The New York Review of Books

January

• ‘City Boy’ Janet Coleman
• Books: Onward to the Digital Revolution Jason Epstein
• Corrections The Editors
• His Finest Hour Garry Wills
• Obama at the Edge Michael Tomasky
• Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Geoffrey O’Brien
• The Darkest Comedian Adam Kirsch
• The Fading Dream of Europe Orhan Pamuk
• The Gigantic Democratic Pose Willibald Sauerländer
• The Magic of Leopardi Robert Pogue Harrison
• The Most Influential Weapon of Our Time Max Hastings
• The Secrets of Houdini Robert Gottlieb
• The Universes We Still Don’t Know Steven Weinberg
• The Worst Man-Made Catastrophe, Ever Roderick MacFarquhar
• Tigers, Humans, and Snails Tim Flannery
• Tony Judt: The Distinctions Thomas Nagel
• Unlucky Jim Martin Filler
• Uprisings: From Tunis to Cairo William Pfaff
• What Is a Good Life? Ronald Dworkin
• Who’s Afraid of the Palestinians? Hussein Agha and Robert Malley

February

• ‘Genius…Infected by Romance’ Richard Holmes
• ‘Is Just Thinking Enough?’ John R. Searle, reply by Colin McGinn
• ‘Volcano of Rage’ Max Rodenbeck
• Don’t Give Rock a Bad Rap Mike Boehm, reply by Dan Chiasson
• Germans, More or Less Timothy Garton Ash
• Good Losers Gordon S. Wood
• Gossart: The Glow of Inspiration Andrew Butterfield
• High on the Stones Dan Chiasson
• His Own Best Straight Man Andrew Delbanco
• Hitler vs. Stalin: Who Killed More? Timothy Snyder
• How We Know Freeman Dyson
• How to Use the Internet James A. Heffernan, reply by Robert Darnton
• Invisible Black America Darryl Pinckney
• Is Health Care Reform Unconstitutional? David Cole
• Israel & Palestine: Breaking the Silence David Shulman
• Marilyn Larry McMurtry
• Obama and the Republicans Elizabeth Drew
• On Tibet’s Holy Mountain Colin Thubron
• Our Secret Connections with the Muslim Brotherhood Ian Johnson
• Our Strangest War Stephen Budiansky
• Prisoner of the Taliban Joshua Hammer
• Revolution Without Violence? Brian Urquhart
• Stopping Malaria: The Wrong Road Richard Horton
• The Atom at 3 PM Jeremy Bernstein, reply by Steven Weinberg
• The Bengal Famine Brian Chatterton and Madhusree Mukerjee, reply by Joseph Lelyveld
• The Best German Novelist of His Time Phillip Lopate
• The Bobby Fischer Defense Garry Kasparov
• The Camera at Ringside Joyce Carol Oates
• The Mad Men Account Daniel Mendelsohn
• The Magic of Crazy Horse Ian Frazier
• The Real Reagan Russell Baker
• The Thrill of Unfamiliar Voices Brad Leithauser
• Trudeau & Trauma Harriette Kaley
• West Coast Delusions Diane Johnson
• Where Will We Find the Jobs? Andrew Hacker
• Who Did Not Collaborate? Ian Buruma

