Table of Contents
Volume 54, Number 19 · December 6, 2007
Dai Qing, Thirsty Dragon at the Olympics 
Frederick C. Crews, Talking Back to Prozac
The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow into Depressive Disorder by Allan V. Horwitz and Jerome C. Wakefield
Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness by Christopher Lane
Let Them Eat Prozac: The Unhealthy Relationship Between the Pharmaceutical Industry and Depression by David Healy
Sarah Kerr, Nathan, Farewell
Exit Ghost by Philip Roth
Tony Judt, The Wrecking Ball of Innovation
Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life by Robert B. Reich
P.N. Furbank, Who Are 'The French'?
The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography from the Revolution to the First World War by Graham Robb
Pico Iyer, The Knight of Sunset Boulevard
The Long Embrace: Raymond Chandler and the Woman He Loved by Judith Freeman
Avishai Margalit, A Moral Witness to the 'Intricate Machine'
Dark Hope: Working for Peace in Israel and Palestine by David Shulman
Derek Walcott, This Page Is a Cloud (poem)
David Cole, The Man Behind the Torture
The Terror Presidency: Law and Judgment Inside the Bush Administration by Jack Goldsmith
William Pfaff, Who Is Sarkozy?
David Gilmour, The Restless Conqueror
Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer by Tim Jeal
Frank Kermode, Wars Over the Printed Word
Burning to Read: English Fundamentalism and Its Reformation Opponents by James Simpson
John Banville, A Bright Voice from a Dark Place
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson, translated from the Norwegian by Anne Born
Noel Malcolm, The New Montenegro: The State That Was Not a State
Realm of the Black Mountain: A History of Montenegro by Elizabeth Roberts
Charles Simic, A Great Twentieth-Century Poet
Edwin Arlington Robinson: A Poet's Life by Scott Donaldson
Edwin Arlington Robinson: Poems selected and edited by Scott Donaldson
Jasper Griffin, East vs. West: The First Round
Thermopylae: The Battle That Changed the World by Paul Cartledge
Christopher Benfey, The Shock of Intrusion
Breaking Open Japan: Commodore Perry, Lord Abe, and American Imperialism in 1853 by George Feifer
Edward Mendelson, Auden and God
Auden and Christianity by Arthur Kirsch
James Allan, Charles Fried, Ronald Dworkin, 'The Supreme Court Phalanx': An Exchange
Robert L. Marshall, Charles Rosen, What Mozart Meant: An Exchange
Letters
Janet Malcolm, Larry McMurtry, Keaton's Own Lens
James K. Galbraith, JFK's Plans to Withdraw
Victor Winstone, Gertrude Bell Disliked Him Intensely
Ingrid D. Rowland, More News from Rome
The Editors, Clarifications
Contributors
John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He is the author of many novels, including The Book of Evidence, The Untouchable, and Eclipse. Banville's novel The Sea was awarded the 2005 Man Booker Prize. On occasion he writes under the pen name Benjamin Black.
Christopher Benfey is Mellon Professor of English at Mount Holyoke. His latest book, American Audacity: Literary Essays North and South, has just been published. (December 2008)
David Cole is Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center. He is the award-winning author of several books, including Less Safe, Less Free:Why America Is losing the War on Terror (with Jules Lobel, 2007) and Enemy Aliens: Double Standards and Constitutional Freedoms in the War on Terrorism (2003).
Frederick Crews's most recent book is Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays. (December 2007)
P. N. Furbank is the author of Diderot and, with W.R. Owens, A Political Biography of Daniel Defoe. (December 2007)
David Gilmour is the author of The Last Leopard: A Life of Giuseppe di Lampedusa, which was published in a revised and enlarged edition last year. He has written biographies of Rudyard Kipling and Lord Curzon. (June 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)
Pico Iyer’s The Open Road , about the fourteenth Dalai Lama and globalism, was published this spring. His essay in this issue will appear, in somewhat different form, as the introduction to a new Penguin Classics edition of The Snow Leopard . (September 2008)
Tony Judt is University Professor at NYU. His new book, Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century, will be published in April. (May 2008)
Frank Kermode lives in Cambridge, England. His most recent book is The Age of Shakespeare. (October 2008)
Sarah Kerr, a longtime contributor to The New York Review, lives near Washington, D.C. (December 2008)
Noel Malcolm is a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. His books include Bosnia: A Short History and Kosovo: A Short History. (December 2007)
Avishai Margalit is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is currently the George Kennan Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He has just been awarded the 2007 Emet Prize by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for his work in political thought, ethics, and philosophy. (December 2007)
Edward Mendelson is the literary executor of the Estate of W.H. Auden and professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is the author of Early Auden, Later Auden, and many essays on (and editions of) nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers, including George Meredith, Thomas Hardy, H.G. Wells, Arnold Bennett, Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett, and Thomas Pynchon.
William Pfaff is an American author and syndicated columnist in Paris. His most recent book is The Bullet’s Song. (December 2007)
Dai Qing, who normally lives in Beijing, has been a Research Fellow at the Australian National University, Canberra, during 2007. She is the author, since the 1980s, of a number of major works that deal with the dark side of Chinese Communist Party history and China’s water crisis. Imprisoned in Beijing in 1989 and 1990, she has received international awards for advocating freedom of the press and for her work on China’s environmental problems. (December 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.
Derek Walcott won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992. His most recent book is Selected Poems. (May 2008)
