Table of Contents
Volume 50, Number 6 · April 10, 2003
Doris Lessing, The Jewel of Africa 
John Gregory Dunne, A Life Worth Living
The Growing Seasons: An American Boyhood Before the War by Samuel Hynes
James Fenton, You've Disappeared from the Screen (poem)
Sanford Schwartz, The Genius of the Family
Édouard Vuillard Catalog of the exhibition edited by Guy Cogeval
Neal Ascherson, Goodbye to Berlin
What I Saw: Reports from Berlin, 1920–1933 by Joseph Roth,translated from the German and with an introduction by Michael Hofmann
Walt McDonald, Squall Line at Sixty-Five (poem)
Tony Judt, America and the World
Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order by Robert Kagan
The Ideas That Conquered the World: Peace, Democracy, and Free Markets in the Twenty-first Century by Michael Mandelbaum
The End of the American Era: US Foreign Policy and the Geopolitics of the Twenty-first Century by Charles A. Kupchan
Rethinking Europe's Future by David P. Calleo
The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad by Fareed Zakaria
Julian Barnes, Holy Hysteria
The Anti-Semitic Moment: A Tour of France in 1898 by Pierre Birnbaum, translated from the French by Jane Marie Todd
Ingrid D. Rowland, The Eyes of Leonardo
Leonardo da Vinci, Master Draftsman Catalog of the exhibition edited by Carmen C. Bambach
Paul Wilson, Wonderful Life
John Banville, By George
Becoming George: The Life of Mrs. W.B. Yeats by Ann Saddlemyer
E.P. Sanders, Who Was Jesus?
Excavating Jesus: Beneath the Stones, Behind the Texts by John Dominic Crossan and Jonathan L. Reed
Edmund S. Morgan, Marie Morgan, A Very Popular Penalty
The Death Penalty: An American History by Stuart Banner
John D. Rosenberg, Victoria's Secrets
The Victorians by A.N. Wilson
Inventing the Victorians by Matthew Sweet
Darryl Pinckney, Escape Artist
Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown edited and with an introduction by Richard Newman, and with a foreword by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Raymond Carr, Spain and the Communists
Spain Betrayed: The Soviet Union in the Spanish Civil War edited by Ronald Radosh, Mary R. Habeck, and Grigory Sevostianov
Jonathan D. Spence, The Shogun's Favorite Brit
Samurai William: The Englishman Who Opened Japan by Giles Milton
Colin McGinn, Isn't It the Truth?
Truth and Truthfulness: An Essay in Genealogy by Bernard Williams
Michael Ignatieff, Americans Abroad
Longitudes and Attitudes: Exploring the World after September 11 by Thomas L. Friedman
Being America: Liberty, Commerce, and Violence in an American World by Jedediah Purdy
Amos Elon, Wise Survivors
Scholem, Arendt, Klemperer: Intimate Chronicles in Turbulent Times by Steven E. Aschheim
Gershom Scholem: A Life in Letters, 1914–1982 edited and translated from the German by Anthony David Skinner
Gabriele Annan, Portrait of a Princess
Diary of a Djinn by Gini Alhadeff
Daniel J. Kevles, His Master's Voice
The Soundscape of Modernity: Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America, 1900–1933 by Emily Thompson
Tim Judah, On the Front Lines
Letters
Brady Kiesling, Iraq: A Letter of Resignation
Glenn Shepard Jr., Douglas W. Yu, et al. Vanishing Cultures
Andrew Hacker, Correction
Juan M. Garcia-Passalacqua, James Chace, Is Puerto Rico a Colony?
Sandra Spanier, Query
The Editors, First Reported
Contributors
Gabriele Annan is a book and film critic living in London. (March 2006)
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. (November 2007)
John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He is the author of many novels, including The Book of Evidence, The Untouchable, and Eclipse. Banville's novel The Sea was awarded the 2005 Man Booker Prize. On occasion he writes under the pen name Benjamin Black.
Julian Barnes has written nine novels, a book of short stories, and two collections of essays. His most recent book is Something to Declare: Essays on France.
Raymond Carr was Warden of St. Antony's College, Oxford, and has written extensively on modern Spanish history. (April 2003)
John Gregory Dunne's new novel, Nothing Lost, will be published in May. (January 2004)
Amos Elon's most recent book is The Pity of It All: German Jews Before Hitler. He is a Fellow at the Center for Law and Security at NYU. (February 2008)
James Fenton's new book, School of Genius, a history of the Royal Academy in London, will be published in the US in May. (May 2006)
Michael Ignatieff is the Carr Professor and Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. His latest book is Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry. (April 2003)
Tim Judah is the author of Kosovo: War and Revenge and The Serbs: History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia. He has reported on the Balkans, Afghanistan, Kurdistan, Iraq, and Sudan for The New York Review. (October 2006)
Tony Judt is University Professor at NYU. His new book, Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century, will be published in April. (May 2008)
Daniel J. Kevles is Stanley Woodward Professor of History at Yale University. His most recent book is The Baltimore Case.
Doris Lessing's books include the novels The Sweetest Dream, Mara and Dann, and Ben, in the World, as well as two volumes of her autobiography, Under My Skin and Walking in the Shade. (April 2003)
Walt McDonald served as Texas Poet Laureate in 2001. His twenty books of poetry and fiction include Climbing the Divide and All Occasions. (April 2003)
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)
Edmund S. Morgan is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. His most recent book, The Genuine Article: A Historian Looks at Early America, was published in 2004. (June 2008)
Marie Morgan, author of Chariot of Fire, is a historian of nineteenth-century America who frequently collaborates with Edmund Morgan. (September 2007)
Darryl Pinckney is the author of a novel, High Cotton, and Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature.
John D. Rosenberg, William Peterfield Professor of English at Columbia, has written critical studies of Ruskin, Tennyson, and Carlyle. He is working on a collection of essays, Elegy for an Age: Essays in Victorian Literature. (April 2003)
Ingrid D. Rowland is a professor, based in Rome, at the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture. A frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, she is the author of The Culture of the High Renaissance: Ancients and Moderns in Sixteenth-Century Rome and The Scarith of Scornello: A Tale of Renaissance Forgery. She has published a translation of Vitruvius' Ten Books of Architecture. Her latest books are a biography of Giordano Bruno and a translation of Bruno's dialogue On the Heroic Frenzies.
E. P. Sanders is the Art and Sciences Professor of Religion at Duke and the author of Paul and Palestinian Judaism, Jesus and Judaism, and Judaism: Practice and Belief. (April 2003)
Sanford Schwartz's essays and reviews have been collected in The Art Presence and Artists and Writers. (July 2008)
Jonathan Spence teaches modern Chinese history at Yale. His latest book is Return to Dragon Mountain: Memories of a Late Ming Man. He gave this year’s Reith Lectures for the BBC. (August 2008)
Paul Wilson is a writer based in Toronto and the translator of several books, plays, and essays by Václav Havel. (May 2007)