March

• ‘For Sorrow There Is No Remedy’ Julian Barnes
• ‘Hit First, Hit Hard’ James Salter
• ‘How We Know’ Alex Gezerlis, reply by Freeman Dyson
• ‘Is Health Care Reform Unconstitutional?’: An Exchange Francis Barry McCarthy and Cheryl Mendelson, reply by David Cole
• ‘The Mad Men Account’ Molly Haskell, reply by Daniel Mendelsohn
• ‘Unlucky Jim’ John Golding
• A Genius Ill-Served April Bernard
• Aping His Inferiors Jennifer Schuessler
• Can the Brain Explain Your Mind? Colin McGinn
• Correction The Editors
• Daniel Bell (1919–2011) Mark Lilla
• Except That It Robs You of Who You Are Kabir, translated from the Hindi by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra
• Grass: The Gold & the Garbage Charles Simic
• How China Fears the Middle East Revolutions Perry Link
• Inside the Fortress Walter Kaiser
• Iran: The State of Fear Haleh Esfandiari
• Israel and Palestine: Robbed of Dreams Ian Buruma
• Life at the Core Tim Parks
• Midwinter Frederick Seidel
• Music and the Cold War Charles Rosen
• On the Sacred Mountain Pico Iyer
• Our Universities: How Bad? How Good? Peter Brooks
• Paganism: What We Owe the Christians Peter Brown
• Prison Rape and the Government David Kaiser and Lovisa Stannow
• Resisting Climate Reality Bill McKibben
• Special Needs Janet Malcolm
• Superficial & Sublime? Garry Wills
• The ‘Liberal God’ That Failed Lesley Chamberlain, reply by Thomas Nagel
• The Battle for Libya Nicolas Pelham
• The Birth of Islam: A Different View Malise Ruthven
• The Fantastical Neoclassical Julian Bell
• The Flight of the Sparrow Graham Robb
• The Ghosts Among Us Cathleen Schine
• The Hidden Lesson of Montaigne Mark Lilla
• The Internet: For Better or for Worse Steve Coll
• The Most Skillful Liberal Anthony Lewis
• The New New Orleans Nicholas Lemann
• The Panorama of Ford Madox Ford Edmund White
• The Truth About the Bengal Famine Mark B. Tauger, reply by Amartya Sen
• The Turbulent Giant Brian Urquhart
• Twain on Twain Michael J. Kiskis, reply by Andrew Delbanco
• Verdi & Boito: The Great Collaboration Garry Wills
• What Andy Warhol Did Richard Dorment
• Why We Must Talk Jonas Gahr Støre
• Winslow Homer: The Stern Facts Christopher Benfey

April

• ‘Deft, Ingenious, Creepy’ Sanford Schwartz
• ‘How We Know’ Freeman Dyson
• ‘The Birth of a Classic’ A.C. Grayling
• ‘The Finest Novel About World War I’ Max Saunders, reply by Edmund White
• A ‘Tenuously Reformed Pervert’ Joyce Carol Oates
• A Different Gandhi Anita Desai
• Aid For Scoundrels Richard Wasteneys, reply by William Easterly
• An Experiment with Wonder Claire Messud
• Apologies to the Nez Percé John Brinckman, reply by Ian Frazier
• Bogged Down in Libya Nicolas Pelham
• Circles of Hell Michael Scammell
• Divine Drudgery Jonathan Raban
• Flu Warning: Beware the Drug Companies! Helen Epstein
• For a National Investment Bank Robert Skidelsky and Felix Martin
• Google’s Loss: The Public’s Gain Robert Darnton
• How Intellectuals Dropped Out John Summers, reply by Mark Lilla
• Hungary: The Threat István Deák
• Killing Orson Welles at Midnight Zadie Smith
• Private Manning’s Humiliation Bruce Ackerman and Yochai Benkler
• Quality of Life: India vs. China Amartya Sen
• Recharging Chinese Art Jonathan D. Spence
• She Woke Them Up Sue Halpern
• Showing Off Robert Gottlieb
• Standing Won’t Do Jay Dowling
• Sunlight on MacNeice Peter Green
• The Apple Fell Far from the Tree Kwame Anthony Appiah
• The Battle for Egypt’s Future Yasmine El Rashidi
• The Bengal Famine Mark B. Tauger, reply by Amartya Sen
• The Big Joke on You Elaine Blair
• The Communist and the King Ivan Maisky
• The Eco Elephant John J. Simpson, reply by Bill McKibben
• The Glittering Nest Jenny Uglow
• The High Art of the Tamale Alma Guillermoprieto
• The Long Shot Christopher Benfey
• The Obedient Bellow Edward Mendelson
• The Pride of Teddy Roosevelt Sean Wilentz
• The Quest Ian Frazier
• The Quiet Genius Willibald Sauerländer
• The Science of Right and Wrong H. Allen Orr
• The Secrets of the Mummies Colin Thubron
• The Trial Geoffrey O’Brien
• The Wall Street Leviathan Jeff Madrick
• Those Sentimental Americans Gordon S. Wood
• Two ‘Augie March’ Mysteries Edward Mendelson
• Waiting for Baghdad Joost Hiltermann
• We Are More English Than We Know Maya Jasanoff
• What If? Lorrie Moore
• Why She Fell Daniel Mendelsohn
• Windsor Knot Jonathan Freedland

