Table of Contents
Volume 52, Number 9 · May 26, 2005
John Updike, Beyond Real 
Max Ernst: A Retrospective Catalog of the exhibition edited by Werner Spies and Sabine Rewald
Ghost Ships: A Surrealist Love Triangle by Robert McNab, with a preface by Werner Spies
Surrealism USA Catalog of the exhibitionedited by Isabelle Dervaux
Pankaj Mishra, A Cautionary Tale for Americans
The Bullet's Song: Romantic Violence and Utopia by William Pfaff
John Balaban, Soldier Home (poem)
John Banville, A Day in the Life
Saturday by Ian McEwan
Jeff Madrick, A Mind of His Own
John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, His Politics, His Economics by Richard Parker
Roger Shattuck, In the Thick of Things
Malraux: A Life by Olivier Todd, translated from the French by Joseph West
André Malraux: A Biography by Curtis Cate
Signed, Malraux by Jean-François Lyotard,translated from the French by Robert Harvey
Communism and the French Intellectuals, 1914–1960 by David Caute
Writers on the Left: Episodes in American Literary Communism by Daniel Aaron
Paris Journal, 1944–1965 by Janet Flanner (Genêt), edited by William Shawn
L'État culturel: Une religion moderne (The Culture State: Essay on a Modern Religion) by Marc Fumaroli
Mona Lisa's Escort: André Malraux and the Reinvention of French Culture by Herman Lebovics
The God That Failed edited by R.H.S. Crossman
Malraux and Corniglion-Molinier in Search of Sheba: An Arabian Adventure by Walter G. Langlois
Daniel Mendelsohn, Victims on Broadway
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, directed by David Leveaux
Brian Urquhart, Humanitarianism Is Not Enough
The Turbulent Decade: Confronting the Refugee Crises of the 1990s by Sadako Ogata
Gary Shteyngart, Adventures of a True Believer
Monumental Propaganda by Vladimir Voinovich, translated from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield
Guy Lawson, Sorrows of a Hero
Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda by Roméo Dallaire, with a foreword by Samantha Power
P.N. Furbank, The Scientific Takeover
Science and Polity in France: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Years by Charles Coulston Gillispie
Patrick Radden Keefe, Cat-and-Mouse Games
Code Names: Deciphering US Military Plans, Programs, and Operations in the 9/11 World by William M. Arkin
Amos Elon, The Ghost City
Alexandria: City of Memory by Michael Haag
Keith Thomas, Politics: Looking for Liberty
Visions of Politics by Quentin Skinner
Republicanism: A Shared European Heritage edited by Martin van Gelderen and Quentin Skinner
Quentin Skinner: History, Politics, Rhetoric by Kari Palonen
David Brion Davis, Louise Mirrer, Mike Wallace, 'That Hamilton Man': An Exchange
Letters
Leon J. Kamin, McCarthyism at Harvard, cont'd
Jerome E. Groopman, Helen Epstein, God and Aids
George Hill, Helen Epstein, God, Aids & Circumcision
Brent D. Byers, Peter Savodnik, Ukraine & the Us
Shlomo Avineri, Amos Elon, Amos Oz and the Darkness of Europe
Contributors
John Balaban is Poet-in-Residence at North Carolina State University. His books include Locusts at the Edge of Summer: New and Selected Poems and a memoir of his years in Vietnam, Remembering Heaven's Face. (May 2005)
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.
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)
P. N. Furbank is the author of Diderot and, with W.R. Owens, A Political Biography of Daniel Defoe. (December 2007)
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)
Guy Lawson is a writer-at-large for GQ whose work has also appeared in Harper's, The New York Times Magazine, and the London Observer. (May 2005)
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)
Daniel Mendelsohn, is the author 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, How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken, mostly from these pages, will be published in August. He teaches at Bard. (June 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.
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)
Gary Shteyngart's novel, The Russian Debutante's Handbook, won the Stephen Crane Award for First Fiction and the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction. His next novel, Absurdistan, is forthcoming in 2006. (May 2005)
Keith Thomas is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. His books include Religion and the Decline of Magic, Man and the Natural World, and The Oxford Book of Work. (April 2007)
John Updike was born in 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania. In 1954 he began to publish in The New Yorker, where he continues to contribute short stories, poems, and criticism. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, among other awards. His most recent books are the novel Terrorist and Due Considerations, a collection of his essays and criticism.
Brian Urquhart is a former Undersecretary-General of the United Nations. His books include Hammarskjöld, A Life in Peace and War, and Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey. (June 2008)
