Table of Contents
Volume 54, Number 14 · September 27, 2007
Janet Malcolm, Pandora's Click 
Send: The Essential Guide to Email for Office and Home by David Shipley and Will Schwalbe
Ian Buruma, His Toughness Problem—and Ours
World War IV: The Long Struggle Against Islamofascism by Norman Podhoretz
Charles Simic, Night Watchman (poem)
Robert Gottlieb, Lit-Flicks
Becoming Jane a film directed by Julian Jarrold
Molière a film directed by Laurent Tirard
Shakespeare in Love a film directed by John Madden
Michael Tomasky, Citizen Gore
The Assault on Reason by Al Gore
Sanford Schwartz, Magic Show
Neo Rauch at the Met: para
Neo Rauch: para catalog of the exhibition by Gary Tinterow and Werner Spies
Alison Lurie, Pottery
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix a film directed by David Yates, based on the book by J.K. Rowling
Colin McGinn, How You Think
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature by Steven Pinker
Frederick Seidel, Evening Man (poem)
Kwame Anthony Appiah, What Was Africa to Them?
The Door of No Return: The History of Cape Coast Castle and the Atlantic Slave Trade by William St Clair
Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787–2005 by James T. Campbell
American Africans in Ghana: Black Expatriates and the Civil Rights Era by Kevin K. Gaines
Black Gold of the Sun: Searching for Home in Africa and Beyond by Ekow Eshun, with illustrations by Chris Ofili
Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route by Saidiya Hartman
Robert Hughes, Master Builders
Makers of Modern Architecture by Martin Filler
Christopher Jencks, The Immigration Charade
State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America by Patrick J. Buchanan
Lorrie Moore, The Awkward Age
Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You by Peter Cameron
Edmund S. Morgan, Marie Morgan, A Very Satisfied Survivor
The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History by Linda Colley
Christian Caryl, Ice Capades
Ice by Vladimir Sorokin, translated from the Russian by Jamey Gambrell
R.J.W. Evans, Mighty Prussia: Rise and Fall
Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600–1947 by Christopher Clark
Mark Ford, The Dreams of Allen Ginsberg
Collected Poems, 1947–1997 by Allen Ginsberg
I Celebrate Myself: The Somewhat Private Life of Allen Ginsberg by Bill Morgan
The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice: First Journals and Poems, 1937–1952 by Allen Ginsberg,edited by Juanita Lieberman-Plimpton and Bill Morgan
Howl on Trial: The Battle for Free Expression edited by Bill Morgan andNancy J. Peters
The Poem That Changed America: "Howl" Fifty Years Later edited by Jason Shinder
Howl: Original Draft Facsimile edited by Barry Miles
The Yage Letters Redux by William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, edited and with an introduction by Oliver Harris
Neal Cassady: The Fast Life of a Beat Hero by David Sandison and Graham Vickers
William H. McNeill, Shall We Dance?
Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy by Barbara Ehrenreich
Nathaniel Rich, The Passion of Pasolini
P.P.P.: Pier Paolo Pasolini and Death edited by Bernhart Schwenk and Michael Semff, with the collaboration of Giuseppe Zigaina
Pasolini: A Biography by Enzo Siciliano, translated from the Italian by John Shepley
Pasolini Requiem by Barth David Schwartz
Stories from the City of God: Sketches and Chronicles of Rome, 1950–1956 by Pier Paolo Pasolini, edited by Walter Siti and translated from the Italian by Marina Harss
Al Alvarez, S & M at the Poles
Scott of the Antarctic: A Life of Courage and Tragedy by David Crane
The Frozen Ship: The Histories and Tales of Polar Exploration by Sarah Moss
The Last Explorer: Hubert Wilkins, Hero of the Great Age of Polar Exploration by Simon Nasht
Ronald Dworkin, The Supreme Court Phalanx
Wendell Berry, James P. Herman, Christopher B. Michael, et al. 'Our Biotech Future': An Exchange
Jane Farrell, Brad Leithauser, Suzanne Jill Levine, et al. 'Notes on Susan': An Exchange
Letters
Bob Guldin, Thomas Powers, The Reason Why
Menachem Kellner, Max Rodenbeck, 'Lebanon's Agony'
Paul Holdengräber, Live at the New York Public Library
The Editors, Correction
Contributors
Al Alvarez's most recent book is Risky Business, a selection of essays, many of which first appeared in these pages. (May 2008)
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)
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)
Christian Caryl is the Tokyo Bureau Chief of Newsweek. He has reported from thirty-seven countries, including Russia, Afghanistan, North Korea, and Iraq. (December 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."
R. J. W. Evans is a Fellow of Oriel College and Regius Professor of History at Oxford. His books include Austria, Hungary and the Habsburgs: Central Europe, c. 1683–1867. (September 2007)
Mark Ford teaches in the English Department at University College London. His most recent collection of poetry, Soft Sift, takes its title from Gerard Manley Hopkins's “The Wreck of the Deutschland. ” This year he has published editions of the poetry of Frank O'Hara and John Ashbery. (January 2009)
Robert Gottlieb has been Editor in Chief of Simon and Schuster, Knopf, and The New Yorker. He is the author of George Balanchine: The Ballet Maker and the dance critic of The New York Observer. (October 2008)
Robert Hughes's most recent book, Things I Didn’t Know, a memoir, was published last fall. (September 2007)
Christopher Jencks is the Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy at Harvard. He is working on a book about the social and political consequences of growing inequality. (September 2007)
Alison Lurie is a former Professor of English at Cornell. Her most recent novel is Truth and Consequences. (January 2009)
Janet Malcolm was born in Prague. She was educated at the High School of Music and Art, in New York, and at the University of Michigan. Along with In the Freud Archives, her books include Diana and Nikon: Essays on Photography, Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession, The Journalist and the Murderer, The Purloined Clinic: Selected Writings, The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, The Crime of Sheila McGough, and Reading Chekhov: A Critical Journey. She lives in New York.
Colin McGinn teaches in the philosophy department at the University of Miami and is a Cooper Fellow. His most recent book is Shakespeare’s Philosophy: Discovering the Meaning Behind the Plays. (March 2008)
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)
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)
Marie Morgan, author of Chariot of Fire, is a historian of nineteenth-century America who frequently collaborates with Edmund Morgan in the writing of history and the designing and making of furniture. (October 2008)
Nathaniel Rich is an editor at The Paris Review and the author of San Francisco Noir: The City in Film Noir from 1940 to the Present. His novel, The Mayor’s Tongue, was published this year. (November 2008)
Sanford Schwartz's essays and reviews have been collected in The Art Presence and Artists and Writers. (January 2009)
Frederick Seidel's latest collection, Ooga-Booga, received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for poetry. (September 2007)
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.
Michael Tomasky is Editor of Guardian America and writes a blog at www.guardian.co.uk. (December 2008)