May

• “Toast by the Honorable Brent Scowcroft Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs Beijing, December 9, 1989” Brent Scowcroft
• ‘A Widow’s Story’ Joyce Carol Oates
• ‘All Things Shining’: An Exchange Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Dorrance Kelly, reply by Garry Wills
• ‘What Andy Warhol Did’: An Exchange Reva Wolf, reply by Richard Dorment
• A Free Spirit Ian Buruma
• A Letter to President Obama Lee H. Hamilton, David L. Boren, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Frank C. Carlucci, and William J. Fallon, et al.
• Afghan Treasures Christopher de Bellaigue
• Arrested in the Emirates Ivan Szelenyi and Paula England
• Beware Tamiflu! Helen Epstein
• Bollocks on Broadway James Fenton
• Consolations Dan Chiasson
• Correction The Editors
• Death and Drugs in Colombia Daniel Wilkinson
• Dreams from Underground Julian Bell
• From Cairo: Goodbye to bin Laden Max Rodenbeck
• Goldstone and Gaza: What’s Still True David Shulman
• Guantánamo: The New Challenge to Obama David Cole
• Havana: The State Retreats José Manuel Prieto, translated from the Spanish by Esther Allen
• It’s Even Less in Your Genes Richard C. Lewontin
• Kissinger and China Jonathan D. Spence
• Looking into the Beyond Sanford Schwartz
• Love and Murder in Witless Bay Martin Greenberg and Paula Fox
• Master of the Downbeat Alison Lurie
• Mixing Mystery and Ingenuity Christopher Ricks
• More From Elizabeth Bishop? Lloyd Schwartz, reply by April Bernard
• My ‘Confession’ Fang Lizhi, translated from the Chinese by Perry Link
• On ‘The Phantom Tollbooth’ Michael Chabon
• Our Grand & Randy Great Architects Martin Filler
• Pakistan: Al-Qaeda Now Ahmed Rashid
• Revealing a Great Artist Ingrid D. Rowland
• Saved by the Vision of Beatrice Robert Pogue Harrison
• Storm Over Syria Malise Ruthven
• The Budget Battles on Which His Reelection Depends Michael Tomasky
• The Charms of Eleanor Russell Baker
• The Court’s Embarrassingly Bad Decisions Ronald Dworkin
• The Genius of Buster Jana Prikryl
• The Heart of Saulness Jeremy Bernstein
• The Insane Boys Blew It Nathaniel Rich
• The Intimate Orwell Simon Leys
• The McLuhan Galaxy Pico Iyer
• The Moralist Tim Parks
• The Mystery of Consciousness Continues John R. Searle
• The Past and the Future Fang Lizhi, translated by Perry Link
• The Revelations of Frank Kermode Charles Rosen
• The Tenacity of Paganism Ramsay MacMullen and Peter Brown
• The Very Violent Road to America J.H. Elliott
• The Weird Beauty of the Well-Told Tale Charles Simic
• The Wolf Man’s Revenge Robert Darnton
• Two Poems by Adam Zagajewski Adam Zagajewski, translated from the Polish by Clare Cavanagh
• War by Fops and Fools Max Hastings
• Will There Be a ‘Duel of Dalai Lamas’? Jonathan Mirsky
• Wise Men Against the Grain William Pfaff

