Table of Contents
Volume 51, Number 18 · November 18, 2004
J.M. Coetzee, What Philip Knew 
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
Samantha Power, A Hero of Our Time
Russell Baker, A Great Reporter at Large
Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer by A.J. Liebling, with an introduction by David Remnick
The Telephone Booth Indian by A.J. Liebling, with an introduction by Luc Sante
Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris by A.J. Liebling, with an introduction by James Salter
The Sweet Science by A.J. Liebling, with a foreword by Robert Anasi
Brad Leithauser, Zodiac: a Farewell (poem)
Pankaj Mishra, Bombay: The Lower Depths
Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found by Suketu Mehta
John Lanchester, In Sparkworld
The Finishing School by Muriel Spark
Eugenio Montale, After a Flight (poem)
Joyce Carol Oates, 'The Man with the Golden Smile'
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson by Geoffrey C. Ward
John Updike, Libido Lite
Garry Wills, What Is a Just War?
Arguing About War by Michael Walzer
Robert Gottlieb, Becky in the Movies
Vanity Fair a film directed by Mira Nair
Richard C. Lewontin, Dishonesty in Science
Scientific Integrity in Policymaking: An Investigation into the Bush Administration's Misuse of Science a report by the Union of Concerned Scientists
The Great Betrayal: Fraud in Science by Horace Freeland Judson
Rosemary Dinnage, Lessons of the Master
Author, Author by David Lodge
Gordon S. Wood, What Slavery Was Really Like
Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World by Trevor Burnard
Landon Carter's Uneasy Kingdom: Revolution and Rebellion on a Virginia Plantation by Rhys Isaac
Gabriele Annan, Love in Upper Bohemia
The Rare and the Beautiful: The Art, Loves, and Lives of the Garman Sisters by Cressida Connolly
Pico Iyer, The Perfect Traveler
David Cole, Uncle Sam Is Watching You
The Intruders: Unreasonable Searches and Seizures from King John to John Ashcroft by Samuel Dash
The Naked Crowd: Reclaiming Security and Freedom in an Anxious Age by Jeffrey Rosen
Letters
E.L. Doctorow, Jirí Grusa, et al. Paul Klebnikov
Marina Warner, Benjamin Moser, Eckhout in Brazil
Nancy Brach, Russell Baker, Der FÜHrer's Face
Gerard DiSenso, Reading Hopkins
Andrew I. Killgore, A Letter from US Diplomats to George W. Bush
William H. McNeill, Alive!
Michael W. Flamm, Query
The Editors, Correction
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.
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)
David Cole is Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center. He is the award-winning author of several books, including Less Safe, Less Free: Why America Is Losing the War on Terror (with Jules Lobel, 2007) and Enemy Aliens: Double Standards and Constitutional Freedoms in the War on Terrorism (2003).
Rosemary Dinnage's books include The Ruffian on the Stair, One to One: Experiences of Psychotherapy, and Annie Besant.
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)
Pico Iyer’s The Open Road, about the fourteenth Dalai Lama and globalism, was published in paperback in March. (November 2009)
John Lanchester's most recent book is a memoir, Family Romance. (March 2007)
Brad Leithauser is a novelist, poet, and essayist. He lives in
Massachusetts.
Richard C. Lewontin is Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Professor of Biology at Harvard University. He is the author of The Genetic Basis of Evolutionary Change and Biology as Ideology, and the co-author of The Dialectical Biologist (with Richard Levins) and Not in Our Genes (with Steven Rose and Leon Kamin).
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.
Eugenio Montale was born in Genoa in 1896 and died in 1981. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1975. (November 2004)
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)
Samantha Power is the Anna Lindh Professor of the Practice of Global Leadership at Harvard's Kennedy School. Her latest book, Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World, was published in February. (August 2008)
John Updike was born in 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania. In 1954 he began to publish in The New Yorker, where he continued to contribute short stories, poems, and criticism until his death in 2009. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, among other awards. His last books were the novel The Widows of Eastwick and Due Considerations, a collection of his essays and criticism.
Garry Wills is Professor of History Emeritus at Northwestern. His most recent book, What Jesus Meant, was published in 2006.
Gordon Wood is the Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History at Brown. A collection of his essays, The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History, was published in March. (May 2008)
