Table of Contents
Volume 51, Number 13 · August 12, 2004
Russell Baker, Troublemaker 
Losing America by Robert C. Byrd
Benjamin Moser, Dutch Treat
Discovering Brazil with Albert Eckhout
Albert Eckhout: A Dutch Artist in Brazil catalog of the exhibition edited by Quentin Buvelot
Christian Caryl, Le Carré's War on Terror
Absolute Friends by John le Carré
The Little Drummer Girl by John le Carré
Robin Robertson, Crossing the Archipelago (poem)
Geoffrey O'Brien, Is It All Just a Dream?
Fahrenheit 9/11 a film by Michael Moore
James M. McPherson, The Greatest Republican
Lincoln at Cooper Union: The Speech That Made Him President by John A. Corry
Lincoln at Cooper Union: The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President by Harold Holzer
Why Lincoln Matters Today More Than Ever by Mario M. Cuomo
Lincoln's Avengers: Justice, Revenge, and Reunion After the Civil War by Elizabeth D. Leonard
Jonathan Raban, The Threat from the Sea
The Outlaw Sea: A World of Freedom, Chaos, and Crime by William Langewiesche
Ronald Dworkin, What the Court Really Said
Pankaj Mishra, India: The Neglected Majority Wins!
Hermione Lee, Comic, Sad and Indefinite
Alone! Alone! Lives of Some Outsider Women by Rosemary Dinnage
Alma Guillermoprieto, 'The Morning Quickie'
Gabriele Annan, Lichtenberg in Love
Lichtenberg and the Little Flower Girl by Gert Hofmann,translated from the German and with an afterword by Michael Hofmann
Charles Simic, Down There on a Visit
Patrick Radden Keefe, Iraq: America's Private Armies
Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry by P.W. Singer
James Fenton, Vandalism and Enlightenment (poem)
Enlightenment: Discovering the World in the Eighteenth Century Catalog of the exhibition edited by Kim Sloan
Edward Mendelson, Light and Outrageous
W. H. Auden's Book of Light Verse
John Ryle, Disaster in Darfur
Garry Wills, The Tragedy of Bill Clinton
My Life by Bill Clinton
Letters
George Packer, Michael Massing, 'Unfit to Print?'
Arthur Goldhammer, Garry Wills, Tocqueville's Heart
Gerald Kamber, Lois R. Kuznets, et al. 'The Good Bad Boy'
Manuel Savidis, He Was Published
Contributors
Gabriele Annan is a book and film critic living in London. (March 2006)
Russell Baker is a former columnist and correspondent for The New York Times and The Baltimore Sun. His books include The Good Times, Growing Up, and Looking Back. (July 2008)
Christian Caryl is the Tokyo Bureau Chief of Newsweek. He has reported from thirty-seven countries, including Russia, Afghanistan, North Korea, and Iraq. (August 2008)
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."
James Fenton's new book, School of Genius, a history of the Royal Academy in London, will be published in the US in May. (May 2006)
Alma Guillermoprieto often writes on Latin America in these pages. Her most recent book is Dancing with Cuba. (September 2006)
Patrick Radden Keefe is a project leader at the World Policy Institute and the author of Chatter: Dispatches from the Secret World of Global Eavesdropping. (May 2005)
Hermione Lee is the author of a biography of Virginia Woolf and of Virginia Woolf’s Nose: Essays on Biography, which has recently appeared in paperback. Her new biography, Edith Wharton, has just been published. (May 2007)
James M. McPherson is George Henry Davis ’86 Professor of American History Emeritus at Princeton. His most recent book is This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War, a collection of essays. (April 2008)
Edward Mendelson is the literary executor of the Estate of W.H. Auden and professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is the author of Early Auden, Later Auden, and many essays on (and editions of) nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers, including George Meredith, Thomas Hardy, H.G. Wells, Arnold Bennett, Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett, and Thomas Pynchon.
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.
Benjamin Moser’s biography of Clarice Lispector, Why This World, will be published in summer 2009. He lives in the Netherlands. (August 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. (April 2008)
Jonathan Raban's books include Arabia: A Journey Through the Labrynth, Old Glory, Bad Land, Passage to Juneau, and Waxwings. He is the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Heinemann Award of the Royal Society of Literature, the PEN/West Creative Nonfiction Award, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers' Award, and the Governor's Award of the State of Washington. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, The Guardian, and The Independent. He lives in Seattle.
Robin Robertson's Swithering won the 2006 Forward Prize. His translation of Medea will be published in September. (May 2008)
John Ryle is Chair of the Rift Valley Institute, a network of regional specialists working in East and Northeast Africa. (August 2004)
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.
Garry Wills was born in Atlanta, Georgia. One of our most distinguished
historians and critics, he is the author of numerous books, including Saint Augustine, Papal
Sin, and the Pulitzer Prize–winning Lincoln at Gettysburg. He has won many other awards,
among them two National Book Critics Circle Awards and the 1998 National Medal for the Humanities.
He is currently Professor of History Emeritus at Northwestern University. A regular contributor
to the New York Review of Books, he lives in Evanston, Illinois.