June

• ‘Heavenly Questions’ Eleanor Cook, reply by Dan Chiasson
• ‘The Tell-Tale Brain’: An Exchange V.S. Ramachandran, reply by Colin McGinn
• A Demon-Haunted Group Portrait Francine Prose
• A Different Susan Cathleen Schine
• A New Approach to the Holocaust Timothy Snyder
• A Phallic Mandolin? Robert Berg, reply by Willibald Sauerländer
• A Turning Point for Croatia Slavko Goldstein
• After the Flood translated by John Ashbery
• Auden Against Conceit Mark Ford
• Banality Inside Out David Shields
• Cassandra Among the Banksters Benjamin M. Friedman
• Egypt: The Victorious Islamists Yasmine El Rashidi
• Finding ‘Economy’ in Nova Scotia Howard Norman, reply by Martin Greenberg and Paula Fox
• Goldstone and Gaza: An Exchange Stuart Robinowitz, reply by David Shulman
• Gulag Memories Stephen F. Cohen, reply by Michael Scammell
• Hello to All That! Geoffrey Wheatcroft
• In Defense of Yetta Benjamin Taylor, reply by Edward Mendelson
• In Kundera’s Laboratory Adam Thirlwell
• Making Fun of the Stories We Know Tim Parks
• Manet: ‘Sudden Sensuous Dazzle’ Julian Bell
• Mind Control & the Internet Sue Halpern
• My Philanthropy George Soros
• Obama: His Words and His Deeds David Bromwich
• Paul Bowles: The Desert and Solitude Edmund White
• Recalculating Deborah Eisenberg
• Repression in Bahrain Joanne Landy and Thomas Harrison
• Take Your Tamiflu! Bernard Hirschel, Daniel Lew, Stephan Harbarth, Christian van Delden, and Karl-Heinz Krause, et al.
• The ‘Dramatic Picture’ of Richard Feynman Freeman Dyson
• The Afterglow of John La Farge Christopher Benfey
• The American Who Spied for the British Marie Morgan and Edmund S. Morgan
• The Busts Keep Getting Bigger: Why? Paul Krugman and Robin Wells
• The Epidemic of Mental Illness: Why? Marcia Angell
• The High Price of the New Beijing Ian Johnson
• The Illusions of Psychiatry Marcia Angell
• The Lonely Gods Stephen Greenblatt
• The Master Returns: Konrad Witz in Basel Willibald Sauerländer, translated from the German by David Dollenmayer
• The Master of the Crossed Out Adam Thirlwell
• The Saints Take Broadway James Fenton
• The Secret Sharer Claire Messud
• The Targets of Hamas David Shulman
• The Threat in Hungary: An Exchange György Schöpflin, reply by István Deák
• The Triumph of Paul Muldoon Nick Laird
• The Variety of Movie Experience Geoffrey O’Brien
• The Visions of Ann Beattie Meghan O’Rourke
• Three Poems Sarah Plimpton
• Under the Mantle of Balázs Eliot Weinberger
• What Drove the Terrible War? James M. McPherson
• What Went Wrong at the Getty Hugh Eakin
• Who Died From Flu? John M. Barry, reply by Helen Epstein
• Who Made It New? Eliot Weinberger

July

• ‘Life Is an Ecstasy’ Phillip Lopate
• ‘The Illusions of Psychiatry’: An Exchange John Oldham, Daniel Carlat, Richard Friedman, and Andrew Nierenberg, reply by Marcia Angell
• ‘What Went Wrong at the Getty?’: An Exchange Jason Felch and Ralph Frammolino, reply by Hugh Eakin
• Bahrain Burning Joost Hiltermann and Toby Matthiesen
• Bringing Up Cary David Thomson
• Cooking Up a Storm Walter Kaiser
• Egypt: Who Calls the Shots? Joshua Hammer, with Amina Ismail
• Eleanor Roosevelt in ‘Flesh and Blood’ Gerald Markowitz and Brigid O’Farrell
• Fear and Longing and Freud Michael Greenberg
• Finish That Homework! Diane Johnson
• Fooled by Science H. Allen Orr
• Gorgeous Writings of a Wanderer Ingrid D. Rowland
• How Andy Warhol’s Red Self-Portraits Were Made Richard Dorment
• How Google Dominates Us James Gleick
• How They Made the Empire J.H. Elliott
• Lopsided India Joseph Lelyveld
• Sacred Bones & Blood Eamon Duffy
• The Bright Side of the Balkans Charles Simic
• The Drama of the World at Night Sanford Schwartz
• The Hidden Life of Alfred Kazin Edward Mendelson
• The Israeli Army & Human Rights: An Exchange Stuart Robinowitz and Aryeh Neier, reply by David Shulman
• The Last Shaman Colin Thubron
• The Next Election: The Surprising Reality Andrew Hacker
• The Passionate Storyteller Nathaniel Rich
• The Pleasures of Rimbaud Charles Rosen
• Triumphant Turkey? Stephen Kinzer
• Trouble Coming Charles Simic
• Two Kinds of Magic James Fenton
• Two Poems by Henri Cole Henri Cole
• Very Deep in America Lorrie Moore
• Warhol Under the Waldorf Richard Ekstract, reply by Richard Dorment
• What Were They Thinking? Elizabeth Drew

