Table of Contents
Volume 51, Number 17 · November 4, 2004
Kwame Anthony Appiah, Russell Baker, Ian Buruma, et al. The Election and America's Future
Charles Simic, The Wealth Poverty Buys 
The Letters of Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov edited by Robert J. Bertholf and Albert Gelpi
Richard Dorment, The Artistic Bloke
William Nicholson by Sanford Schwartz
Robert Cottrell, An Icelandic Saga
Reagan and Gorbachev: How the Cold War Ended by Jack F. Matlock Jr.
Lorrie Moore, Unanswered Prayer
Checkpoint by Nicholson Baker
William Dalrymple, The Truth About Muslims
The Cross and the Crescent: Christianity and Islam from Muhammad to the Reformation by Richard Fletcher
From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting the Middle East by Bernard Lewis
In the Lands of the Christians: Arab Travel Writing in the Seventeenth Century edited and translated by Nabil Matar
Turks, Moors, and Englishmen in the Age of Discovery by Nabil Matar
Islam in Britain, 1558–1685 by Nabil Matar
Benjamin Moser, Start Spreading the News
Holland Mania: The Unknown Dutch Period in American Art and Culture by Annette Stott
The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America by Russell Shorto
Tony Judt, Dreams of Empire
America's Inadvertent Empire by William E. Odom and Robert Dujarric
The Imperial Tense: Prospects and Problems of American Empire edited by Andrew J. Bacevich
Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America's Perilous Path in the Middle East by Rashid Khalidi
The Right Nation: Conservative Power in America by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge
Empire by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri
Multitude by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri
The New Imperialism by David Harvey
Fear: The History of a Political Idea by Corey Robin
A New World Order by Anne-Marie Slaughter
Hermione Lee, Passionate Pilgrim
The Cruise of the Vanadis by Edith Wharton, with photographs by Jonas Dovydenas
Lewis Lockwood, Which Is the Real Mendelssohn?
Mendelssohn: A Life in Music by R. Larry Todd
A Portrait of Mendelssohn by Clive Brown
J.H. Elliott, The Reigns in Spain
Rivers of Gold: The Rise of the Spanish Empire, from Columbus to Magellan by Hugh Thomas
Romans in a New World: Classical Models in Sixteenth-Century Spanish America by David A. Lupher
Juan de Ovando: Governing the Spanish Empirein the Reign of Philip II by Stafford Poole
Apogee of Empire: Spain and New Spain in the Age of Charles III, 1759–1789 by Stanley J. Stein and Barbara H. Stein
Spain in the Age of Exploration, 1492–1819 Catalog of the exhibition edited by Chiyo Ishikawa
Michael Wood, Taking Reality by Surprise
The Dreamers a film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci
The Dreamers by Gilbert Adair
Afterglow: A Last Conversation with Pauline Kael by Frances Davis
Godard: Portrait of the Artist at Seventy by Colin MacCabe
Mark Lilla, The Closing of the Straussian Mind
The Modern Prince: What Leaders Need to Know Now by Carnes Lord
Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire by Anne Norton
Joseph Lelyveld, The View from the Heartland
Letters
Joseph Masling, Frederick C. Crews, 'Out, Damned Blot'
Rolf Steininger, Tim Parks, 'A Bad Start'?
Susan Neiman, Clinton's Charm
Orin Starn, 'Ishi's Brain'
Morris Dickstein, Irving Howe Lecture
Ingrid D. Rowland, Pears Before Swine
Will Schwalbe, Jeri Laber Award
Michael Kimmelman, William Kapell Died
The Editors, Correction
Contributors
K. Anthony Appiah teaches philosophy at Princeton. He is the author of Cosmopolitanism and Experiments in Ethics. He is working on a book about the role of honor in moral life. (November 2008)
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)
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)
Robert Cottrell has served as a Moscow bureau chief for both The Economist and the Financial Times. (June 2007)
William Dalrymple is the author of From the Holy Mountain, The White Mughals, and The Last Mughal. (October 2008)
Mark Danner, longtime staff writer at The New Yorker and contributor to The New York Review of Books, is the author of three books: The Massacre at El Mozote: A Parable of the Cold War; The Road to Illegitimacy: One Reporter's Travels Through the 2000 Florida Recount; and Torture and Truth. Danner's work has been honored with many awards, including a National Magazine Award, three Overseas Press Awards, and an Emmy. In June 1999, he was named a MacArthur Fellow. He is Professor of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley and Henry R. Luce Professor of Human Rights and Journalism at Bard College. He divides his time between Berkeley and New York. His work is archived at markdanner.com.
Richard Dorment is the art critic of the Daily Telegraph. (April 2008)
Ronald Dworkin is Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law and Philosophy at NYU and Jeremy Bentham Professor of Law and Philosophy at University College London. His books include Is Democracy Possible Here? (2006), Justice in Robes, Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality, and Freedom's Law. He is the 2007 winner of the Ludvig Holberg International Memorial Prize for "his pioneering scholarly work" of "worldwide impact."
J. H. Elliott is Regius Professor Emeritus of Modern History at the University of Oxford. His books include The Count-Duke of Olivares and Spain and Its World. Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1492– 1830 has just been published. (June 2006)
Michael Ignatieff is the Carr Professor and Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. His latest book is Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry. (April 2003)
Tony Judt is University Professor at NYU. His new book, Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century, will be published in April. (May 2008)
Hermione Lee is the author of a biography of Virginia Woolf and of Virginia Woolf’s Nose: Essays on Biography, which has recently appeared in paperback. Her new biography, Edith Wharton, has just been published. (May 2007)
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)
Anthony Lewis, a former columnist for The New York Times , has twice won the Pulitzer Prize. His book Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment was published this year. (September 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.
Lewis Lockwood is Fanny Peabody Research Professor of Music at Harvard. He is the author of Beethoven: The Music and the Life and, most recently, co-editor with Mark Kroll of The Beethoven Violin Sonatas: History, Criticism, Performance. (November 2004)
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.
Lorrie Moore teaches at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Her most recent book is the story collection Birds of America. She has won the Rea Award and the PEN/Malamud Award for Short Fiction. (September 2007)
Edmund S. Morgan is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. His most recent book, The Genuine Article: A Historian Looks at Early America, was published in 2004. (October 2008)
Benjamin Moser’s biography of Clarice Lispector, Why This World, will be published in summer 2009. He lives in the Netherlands. (August 2008)
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.
Alan Ryan is Warden of New College, Oxford, and the author of biographies of John Stuart Mill, Bertrand Russell, and John Dewey. (October 2008)
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.
Brian Urquhart is a former Undersecretary-General of the United Nations. His books include Hammarskjöld, A Life in Peace and War, and Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey. (November 2008)
Steven Weinberg holds the Josey Regental Chair in Science at the University of Texas at Austin. He has been awarded the Nobel Prize in physics and the National Medal of Science. (September 2008)
Garry Wills was born in Atlanta, Georgia. One of our most distinguished
historians and critics, he is the author of numerous books, including Saint Augustine, Papal
Sin, and the Pulitzer Prize–winning Lincoln at Gettysburg. He has won many other awards,
among them two National Book Critics Circle Awards and the 1998 National Medal for the Humanities.
He is currently Professor of History Emeritus at Northwestern University. A regular contributor
to the New York Review of Books, he lives in Evanston, Illinois.
Michael Wood is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge. (April 2008)
