Table of Contents
Volume 49, Number 17 · November 7, 2002
Anthony Lewis, Bush and Iraq
Marshall Frady, The Big Guy
The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Master of the Senate by Robert A. Caro
John Bayley, Scratch a Russian 
Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia by Orlando Figes
Hugh Honour, Islamic Venice?
Venice and the East: The Impact of the Islamic World on Venetian Architecture, 1100–1500 by Deborah Howard
Daniel Mendelsohn, Mighty Hermaphrodite
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Michael Kimmelman, Music, Maestro, Please!
The Letters of Arturo Toscanini compiled, edited, and translated from the Italian by Harvey Sachs
Arturo Toscanini: The NBC Years by Mortimer H. Frank
Karl Kirchwey, Posillipo (poem)
Brad Leithauser, The Other Half
The Boys from Syracuse a musical by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, directed by Scott Ellis, with a new book by Nicky Silver
This Funny World: Mary Cleere Harran Sings Lyrics by Hart
Jared Diamond, The Religious Success Story
Darwin's Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society by David Sloan Wilson
Gabriele Annan, Surviving
In Lands Not My Own: A Wartime Journey by Reuben Ainsztein
Trains of Thought: Memories of a Stateless Youth by Victor Brombert
Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered by Ruth Kluger, with a foreword by Lore Segal
David Gilmour, Nobs & Nabobs
Ornamentalism: How the British Saw Their Empire by David Cannadine
Alexander Stille, Apocalypse Soon
Empire by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri
Larry McMurtry, Almost Forgotten Women
Paul Kennedy, The Modern Machiavelli
The Tragedy of Great Power Politics by John J. Mearsheimer
No Virtue Like Necessity: Realist Thought in International Relations Since Machiavelli by Jonathan Haslam
The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History by Philip Bobbitt
Keith Thomas, A Vanished World
The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village by Eamon Duffy
Timothy Garton Ash, On the Frontier
Joseph Lelyveld, In Guantánamo
Leo Steinberg, Helen Vendler, Andrew Butterfield, Leo's 'Last Supper': An Exchange
Letters
Vincent Cochetel, Caroline Moorehead, 'Lost in Cairo'
Alan Lightman, Critical Mass Explained
Contributors
Gabriele Annan is a book and film critic living in London. (March 2006)
John Bayley has written two books about his wife, the novelist Iris Murdoch, Elegy for Iris and Iris and Her Friends. (July 2004)
Jared Diamond, a Professor of Physiology and Public Health at UCLA and winner of both a Pulitzer Prize and a National Medal of Science, is the author of, among other books, Guns, Germs, and Steel. (March 2004)
Marshall Frady's books include Wallace, Billy Graham, Southerners, Jesse: The Life and Pilgrimage of Jesse Jackson, and, most recently, Martin Luther King, Jr. He is currently writing a biography of Fidel Castro. (February 2004)
Timothy Garton Ash is Professor of European Studies and Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St. Antony’s College, Oxford, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford. His most recent book is Free World. (August 2007)
David Gilmour is the author of The Last Leopard: A Life of Giuseppe di Lampedusa, which was published in a revised and enlarged edition last year. He has written biographies of Rudyard Kipling and Lord Curzon. (June 2008)
Hugh Honour is the author, with John Fleming, of The Visual Arts: A History, which has recently been published in its sixth expanded edition. (November 2002)
Paul Kennedy, the J. Richardson Dilworth Professor of History and Director of International Security Studies at Yale, is the author and editor of fifteen books, including
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers. His latest book is
The Parliament of Man: The Past, Present, and Future of the United Nations. (November 2006)
Michael Kimmelman is chief art critic of The New York Times. Starting this fall he is based in Berlin writing the Abroad column for the Times on culture and society across Europe. He is the author, most recently, of The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa. (October 2007)
Karl Kirchwey's new book of poems, in which the poem in this issue will appear, is At the Palace of Jove. He is Director of Creative Writing and Senior Lecturer in the Arts at Bryn Mawr.
(November 2002)
Brad Leithauser is a novelist, poet, and essayist. He lives in
Massachusetts.
Joseph Lelyveld is a former editor and correspondent of The New York Times. He is the author of Omaha Blues: A Memory Loop. (May 2008)
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)
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)
Alexander Stille is the author of Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic and The Future of the Past. His most recent book is The Sack of Rome: Money + Media + Celebrity = Power = Silvio Berlusconi. (April 2008)
Keith Thomas is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. His books include Religion and the Decline of Magic, Man and the Natural World, and The Oxford Book of Work. (April 2007)
