Table of Contents
Volume 55, Number 7 · May 1, 2008
Garry Wills, Two Speeches on Race
William Dalrymple, Kashmir: The Scarred and the Beautiful
The Arts of Kashmir
Tony Judt, What Have We Learned, If Anything?
Frank Kermode, Ezra Conquers London 
Ezra Pound: Poet: A Portrait of the Man and His Work, Volume 1: The Young Genius, 1885–1920 by A. David Moody
Ian Buruma, The Cruelest War
Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944–45 by Max Hastings
Michael Chabon, In Priceland
Lush Life by Richard Price
Tim Flannery, Queens of the Web
The Private Life of Spiders by Paul Hillyard
Life in Cold Blood by David Attenborough
Joyce Carol Oates, Youth!
All the Sad Young Literary Men by Keith Gessen
Harold W. Attridge, The Case for Judas, Continued
Reading Judas: The Gospel of Judas and the Shaping of Christianity by Elaine Pagels and Karen L. King
The Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot: A New Look at Betrayer and Betrayed by Bart D. Ehrman
Alison Lurie, The Girl in the Tower
Petrosinella: A Neapolitan Rapunzel retold and illustrated by Diane Stanley
Golden: A Retelling of "Rapunzel" by Cameron Dokey
Letters from Rapunzel by Sara Lewis Holmes
Rapunzel by Barbara Rogasky, illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman
Zel by Donna Jo Napoli
The Tower Room by Adèle Geras
Sugar Cane: A Caribbean Rapunzel by Patricia Storace, illustrated by Raúl Colón
Rapunzel: A Groovy Fairy Tale by Lynn Roberts, illustrated by David Roberts
Barbie as Rapunzel by Merry North
Anthony Lewis, The Terror President
David Lodge, 'The End of Heaven'
Day by A.L. Kennedy
Caleb Crain, 'Move Closer, Please'
The Art of the American Snapshot, 1888–1978: From the Collection of Robert E. Jackson an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., October 7–December 31, 2007, and the Amon Carter Museum, Forth Worth, Texas, February 16–April 27, 2008. Catalog of the exhibition by Sarah Greenough and Diane Waggoner, with Sarah Kennel and Matthew S. Witkovsky.
Gordon S. Wood, Praying with the Founders
Ten Tortured Words: How the Founding Fathers Tried to Protect Religion in America...and What's Happened Since by Stephen Mansfield
So Help Me God: The Founding Fathers and the First Great Battle over Church and State by Forrest Church
Rick Sanchez, Michael Ware, Martha Zoller, The Milestone
Hussein Agha, Robert Malley, Into the Lion's Den
Marat Grinberg, Tony Judt, 'The Problem of Evil': An Exchange
Letters
El Hassan Bin Talal, André Glucksmann, et al. Tibet: The Peace of the Graveyard
Quintin Hoare, Charles Simic, Hope for Kosovo
Andrew Branch, Branded By Pharma
Paul Epstein, The Market for Happiness
Jeremy J. Stone, The I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence
Contributors
Hussein Agha is Senior Associate Member of St. Antony’s College, Oxford. He is the author, with A.S. Khalidi, of A Framework for a Palestinian National Security Doctrine. (May 2008)
Harold W. Attridge is Dean of Yale Divinity School and Lillian Claus Professor of New Testament. His books include Hebrews: A Commentary on the Epistle to the Hebrews and Nag Hammadi Codex I: The Jung Codex. (May 2008)
Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard. He received this year’s Shorenstein Award for writing about Asia. His novel The China Lover will be published this fall. (June 2008)
Michael Chabon is the author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier
and Clay and the children's book, Summerland. He lives in Berkeley, California.
Caleb Crain is the author of Sweet Grafton, a novella published in the winter 2008 issue of the journal n+1. (May 2008)
William Dalrymple is the author of The White Mughals, which won the 2003 Wolfson Prize for History, and The Last Mughal, which won the 2007 Duff Cooper Memorial Prize. He lives in New Delhi. (June 2008)
Tim Flannery is a professor at Macquarie University in Sydney and chair of the Copenhagen Climate Council. His latest book is The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth. (May 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. (May 2008)
Anthony Lewis, a former columnist for The New York Times, has twice won the Pulitzer Prize. His book Freedom for the Thought We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment was published this year. (May 2008)
David Lodge is a novelist and critic and Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Birmingham, England. His novels include Changing Places, Small World, Nice Work, and Author, Author. His most recent works of criticism are Consciousness and
the Novel and The Year of Henry James.
Alison Lurie is the author of two collections of essays on children’s literature, Don’t Tell the Grownups and Boys and Girls Forever. She is a former professor of English at Cornell and has published nine novels, of which the most recent is Truth and Consequences. (May 2008)
Robert Malley was Special Assistant to President Clinton for Arab-Israeli Affairs and Director for Near East and South Asian Affairs on the National Security Council staff from September 1998 to January 2001. He is currently Middle East and North Africa Program Director at the International Crisis Group. (May 2008)
Joyce Carol Oates is the Roger S. Berlind Professor of Humanities at Princeton. Her collection of short novellas Wild Nights! Stories About the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway has just been published, and her novel My Sister, My Love: The Intimate Story of Skyler Rampike will be published this summer. (June 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.
Gordon Wood is the Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History at Brown. A collection of his essays, The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History, was published in March. (May 2008)