September

• ‘A Woman Running from the News’ Patricia Storace
• ‘The Finest Life You Ever Saw’ James Salter
• ‘The Mother of Us All’ Robert Gottlieb
• A One-Sided Crush Daniel Mendelsohn
• After September 11: Our State of Exception Mark Danner
• After September 11: What We Still Don’t Know David Cole
• Anarchists & Capitalists Russell Baker
• Bolaño: On the Edge of the Precipice Mark Ford
• Can Our Species Escape Destruction? John Terborgh
• Coming Attractions Elaine Blair
• Corrections The Editors
• Did Big Pharma Create the Flu Panic? John Rappole, reply by Helen Epstein
• Does the Euro Have a Future? George Soros
• From Tenderness to Savagery in Seconds Ian Buruma
• How Good Are China’s Schools? Jonathan Mirsky, reply by Diane Johnson
• In Watery America Thomas Powers
• Kafka’s ‘A Message from the Emperor’: A New Translation Franz Kafka, translated and with an introduction by Mark Harman
• Libya: How They Did It Nicolas Pelham
• Libya: The Losers Max Rodenbeck
• Montaigne’s Case for Ignorance Gresham Riley, reply by Mark Lilla
• Obama: A New Beginning? Robert Johnson
• Oddly Brilliant Beginnings Sanford Schwartz
• Orwell & the Anarchists Simon Leys
• Pakistan’s Writers: Living in a Minefield Pankaj Mishra
• Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915–2011) Colin Thubron
• Paying Attention Cliff Barney and Kurt von Meier
• Physician, Heal Thyself: Part I Frederick C. Crews
• Physician, Heal Thyself: Part II Frederick C. Crews
• Predators and Robots at War Christian Caryl
• Quicksilver Frans Hals Sanford Schwartz
• Republican Days of Wrath Michael Tomasky
• School ‘Reform’: A Failing Grade Diane Ravitch
• Second-Rank Americans Joost Dirkzwager, reply by Gordon S. Wood
• Styron’s Choice Andrew O’Hagan
• The Angry Genius of Les Murray J. M. Coetzee
• The Arab Counterrevolution Hussein Agha and Robert Malley
• The Court: A Talk with Judge Richard Posner Eric J. Segall
• The Credit Due Shigeo Jack Zipes
• The Cure! Joyce Carol Oates
• The Faith of Harold Bloom Robert Pogue Harrison
• The Mysterious Powers of the Word Colm Tóibín
• The Mystery of Consciousness, Con’t. Barclay Martin, reply by John R. Searle
• The Naumburg Masters Willibald Sauerländer
• The Outline of H.G. Wells Claire Tomalin
• The Road to the Tower Michael Dirda
• The Royal Shakespeare Company on Park Avenue Geoffrey O’Brien
• The Troubled Life of Nim Chimpsky Peter Singer
• The Two Conversions of Malcolm X Darryl Pinckney
• Urticophilia W.S. Merwin
• What Genes Can’t Tell Us: An Exchange William D. Foulkes, Hugh Young Rienhoff Jr., and Philip D. Hansten, reply by Richard C. Lewontin
• What Happened at the Macondo Well? Peter Maass
• What the Taliban Say They Want Ahmed Rashid
• Why They Get Pakistan Wrong Mohsin Hamid

