Table of Contents

Volume 52, Number 2 · February 10, 2005

Frederick C. Crews, Kafka Up Close

Franz Kafka: The Necessity of Form by Stanley Corngold

Lambent Traces: Franz Kafka by Stanley Corngold

Franz Kafka: The Jewish Patient by Sander L. Gilman

Kafka: Gender, Class, and Race in the Letters and Fictions by Elizabeth Boa

K. by Roberto Calasso, translated from the Italian by Geoffrey Brock

Sanford Schwartz, Ladies in Satin

Gerard ter Borch Catalog of the exhibition edited by Arthur K. Wheelock Jr.

Elizabeth Hardwick, Susan Sontag (1933–2004)

Hussein Agha, Robert Malley, The Last Palestinian

Joe Kane, The Boy Who Nearly Won the Texaco Art Competition (poem)

Michael Chabon, Inventing Sherlock Holmes

The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, Volumes 1 and 2 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, edited with a foreword and notesby Leslie S. Klinger, and with an introduction by John le Carré

Robert Cottrell, The Emperor Putin

Cold Peace: Russia's New Imperialism by Janusz Bugajski

Inside Putin's Russia: Can There be Reform Without Democracy? by Andrew Jack

Al Alvarez, Life Studies

Runaway by Alice Munro

Nicholas D. Kristof, The Hermit Nuclear Kingdom

Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader: North Korea and the Kim Dynasty by Bradley K. Martin

Nuclear North Korea: A Debate on Engagement Strategies by Victor D. Cha and David C. Kang

Hilary Mantel, Voices in the Dark

Women Writing Africa: The Southern Region edited by M.J. Daymond, Dorothy Driver, Sheila Meintjes, Leloba Molema, Chiedza Musengezi, Margie Orford, and Nobantu Rasebotsa

Mike Wallace, That Hamilton Man

Alexander Hamilton: The Man Who Made Modern America

Patrick Radden Keefe, Quartermasters of Terror

Blood from Stones: The Secret Financial Network of Terror by Douglas Farah

Tony Judt, Europe vs. America

The United States of Europe: The New Superpower and the End of American Supremacy by T.R. Reid

The European Dream: How Europe's Vision of the Future Is Quietly Eclipsing the American Dream by Jeremy Rifkin

Free World: America, Europe, and the Surprising Future of the West by Timothy Garton Ash

G. Jan Ligthart, Robert S. Rivkin, Mark Danner, Torture and Gonzales: An Exchange

Geoffrey Cohen, Kurt Gottfried, Max Peltier, et al. On Fraud in Science: An Exchange

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Letters

Robert N. Bellah, McCarthyism at Harvard
Peter Savodnik, Ukraine: the Washington Connection
Kenneth L. Woodward, David Lodge, Graham Greene & the Stigmata
Turki Al-Faisal, Max Rodenbeck, 'Unloved in Arabia'
Harvey Cox, Support the Troops
Daniel Mendelsohn, Correction
Kenneth L. Woodward, It Was the Early Fifties

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Contributors

Hussein Agha is Senior Associate Member of St. Antony’s College, Oxford. He is the author, with A.S. Khalidi, of A Framework for a Palestinian National Security Doctrine. (December 2009)

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.

Michael Chabon is the author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay and the children's book, Summerland. He lives in Berkeley, California.

Robert Cottrell has served as a Moscow bureau chief for both The Economist and the Financial Times. (June 2007)

Frederick Crews's most recent book is Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays. (December 2007)

Elizabeth Hardwick (1916-2007) was a frequent contributor to Partisan Review, The New Yorker, and The New York Review of Books, which she helped found in 1963. Her books include the novels The Simple Truth, The Ghostly Lover, and Sleepless Nights (NYRB Classics); the essay collections A View of My Own and Seduction and Betrayal (NYRB Classics).

Tony Judt directs the Remarque Institute at NYU and is the author of Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945. His latest book, Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century, was recently reissued in paperback. (September 2009)

Joe Kane lives in Donegal, Ireland. His poem in this issue won the Duncan Lawrie first prize in the twelfth Arvon International Poetry Competition, organized by the Arvon Foundation. (February 2005)

Patrick Radden Keefe is a project leader at the World Policy Institute and the author of Chatter: Dispatches from the Secret World of Global Eavesdropping. (May 2005)

Nicholas D. Kristof is a columnist for The New York Times and the coauthor, with his wife, Sheryl WuDunn, of Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, forthcoming in September.

Robert Malley was Special Assistant to President Clinton for Arab–Israeli Affairs and Director for Near East and South Asian Affairs on the National Security Council staff. He is currently Middle East and North Africa Program Director at the International Crisis Group. (December 2009)

Hilary Mantel is the author of nine novels, including Beyond Black. Her new novel, Wolf Hall, will be published in the US this month. (November 2009)

Sanford Schwartz is the author of Christen Købke and William Nicholson. (November 2009)

Mike Wallace is coauthor of Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898, author of A New Deal for New York, Distinguished Professor at John Jay College (CUNY), and Director of the Gotham Center for New York City History. He is working on Gotham II. (February 2005)

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