Table of Contents
Volume 49, Number 15 · October 10, 2002
Tim Flannery, Living on the Wind 
Eye of the Albatross: Visions of Hope and Survival by Carl Safina
Sailing Alone Around the World by Captain Joshua Slocum
Richard Dorment, In the Garment District
Dress in Eighteenth-Century Europe, 1715–1789 by Aileen Ribeiro
Fabric of Vision: Dress and Drapery in Painting by Anne Hollander
Brian Urquhart, Is There a Case for Little Wars?
The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power by Max Boot
Pico Iyer, Morning in America
Elvis in the Morning by William F. Buckley Jr.
Let Us Talk of Many Things: The Collected Speeches by William F. Buckley Jr.
Nuremberg: The Reckoning by William F. Buckley Jr.
Daniel Mendelsohn, The Two Oscar Wildes
The Importance of Being Earnest a film written and directed by Oliver Parker, based on the play by Oscar Wilde
Alma Guillermoprieto, Confessions of a Killer
Mi confesión:Carlos Castaño revela sus secretos by Mauricio Aranguren Molina
Martin Meyer, On Mozart: An Interview with Alfred Brendel
Bruce Gilley, Andrew J. Nathan, China's New Rulers: What They Want
Lorrie Moore, The Long Voyage Home
Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature by Darryl Pinckney
A New World Order by Caryl Phillips
Lance Larsen, Rehearsal (poem)
Ahmed Rashid, Pakistan on the Edge
Pakistan: The Eye of the Storm by Owen Bennett Jones
Pakistan: In the Shadow of Jihad and Afghanistan by Mary Anne Weaver
Brad Leithauser, Laxness the Great
Paradise Reclaimed by Halldór Laxness, translated from the Icelandic by Magnus Magnusson, with an introduction by Jane Smiley
The Fish Can Sing by Halldór Laxness, translated from the Icelandic by Magnus Magnusson
Gordon A. Craig, Whose War Is It?
Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime by Eliot A. Cohen
The Art of War: War and Military Thought by Martin van Creveld
Thomas Powers, Secrets of September 11
The Bureau: The Secret History of the FBI by Ronald Kessler
Black Mass: The True Story of an Unholy Alliance Between the FBI and the Irish Mob by Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill
See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism by Robert Baer
Al-Qaeda: In Search of the Terror Network that Threatens the World by Jane Corbin
The Cell: Inside the 9/11 Plot, and Why the FBI and CIA Failed to Stop It by John Miller and Michael Stone, with Chris Mitchell
Inside Al Qaeda: Global Network of Terror by Rohan Gunaratna
W.S. Merwin, In Bed with Gawain
Adam Bellow, William Burke, David Horowitz, et al. 'Blinded by the Right': An Exchange
Letters
Daniel Bell, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, et al. Silone's Mystery
Norman F. Cantor, Dante's Hell
Kevin Bazzana, Willard Spiegelman, et al. Queries
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)
Richard Dorment is the art critic of the Daily Telegraph. (April 2008)
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)
Bruce Gilley is a doctoral student in politics at Princeton University and a former contributing editor at the Far Eastern Economic Review. He is the author of the forthcoming China's Democratic Future, Model Rebels: The Rise and Fall of China's Richest Village, and Tiger on the Brink: Jiang Zemin and
China's New Elite.
Alma Guillermoprieto often writes on Latin America in these pages. Her most recent book is Dancing with Cuba. (September 2006)
Pico Iyer’s The Open Road , about the fourteenth Dalai Lama and globalism, was published this spring. His essay in this issue will appear, in somewhat different form, as the introduction to a new Penguin Classics edition of The Snow Leopard . (September 2008)
Lance Larsen is the author of Erasable Walls, a collection of poems. (October 2002)
Brad Leithauser is a novelist, poet, and essayist. He lives in
Massachusetts.
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)
W.S. Merwin was born in New York City in 1927 and grew up in Union City, New Jersey, and in Scranton, Pennsylvania. From 1949 to 1951 he worked as a tutor in France, Portugal, and Majorca. He has since lived in many parts of the world, most recently on Maui in the Hawaiian Islands. He is the author of many books of poems, prose, and translations and has received both the Pulitzer and the Bollingen Prizes for poetry, among numerous other awards.
Martin Meyer is literary editor of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung and the author of several books, including volumes on Ernst Junger and Thomas Mann. (October 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)
Andrew J. Nathan is Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. He is the author of China's Transition, China's Crisis: Dilemmas of Reform and Prospects for Democracy, and Chinese Democracy, the coauthor of The Great Wall and the Empty Fortress: China's Search for Security, and the co-editor of The Tiananmen Papers.
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), Intelligence Wars: American Secret History from Hitler to al-Qaeda (2002; revised and expanded edition, 2004), 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.
Ahmed Rashid is a Pakistani journalist and writer. He is the author of Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia and Descent into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia, which is published this month. He is a BBC contributor and writes for the Daily Telegraph and the International Herald Tribune. (June 2008)
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. (June 2008)
