Table of Contents

Volume 51, Number 20 · December 16, 2004

Chris Hedges, On War

Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America and the New Face of American War by Evan Wright

The Fall of Baghdad by Jon Lee Anderson

Ingrid D. Rowland, The Magician

Raphael: From Urbino to Rome Catalog of the exhibition by Hugh Chapman, Tom Henry, and Carol Plazzota, with contributions from Arnold Nesselrath and Nicholas Penny

Amos Elon, In Abraham's Vineyard

A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz, translated from the Hebrew by Nicholas de Lange

Michael Massing, Iraq, the Press and the Election

Peter Holland, Mystery Man

Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt

Daniel Mendelsohn, Pictures from an Institution

I Am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe

Geoffrey O'Brien, The Man in the Smoking Jacket

Cary Grant: A Biography by Marc Eliot

Cary Grant: In Name Only by Gary Morecambe and Martin Sterling

Thomas Powers, Secret Intelligence and the 'War on Terror'

Constantine Cavafy, Nero's Deadline (poem)

John Banville, Sentimental Education

Villages by John Updike

Alison Lurie, The Royal Family

The Story of Babar by Jean de Brunhoff

The Travels of Babar by Jean de Brunhoff

Babar the King by Jean de Brunhoff

Babar and Zephir by Jean de Brunhoff

Babar's Picnic by Laurent de Brunhoff

Babar's Visit to Bird Island by Laurent de Brunhoff

Babar Comes to America by Laurent de Brunhoff

Babar Loses His Crown by Laurent de Brunhoff

Babar Visits Another Planet by Laurent de Brunhoff

Babar and the Wully-Wully by Laurent de Brunhoff

Babar's Mystery by Laurent de Brunhoff

Babar and the Ghost by Laurent de Brunhoff

Babar's Little Girl Makes a Friend by Laurent de Brunhoff

Babar's Battle by Laurent de Brunhoff

The Rescue of Babar by Laurent de Brunhoff

Babar's Museum of Art by Laurent de Brunhoff

Bonhomme by Laurent de Brunhoff

Animal Land: The Creatures of Children's Fiction by Margaret Blount

The Empire's Old Clothes: What the Lone Ranger, Babar, and Other Innocent Heroes Do to Our Minds by Ariel Dorfman

The Art of Babar by Nicholas Fox Weber

Jean and Laurent de Brunhoff: The Legacy of Babar by Ann Meinzen Hildebrand

Should We Burn Babar? Essays on Children's Literature and the Power of Stories by Herbert Kohl

Fiona MacCarthy, Notes from Underground

The Italian Boy: A Tale of Murder and Body Snatching in 1830s London by Sarah Wise

Keith Gessen, Subversive Activities

Angels on the Head of a Pin by Yuri Druzhnikov, translated from the Russian by Thomas Moore

Ice (Lyod) by Vladimir Sorokin

The Dialectics of the Transition Period from Nowhere to Nothing (Dialektika Perehodnogo Perioda iz Niotkuda v Nikuda) by Viktor Pelevin

James M. McPherson, Specimen Days

Freedom Rising: Washington in the Civil War by Ernest B. Furgurson

Pico Iyer, Summing Him Up

Somerset Maugham: A Life by Jeffrey Meyers

Al Alvarez, A Double Bind

The Jews of Britain, 1656 to 2000 by Todd M. Endelman

A Double Thread: Growing Up English and Jewish in London by John Gross

Caroline Fraser, Confidence Games

The Silver Screen by Maureen Howard

Simon Head, Inside the Leviathan

Wal-Mart: Template for 21st Century Capitalism? edited by Nelson Lichtenstein

US Productivity Growth, 1995–2000, Section VI: Retail Trade a report by the McKinsey Global Institute

Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Workers' Rights at Wal-Mart by Liza Featherstone

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich

Betty Dukes, Patricia Surgeson, Cleo Page et al., Plaintiff, vs. Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Defendant: Declarations in Support of Plaintiffs

Everyday Low Wages: The Hidden Price We All Pay for Wal-Mart a report by the Democratic Staff of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce

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Letters

Lawrence Sincich, Marcia Angell, The Drug Companies and the Universities
Jean Bethke Elshtain, Garry Wills, 'Arguing about War'
Thomas Melvin, Robert Gottlieb, Passage to India
Arthur Naiman, Lewis Lockwood, The Mendelssohn Children

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Contributors

Al Alvarez's most recent book is Risky Business, a selection of essays, many of which first appeared in these pages. (May 2008)

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.

Constantine Cavafy was born in Alexandria in 1863 and died there in 1933. He wrote most of his poems while employed in the Third Circle of Irrigation of the Ministry of Public Works. (June 2005)

Amos Elon's most recent book is The Pity of It All: German Jews Before Hitler. He is a Fellow at the Center for Law and Security at NYU. (February 2008)

Caroline Fraser is the author of God's Perfect Child: Living and Dying in the Christian Science Church. (December 2004)

Keith Gessen is a contributing editor at New York magazine. He is also co-editor of n+1, a new journal of literature and politics. (September 2005)

Simon Head is a Senior Fellow at the Rothermere American Institute at Oxford. His most recent book is The New Ruthless Economy: Work and Power in the Digital Age. (August 2007)

Chris Hedges a reporter for The New York Times, was a war correspondent for nearly two decades in Central America, Africa, the Middle East, and the Balkans. He is the author of War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning. His new book, Losing Moses on the Freeway: America's Broken Covenant with the Ten Commandments, will be published in June 2005. (December 2004)

Peter Holland holds the McMeel Family Chair in Shakespeare Studies in the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame. He wrote the entry on Shakespeare in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. (December 2004)

Pico Iyer’s The Open Road, about the fourteenth Dalai Lama and globalism, was published this spring. (June 2008)

Alison Lurie is the author of two collections of essays on children’s literature, Don’t Tell the Grownups and Boys and Girls Forever. She is a former professor of English at Cornell and has published nine novels, of which the most recent is Truth and Consequences. (May 2008)

Fiona Maccarthy is the author of biographies of Eric Gill and William Morris. Her most recent book is Byron: Life and Legend. (December 2005)

Michael Massing, a contributing editor of the Columbia Journalism Review, writes frequently on the press and foreign affairs.

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)

Daniel Mendelsohn, is the author of The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Prix Médicis Étranger in France. A collection of his essays, How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken, mostly from these pages, will be published in August. He teaches at Bard. (June 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)

Thomas Powers is the author of The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA (1979), Heisenberg's War: The Secret History of the German Bomb (1993), and The Confirmation (2000), a novel. He won a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1971 and has contributed to The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, Harper's, The Nation, The Atlantic, and Rolling Stone.

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.

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