Table of Contents
Volume 51, Number 15 · October 7, 2004
Clifford Geertz, Morality Tale 
Ishi's Brain: In Search of America's Last "Wild" Indian by Orin Starn
Ishi in Three Centuries edited by Karl Kroeber and Clifton Kroeber
Jason Epstein, Mystery in the Heartland
What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America by Thomas Frank
Michael Kimmelman, Lone Star
Wondrous Strange: The Life and Art of Glenn Gould by Kevin Bazzana
Seamus Heaney, What Passed at Colonus (poem)
James Chace, Empire, Anyone?
Surprise, Security, and the American Experience by John Lewis Gaddis
War and the American Presidency by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
Robert Malley, Israel and the Arafat Question
The Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace by Dennis Ross
John Brewer, The Art of the Deal
Duveen: A Life in Art by Meryle Secrest
Robin Robertson, Ghost of a Garden (poem)
Norman Rush, The Last Word on Evil
Snakepit by Moses Isegawa
Ingrid D. Rowland, A Lesson of September 11
Colm Tóibín, Return to Catalonia
Soldiers of Salamis by Javier Cercas, translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean
Robert Cottrell, Russia: Unmanifest Destiny
Taming the Wild Field: Colonization and Empire on the Russian Steppe by Willard Sunderland
History, Memory, and Identity in Post-Soviet Estonia: The End of a Collective Farm by Sigrid Rausing
The Siberian Curse: How Communist Planners Left Russia Out in the Cold by Fiona Hill and Clifford G. Gaddy
James Fenton, Getting Clare Clear
John Clare: A Biography by Jonathan Bate
"I Am": The Selected Poetry of John Clare edited by Jonathan Bate
Mark Danner, Abu Ghraib: The Hidden Story
Final Report of the Independent Panel to Review DoD Detention Operations (The Schlesinger Report) by James R. Schlesinger, Harold Brown, Tillie K. Fowler, and General Charles A. Horner (USAF-Ret.)
AR 15-6 Investigation of the Abu Ghraib Detention Facility and 205th Military Intelligence Brigade by Major General George R. Fay
Letters
Henry Hardy, 'Unfinished Dialogue'
Edward Mendelson, Auden's Wit
The Editors, Correction
Contributors
John Brewerteaches in the Humanities and Social Sciences Division at the California Institute of Technology. His most recent book is A Sentimental Murder: Love and Madness in the Eighteenth Century. (June 2008)
James Chace is the Paul W. Williams Professor of Government and Public Law at Bard College. He is the author of Acheson and, most recently, 1912: The Election That Changed the Country. He is now working on a biography of Lafayette. (October 2004)
Robert Cottrell has served as a Moscow bureau chief for both The Economist and the Financial Times. (June 2007)
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.
Jason Epstein was for many years editorial director of Random House and has written on food for various publications. (March 2008)
James Fenton is the editor of The New Faber Book of Love Poems and D.H. Lawrence’s Selected Poems. (November 2008)
Clifford Geertz is Professor Emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He is the author of, among other works, The Social History of an Indonesian Town and Negara: The Balinese State in the Nineteenth Century. (March 2006)
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.
Michael Kimmelman is chief art critic of The New York Times . He is now based in Berlin, writing the Abroad column for the Times on culture and society across Europe. He is the author of The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa. (September 2008)
Robert Malley was Special Assistant to President Clinton for Arab-Israeli Affairs and Director for Near East and South Asian Affairs on the National Security Council staff from September 1998 to January 2001. He is currently Middle East and North Africa Program Director at the International Crisis Group. (May 2008)
Robin Robertson's Swithering won the 2006 Forward Prize. His translation of Medea will be published in September. (May 2008)
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.
Norman Rush was raised in Oakland, California, and graduated from Swarthmore College in 1956. He has been an antiquarian book dealer, a college instructor, and, with his wife Elsa, he lived and worked in Africa from 1978 to 1983. They now reside in Rockland County, New York. His stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and Best American Short Stories. Whites, a collection of stories, was published in 1986, and his first novel, Mating, the recipient of the National Book Award, was published in 1991. Mortals is his second novel.
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. 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. His most recent novel, The Master, which is based on the life of Henry James, won the Los Angeles Times Novel of the Year Award in 2005 and the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger in France. He lives in Dublin.
