Table of Contents
Volume 53, Number 2 · February 9, 2006
Garry Wills, Jimmy Carter & the Culture of Death 
Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis by Jimmy Carter
Sanford Schwartz, White Secrets
Jacob van Ruisdael: Master of Landscape Catalog of the exhibition by Seymour Slive
Alison Lurie, The Passion of C.S. Lewis
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe a film directed by Andrew Adamson
The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C.S. Lewis by Alan Jacobs
Revisiting Narnia: Fantasy, Myth and Religionin C.S. Lewis' Chronicles edited by Shanna Caughey
Nicholas D. Kristof, Genocide in Slow Motion
Darfur: A Short History of a Long War by Julie Flint and Alex de Waal
Darfur: The Ambiguous Genocide by Gérard Prunier
Edward Hirsch, Special Orders (poem)
Henry Siegman, The Killing Equation
Munich a film directed by Steven Spielberg
Eamon Duffy, The Plot That Failed
God's Secret Agents: Queen Elizabeth's Forbidden Priests and the Hatching of the Gunpowder Plot by Alice Hogge
Remember Remember: A Cultural History of Guy Fawkes Day by James Sharpe
Timothy Garton Ash, The Twins' New Poland
John Leonard, In the Desert, Prime Time
The Diviners by Rick Moody
Robert Cottrell, The Emperor Vladimir
Putin's Russia: Life in a Failing Democracy by Anna Politkovskaya, translated from the Russian by Arch Tait
Putin's Russia by Lilia Shevtsova,translated from the Russian by Antonina W. Bouis
Virtual Politics: Faking Democracy in the Post-Soviet World by Andrew Wilson
Colm Tóibín, Henry James's New York
Perry Link, Liu Binyan (1925–2005)
Kwame Anthony Appiah, Whose Culture Is It?
Brian Urquhart, The UN Oil-for-Food Program: Who Is Guilty?
The Management of the United Nations Oil-for-Food Programme (five volumes) a report by the Independent Inquiry Committee into the United Nations Oil-for-Food Programme
Manipulation of the Oil-for-Food Programme by the Iraqi Regime (one volume) a report by the Independent Inquiry Committee into the United Nations Oil-for-Food Programme
S. Robert Lichter, Judith Miller, Michael Massing, 'The Enemy Within': An Exchange
Letters
Jeane E. Rosenfeld, 'Fringe Religion'?
Susan H. Llewellyn, Ian Buruma, Louis, Schmeling, and Leonard
Curtis Bradley, David Cole, et al. On NSA Spying: A Letter to Congress
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)
Robert Cottrell has served as a Moscow bureau chief for both The Economist and the Financial Times. (June 2007)
Eamon Duffy is Professor of the History of Christianity at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Magdalene College. His latest book is Marking the Hours: English People and Their Prayers, 1240–1570. (May 2008)
Timothy Garton Ash is Professor of European Studies and Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St. Antony’s College, Oxford, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford. His most recent book is Free World. (November 2008)
Edward Hirsch most recent book of poems is Lay Back the Darkness. A collection of his essays and other nonfiction, Poet's Choice, will be published this spring. (February 2006)
Nicholas D. Kristof is a columnist for The New York Times and the coauthor, with his wife, Sheryl WuDunn, of China Wakes and Thunder from the East. (May 2007)
John Leonard writes on books every month for Harper’s and on television every week for New York magazine. (June 2007)
Perry Link is Chancellorial Chair in Teaching Across Disciplines at the University of California, Riverside. He is working on a book on rhythm, metaphor, and politics in contemporary Chinese language. (January 2009)
Alison Lurie is a former Professor of English at Cornell. Her most recent novel is Truth and Consequences. (January 2009)
Sanford Schwartz's essays and reviews have been collected in The Art Presence and Artists and Writers. (January 2009)
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)
Colm Tóibín is the author of five novels, including The Story of the Night, The Blackwater Lightship, and The Heather Blazing. The Master, a novel based on the life of Henry James, was published in 2004 and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Among his nonfiction works are Bad Blood: A Walk Along the Irish Border, Homage to Barcelona, The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe, and, most recently, Love in a Dark Time. In 2004, his first play, Beauty in a Broken Place, was produced in Dublin. His most recent novel, The Master, which is based on the life of Henry James, won the Los Angeles Times Novel of the Year Award in 2005 and the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger in France. He lives in Dublin.
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)
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.
