Table of Contents
Volume 52, Number 11 · June 23, 2005
Jonathan Raban, A Tragic Grandeur 
The Letters of Robert Lowell edited by Saskia Hamilton
Ian Buruma, Virtual Violence
The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa by Yasunari Kawabata, translated from the Japanese by Alisa Freedman, with a foreword and afterword by Donald Richie and illustrations by Ota Saburo
Little Boy: The Arts of Japan's Exploding Subculture Catalog of the exhibition edited by Murakami Takashi
Peter France, The Pleasure of Their Company
The Age of Conversation by Benedetta Craveri, translated from the Italian by Teresa Waugh
Diane Johnson, In Love with Jane
A Fine Brush on Ivory: An Appreciation of Jane Austen by Richard Jenkyns
Novel Relations: The Transformation of Kinshipin English Literature and Culture, 1748–1818 by Ruth Perry
Jane Austen by Darryl Jones
Searching for Jane Austen by Emily Auerbach
Jane Austen and the Enlightenment by Peter Knox-Shaw
Jane Austen and the Romantic Poets by William Deresiewicz
Elizabeth Drew, Selling Washington
David Gilmour, The Great Victorian Abroad
David Livingstone: Mission and Empire by Andrew Ross
Pankaj Mishra, The Wilderness of Solitude
Maps for Lost Lovers by Nadeem Aslam
Alan Ryan, Waiting for Gordon Brown
Constantine Cavafy, Philhellene (poem)
Cathleen Schine, Another Neverland
Jerry Engels by Thomas Rogers
At the Shores by Thomas Rogers
Richard Crampton, Wonderful Town?
Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430–1950 by Mark Mazower
David Hajdu, The Royal Blues
Queen: The Life and Music of Dinah Washington by Nadine Cohodas
Mark Lilla, Slouching Toward Athens
From Athens to Auschwitz: The Uses of History by Christian Meier, translated from the German by Deborah Lucas Schneider
Louis Begley, The Custom of the Country
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
Mark Danner, What Are You Going to Do with That?
Letters
David Elstein, The End of the Mau Mau
Stevan Harnad, John R. Searle, What Is Consciousness?
Lee Siegel, Benjamin Kunkel, 'The Lost Girl'
John Sutherland, John Banville, Squash
Glenn F. Benge, Ernst's Elephant
James Fenton, Clare Was Right
Daniel Mendelsohn, She Was from Seattle
The Editors, Correction
Contributors
Louis Begley is a novelist and retired lawyer. He has written eight novels, including Wartime Lies, About Schmidt, and Matters of Honor, which was published in 2007. He is a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres of France and served as the president of American pen from 1993 to 1995. He lives in New York with his wife, Anka Muhlstein, an historian of France.
Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard. He received this year’s Shorenstein Award for writing about Asia. His novel The China Lover will be published this fall. (June 2008)
Constantine Cavafy was born in Alexandria in 1863 and died there in 1933. He wrote most of his poems while employed in the Third Circle of Irrigation of the Ministry of Public Works. (June 2005)
Richard Crampton is Professor of East European History and Fellow of St. Edmund Hall, Oxford. He is the author of Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century, The Balkans Since the Second World War, and a number of histories of Bulgaria. (June 2005)
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.
Elizabeth Drew, who lives in Washington, is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books. She is the author of twelve books.
Peter France is Professor Emeritus of French at the University of Edinburgh, the author of Politeness and Its Discontents, and the editor of The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French. (June 2005)
David Gilmour is the author of The Last Leopard: A Life of Giuseppe di Lampedusa, which was published in a revised and enlarged edition last year. He has written biographies of Rudyard Kipling and Lord Curzon. (June 2008)
David Hajdu, author of Lush Life and Positively 4th Street, teaches at Syracuse University and is music critic for The New Republic. (June 2005)
Diane Johnson’s new novel, Lulu in Marrakech, will be published this month. (October 2008)
Mark Lilla is Professor at the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He is the author of G.B. Vico: The Making of an Anti-Modern (1993) and the editor of New French Thought: Political Philosophy (1991). His latest book is The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics, and the Modern West.
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.
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.
Alan Ryan is Warden of New College, Oxford, and the author of biographies of John Stuart Mill, Bertrand Russell, and John Dewey. (October 2008)
Cathleen Schine is the author of seven novels, including Rameau's Niece, The Love Letter, She is Me, and the forthcoming The New Yorkers. She is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books.
