Table of Contents

Volume 55, Number 8 · May 15, 2008

Sanford Schwartz, The Nerve of Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo an exhibition at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, October 27, 2007–January 20, 2008; the Philadelphia Museum of Art, February 20–May 18, 2008; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, June 16–September 28, 2008.

George Soros, Judy Woodruff, The Financial Crisis: An Interview with George Soros

Amy Knight, The Truth About Putin and Medvedev

Putin. Itogi. Nezavisimyi Ekspertnyi Doklad (Putin: The Results: An Independent Expert Report) by Boris Nemtsov and Vladimir Milov

Michael Dirda, An Epic of the Everglades

Shadow Country: A New Rendering of the Watson Legend by Peter Matthiessen

Max Rodenbeck, The Arab Spring, and After

Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East by Robin Wright

John Gross, 'Something Marvellous to Tell'

Due Considerations: Essays and Criticism by John Updike

Kent Greenawalt, Where Shall the Preaching Stop?

Liberty of Conscience: In Defense of America's Tradition of Religious Equality by Martha C. Nussbaum

Derek Walcott, The Hulls of White Yachts (poem)

Sarah Kerr, Displaced Passions

Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri

Robert Gottlieb, Falling Stars

Artists in Exile: How Refugees from Twentieth-Century War and Revolution Transformed the American Performing Arts by Joseph Horowitz.

Charles Simic, The Lovers (poem)

Charles Simic, Among the Exiles (poem)

Peter Green, The Great Marathon Man

The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories edited by Robert B. Strassler, translated from the Greek by Andrea L. Purvis, with an introduction by Rosalind Thomas

A Commentary on Herodotus Books I–IV by David Asheri, Alan Lloyd, and Aldo Corcella, edited by Oswyn Murray and Alfonso Moreno, with a contribution by Maria Brosius

A.C. Grayling, Our Socially Gifted Cousins

Jane Goodall: The Woman Who Redefined Man by Dale Peterson

Harvest of Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating by Jane Goodall with Gary McAvoy and Gail Hudson

Baboon Metaphysics: The Evolution of a Social Mind by Dorothy L. Cheney and Robert M. Seyfarth

Charles Simic, A 'Mind in Seven Places'

Time and Materials: Poems 1997–2005 by Robert Hass

Joseph Kerman, Playing in Time

A Concise History of Western Music by Paul Griffiths

Jonathan Mirsky, In the Heart of Darkness

To the End of Hell: One Woman's Struggle to Survive Cambodia's Khmer Rouge by Denise Affonço, translated from the French by Margaret Burn and Katie Hogben, with introductions by David Chandler and Jon Swain

Natalie Zemon Davis, The Quest of Michel de Certeau

The Capture of Speech and Other Political Writings translated from the French and with an afterword by Tom Conley, edited and with an introduction by Luce Giard

The Certeau Reader edited by Graham Ward

Culture in the Plural translated from the French and with an afterword by Tom Conley, edited and with an introduction by Luce Giard

Heterologies: Discourse on the Other translated from the French by Brian Massumi, foreword by Wlad Godzich

The Mystic Fable, Volume One: The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries translated from the French by Michael B. Smith

The Possession at Loudun translated from the French by Michael B. Smith, with a foreword by Stephen Greenblatt

The Practice of Everyday Life translated from the French by Steven F. Rendall

The Writing of History translated from the French by Tom Conley

Michel de Certeau: Interpretation and Its Other by Jeremy Ahearne

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Letters

Wendell Berry, Jason Epstein, The Big Food Menace
Ruth Zweifler, Elizabeth Drew, Travesty in Michigan
Wang Lixiong and over 300 others, Twelve Suggestions for Dealing with the Tibetan Situation, by Some Chinese Intellectuals

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Contributors

Natalie Zemon Davis is the Henry Charles Lea Professor of History Emeritus at Princeton and Professor of Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto. She is the author most recently of Trickster Travels: A Sixteenth-Century Muslim Between Worlds. (May 2008)

Michael Dirda is the author of two collections of essays, Readings and Bound to Please, the memoir An Open Book, and, most recently, Book by Book: Notes on Reading and Life. In 1993 he received the Pulitzer Prize for his reviews and essays in The Washington Post Book World. Before drifting into journalism, Dirda earned a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Cornell University, concentrating on medieval studies and European romanticism.

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 is the dance critic of The New York Observer. (May 2008)

A.C. Grayling is Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London, and a Supernumerary Fellow of St. Anne’s College, Oxford. He is the author most recently of Toward the Light of Liberty: The Struggles for Freedom and Rights That Made the Modern Western World. (May 2008)

Peter Green is Dougherty Centennial Professor Emeritus of Classics at the University of Texas at Austin and Adjunct Professor at the University of Iowa. His most recent book is The Hellenistic Age: A Short History. (May 2008)

Kent Greenawalt is a University Professor at Columbia Law School. His Religion and the Constitution, Volume 2: Establishment and Fairness will be published in June. (May 2008)

John Gross’s most recent book is A Double Thread, a memoir. He is the editor of The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes, which will be published in paperback in September. (May 2008)

Joseph Kerman is emeritus professor of music at the University of California, Berkeley. He began writing music criticism for The Hudson Review in the 1950s, and is a longtime contributor to The New York Review of Books and many other journals. His books include Opera as Drama (1956; new and revised edition 1988), The Beethoven Quartets (1967), Contemplating Music (1986), Concerto Conversations (1999), and The Art of Fugue (2005).

Sarah Kerr, a longtime contributor to The New York Review, lives near Washington, D.C. (May 2008)

Amy Knight is the author most recently of How the Cold War Began: The Igor Gouzenko Affair and the Hunt for Soviet Spies. (May 2008)

Jonathan Mirsky is a journalist and historian specializing in Chinese affairs. He has been to Tibet six times. (July 2008)

Max Rodenbeck is The Economist’s Mideast Correspondent. He is based in Cairo. (May 2008)

Sanford Schwartz's essays and reviews have been collected in The Art Presence and Artists and Writers. (July 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.

George Soros, Chairman of Soros Fund Management LLC and the Open Society Institute, is the author most recently of The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What It Means, which was published as an eBook in April and will be coming out in hardcover this month. The interview in this issue is based on one of the "Conversations with Judy Woodruff" broadcast on Bloomberg News. (May 2008)

Derek Walcott won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992. His most recent book is Selected Poems. (May 2008)

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