Table of Contents
Volume 51, Number 9 · May 27, 2004
J.M. Coetzee, Bellow's Gift
Novels, 1944–53 by Saul Bellow
Anthony Lewis, Bush and the Lesser Evil 
The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror by Michael Ignatieff
The Year of Living Dangerously: A Liberal Supporter of the War Looks Back an article by Michael Ignatieff
Andrew O'Hagan, 'Back in the US of A'
Magic Circles: The Beatles in Dream and History by Devin McKinney
Sarah Kerr, Memories of Underdevelopment
Dancing with Cuba: A Memoir of the Revolution by Alma Guillermoprieto,translated from the Spanish by Esther Allen
Ahmed Rashid, The Rise of bin Laden
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 by Steve Coll
Ingrid D. Rowland, Eastern Glory
Byzantium: Faith and Power (1261–1557) Catalog of the exhibition edited by Helen C. Evans
Benjamin Moser, Saboteur in Texas
Sin Killer by Larry McMurtry
The Wandering Hill by Larry McMurtry
By Sorrow's River by Larry McMurtry
Folly and Glory by Larry McMurtry
Edmund S. Morgan, A New Kind of War
Washington's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer
Michael Kimmelman, The Cold War over the Arts
The Dancer Defects: The Struggle for Cultural Supremacy During the Cold War by David Caute
W.S. Merwin, Name in the Sand
Joshua Weiner, Dante: to Guido Cavalcanti (poem)
David Lodge, Goodbye to All That
After Theory by Terry Eagleton
Jonathan Mirsky, Taiwan on the Edge
Keith Thomas, When the Lid Came off England
Britain in Revolution, 1625–1660 by Austin Woolrych
Tim Parks, Tyrol: Retreat to Reality
South Tyrol: A Minority Conflict of the Twentieth Century by Rolf Steininger
Ohne meinen Segen: Die Lebenserinnerungen der Unterfurner Bäuerin by Adelheid Vorhauser Rabensteiner
Südtirol im Dritten Reich/L'Alto Adige nel Terzo Reich, 1943–1945 edited by Gerald Steinacher
The History of the South Tyrol Question by Antony Evelyn Alcock
Die Walsche by Joseph Zoderer
Colm Tóibín, The Tragedy of Roger Casement
Roger Casement: The Black Diaries by Jeffrey Dudgeon
Sir Roger Casement's Heart of Darkness: The 1911 Documents by Angus Mitchell
The Eyes of Another Race: Roger Casement's Congo Report and 1903 Diary edited by Séamus Ó Síocháin and Michael O'Sullivan
Roger Casement in Death, or Haunting the Free State by W.J. McCormack
Letters
Fifty-two former senior British diplomats, 'Doomed to Failure in the Middle East'
Contributors
J. M. Coetzee, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 2003, is currently Visiting Professor of Humanities at the University of Adelaide. His new work of fiction, Summertime, from which the piece in this issue is drawn, will be published by Harvill Secker in October. (August 2009)
Sarah Kerr, a longtime contributor to The New York Review, lives near Washington, D.C. (December 2008)
Michael Kimmelman is chief art critic of The New York Times. He is based in Berlin, writing the Abroad column for the Times on culture and society across Europe. (November 2009)
Anthony Lewis, a former columnist for The New York Times, has twice won the Pulitzer Prize. His book Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment was published last year.
David Lodge is a novelist and critic and Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Birmingham, England. His novels include Changing Places, Small World, Nice Work, and Author, Author. His most recent works of criticism are Consciousness and
the Novel and The Year of Henry James.
W.S. Merwin was born in New York City in 1927 and grew up in Union City, New Jersey, and in Scranton, Pennsylvania. From 1949 to 1951 he worked as a tutor in France, Portugal, and Majorca. He has since lived in many parts of the world, most recently on Maui in the Hawaiian Islands. He is the author of many books of poems, prose, and translations and has received both the Pulitzer and the Bollingen Prizes for poetry, among numerous other awards.
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)
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)
Benjamin Moser's biography of Clarice Lispector, Why This World, will be published in summer 2009. He lives in the Netherlands. (August 2008)
Andrew O'Hagan, who lives in London, is a recipient of the E.M. Forster Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His latest novel is Be Near Me.
(October 2009)
Tim Parks, a novelist, essayist, and translator, is Associate Professor of Literature and Translation at IULM University in Milan. His most recent novel is Dreams of Rivers and Seas.
Ahmed Rashid, a Pakistani journalist and writer, is the author of Taliban and, most recently, Descent into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia. He writes for The Washington Post, El Mundo, BBC Online, and other newspapers. (October 2009)
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.
Colm Tóibín is the author of five novels, including The Story of the Night, The Blackwater Lightship, and The Heather Blazing. The Master, a novel based on the life of Henry James, was published in 2004 and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. It also won the Los Angeles Times Novel of the Year Award in 2005 and the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger in France. Among his nonfiction works are Bad Blood: A Walk Along the Irish Border, Homage to Barcelona, The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe, and, most recently, Love in a Dark Time. In 2004, his first play, Beauty in a Broken Place, was produced in Dublin where he lives.
Keith Thomas is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. His latest book is The Ends of Life: Roads to Fulfillment in Early Modern England. (December 2009)
Joshua Weiner is the author of the poetry collections The World's Room and From the Book of Giants. (March 2008)
