Table of Contents

Volume 50, Number 15 · October 9, 2003

Hilary Mantel, The Hour Before Dawn

The Songs of the Kings by Barry Unsworth

Brian Urquhart, World Order & Mr. Bush

Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power by Niall Ferguson

American Empire: The Realities and Consequences of US Diplomacy by Andrew J. Bacevich

Rogue Nation: American Unilateralism and the Failure of Good Intentions by Clyde Prestowitz

The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People by Jonathan Schell

War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges

Tim Flannery, The Lady, or the Tiger?

Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind by David Quammen

Garry Wills, Looking for the Lost Greeks

The Archaeology of Nostalgia: How the Greeks Re-created Their Mythical Past by John Boardman

The Parthenon by Mary Beard

Dana Goodyear, Verboten (poem)

Larry McMurtry, Mountain Man

Pathfinder: John Charles Frémont and the Course of American Empire by Tom Chaffin

Alexander Stille, Italy: The Family Business

Italy and Its Discontents: Family, Civil Society, State, 1980-2001 by Paul Ginsborg

"The Patrimonial Ambitions of Silvio B" by Paul Ginsborg

The Dark Heart of Italy: Travels Through Time and Space Across Italy by Tobias Jones

David Hajdu, Hustling Elvis

The Colonel: The Extraordinary Story of Colonel Tom Parker and Elvis Presley by Alanna Nash

Elvis Presley by Bobbie Ann Mason

Avishai Margalit, After Strange Gods

The Prophets: Who They Were, What They Are by Norman Podhoretz

P.N. Furbank, What Adèle Knew

Memoirs of the Comtesse de Boigne edited and with an introduction by Anka Muhlstein, and an afterword by Olivier Bernier

Jonathan D. Spence, The Whole World in Their Hands

The Human Web: A Bird's-Eye View of World History by J.R. McNeill and William H. McNeill

Sean O'Brien, Among the Creatures

Selected Poems, 1957-1994 by Ted Hughes

Jonathan Mirsky, Wartime Lies

The Vietnamese War: Revolution and Social Change in the Mekong Delta, 1930-1975 by David W.P. Elliott

Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers by Daniel Ellsberg

Joseph Frank, Aileen Kelly, The Millennium & Dostoevsky: An Exchange

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Letters

Alvin Rosenfeld, Garry Wills, 'Living History'
Agha H. Jafri, Protest!
Jens F. Laurson, James Fenton, What's in an Umlaut?
Alan Rudrum, Apollo's Heels
DeSales Harrison, Lowell & the Editors
Mordechai Feingold, 'A New Newton'?
Jerome S. Bruner, 'Prison Mania'

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Contributors

Tim Flannery is a Professor at Macquarie University in Sydney and Chair of the Copenhagen Climate Council. His latest book is Now or Never: Why We Must Act Now to End Climate Change and Create a Sustainable Future. (November 2009)

P. N. Furbank is the author of Diderot and, with W.R. Owens, A Political Biography of Daniel Defoe. (December 2007)

Dana Goodyear is an editor at The New Yorker. (October 2003)

David Hajdu, author of Lush Life and Positively 4th Street, teaches at Syracuse University and is music critic for The New Republic. (June 2005)

Hilary Mantel is the author of nine novels, including Beyond Black. Her new novel, Wolf Hall, will be published in the US this month. (November 2009)

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.
 (September 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.

Jonathan Mirsky is a historian and journalist specializing in Chinese affairs. In 2002 he was the first I.F. Stone Teaching Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, Journalism School.
 (August 2009)

Sean O'Brien is a regular contributor to the Times Literary Supplement and is Professor of Poetry at Sheffield Hallam University in the UK. His most recent publications are Cousin Coat: Selected Poems 1976–2001 and his verse version of Aristophanes' The Birds, which was staged in 2002 at the National Theatre in London. (October 2003)

Jonathan Spence is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. His latest book is Return to Dragon Mountain: Memories of a Late Ming Man. (December 2009)

Alexander Stille is San Paolo Professor of International Journalism at Columbia. His most recent book is The Sack of Rome: Money + Media + Celebrity = Power = Silvio Berlusconi. (December 2008)

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 Life. (August 2009)

Garry Wills is Professor of History Emeritus at Northwestern. His most recent book, What Jesus Meant, was published in 2006.

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