Table of Contents
Volume 49, Number 1 · January 17, 2002
Ian Buruma, Avishai Margalit, Occidentalism 
Louis Menand, Goblin Market
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring a film directed by Peter Jackson
Tim Judah, The Center of the World
James Fenton, Ghost Town
London: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd
Louis Begley, Lonely in Germany
Flights of Love by Bernhard Schlink,translated from the Germanby John E. Woods
Kanan Makiya, Hassan Mneimneh, Manual for a 'Raid'
Sanford Schwartz, The Devil and Giacometti
Alberto Giacometti Catalog of the exhibition edited by Christian Klemm, in collaboration with Carolyn Lanchner, Tobia Bezzola, and Anne Umland
Pico Iyer, He Who Played the King
The Diaries of Kenneth Tynan edited by John Lahr
Thomas Powers, The Trouble with the CIA
Terrorism and US Foreign Policy by Paul R. Pillar
Bin Laden: The Man Who Declared War on America by Yossef Bodansky
The New Jackals: Ramzi Yousef, Osama bin Laden and the Future of Terrorism by Simon Reeve
Tim Flannery, Dinosaur Crazy
Terrible Lizard: The First Dinosaur Hunters and the Birth of a New Science by Deborah Cadbury
Drawing Out Leviathan: Dinosaurs and the Science Wars by Keith M. Parsons
Walking on Eggs: The Astonishing Discovery of Thousands of Dinosaur Eggs in the Badlands of Patagonia by Luis M. Chiappe and Lowell Dingus, with illustrations by Nicholas Frankfurt
The Road to Chilecito by James A. Jensen
Time Traveler: In Search of Dinosaurs and Other Fossils from Montana to Mongolia by Michael J. Novacek
Dinosaurs of Darkness by Thomas H. Rich and Patricia Vickers-Rich
Christopher Benfey, Emily Dickinson's Secret Lives
My Wars Are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson by Alfred Habegger
Lorrie Moore, Artship
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro
Pankaj Mishra, The Afghan Tragedy
Louise Weinberg, Tony Judt, America, the War, and Israel: An Exchange
Letters
George Feifer, John Gregory Dunne, The Okinawa Nightmare
Maria Sozzani Brodsky, The Brodsky Fellowship
Contributors
Louis Begley is a novelist and retired lawyer. He has written eight novels, including Wartime Lies, About Schmidt, and Matters of Honor, which was published in 2007. He is a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres of France and served as the president of American pen from 1993 to 1995. He lives in New York with his wife, Anka Muhlstein, an historian of France.
Christopher Benfey is Mellon Professor of English at Mount Holyoke. His book A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade was published in April. (June 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)
James Fenton's new book, School of Genius, a history of the Royal Academy in London, will be published in the US in May. (May 2006)
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)
Pico Iyer’s The Open Road, about the fourteenth Dalai Lama and globalism, was published this spring. (June 2008)
Tim Judah is the author of Kosovo: War and Revenge and The Serbs: History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia. He has reported on the Balkans, Afghanistan, Kurdistan, Iraq, and Sudan for The New York Review. (October 2006)
Kanan Makiya was born in Baghdad and teaches at Brandeis. His books include Republic of Fear: The Politics of Modern Iraq, Cruelty and Silence: War, Tyranny, Uprising, and the Arab World, and, most recently, The Rock: A Tale of Seventh-Century Jerusalem. (January 2002)
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)
Louis Menand is the Robert M. and Anne T. Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language at Harvard University, and a staff writer at The New Yorker. He is the author of The Metaphysical Club—which won the Pulitzer Prize for History and the Francis Parkman Prize in 2002—and of American Studies, a collection of essays.
Pankaj Mishra was born in North India in 1969 and now lives in London and India. He is the author of The Romantics, winner of the Los Angeles Times's Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, and An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and The Guardian. His most recent book is Temptations of the West: How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet, and Beyond.
Hassan Mneimneh is a director of the Iraq Research and Documentation Project based at Harvard and a regular contributor to the London-based Arabic newspaper al-Hayat. (January 2002)
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)
Thomas Powers is the author of The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA (1979), Heisenberg's War: The Secret History of the German Bomb (1993), and The Confirmation (2000), a novel. He won a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1971 and has contributed to The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, Harper's, The Nation, The Atlantic, and Rolling Stone.
Sanford Schwartz's essays and reviews have been collected in The Art Presence and Artists and Writers. (July 2008)
