Table of Contents
Volume 52, Number 4 · March 10, 2005
Pico Iyer, The Buddha's Cure 
An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World by Pankaj Mishra
Paul Krugman, America's Senior Moment
The Coming Generational Storm: What You Need to Know About America's Economic Future by Laurence J. Kotlikoff and Scott Burns
Toni Bentley, The Master
George Balanchine: The Ballet Maker by Robert Gottlieb
All in the Dances: A Brief Life of George Balanchine by Terry Teachout
Mark Strand, Error (poem)
Garry Wills, The Wise Warrior
George Washington Remembers: Reflections on the French and Indian War edited by Fred Anderson
His Excellency: George Washington by Joseph J. Ellis
Andrew Delbanco, Colleges: An Endangered Species?
Stover at Yale by Owen Johnson
The Future of the Public University in America: Beyond the Crossroads by James J. Duderstadt and Farris W. Womack
The Uses of the University by Clark Kerr
Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Bottom Line: The Marketing of Higher Education by David L. Kirp
István Deák, Survival of the Smallest
In Our Hearts We Were Giants: The Remarkable Story of the Lilliput Troupe—A Dwarf Family's Survival of the Holocaust by Yehuda Koren and Eilat Negev
Gabriele Annan, A Very Un-English Childhood
Germs: A Memoir of Childhood by Richard Wollheim
Jeff Madrick, The Producers
They Made America: From the Steam Engine to the Search Engine: Two Centuries of Innovators by Harold Evans, with Gail Buckland and David Lefer
An Empire of Wealth: The Epic History of American Economic Power by John Steele Gordon
Growing Public, Volume 1: Social Spending and Economic Growth Since the Eighteenth Century by Peter H. Lindert
James Fenton, A Snob in the Garden
A Rage for Rock Gardening: The Story of Reginald Farrer, Gardener, Writer and Plant Collector by Nicola Shulman
Edmund S. Morgan, Marie Morgan, Bill of Wrongs
Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism by Geoffrey R. Stone
The People Themselves: Popular Constitutionalism and Judicial Review by Larry D. Kramer
Luc Sante, 'I Is Someone Else'
Chronicles, Volume One by Bob Dylan
Studio A: The Bob Dylan Reader edited by Benjamin Hedin
Lyrics: 1962–2001 by Bob Dylan
Tarantula by Bob Dylan
John Golding, The Artist in Search of Himself
The Artist's Reality: Philosophies of Art by Mark Rothko
Pankaj Mishra, The Real Afghanistan
Paul Cohen, Andrew Hacker, Mark Danner, Bush's Victory: Second Thoughts
Letters
Charles Rosen, Henri Zerner, 'Red-Hot Moma'
Nancy Hoffman, Support the Feminist Press
The Editors, Correction
Contributors
Gabriele Annan is a book and film critic living in London. (March 2006)
Toni Bentley danced with the New York City Ballet for ten years and is the author of Winter Season: A Dancer's Journal, Costumes by Karinska, Sisters of Salome, and, with Suzanne Farrell, Holding On to the Air. Her book The Surrender: An Erotic Memoir was recently published. (March 2005)
István Deák is Seth Low Professor Emeritus at Columbia and the author most recently of Essays on Hitler’s Europe. (June 2008)
Andrew Delbanco is Levi Professor in the Humanities and Director of American Studies at Columbia. He is working on a book on college education, to be published next year. (November 2008)
James Fenton is the editor of The New Faber Book of Love Poems and D.H. Lawrence’s Selected Poems. (November 2008)
John Golding is a painter and writer. His most recent book, Paths to the Absolute, was awarded the Mitchell Prize for the History of Art. (February 2008)
Pico Iyer’s The Open Road , about the fourteenth Dalai Lama and globalism, was published this spring. His essay in this issue will appear, in somewhat different form, as the introduction to a new Penguin Classics edition of The Snow Leopard . (September 2008)
Paul Krugman is a columnist for The New York Times and Professor of Economics and International Affairs at Princeton. He was awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize in Economics. The article in this issue is drawn from The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008, just published by Norton. (December 2008)
Jeff Madrick is editor of Challenge Magazine, Visiting Professor at Cooper Union, and Senior Fellow at the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis at the New School. His book The Case for Big Government will be published this fall. (September 2008)
Pankaj Mishra was born in North India in 1969 and now lives in London and India. He is the author of The Romantics, winner of the Los Angeles Times's Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, and An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and The Guardian. His most recent book is Temptations of the West: How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet, and Beyond.
Edmund S. Morgan is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. His most recent book, The Genuine Article: A Historian Looks at Early America, was published in 2004. (October 2008)
Marie Morgan, author of Chariot of Fire, is a historian of nineteenth-century America who frequently collaborates with Edmund Morgan in the writing of history and the designing and making of furniture. (October 2008)
Luc Sante is the author of Low Life, Evidence, The Factory of Facts, and, most recently, Kill All Your Darlings: Pieces 1990–2005. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and teaches writing and the history of photography at Bard College.
Mark Strand teaches in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia. His most recent book is New Selected Poems. (March 2008)
Garry Wills was born in Atlanta, Georgia. One of our most distinguished
historians and critics, he is the author of numerous books, including Saint Augustine, Papal
Sin, and the Pulitzer Prize–winning Lincoln at Gettysburg. He has won many other awards,
among them two National Book Critics Circle Awards and the 1998 National Medal for the Humanities.
He is currently Professor of History Emeritus at Northwestern University. A regular contributor
to the New York Review of Books, he lives in Evanston, Illinois.
