Table of Contents
Volume 52, Number 1 · January 13, 2005
Sister Helen Prejean, Death in Texas
Colm Tóibín, The Comedy of Being English 
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
Tim Judah, The Stakes in Darfur
Jennifer Schuessler, Family Values
The Love Wife by Gish Jen
W.S. Merwin, Gray Herons in the Field above the River (poem)
Charles Rosen, Henri Zerner, Red-Hot MoMA
The Museum of Modern Art, New York Yoshio Taniguchi, architect
Modern Painting and Sculpture: 1880 to the Present at the Museum of Modern Art edited by John Elderfield
Jonathan Raban, The Truth About Terrorism
America the Vulnerable: How Our Government Is Failing to Protect Us from Terrorism by Stephen Flynn
Fortress America: On the Front Lines of Homeland Security—An Inside Look at the Coming Surveillance State by Matthew Brzezinski
The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States by The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks
Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing the War on Terror by "Anonymous" (Michael Scheuer)
Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror by Richard A. Clarke
The Power of Nightmares by Adam Curtis
Al-Qaeda: Casting a Shadow of Terror by Jason Burke
Pico Iyer, Fairy Tales for Grown-ups
Aryeh Neier, Hero
Defending Human Rights in Russia: Sergei Kovalyov, Dissident and Human Rights Commissioner, 1969–2003 by Emma Gilligan
James Fenton, The Photograph Man
All the Mighty World: The Photographs of Roger Fenton, 1852–1860 Catalog of the exhibition by Gordon Baldwin, Malcolm Daniel, and Sarah Greenough
John R. Searle, Consciousness: What We Still Don't Know
The Quest for Consciousness by Christof Koch
Stephen Kotkin, On Martin Malia (1924–2004)
Robert Gottlieb, Orientally Yours
Anna May Wong: From Laundryman's Daughterto Hollywood Legend by Graham Russell Gao Hodges
Perpetually Cool:The Many Lives of Anna May Wong (1905–1961) by Anthony B. Chan
Daniel Mendelsohn, Alexander, the Movie!
Alexander a film directed by Oliver Stone
Mark Danner, How Bush Really Won
Letters
Richard Nininger, Joyce Carol Oates, Marketing Joe Louis
John-Paul Himka, The Truth about Kaminski
Contributors
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.
James Fenton's new book, School of Genius, a history of the Royal Academy in London, will be published in the US in May. (May 2006)
Robert Gottlieb has been Editor in Chief of Simon and Schuster, Knopf, and The New Yorker. He is the author of George Balanchine: The Ballet Maker and is the dance critic of The New York Observer. (May 2008)
Pico Iyer’s most recent novel is Abandon. A new book, The Open Road, about the fourteenth Dalai Lama and globalism, will be out next spring. (December 2007)
Tim Judah is the author of Kosovo: War and Revenge and The Serbs: History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia. He has reported on the Balkans, Afghanistan, Kurdistan, Iraq, and Sudan for The New York Review. (October 2006)
Stephen Kotkin directs Russian studies at Princeton. He received a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1988 under Martin Malia and Reginald Zelnik, both of whom died this year. (January 2005)
Daniel Mendelsohn, a frequent contributor to The New York Review, is the author, most recently, 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, mostly from these pages, will be published this year. He teaches at Bard. (January 2008)
W.S. Merwin was born in New York City in 1927 and grew up in Union City, New Jersey, and in Scranton, Pennsylvania. From 1949 to 1951 he worked as a tutor in France, Portugal, and Majorca. He has since lived in many parts of the world, most recently on Maui in the Hawaiian Islands. He is the author of many books of poems, prose, and translations and has received both the Pulitzer and the Bollingen Prizes for poetry, among numerous other awards.
Aryeh Neier, former Executive Director of Human Rights Watch, is President of the Open Society Institute. His most recent book is Taking Liberties: Four Decades in the Struggle for Rights. (November 2007)
Sister Helen Prejean is a member of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Medaille and lives in Louisiana. She gives on average 140 lectures a year nationwide, seeking to encourage discussion of the death penalty. She is the author of Dead Man Walking. The article in this issue is adapted from her new book, The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions, to be published by Random House this month. (January 2005)
Jonathan Raban's books include Arabia: A Journey Through the Labrynth, Old Glory, Bad Land, Passage to Juneau, and Waxwings. He is the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Heinemann Award of the Royal Society of Literature, the PEN/West Creative Nonfiction Award, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers' Award, and the Governor's Award of the State of Washington. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, The Guardian, and The Independent. He lives in Seattle.
Charles Rosen's most recent book is Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist. (February 2008)
Jennifer Schuessler is on the staff of The New York Times Book Review. (March 2008)
John R. Searle is Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. His most recent books are Mind: A Brief Introduction and Freedom and Neurobiology. (November 2006)
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.
Henri Zerner, Professor of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard, is the author, most recently, of Renaissance Art in France: The Invention of Classicism and Écrire l'histoire de l'art: Figures d'une discipline. (January 2005)
