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
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
Contributors
Al Alvarez's most recent book is Risky Business, a selection of essays, many of which first appeared in The New York Review of Books.
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 in paperback in March. (November 2009)
Alison Lurie is a former Professor of English at Cornell. Her most recent novel is Truth and Consequences.
Fiona Maccarthy is the author of biographies of Eric Gill, William Morris, and Byron. Her most recent book is Last Curtsey: The End of the Debutantes. She is currently writing a biography of Edward Burne-Jones.
(September 2009)
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 Abraham Lincoln.
(September 2009)
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)
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. (September 2009)
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), Intelligence Wars: American Secret History from Hitler to al-Qaeda (2002; revised and expanded edition, 2004), 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.
