Table of Contents
Volume 50, Number 8 · May 15, 2003
Freeman Dyson, What a World! 
The Earth's Biosphere: Evolution, Dynamics, and Change by Vaclav Smil
Ronald Dworkin, The Court and the University
Ian Buruma, Pioneer
The Donald Richie Reader: 50 Years of Writing on Japan edited and with an introduction by Arturo Silva
The Inland Sea by Donald Richie, with an introduction by Pico Iyer
The Great Wave: Gilded Age Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics, and the Opening of Old Japan by Christopher Benfey
Christopher Logue, From 'All Day Permanent Red: the First Battle Scenes of Homer's Iliad Rewritten' (poem)
Brady Kiesling, Athens in Wartime
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., The Democratic Autocrat
The Passions of Andrew Jackson by Andrew Burstein
Lorin Stein, Escape from History
Nowhere Man by Aleksandar Hemon
Peter Singer, Animal Liberation at 30
Animal Rights and Wrongs by Roger Scruton
The Animal Question: Why Non-human Animals Deserve Human Rights by Paola Cavalieri, translated from the Italian by Catherine Woollard
Taking Animals Seriously: Mental Life and Moral Status by David DeGrazia
Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy by Matthew Scully
Gordon A. Craig, Talking All the Way
Winston Churchill by John Keegan
Churchill: Visionary. Statesman. Historian. by John Lukacs
In Churchill's Shadow: Confronting the Past in Modern Britain by David Cannadine
Al Alvarez, Making It New
The Short Sharp Life of T.E. Hulme by Robert Ferguson
Wilfred Owen by Dominic Hibberd
Jean Starobinski, A Letter from Jean-Jacques Rousseau
John Banville, Keeping Busy
The Kick: A Memoir by Richard Murphy
Bernard Knox, The Wild Women of Greece
Gender and the City in Euripides' Political Plays by Daniel Mendelsohn
Brian Urquhart, The Rights Stuff
Taking Liberties: Four Decades in the Struggle for Rights by Aryeh Neier
Tim Judah, The Fall of Baghdad
Robert Fatton Jr., Irwin P. Stotzky, Peter Dailey, Aristide's Haiti: An Exchange
Contributors
Al Alvarez's most recent book is Risky Business, a selection of essays, many of which first appeared in these pages. (May 2008)
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.
Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard.
He received this year’s Shorenstein Award for writing about Asia. His latest book, Murder in Amsterdam, is available in paperback. (May 2008)
Gordon A. Craig is J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Stanford. His latest book is Politics and Culture in Modern Germany. (December 2003)
Ronald Dworkin is Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law and Philosophy at NYU and Jeremy Bentham Professor of Law and Philosophy at University College London. His books include Is Democracy Possible Here? (2006), Justice in Robes, Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality, and Freedom's Law. He is the 2007 winner of the Ludvig Holberg International Memorial Prize for "his pioneering scholarly work" of "worldwide impact."
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.
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)
Brady Kiesling was from 1983 until 2003 a career US diplomat, with service in Tel Aviv, Casablanca, Athens, and Yerevan, as well as three tours in the State Department. His letter of resignation to Secretary of State Colin Powell was published in the April 10 issue of The New York Review. (May 2003)
Bernard Knox is director emeritus of Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC. Among his many books are The Heroic Temper, The Oldest Dead White European Males, and Backing into the Future: The Classical Tradition and Its Renewal. He is the editor of The Norton Book of Classical Literature and wrote the introductions and notes for Robert Fagles's translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Christopher Logue is the author of All Day Permanent Red: The First Battle Scenes of Homer's Iliad Rewritten, of which the poem in this issue is a part. The new book, just published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, is the latest installment of War Music, an adaptation of the Iliad. His other works include several volumes of poetry, a pornographic novel, and a memoir, Prince Charming. (May 2003)
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., the author of numerous books on American history, served as adviser to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. He died this year. His Journals: 1952– 2000, from which an excerpt appears in this issue, will be published in October by Penguin. (October 2007)
Peter Singer is Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University.
Jean Starobinski is Professor Emeritus of French literature at the University of Geneva. Blessings in Disguise and Largesse are among his works in English. A translation of his recent Action et réaction is to appear later this year. (May 2003)
Lorin Stein is an editor at Farrar, Straus and Giroux. His translation of Grégoire Bouillier's memoir L'Invité mystère (The Mystery Guest) will appear in fall 2006. (January 2006)
Brian Urquhart is a former Undersecretary-General of the United Nations. His books include Hammarskjöld, A Life in Peace and War, and Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey. (March 2008)
