Table of Contents

Volume 50, Number 20 · December 18, 2003

Charles Simic, What Ez Could Do

Poems and Translations by Ezra Pound, edited by Richard Sieburth

The Pisan Cantos by Ezra Pound, edited by Richard Sieburth

Henry Siegman, Sharon's Phony War

Richard Dorment, The Greatest

Turner by James Hamilton

Turner's Britain Catalog of the exhibition by James Hamilton

Turner and Venice Catalog of the exhibition by Ian Warrell

Turner: The Late Seascapes Catalog of the exhibition by James Hamilton

"The Sun Rising Through Vapour": Turner's Early Seascapes Catalog of the exhibition by Paul Spencer-Longhurst

Edmund S. Morgan, A Tract for the Times

Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson by Gore Vidal

Washington, D.C. by Gore Vidal

Burr by Gore Vidal

Lincoln by Gore Vidal

Homage to Daniel Shays: Collected Essays, 1952–1972 by Gore Vidal

The Last Empire: Essays, 1992–2000 by Gore Vidal

Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got to Be So Hated by Gore Vidal

Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta by Gore Vidal

Jennifer Schuessler, Vive la Différence

L'Affaire by Diane Johnson

Frank J. Sulloway, Darwin and His Doppelgänger

Charles Darwin: The Power of Place by Janet Browne

In Darwin's Shadow: The Life and Science of Alfred Russel Wallace by Michael Shermer

Daniel Mendelsohn, It's Only a Movie

Kill Bill—Volume 1 a film directed by Quentin Tarantino

Pankaj Mishra, Enigmas of Arrival

The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

Brick Lane by Monica Ali

Kwame Anthony Appiah, Into the Woods

Nelson Mandela's Favorite African Folktales edited by Nelson Mandela

Ian Buruma, Staging the Empire

Curzon: Imperial Statesman by David Gilmour

Robert Gottlieb, Duse Plays the Palace

Eleonora Duse by Helen Sheehy

Jasper Griffin, It's All Greek!

The Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan

The Spartans: The World of the Warrior-Heroes of Ancient Greece, from Utopia to Crisis and Collapse by Paul Cartledge

Coming of Age in Ancient Greece: Images of Childhood from the Classical Past by Jenifer Neils and John H. Oakley

Greek Gods, Human Lives: What We Can Learn from Myths by Mary Lefkowitz

André Aciman, Proust's Sister Soul

Geoffrey O'Brien, Fallen World

Mystic River a film directed by Clint Eastwood

Jeff Madrick, Health for Sale

Transformation of the Welfare State: The Silent Surrender of Public Responsibility by Neil Gilbert, with a foreword by Amitai Etzioni

Taxing Ourselves: A Citizen's Guide to the Great Debate over Tax Reform by Joel Slemrod and Jon Bakija

The Divided Welfare State: The Battle over Public and Private Social Benefits in the United States by Jacob S. Hacker

Banking on Death: Or, Investing in Life: The History and Future of Pensions by Robin Blackburn

John Bayley, Chameleon Genius

Pushkin: A Biography by T.J. Binyon

Joyce Carol Oates, The Mythmaking Realist

Double Vision by Pat Barker

James Fenton, The Last English Style

Gothic: Art for England 1400–1547 Catalog of the exhibition edited by Richard Marks and Paul Williamson

Thomas R. Edwards, Unsentimental Education

The Book of Hard Things by Sue Halpern

Lewis Lockwood, Music on the Grand Tour

Music in European Capitals: The Galant Style, 1720–1780 by Daniel Heartz

Cathleen Schine, The Difficult Part

And Now You Can Go by Vendela Vida

Mark Danner, Delusions in Baghdad

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Letters

Mohammad A. Meah, Russell Baker, On Not Rocking the Boat
R. Howard Bloch, Steven Weinberg, Lust for Glory
Al Alvarez, Ted Hughes & Translation
G. Robert Blakey, Elias Demetracopoulos, et al. JFK's Assassination

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Contributors

André Aciman teaches Comparative Literature at the City University Graduate Center. He is the author of False Papers and the memoir Out of Egypt.

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)

John Bayley has written two books about his wife, the novelist Iris Murdoch, Elegy for Iris and Iris and Her Friends. (July 2004)

Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard. He received the 2008 Erasmus Prize. His novel The China Lover was published in September 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.

Richard Dorment is the art critic of the Daily Telegraph. (October 2009)

Thomas R. Edwards is Emeritus Professor of English at Rutgers and a former editor of Raritan. His most recent book is Over Here: Criticizing America, 1968–1989. (June 2004)

James Fenton iis the editor of The New Faber Book of Love Poems and D.H. Lawrence's Selected Poems. (July 2009)

Robert Gottlieb has been Editor in Chief of Simon and Schuster, Knopf, and The New Yorker. He is the author of a biography of George Balanchine, the editor of the anthologies Reading Dance and Reading Jazz, and the dance critic of The New York Observer.
 (December 2009)

Jasper Griffin is Emeritus Professor of Classical Literature and a Fellow of Balliol College. His books include Homer on Life and Death. (June 2008)

Lewis Lockwood is Fanny Peabody Research Professor of Music at Harvard. He is the author of Beethoven: The Music and the Life and, most recently, co-editor with Mark Kroll of The Beethoven Violin Sonatas: History, Criticism, Performance. (November 2004)

Jeff Madrick is editor of Challenge Magazine, Visiting Professor at Cooper Union, and Senior Fellow at the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis at the New School. His latest book, The Case for Big Government, was a 2009 PEN Galbraith Award Finalist. (November 2009)

Daniel Mendelsohn, a frequent contributor to The New York Review, is the Charles Ranlett Flint Professor of Humanities at Bard. His translations, with commentary, of the Collected Poems and Unfinished Poems of Constantine Cavafy were published earlier this year; a collection of his essays mostly from these pages, How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken, was just published in paperback.
 (October 2009)

Pankaj Mishra was born in North India in 1969 and now lives in London and India. He is the author of The Romantics, winner of the Los Angeles Times's Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, and An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and The Guardian. His most recent book is Temptations of the West: How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet, and Beyond.

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. (October 2008)

Geoffrey O'Brien is Editor in Chief of the Library of America. He is the author, most recently, of Sonata for Jukebox: An Autobiography of My Ears and Red Sky Café. (September 2009)

Joyce Carol Oates, the Roger S. Berlind Professor of Humanities at Princeton, is the author most recently of the novel Little Bird of Heaven and the story collection Dear Husband. (December 2009)

Cathleen Schine is the author of seven novels, including Rameau's Niece, The Love Letter, She is Me, and the forthcoming The New Yorkers. She is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books.

Jennifer Schuessler is an editor at The New York Times Book Review. (June 2009)

Henry Siegman is a Senior Fellow on the Middle East at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is a former executive head of the American Jewish Congress and the Synagogue Council of America, and has served as general secretary of the American Association for Middle East Studies. (April 2006)

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.

Frank J. Sulloway is Visiting Scholar in the Institute of Personality and Social Research at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author most recently of Born to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics, and Creative Lives. (November 2006)

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