Table of Contents
Volume 50, Number 4 · March 13, 2003
Michael Walzer, The Right Way 
Avishai Margalit, The Wrong War
Tim Flannery, The Secret of Methuselah Grove
Remarkable Trees of the World by Thomas Pakenham
Grazing Ecology and Forest History by F. W. M. Vera
The Lost World of the Moa: Prehistoric Life of New Zealand by Trevor H. Worthy and Richard N. Holdaway, with principal photography by Rod Morris
Gum: The Story of Eucalypts and Their Champions by Ashley Hay
John Leonard, Don Quixote at Eighty
The Spooky Art: Some Thoughts on Writing by Norman Mailer
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Bush's Tax Plan—The Dangers
Larry McMurtry, Putting the Show Together
A Life of Privilege, Mostly by Gardner Botsford
Daniel Mendelsohn, Not Afraid of Virginia Woolf
The Hours a film directed by Stephen Daldry, based on the novel by Michael Cunningham, with a screenplay by David Hare
Frank Rich, On 'Fixed Ideas' Since September 11
Orlando Figes, The Greatest Relief Mission of All
The Big Show in Bololand: The American Relief Expedition to Soviet Russia in the Famine of 1921 by Bertrand M. Patenaude
John Lanchester, Looking for Trouble in China
K: The Art of Love by Hong Ying, translated from the Chinese by Nicky Harman and Henry Zhao
One Man's Bible by Gao Xingjian, translated from the Chinese by Mabel Lee
The Crazed by Ha Jin
Robert Skidelsky, The Mystery of Growth
The Spirit of Capitalism: Nationalism and Economic Growth by Liah Greenfeld
Lectures on Economic Growth by Robert E. Lucas Jr.
Robert L. Herbert, Art Under Siege
Defeated Flesh: Medicine, Welfare, and Warfare in the Making of Modern France by Bertrand Taithe
Art, War and Revolution in France, 1870–1871: Myth, Reportage and Reality by John Milner
Paris in Despair: Art and Everyday Life under Siege (1870–71) by Hollis Clayson
Kwame Anthony Appiah, You Must Remember This
The Ethics of Memory by Avishai Margalit
Keith Thomas, Heroes of History
Bring Out Your Dead: The Past as Revelation by Anthony Grafton
Peter Dailey, Haiti: The Fall of the House of Aristide
Haiti's Predatory Republic: The Unending Transition to Democracy by Roger Fatton Jr.
A.F. Crispin, David Kertzer, István Deák, Jews and Catholics: An Exchange
Letters
Martin Duberman, Query
Roger Shattuck, Caroline Fraser, The Mormon Murder Case
Contributors
K. Anthony Appiah teaches philosophy at Princeton. He is the author of Cosmopolitanism and Experiments in Ethics. He is working on a book about the role of honor in moral life. (November 2008)
Peter Dailey is a New York attorney and writer. For much of the Nineties he worked on Haitian human rights and political cases. (March 2003)
Orlando Figes is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, London University. His latest book is The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin’s Russia. (April 2009)
Tim Flannery, former director of the South Australian Museum, 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. (December 2008)
Robert L. Herbert, after a long career at Yale, is now Andrew W. Mellon Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Mount Holyoke. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, and has been named Officier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government. Among his books are Impressionism: Art, Leisure and Parisian Society, Nature's Workshop: Renoir's Writings on the Decorative Arts, and Seurat: Drawings and Paintings. His most recent book is Seurat and the Making of “La Grande Jatte.”
John Lanchester's most recent book is a memoir, Family Romance. (March 2007)
John Leonard writes on books every month for Harper’s and on television every week for New York magazine. (June 2007)
Avishai Margalit is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is currently the George Kennan Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. His forthcoming book is On Compromise and Rotten Compromises. Michael Walzer is Professor Emeritus of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and co-editor of Dissent. He is the author of Just and Unjust Wars. (May 2009)
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, a frequent contributor to The New York Review, is the Charles Ranlett Flint Professor of Humanities at Bard College. His translations, with commentary, of the Collected Poems and Unfinished Poems of Constantine Cavafy will be published this month. His other books include The Elusive Embrace: Desire and the Riddle of Identity (1999), Gender and the City in Euripides' Political Plays (2002), The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million (2006), and How Beautiful It Is And How Easily It Can Be Broken: Essays (2008). (March 2009)
Frank Rich is a columnist for The New York Times. His books include Ghost Light, a memoir, and The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth in Bush's America.
Robert Skidelsky is Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at Warwick University, England. The single-volume abridgment of his three-volume biography of John Maynard Keynes was published in 2007 in the US. He is currently completing a short history of Britain in the twentieth century. www.skidelskyr.com. (January 2009)
Joseph E.Stiglitz received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2001. He is Professor of Economics and Finance at Columbia. The author of Globalization and Its Discontents, he has been Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of the World Bank and Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. (March 2003)
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)
Michael Walzer is Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., and co-editor of Dissent. He is the author of Just and Unjust Wars. (March 2003)
