Table of Contents
Volume 49, Number 7 · April 25, 2002
Anthony Lewis, Is There a Solution?
Thomas Flanagan, O Albany! 
Roscoe by William Kennedy
Seamus Heaney, On Thomas Flanagan (1923–2002)
Ronald Dworkin, The Trouble with the Tribunals
Brian Urquhart, Shameful Neglect
'A Problem from Hell': America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power
Brad Leithauser, Lyrics in the Swamp
Pogo, Volumes 1–11 by Walt Kelly
Darryl Pinckney, Harlem's Mystery Woman
The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen edited and with an introductionby Charles R. Larson
William F. Schulz, The Torturers Among Us
Marilyn McCully, The Surreal Life of Dora Maar
Picasso's Weeping Woman:The Life and Art of Dora Maar by Mary Ann Caws
Dora Maar Catalog of the exhibition by Victoria Combalía
Dora Maar, la ofrenda misteriosa by Alicia Dujoune Ortiz
Dora Maar: Picassos Weinende by Tania Förster
Picasso and Dora by James Lord
Tim Judah, The Star of The Hague
Willibald Sauerländer, Images Behind the Wall
The Visual and the Visionary: Art and Female Spirituality in Late Medieval Germany by Jeffrey F. Hamburger
Nuns as Artists: The Visual Culture of a Medieval Convent by Jeffrey F. Hamburger
Mark Lilla, Inside the Clockwork
Freedom and Its Betrayal: Six Enemies of Human Liberty by Isaiah Berlin, edited by Henry Hardy
Gordon A. Craig, 'A Very Strange Machine'
Tank: The Progress of a Monstrous War Machine by Patrick Wright
Jennifer Schuessler, Jigsaw
Borrowed Finery by Paula Fox
The Widow's Children by Paula Fox
Poor George by Paula Fox
Desperate Characters by Paula Fox
Tim Parks, Boccaccio and the Ladies
Famous Women by Giovanni Boccaccio,edited and translated from the Latin by Virginia Brown
Jean Strouse, James's Last Bow
Jean Starobinski, Rousseau and Revolution
On Jean-Jacques Rousseau Considered as One of the First Authors of the Revolution by James Swenson
La Politique de la Terreur: Essai sur la violence révolutionnaire, 1789–1794 by Patrice Gueniffey
Letters
Sylvain Bromberger, John R. Searle, Chomsky's Revolution
Cass R. Sunstein, James Fallows, The 'Daily Me'
Rev. James Martin, S.J., Garry Wills, American Jesuits
Rosalind Singer, Jeremy Bernstein, The Ethical Culture School
The Editors, Correction
Contributors
Gordon A. Craig is J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Stanford. His latest book is Politics and Culture in Modern Germany. (December 2003)
Ronald Dworkin is Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law and Philosophy at NYU and Jeremy Bentham Professor of Law and Philosophy at University College London. His books include Is Democracy Possible Here? (2006), Justice in Robes, Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality, and Freedom's Law. He is the 2007 winner of the Ludvig Holberg International Memorial Prize for "his pioneering scholarly work" of "worldwide impact."
Thomas Flanagan (1923-2002) was a novelist, scholar, and critic. He was the author of The Irish Novelists, 1800–1850 (1959) and the novels The Year of the French (1979), The Tenants of Time (1988), and The End of the Hunt (1994).
Seamus Heaney's first poetry collection, Death of a Naturalist, appeared forty years ago. Since then he has published poetry, criticism, and translations that have established him as one of the leading poets of his generation. In 1995 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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)
Brad Leithauser is a novelist, poet, and essayist. He lives in
Massachusetts.
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)
Mark Lilla is Professor at the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He is the author of G.B. Vico: The Making of an Anti-Modern (1993) and the editor of New French Thought: Political Philosophy (1991). His latest book is The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics, and the Modern West.
Marilyn McCully is the editor of Loving Picasso: The Private Journal of Fernande Olivier. (April 2002)
Tim Parks, a novelist, essayist, and translator, is Associate Professor of English Literature at IULM University in Milan. His novel Cleaver was published in February. (April 2008)
Darryl Pinckney is the author of a novel, High Cotton, and Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature.
Willibald Sauerländer is a former director of the Central Institute for Art History in Munich. His most recent books are Romanesque Art: Problems and Monuments and Essai sur les Visages des Bustes de Houdon. (June 2007)
Jennifer Schuessler is on the staff of The New York Times Book Review. (March 2008)
William F. Schulz is Executive Director of Amnesty International, USA, and the author of In Our Own Best Interests: How Defending Human Rights Benefits Us All. (April 2002)
Jean Starobinski is Professor Emeritus of French literature at the University of Geneva. Blessings in Disguise and Largesse are among his works in English. A translation of his recent Action et réaction is to appear later this year. (May 2003)
Jean Strouse is the author of Alice James, A Biography and Morgan, American Financier. A Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation, she lives in New York City.
Brian Urquhart is a former Undersecretary-General of the United Nations. His books include Hammarskjöld, A Life in Peace and War, and Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey. (March 2008)
