Table of Contents
Volume 52, Number 6 · April 7, 2005
Anthony Lewis, More Than Fit to Print
Inside the Pentagon Papers edited by John Prados and Margaret Pratt Porter
Andrew Butterfield, The Homer of Painting 
Drawn by the Brush: Oil Sketches by Peter Paul Rubens Catalog of the exhibition by Peter C. Sutton and Marjorie E. Wieseman with Nico van Hout
Peter Paul Rubens: The Drawings Catalog of the exhibition by Anne-Marie Logan, with Michiel C. Plomp
Barry Goldensohn, The Hundred Yard Dash Man (poem)
J.M. Coetzee, The Making of William Faulkner
One Matchless Time: A Life of William Faulkner by Jay Parini
Neal Ascherson, The Breaking of the Mau Mau
Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya by Caroline Elkins
Histories of the Hanged: The Dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire by David Anderson
John Leonard, Welcome to New Dork
Men and Cartoons by Jonathan Lethem
The Disappointment Artist by Jonathan Lethem
The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
John Lukacs, The Siege of Budapest
Margaret Atwood, After the Last Battle
Visa for Avalon by Bryher, with an introduction by Susan McCabe
Patricia Storace, A Double Life in Black and White
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi
Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return by Marjane Satrapi
John Brewer, The First Thatcherite?
William Pitt the Younger by William Hague
Charles Simic, Angels on the Laundry Line
Collected Poems, 1943–2004 by Richard Wilbur
Larry McMurtry, The Grand Acquisitors
The Big Picture: The New Logic of Money and Power in Hollywood by Edward Jay Epstein
Tim Parks, The Illusionist
Mussolini: A New Life by Nicholas Farrell
Mussolini by R.J.B. Bosworth
On the Fiery March: Mussolini Prepares for War by G. Bruce Strang
Darryl Pinckney, The Hunted
God's Gym by John Edgar Wideman
William Dalrymple, India: The War Over History
Shivaji: Hindu King in Islamic India by James W. Laine
Beyond Nationalist Frames: Postmodernism, Hindu Fundamentalism, History by Sumit Sarkar
Beyond Turk and Hindu: Rethinking Religious Identities in Islamicate South Asia edited by David Gilmartin and Bruce B. Lawrence
History in the New NCERT Textbooks: A Report and Index of Errors by Irfan Habib, Suvira Jaiswal, and Aditya Mukherjee
The Myth of the Holy Cow by Dwijendra Narayan Jha
A History of India, Volume 2 by Percival Spear
Early India: From the Origins to AD 1300 by Romila Thapar
Ganesha: Lord of Obstacles, Lord of Beginnings by Paul Courtright
Roger Shattuck, The Shame of the Schools
Ian Hacking, A New Way to See a Leaf
Mindsight: Image, Dream, Meaning by Colin McGinn
Thomas Powers, The Indians' Own Story
A Forest of Time: American Indian Ways of History by Peter Nabokov
For All to See: The Little Bighorn Battle in Plains Indian Art by Sandra L. Brizée-Bowen
Restoring a Presence: American Indians and Yellowstone National Park by Peter Nabokov and Lawrence Loendorf
Silver Horn: Master Illustrator of the Kiowas by Candace S. Greene, with a foreword by Donald Tofpi
James C. Goodale, The Flawed Report on Dan Rather
Report of the Independent Review Panel on the September 8, 2004 60 Minutes Wednesday Segment "For the Record" Concerning President Bush's Texas Air National Guard Service by Dick Thornburgh and Louis D. Boccardi
Stanley Corngold, Benno Wagner, Frederick C. Crews, 'Kafka Up Close': An Exchange
Letters
Scott Burns, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, et al. A Problem & a Crisis
Sean Naylor, Not in the Army
The Editors, Corrections
Contributors
Neal Ascherson is the author of The Struggles for Poland, The Black Sea, and Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland. He is the editor of the journal Public Archaeology at University College London. (November 2007)
Margaret Atwood is the author of eleven novels, among them The Handmaid’s Tale, Cat’s Eye, Alias Grace, and The Blind Assassin. Her most recent works of fiction are Oryx and Crake, The Tent, and Moral Disorder. (December 2006)
John Brewer teaches in the Humanities and Social Sciences Division at the California Institute of Technology. His latest book, A Sentimental Murder: Love and Madness in the Eighteenth Century, was recently published in paperback. (November 2006)
Andrew Butterfield is President of Andrew Butterfield Fine Arts. He is the author of The Sculptures of Andrea del Verrocchio. (April 2008)
J. M. Coetzee, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 2003, is currently Visiting Professor of Humanities at the University of Adelaide. His latest novel, Diary of a Bad Year, was published in December. (March 2008)
William Dalrymple is the author of The White Mughals, which won the 2003 Wolfson Prize for History, and The Last Mughal, which won the 2007 Duff Cooper Memorial Prize. He lives in New Delhi. (May 2008)
Barry Goldensohn is the author of five collections of poems: St. Venus Eve, Uncarving the Block, The Marrano, Dance Music, and, with his wife, Lorrie, East Long Pond. (April 2005)
James C. Goodale, an Adjunct Professor at Fordham Law School, is the former Vice Chairman and General Counsel of The New York Times and represented the newspaper in the Pentagon Papers case. He is Host/Producer of the TV program The Digital Age. An earlier version of the article in this issue appeared in the New York Law Journal. (April 2005)
Ian Hacking holds the chair of Philosophy and History of Scientific Concepts at the Collège de France. His most recent book is Historical Ontology. (April 2005)
John Leonard writes on books every month for Harper’s and on television every week for New York magazine. (June 2007)
Anthony Lewis, a former columnist for The New York Times, has twice won the Pulitzer Prize. His book Freedom for the Thought We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment was published this year. (May 2008)
John Lukacs was born in Budapest in 1924. He has written twenty-five works of history and criticism, including Budapest 1900: A Historical Portrait of a City and It's Culture; Historical Consciousness: Or, The Remembered Past; The Duel: The Eighty-Day Struggle Between Churchill and Hitler; and, most recently, George Kennan: A Study of Character.
Larry McMurtry is the author of twenty-four novels, including The Last Picture Show, Terms of Endearment, Lonesome Dove, winner of the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and, most recently, Folly and Glory. His nonfiction works include a biography of Crazy Horse, Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen, Paradise, and Sacagawea’s Nickname: Essays on the American West (published by New York Review Books). He lives in Archer City, Texas.
Tim Parks, a novelist, essayist, and translator, is Associate Professor of English Literature at IULM University in Milan. His novel Cleaver was published in February. (April 2008)
Darryl Pinckney is the author of a novel, High Cotton, and Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature.
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.
Roger Shattuck is the author of Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography. He has most recently edited new editions of two books by Helen Keller. He is University Professor Emeritus at Boston University. (May 2005)
Charles Simic is a poet, essayist and translator. He has published twenty collections of his own poetry, five books of essays, a memoir, and numerous of books of translations. He has received many literary awards for his poems and his translations, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Griffin Prize and the MacArthur Fellowship. Voice at 3 A.M., his selected later and new poems, was published in 2003 and a new book of poems My Noiseless Entourage came out in the spring of 2005.
Patricia Storace is the author of Heredity, a book of poems, and Dinner with Persephone, a travel memoir about Greece and Sugar Cane a children's book. She lives in New York.
