Table of Contents

Volume 49, Number 18 · November 21, 2002

Felix G. Rohatyn, From New York to Baghdad

Sanford Schwartz, The Wild Card

George Catlin and His Indian Gallery Catalog of the exhibition edited by George Gurney and Therese Thau Heyman

North American Indians by George Catlin, with an introduction by Peter Matthiessen

Native Americans: A Portrait: The Art and Travels of Charles Bird King, George Catlin, and Karl Bodmer by Robert J. Moore Jr.

Stephen Kinzer, Love in a Time of Revolution

The Country Under My Skin: A Memory of Love and War by Gioconda Belli, translated from the Spanish by Kristina Cordero with the author

Marshall Frady, The Prospero of the Senate

The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Master of the Senate by Robert A. Caro

Caroline Fraser, The Mormon Murder Case

Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows by Will Bagley

Red Water by Judith Freeman

Ian Buruma, Suicide for the Empire

Kamikaze, Cherry Blossoms, and Nationalists: The Militarization of Aesthetics in Japanese History by Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney

Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852–1912 by Donald Keene

David Levering Lewis, An American Pastime

At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America by Philip Dray

A Lynching in the Heartland: Race and Memory in America by James H. Madison

Larry McMurtry, Out of the Mists

Ancestral Voices by James Lees-Milne

Prophesying Peace by James Lees-Milne

Caves of Ice: Diaries, 1946 & '47 by James Lees-Milne

Midway on the Waves by James Lees-Milne

A Mingled Measure: Diaries, 1953–1972 by James Lees-Milne

Ancient as the Hills: Diaries, 1973–1974 by James Lees-Milne

Through Wood and Dale: Diaries, 1975–1978 by James Lees-Milne

Deep Romantic Chasm: Diaries, 1979–1981 by James Lees-Milne

Holy Dread: Diaries, 1982–1984 by James Lees-Milne

James Chace, Tomorrow the World

First Great Triumph: How Five Americans Made Their Country a World Power by Warren Zimmermann

Neal Ascherson, At War with Stupidity

When Eve Was Naked: Stories of a Life's Journey by Josef Skvorecky

Dan Jacobson, Bad Trip

Cherry: A Life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard by Sara Wheeler

The Coldest March: Scott's Fatal Antarctic Expedition by Susan Solomon

Brent D. Shaw, Loving the Poor

Poverty and Leadership in the Later Roman Empire by Peter Brown

Colin McGinn, Looking for a Black Swan

All Life Is Problem Solving by Karl Popper, translated from the German by Patrick Camiller

Wittgenstein's Poker: The Story of a Ten-Minute Argument Between Two Great Philosophers by David Edmonds and John Eidinow

Karl Popper—The Formative Years, 1902–1945: Politics and Philosophyin Interwar Vienna by Malachi Haim Hacohen

Karl Popper: Lesson of This Century interviewed by Giancarlo Bosetti, translated from the German by Patrick Camiller

James Fenton, Making It by Making It

The Genius of Robert Adam: His Interiors by Eileen Harris

Adam Shatz, The Torture of Algiers

The Battle of the Casbah: Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism in Algeria, 1955–1957 by General Paul Aussaresses, with an introduction by Robert L. Miller

Algérienne by Louisette Ighilahriz, as told to Anne Nivat

Une Vie Debout: Mémoires Politiques, Tome 1: 1945–1962 by Mohammed Harbi

Les Harkis: Une Mémoire Enfouie by Jean-Jacques Jordi and Mohand Hamoumou

Une Drôle de Justice: Les Magistrats dans la Guerre d'Algérie by Sylvie Thénault

Uncivil War: Intellectuals and Identity Politics During the Decolonization of Algeria by James D. Le Sueur, with aforeword by Pierre Bourdieu

La Gangrène et l'Oubli:La Mémoire de la Guerre d'Algérie by Benjamin Stora

La Torture et l'Armée pendant la Guerre d'Algérie, 1954–1962 by Raphaëlle Branche

Aux Origines de la Guerre d'Algérie, 1940–1945 by Annie Rey-Goldzeiguer


Letters

Imogen Wall, Bombs in Bali
Howard Nye, Thomas W. Pogge, et al. What Is Poverty?
Garry Wills, A Democratic Church?
Rod Dreher, Garry Wills, Has the Pope Been a Failure?
Morris Dickstein, Irving Howe Memorial Lecture



Contributors

Neal Ascherson is the author of The Struggles for Poland, The Black Sea, and Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland. He is the editor of the journal Public Archaeology at University College London.
(July 2009)

Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard. He received the 2008 Erasmus Prize. His novel The China Lover was published in September 2008.

James Chace is the Paul W. Williams Professor of Government and Public Law at Bard College. He is the author of Acheson and, most recently, 1912: The Election That Changed the Country. He is now working on a biography of Lafayette. (October 2004)

James Fenton iis the editor of The New Faber Book of Love Poems and D.H. Lawrence's Selected Poems. (July 2009)

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)

Caroline Fraser is the author of God's Perfect Child: Living and Dying in the Christian Science Church. (December 2004)

Dan Jacobson is a novelist and essayist. His latest book is Heschel's Kingdom, a memoir and account of his travels in Lithuania. (November 2002)

Stephen Kinzer, a former New York Times bureau chief in Managua, Berlin, and Istanbul, is the author of Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq. He is writing a book about Rwanda. (June 2008)

David Levering Lewis is Martin Luther King Jr. University Professor of History at Rutgers and the author of a two-volume biography of W.E.B. DuBois, which won a Pulitzer Prize for each volume in 1994 and 2001. (November 2002)

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.

Felix Rohatyn is an investment banker and has been a governor of the New York Stock Exchange, Chairman of the New York Municipal Assistance Corporation, and US Ambassador to France. (October 2008)

Sanford Schwartz is the author of Christen Købke and William Nicholson. (November 2009)

Adam Shatz is the literary editor of The Nation. (September 2005)

Brent D. Shaw is Professor of Classical Studies and Chair of the Graduate Group in Ancient History at the University ofPennsylvania. His most recent book is Spartacus and the Slave Wars.


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