Table of Contents
Volume 51, Number 19 · December 2, 2004
John Updike, Making Faces 
Gilbert Stuart Catalog of the exhibition by Carrie Rebora Barratt and Ellen G. Miles
Henry Siegman, Sharon and the Future of Palestine
Monica Ferrell, Knut Hamsun's Night of Fire (poem)
Robert Gottlieb, The Art of Pleasing
Margot Fonteyn: A Life by Meredith Daneman
David Lodge, The End of the Affair
The Life of Graham Greene,Volume Three: 1955–1991 by Norman Sherry
Alan Ryan, Faith-Based History
The Roads to Modernity: The British, French, and American Enlightenments by Gertrude Himmelfarb
Anita Desai, Backstage in the Tropics
The Hamilton Case by Michelle de Kretser
Richard Rothstein, Must Schools Fail?
No Excuses: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning by Abigail and Stephan Thernstrom
Black American Students in an Affluent Suburb: A Study of Academic Disengagement by John U. Ogbu, with Astrid Davis
Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life by Annette Lareau
Whitewashing Race: The Myth of a Color-Blind Society by Michael K. Brown and others
There Are No Shortcuts by Rafe Esquith
Final Test: The Battle for Adequacy in America's Schools by Peter Schrag
City Schools and the American Dream: Reclaiming the Promise of Public Education by Pedro A. Noguera
Anthony Grafton, The Ways of Genius
The Newtonian Moment: Science and the Making of Modern Culture
The Newtonian Moment: Isaac Newton and the Making of Modern Culture Catalog of the exhibition by Mordechai Feingold
Orlando Figes, What a Disaster!
Moscow 1812: Napoleon's Fatal March by Adam Zamoyski
Ronald Steel, James Chace (1931–2004)
Jonathan Mirsky, Destroying the Dharma
A Tibetan Revolutionary: The Political Life and Times of Bapa Phüntso Wangye by Melvyn C. Goldstein, Dawei Sherap, and William R. Siebenschuh
When the Sky Fell to Earth: The New Crackdown on Buddhism in Tibet a report by the International Campaign for Tibet
Mark Ford, Surprise! Surprise! (poem)
Return to the City of White Donkeys by James Tate
Daniel Mendelsohn, For the Birds
Frogs by Aristophanes, adapted by Burt Shevelove and Nathan Lane, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and directed by Susan Stroman
John Banville, The Missing Link
Langrishe, Go Down by Aidan Higgins
A Bestiary by Aidan Higgins
Flotsam & Jetsam by Aidan Higgins
Brad Leithauser, Anthony Hecht (1923–2004)
Anthony Hecht, Declensions (poem)
Amartya Sen, Passage to China
Letters
Albion M. Urdank, Stanley Hoffmann, 'Out of Iraq'
Fred Inglis, Query
Contributors
John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He is the author of many novels, including The Book of Evidence, The Untouchable, and Eclipse. Banville's novel The Sea was awarded the 2005 Man Booker Prize. On occasion he writes under the pen name Benjamin Black.
Anita Desai's most recent novel is The Zigzag Way. (March 2009)
Monica Ferrell is a recent Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford. (December 2004)
Orlando Figes is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, London University. His latest book is The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia. (April 2009)
Mark Ford teaches in the English Department at University College London. His most recent collection of poetry, Soft Sift, takes its title from Gerard Manley Hopkins's "The Wreck of the Deutschland. " This year he has published editions of the poetry of Frank O'Hara and John Ashbery. (January 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)
Anthony Grafton teaches the history of Renaissance Europe at Princeton University. His books include Joseph Scaliger, Cardano's Cosmos, and Bring Out Your Dead.
Anthony Hecht'sCollected Later Poems and Melodies Unheard: Essays on the Mysteries of Poetry were published in 2003. He died on October 20. (December 2004)
Brad Leithauser is a novelist, poet, and essayist. He lives in
Massachusetts.
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.
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)
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)
Richard Rothstein is a research associate at the Economic Policy Institute and a visiting professor at Teachers College, Columbia University. He is the author of Class and Schools, published earlier this year. (December 2004)
Alan Ryan is Warden of New College, Oxford, and the author of biographies of John Stuart Mill, Bertrand Russell, and John Dewey. (October 2008)
Amartya Sen is Lamont University Professor at Harvard. He received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998. His
most recent book is Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny. (March 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)
Ronald Steel is Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California, a recent fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, and the author of biographies of Walter Lippmann and Robert Kennedy. (June 2006)
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.
