Table of Contents
Volume 49, Number 11 · June 27, 2002
Kwame Anthony Appiah, What Garland Knew 
The Emperor of Ocean Park by Stephen L. Carter
Jane Mayer, True Confessions
Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative by David Brock
Daniel Mendelsohn, Bitter-Sweet
Private Lives a play by Noël Coward, directed by Howard Davies
Long Island Sound a play by Noël Coward, directed by Scott Alan Evans
Paul Muldoon, The Loaf (poem)
Edmund S. Morgan, Those Sexy Puritans
Sexual Revolution in Early America by Richard Godbeer
Christopher de Bellaigue, Who Rules Iran?
Kenneth Koch, Zones (poem)
Larry McMurtry, On the Big Two-Hearted River
The Cadence of Grass by Thomas McGuane
John Russell, Modern Art Groupie
Art Lover: A Biography of Peggy Guggenheim by Anton Gill
Tim Flannery, A Bird's-Eye View of Evolution
The Birds of Northern Melanesia: Speciation, Ecology, and Biogeography by Ernst Mayr and Jared Diamond
What Evolution Is by Ernst Mayr, with a foreword by Jared Diamond
Pico Iyer, I Vant to Be Alone
A Pelican in the Wilderness: Hermits, Solitaries and Recluses by Isabel Colegate
John Lanchester, Knowing and Not Knowing
Spies by Michael Frayn
Alan Ryan, Visions of Politics
Tocqueville Between Two Worlds: The Making of a Political and Theoretical Life by Sheldon S. Wolin
Colin McGinn, An Ardent Fallibilist
Invariances: The Structure of the Objective World by Robert Nozick
Elizabeth Hardwick, Pilgrim's Progress
Sinclair Lewis: Rebel from Main Street by Richard Lingeman
Sinclair Lewis: An American Life by Mark Schorer
Sinclair Lewis: Arrowsmith, Elmer Gantry, Dodsworth edited by Richard Lingeman
Ehud Barak, Benny Morris, Hussein Agha, et al. Camp David and After—Continued
Steven Pinker, John R. Searle, 'Words and Rules': An Exchange
Letters
Roy Blount, Jr., Brad Leithauser, Pogo
Dario Biocca, Mauro Canali, et al. The Silone Case
Jeffrey Hamburger, Willibald Sauerländer, 'Nuns As Artists'
Noel Polk, Joyce Carol Oates, Which 'All the King's Men'?
Marilyn McCully, Surreal Slips
Contributors
K. Anthony Appiah teaches philosophy at Princeton. He is the author of The Ethics of Identity and Cosmopolitanism. He has recently edited Buying Freedom: The Ethics and Economics of Slave Redemption with Martin Bunzl. (September 2007)
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)
Elizabeth Hardwick (b. 1916) has been a frequent contributor to The Partisan Review, The New Yorker, and The New York Review of Books, which she helped found in 1963. Her books include the novels The Simple Truth, The Ghostly Lover, and Sleepless Nights, the essay collection A View of My Own, and The Selected Letters of William James, for which she acted as editor.
Pico Iyer’s The Open Road, about the fourteenth Dalai Lama and globalism, was published this spring. (June 2008)
Kenneth Koch died on July 6. He was Professor of English at Columbia. During his lifetime, he published at least thirty volumes of poetry and plays. He was also the author of a novel, The Red Robins; two books on teaching poetry writing to children, Wishes, Lies, and Dreams and Rose, Where Did You Get That Red?; and I Never Told Anybody: Teaching Poetry Writing in a Nursing Home. A new collection of his poetry, A Possible World, and Sun Out: Selected Poems 1952–54, will be published this fall. (August 2002)
John Lanchester's most recent book is a memoir, Family Romance. (March 2007)
Jane Mayer is a staff writer for The New Yorker. The essay in this issue is based on her book The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals, which was published in July by Doubleday. (August 2008)
Colin McGinn teaches in the philosophy department at the University of Miami and is a Cooper Fellow. His most recent book is Shakespeare’s Philosophy: Discovering the Meaning Behind the Plays. (March 2008)
Larry McMurtry is the author of twenty-four novels, including The Last Picture Show, Terms of Endearment, Lonesome Dove, winner of the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and, most recently, Folly and Glory. His nonfiction works include a biography of Crazy Horse, Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen, Paradise, and Sacagawea’s Nickname: Essays on the American West (published by New York Review Books). He lives in Archer City, Texas.
Daniel Mendelsohn, is the author of The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million, which won the National Book Critics
Circle Award and the Prix Médicis Étranger in France. A collection of his essays, How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken, mostly from these pages, will be published in August. He teaches at Bard. (June 2008)
Edmund S. Morgan is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. His most recent book, The Genuine Article: A Historian Looks at Early America, was published in 2004. (June 2008)
Paul Muldoon, a native of Northern Ireland, is Howard G.B. Clark '21 Professor in the Humanities at Princeton, Professor of Poetry at Oxford, and the author of eight collections of poetry. The poem in this issue appears in his ninth, Moy Sand and Gravel, to be published in October by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. (June 2002)
John Russell was formerly Chief Art Critic of The New York Times, to which he continues to be a contributor. He is at work on a short history of the museum since 1800. (March 2003)
Alan Ryan is Warden of New College, Oxford, and the author of intellectual biographies of John Stuart Mill, Bertrand Russell, and John Dewey. (November 2007)
Christopher de Bellaigue was born in London in 1971 and has worked as a journalist in the Middle East and South Asia since 1994. His first book, In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs: A Memoir of Iran, was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize. He lives in Tehran with his wife and two children.