October

• A Core of European Tragedy, Diversity, Fantasy Timothy Snyder
• A Cure for a Sick Country? Stanley Hoffmann
• A Hero of the Hebraic Renaissance Ingrid D. Rowland
• A Jewish Writer in America Saul Bellow
• A Jewish Writer in America–II Saul Bellow
• A Masterpiece at Ground Zero Martin Filler
• A Sinister Turn in Zimbabwe Joshua Hammer
• Alexander: How Great? Mary Beard
• American Dream Money Gordon S. Wood
• Back Then Frederick Seidel
• Beauty, Violence, and the Gods Helen Vendler
• Corrections The Editors
• Did Fannie Cause the Disaster? Jeff Madrick and Frank Partnoy
• Energy: Friend or Enemy? William D. Nordhaus
• Fire Graffiti Tomas Tranströmer, a version in English by Robin Robertson
• Freud & Cocaine: An Exchange Howard Markel, reply by Frederick C. Crews
• Honor Thy Honor David Brion Davis
• How Doctors Could Rescue Health Care Arnold Relman
• In Gay and Crumbling England Daniel Mendelsohn
• In Zuccotti Park Michael Greenberg
• In a Worried Corner of Tunis Joshua Hammer
• In the New Gangland of El Salvador Alma Guillermoprieto
• Letters Not for Burning Keith Jenkins, reply by Gordon S. Wood
• Making It Big in China Jonathan Mirsky
• May Time in Frankfurt Martin Filler
• Mitt, We Hardly Knew Ye! Christopher Benfey
• Old Lion Eyes David Thomson
• Our ‘Broken System’ of Criminal Justice John Paul Stevens
• Should Some Bankers Be Prosecuted? Jeff Madrick and Frank Partnoy
• Solitude (I) Tomas Tranströmer, a version in English by Robin Robertson
• Symmetry: A ‘Key to Nature’s Secrets’ Steven Weinberg
• Taking Random House for a Shakespearean Ride Stanley Wells
• The Best of the Bonapartes Caroline Moorehead
• The Body and Human Progress Jerome Groopman
• The Brilliant Music of Ravel Charles Rosen
• The Brothers Mann—and Nelly Adam Kirsch
• The Case for Far-Out Possibilities Freeman Dyson
• The Double World of Tomas Tranströmer Robin Robertson
• The Dutch Are Coming! Tim Parks
• The Irving Howe Memorial Lecture Morris Dickstein
• The Man Who Is Upsetting Iran Anonymous
• The Mind of Justice Scalia Charles Fried
• The Most Entertaining Philosopher John Banville
• The Old Age of Nostalgia Mark Strand
• The Racist Redskins Michael Tomasky
• The Real Deng Fang Lizhi
• The Rogue Genius Edmund White
• The Specter of Nuclear Drones Jason Epstein, reply by Christian Caryl
• The Strange Power of Qatar Hugh Eakin
• The Top Nuclear Detective David Albright
• To Friends Behind a Border Tomas Tranströmer, a version in English by Robin Robertson
• Why Tolstoy, Lenin, Van Gogh, and America Were Hit by It Christopher Benfey

November

• ‘Elegy to the Void’ Cathleen Schine
• ‘No Truck With Pakistan’ Roderick MacFarquhar, reply by Pankaj Mishra
• ‘The White Machine of Life’ Lorin Stein
• Are These the Poems to Remember? Helen Vendler
• Behind Murakami’s Mirror Charles Baxter
• Can Chimps Converse?: An Exchange Herbert Terrace, reply by Peter Singer
• Correction The Editors
• Dying Laughter Tim Parks
• Escape into Whiteness Brent Staples
• Financial Reform: Unfinished Business Paul Volcker
• Germany: When Faces Defied Death Willibald Sauerländer, translated from the German by David Dollenmayer
• Higher and Higher Martin Filler
• How Much ‘Progress’ Have We Made? William Pfaff
• How We Were All Misled John Lanchester
• How the Justices Get What They Want Robert W. Gordon
• Is This George Kennan? Frank Costigliola
• It Does Take a Village Melvin Konner
• It’s Revolting! Thomas Nagel
• Jefferson’s Taper: A National Digital Library Robert Darnton
• Jordan Starts to Shake Nicolas Pelham
• Killing Our Citizens Without Trial David Cole
• Obama’s Flunking Economy: The Real Cause Ezra Klein
• On ‘The Stranger’s Child’ Galen Strawson, reply by Daniel Mendelsohn
• On the Magic Carpet of the Met Peter Brown
• On the Road to Immortality John Gray
• Our Universities: Why Are They Failing? Anthony Grafton
• Over the High-Tech Rainbow Sue Halpern
• Rising Up in Israel Eyal Press
• Shakespeare and Verdi in the Theater Garry Wills
• The ‘CEO of Self’ Michael Tomasky
• The Ball and the World Jonathan D. Spence
• The Cauldrons of de Kooning Sanford Schwartz
• The Day of the Hunter Louis Begley
• The Disappointed Lover of the West David Bromwich
• The Dragging of Hector Mary Beard
• The Freud Question: An Exchange Dietrich Rueschemeyer, Lisa Appignanesi, John Forrester, Allen Frances, and Dominique Scarfone, et al.
• The Hell of Victory Ian Buruma
• The Mania of Love Michael Greenberg
• The Mask Behind the Voice Nathaniel Rich
• The Master Returns—or Does He? Michael Scammell
• The Most Charming Pagan Anthony Grafton
• The Most Insidious Forgery Neal Ascherson
• The Passionate Hero, Then and Now Alan Ryan
• The Poet at Bay Sarah Manguso
• The Tremendous, Ferocious Bentley G.W. Bowersock
• What Really Happened to Strauss-Kahn? Edward Jay Epstein
• Zuccotti Park: What Future? Michael Greenberg

