Table of Contents
Volume 50, Number 14 · September 25, 2003
Timothy Garton Ash, Orwell's List
William Dalrymple, Disappearing Christians 
The Body and the Blood: The Middle East's Vanishing Christians and the Possibility for Peace by Charles M. Sennott
Timothy Potts, Buried Between the Rivers
Art of the First Cities: The Third Millennium BC from the Mediterranean to the Indus Catalog of the exhibition edited by Joan Aruz with Ronald Wallenfels
Fintan O'Toole, Missing Person
Personality by Andrew O'Hagan
H.D.S. Greenway, The Iran Conspiracy
All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror by Stephen Kinzer
Larry McMurtry, Appointment with O'Hara
The Art of Burning Bridges: A Life of John O'Hara by Geoffrey Wolff
Tim Flannery, Europe's Apes and Us
Lowly Origin: Where, When and Why Our Ancestors First Stood Up by Jonathan Kingdon
The Speciation of Modern Homo sapiens edited by Tim Crow
The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey by Spencer Wells
Charles Simic, Poetry in Unlikely Places
The Poetry of Pablo Neruda edited and with an introduction by Ilan Stavans
Jerome S. Bruner, Do Not Pass Go
The Culture of Control: Crime and Social Order in Contemporary Society by David Garland
John Golding, Always in Exile
Arshile Gorky: His Life and Work by Hayden Herrera
Ian Buruma, On John Schlesinger (1926–2003)
Seamus Heaney, Helmet (poem)
Hilary Mantel, Strange News
Mortals by Norman Rush
Bill McKibben, Our Thirsty Future
Water Wars: Drought, Flood, Folly, and the Politics of Thirst by Diane Raines Ward
Water Follies: Groundwater Pumping and the Fate of America's Fresh Waters by Robert Glennon
Plan B: Rescuing a Planet Under Stressand a Civilization in Trouble by Lester R. Brown
Adrian Lyttelton, Radical and Rich
Feltrinelli by Carlo Feltrinelli, translated from the Italian by Alastair McEwan
Istvan Deak, Stranger in Hell
Fateless by Imre Kertész, translated from the Hungarian by Christopher C. Wilson and Katharina M. Wilson
Mark Ford, At Arm's Length
Poems, 1968–1998 by Paul Muldoon
Moy Sand and Gravel by Paul Muldoon
Tim Parks, The Fighter
D.H. Lawrence: A Biography by Jeffrey Meyers
The Letters of D.H. Lawrence: Volume 8 edited by James T. Boulton
The Cambridge Companion to D.H. Lawrence edited by Anne Fernihough
The Complete Critical Guide to D.H. Lawrence by Fiona Becket
Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with D.H. Lawrence by Geoff Dyer
Body of Truth: D.H. Lawrence: The Nomadic Years, 1919–1930 by Philip Callow
Living at the Edge: A Biography of D.H. Lawrence and Frieda von Richthofen by Michael Squires and Lynn K. Talbot
Gordon S. Wood, Only in America
The Road to Home: My Life and Times by Vartan Gregorian
Christopher Benfey, A Tale of Two Iliads
De l'Iliade by Rachel Bespaloff
On the Iliad by Rachel Bespaloff, translated from the Frenchby Mary McCarthy, with an introduction by Hermann Broch
Lettres à Jean Wahl, 1937–1947 by Rachel Bespaloff, edited by Monique Jutrin
The Iliad or The Poem of Force by Simone Weil, translated from the French by Mary McCarthy
Lewis B. Cullman, Private Foundations: The Trick
Mark Danner, Iraq: The New War
Frank Bidart, Edwin Frank, Jonathan Raban, et al. Robert Lowell: An Exchange
Contributors
Christopher Benfey is Mellon Professor of English at Mount Holyoke and the author of The Great Wave: Gilded Age Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics, and the Opening of Old Japan. His new book, A Summer of Hummingbirds, will be published next spring. (December 2007)
Jerome Bruner is University Professor at New York University. His newest book, Making Stories, appeared in the spring. (September 2003)
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)
Lewis B. Cullman is a major contributor to not-for-profit institutions, including the New York Public Library, the American Museum of Natural History, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Human Rights Watch, Planned Parenthood, and the American Academy in Rome. He is the chairman of Chess in the Schools. (September 2003)
William Dalrymple is the author of The White Mughals, which won the 2003 Wolfson Prize for History, and The Last Mughal, which won the 2007 Duff Cooper Memorial Prize. He lives in New Delhi. (May 2008)
Mark Danner, longtime staff writer at The New Yorker and contributor to The New York Review of Books, is the author of three books: The Massacre at El Mozote: A Parable of the Cold War; The Road to Illegitimacy: One Reporter's Travels Through the 2000 Florida Recount; and Torture and Truth. Danner's work has been honored with many awards, including a National Magazine Award, three Overseas Press Awards, and an Emmy. In June 1999, he was named a MacArthur Fellow. He is Professor of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley and Henry R. Luce Professor of Human Rights and Journalism at Bard College. He divides his time between Berkeley and New York. His work is archived at markdanner.com.
Istvan Deak has written books on Weimar Germany’s left-wing intellectuals, the 1848 revolution in Hungary, the Habsburg army officer corps, and Europe during World War II. (March 2007)
Tim Flannery 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. (May 2008)
Mark Ford teaches in the English Department at University College London. His edition of the poetry of Frank O’Hara was published in February. (April 2008)
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. (August 2007)
John Golding is a painter and writer. His most recent book, Paths to the Absolute, was awarded the Mitchell Prize for the History of Art. (February 2008)
H. D. S. Greenway is the former editorial page editor of The Boston Globe, for which he writes a foreign affairs column. (September 2003)
Seamus Heaney's first poetry collection, Death of a Naturalist, appeared forty years ago. Since then he has published poetry, criticism, and translations that have established him as one of the leading poets of his generation. In 1995 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Adrian Lyttelton is Professor of History at the Johns Hopkins University Center in Bologna and the author of The Seizure of Power: Fascism in Italy 1919–1929. (March 2006)
Hilary Mantel’s memoir, Giving Up the Ghost, was published in 2003. Her latest novel is Beyond Black. (January 2008)
Bill Mckibben is scholar in residence at Middlebury College, and the author of The End of Nature and Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future.
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.
Fintan O'Toole is a columnist and critic with The Irish Times. He is the author of White Savage: William Johnson and the Invention of America. (November 2007)
Tim Parks, a novelist, essayist, and translator, is Associate Professor of English Literature at IULM University in Milan. His novel Cleaver was published in February. (April 2008)
Timothy Potts is director of the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth. He is the author of Mesopotamia and the East. (September 2003)
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)
