Table of Contents
Volume 50, Number 2 · February 13, 2003
Anthony Lewis, On the West Wing 
Bush at War by Bob Woodward
The Right Man: The Surprise Presidency of George W. Bush by David Frum
Sanford Schwartz, The Tiny Grandeur of Max Beerbohm
Max Beerbohm: A Kind of a Life by N. John Hall
Freeman Dyson, The Future Needs Us!
Prey by Michael Crichton
Suki Kim, A Visit to North Korea
Pico Iyer, The Unquiet Englishman
The Quiet American directed by Phillip Noyce, based on the novel by Graham Greene
Niall Ferguson, The Jihad of 1914
The First World War, Volume I: To Arms by Hew Strachan
Daniel Mendelsohn, The Bad Boy of Athens
Medea by Euripides, directed by Deborah Warner
The Children of Herakles by Euripides, directed by Peter Sellars
Jennifer Schuessler, Hello, Dolly!
Edison's Eve: A Magical History of the Quest for Mechanical Life by Gaby Wood
Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us by Rodney A. Brooks
Timothy Garton Ash, Anti-Europeanism in America
Charles Simic, Tsvetaeva: The Tragic Life
Earthly Signs: Moscow Diaries, 1917–1922 by Marina Tsvetaeva, edited, translated, and with an introduction by Jamey Gambrell
Milestones by Marina Tsvetaeva, translated and with an introduction by Robin Kemball
Gordon S. Wood, Creating the Revolution
To Begin the World Anew: The Genius and Ambiguities of the American Founders by Bernard Bailyn
Education in the Forming of American Society: Needs and Opportunites for Study by Bernard Bailyn
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by Bernard Bailyn
The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson by Bernard Bailyn
The Peopling of British North America: An Introduction by Bernard Bailyn
Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution by Bernard Bailyn, with Barbara DeWolfe
The New England Merchants in the Seventeenth Century by Bernard Bailyn
Pamphlets of the American Revolution edited by Bernard Bailyn and Jane N. Garrett
W.S. Merwin, Noble Shadow
Ermengard of Narbonne and the World of the Troubadours by Fredric L. Cheyette
James Fenton, Turgenev's Banana
On Being Ill by Virginia Woolf, with an introduction by Hermione Lee
In the Land of Pain by Alphonse Daudet, edited and translated from the French by Julian Barnes
Devotions upon Emergent Occasions and Death's Duel by John Donne, with a preface by Andrew Motion
A Memorial of the Last Days on Earth of Emily Gosse by Her Husband Philip Henry Gosse, FRS by Philip Henry Gosse
Letters
Thomas Baumeister, Larson Powell, et al. Adoring Adorno
John Ashbery, Lucille Clifton, et al. Statement for Peace
Contributors
Freeman Dyson has spent most of his life as a professor of physics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, taking time off to advise the US government and write books for the general public. He was born in England and worked as a civilian scientist for the Royal Air Force during World War II. He came to Cornell University as a graduate student in 1947 and worked with Hans Bethe and Richard Feynman, producing a user-friendly way to calculate the behavior of atoms and radiation. He also worked on nuclear reactors, solid-state physics, ferromagnetism, astrophysics, and biology, looking for problems where elegant mathematics could be usefully applied.
Dyson's books include Disturbing the Universe (1979), Weapons and Hope (1984), Infinite in All Directions (1988), Origins of Life (1986, second edition 1999), and The Sun, the Genome and the Internet (1999). He is a fellow of the American Physical Society, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and a fellow of the Royal Society of London. In 2000 he was awarded the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion.
James Fenton is the editor of The New Faber Book of Love Poems and D.H. Lawrence’s Selected Poems. (November 2008)
Niall Ferguson is Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford. His most recent book is The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West. (November 2006)
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. (November 2008)
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)
Suki Kim's first novel, The Interpreter, has just been published. (February 2003)
Anthony Lewis, a former columnist for The New York Times , has twice won the Pulitzer Prize. His book Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment was published this year. (September 2008)
Daniel Mendelsohn is the author, most recently, of How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken, a collection of essays mostly from these pages. His translations, with commentary, of Constantine Cavafy’s Complete Works and Unfinished Poems will be published next spring. (November 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.
Jennifer Schuessler is on the staff of The New York Times Book Review. (March 2008)
Sanford Schwartz's essays and reviews have been collected in The Art Presence and Artists and Writers. (October 2008)
Charles Simic is a poet, essayist and translator. He has published twenty collections of his own poetry, five books of essays, a memoir, and numerous of books of translations. He has received many literary awards for his poems and his translations, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Griffin Prize and the MacArthur Fellowship. Voice at 3 A.M., his selected later and new poems, was published in 2003 and a new book of poems My Noiseless Entourage came out in the spring of 2005.
Gordon Wood is the Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History at Brown. A collection of his essays, The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History, was published in March. (May 2008)
