by Thomas Lippman

Sleeping with the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude by Robert Baer

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Understanding Saudi Arabia by Colin Wells

Can Saudi Arabia Reform Itself? a report by the International Crisis Group

Diane Johnson, Stiff Upper Lip

The Lemon Table by Julian Barnes

Benjamin M. Friedman, Bush & Kerry: A Big Divide

Witold Rybczynski, The Triumph of a Distinguished Failure

The Architecture of Humanism: A Study in the History of Taste by Geoffrey Scott

Adrian Lyttelton, What Was Fascism?

The Anatomy of Fascism by Robert O. Paxton

Neal Ascherson, Africa: The Hard Truth

A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa by Howard W. French

Stephen Greenblatt, The Death of Hamnet and the Making of Hamlet

George M. Fredrickson, Is There Hope for the South?

Where We Stand: Voices of Southern Dissent edited by Anthony Dunbar

Alan Ryan, Time Out?

Deliberation Day by Bruce Ackerman and James S. Fishkin

Lorin Stein, Loves of the Lambs

Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb, with a foreword by Phillip Lopate

A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb by Sarah Burton

The Devil Kissed Her: The Story of Mary Lamb by Kathy Watson

Mark Lilla, Leo Strauss: The European

Gesammelte Schriften, Vol. 1: Die Religionskritik Spinozas und zugehörige Schriften by Leo Strauss,edited by Heinrich Meier

Gesammelte Schriften, ol. 2: Philosophie und Gesetz— Frühe Schriften by Leo Strauss,edited by Heinrich Meier

Gesammelte Schriften, Vol. 3: Hobbes' politische Wissenschaft und zugehörige Schriften—Briefe by Leo Strauss, edited by Heinrich Meier

Leo Strauss: The Early Writings (1921–1932) translated from the Germanand edited by Michael Zank

Tussen Athene en Jeruzalem: Filosofie, profetie en politiek in het werk van Leo Strauss by David Janssens

Die Denkbewegung von Leo Strauss: Die Geschichte der Philosophie und die Intentionen des Philosophen by Heinrich Meier

Das theologisch-politische Problem: Zum Thema von Leo Strauss by Heinrich Meier

Leo Strauss: Une biographie intellectuelle by Daniel Tanguay

William H. McNeill, Bigger and Better?

The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700–2100:Europe, America, and the Third World by Robert William Fogel

Joan Didion, Politics in the 'New Normal' America

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Letters

John Ryle, Garry Wills, The CIA in Khartoum
Stanley Kauffmann, Fintan O'Toole, Albee & the Women
Irma B. Jaffe, Russell Baker, Death in Battle?

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Contributors

Kofi Annan was until recently the Secretary-General of the United Nations. (February 2007)

Neal Ascherson is the author of The Struggles for Poland, The Black Sea, and Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland. He is the editor of the journal Public Archaeology at University College London. (November 2008)

Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard. He received this year's Erasmus Prize. His novel The China Lover was published in September. (December 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)

George M. Fredrickson is Edgar E. Robinson Professor of US History Emeritus at Stanford. His most recent books are Racism: A Short History and Not Just Black and White, a collection co-edited with Nancy Foner. (August 2006)

Benjamin M. Friedman is the William Joseph Maier Professor of Political Economy at Harvard. His most recent book is The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth. (November 2008)

Stephen Greenblatt is John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard. His play Cardenio, coauthored with Charles Mee, was performed in May and June by the American Repertory Theatre. (July 2008)

Jasper Griffin is Emeritus Professor of Classical Literature and a Fellow of Balliol College. His books include Homer on Life and Death. (June 2008)

Anthony Hecht'sCollected Later Poems and Melodies Unheard: Essays on the Mysteries of Poetry were published in 2003. He died on October 20. (December 2004)

Stanley Hoffmann is Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor at Harvard. His forthcoming book is Chaos and Violence. (August 2006)

Diane Johnson’s new novel, Lulu in Marrakech, will be published this month. (October 2008)

Mark Lilla is Professor at the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He is the author of G.B. Vico: The Making of an Anti-Modern (1993) and the editor of New French Thought: Political Philosophy (1991). His latest book is The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics, and the Modern West.

Adrian Lyttelton is Professor of History at the Johns Hopkins University Center in Bologna and the author of The Seizure of Power: Fascism in Italy 1919–1929. (March 2006)

William H. McNeill is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Chicago. His most recent books are The Pursuit of Truth: A Historian’s Memoir and A Boyhood Memory: Long Ago on Grandfather’s Farm, which is currently in search of a publisher. (April 2008)

Darryl Pinckney is the author of a novel, High Cotton, and Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature.

Max Rodenbeck is The Economist's Mideast Correspondent. He is based in Cairo. (January 2009)

Alan Ryan is Warden of New College, Oxford, and the author of biographies of John Stuart Mill, Bertrand Russell, and John Dewey. (October 2008)

Witold Rybczynski is the Meyerson Professor of Urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania, and is architecture critic for Slate. His new book on American building, Last Harvest, has just been published. (May 2007)

Lorin Stein is an editor at Farrar, Straus and Giroux. His translation of Grégoire Bouillier's memoir L'Invité mystère (The Mystery Guest) will appear in fall 2006. (January 2006)

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