December

• ‘The Stranger’s Child’: An Exchange Alan Hollinghurst, reply by Daniel Mendelsohn
• A ‘Thriving Collective Enterprise’ Daniel Kahneman, reply by Freeman Dyson
• A Cheerful View of Mass Violence Jeremy Waldron
• A Double Game with Stalin Orlando Figes
• A Hungry Little Boy Edmund White
• A Modern Instance John Ashbery
• A Piece of Cake David Z. Robinson
• A Revelation in Arezzo Walter Kaiser
• A Wild Ride Through America Dan Chiasson
• Apocalypse City Colin Thubron
• Battling with Du Bois Kwame Anthony Appiah
• China Gets Religion! Ian Johnson
• Convenience W.S. Merwin
• Defending an Anthology Rita Dove, reply by Helen Vendler
• Do We Need the Nobel?: An Exchange Tim Parks and Per Wästberg
• Do the Angels Mourn? Georgia Sommers Wright, reply by Ingrid D. Rowland
• Do the Classics Have a Future? Mary Beard
• Egypt on the Edge Yasmine El Rashidi
• How to Dispel Your Illusions Freeman Dyson
• Islamism’s New Clothes Jean Daniel, translated from the French by Antony Shugaar
• Joseph Roth: Going Over the Edge Michael Hofmann
• Keeping Watch on the Detectives David Cole
• Late-Night Whispers from Poland Charles Simic
• Letters Between Stefan Zweig and Joseph Roth Stefan Zweig and Joseph Roth
• London’s Apocalypse Then & Now Martin Filler
• On a Mystery Voyage with Michael Ondaatje Claire Messud
• On the Strauss-Kahn Case The Editors and Edward Jay Epstein
• Overgrown Boys Russell Baker
• Republicans for Revolution Mark Lilla
• Targeted Killings Jeffrey Laurenti, reply by David Cole
• The ‘Korematsu’ Dissenters Robert M. Johnstone
• The Audacious Historian G.W. Bowersock
• The British & the Slave Trade Barbara L. Solow, reply by David Brion Davis
• The Case of Eskinder Nega William Easterly, Mark Hamrick, Aryeh Neier, Kenneth Roth, and Joel Simon
• The Catty Chronicler Ian Buruma
• The Crass, Beautiful Eternal City Ingrid D. Rowland
• The Far-Apart Artists Christopher Benfey
• The Greatest French Artist of His Century John Golding
• The Mysterious Women of Vermeer Julian Bell
• The Question of Shakespeare’s Prejudices Michael Wood
• The Revolutionary Shias Malise Ruthven
• The Rise of Sacred Song Eamon Duffy
• The Rocky Ascent of Condoleezza Rice Joseph Lelyveld
• The Shame of America Anthony Lewis
• The Two Walkabouts Lee Siegel
• The World Bank and Money for Flu Olga B. Jonas, reply by Helen Epstein
• Too Much for Trevor-Roper Adam Sisman, reply by G.W. Bowersock
• Vengeance in Libya Joshua Hammer
• Werner Herzog on Death Row Lorrie Moore
• What I Hate About Writers’ Houses April Bernard
• Who Was Steve Jobs? Sue Halpern