Table of Contents
Volume 52, Number 13 · August 11, 2005
Peter W. Galbraith, Iraq: Bush's Islamic Republic 
James Fenton, Yellow Tulips (poem)
Geoffrey O'Brien, Cold Comfort
War of the Worlds a film directed by Steven Spielberg
John Gray, The World Is Round
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman
Alan Hollinghurst, Child of the Century
Quicksands: A Memoir by Sybille Bedford
Christopher de Bellaigue, New Man in Iran
Sherwin B. Nuland, Killing Cures
Madhouse: A Tragic Tale of Megalomania and Modern Medicine by Andrew Scull
The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness by Jack El-Hai
Tim Flannery, Endgame
America's Environmental Report Card: Are We Making the Grade? by Harvey Blatt
Crimes Against Nature: How George W. Bush and His Corporate Pals Are Plundering the Country and Hijacking Our Democracy by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
One with Nineveh: Politics, Consumption, and the Human Future by Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich
Diamond: A Struggle for Environmental Justice in Louisiana's Chemical Corridor by Steve Lerner
Climate Change: Debating America's Policy Options by David G. Victor
The Real Environmental Crisis: Why Poverty, Not Affluence, Is the Environment's Number One Enemy by Jack M. Hollander
Charles Simic, The Solitary Notetaker
Campo Santo by W.G. Sebald, translated from the German by Anthea Bell
Unrecounted by W.G. Sebald, translated from the German by Michael Hamburger, with lithographs by Jan Peter Tripp
Hilary Spurling, Matisse's Pajamas
Lorrie Moore, Love's Wreckage
Ideas of Heaven by Joan Silber
Brian Urquhart, The New American Century?
The Opportunity: America's Moment to Alter History's Course by Richard N. Haass
Michael Kimmelman, The Dreams of Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright by Ada Louise Huxtable
Tim Judah, The Waiting Game in the Balkans
Norman Rush, Heart of Darkness
Max Rodenbeck, The Truth About Jihad
Osama: The Making of a Terrorist by Jonathan Randal
Globalized Islam: The Search for a New Ummah by Olivier Roy
The War for Muslim Minds: Islam and the West by Gilles Kepel,translated from the French by Pascale Ghazaleh
Understanding Terror Networks by Marc Sageman
Landscapes of the Jihad: Militancy, Morality and Modernity by Faisal Devji
Caroline Moorehead, Letter from Darfur
Michael Kinsley, Mark Danner, The Memo, the Press, and the War: An Exchange
D.C. Bergen, Joseph J. Fins, T.A. Madden, et al. The Terri Schiavo Case: An Exchange
Letters
Ahdaf Soueif, Ian Hamilton
R. Emmett Tyrrell, Thomas Frank, The Matter with Democrats
Scott Armstrong, G. Robert Blakey, et al. Blocked
Contributors
James Fenton iis the editor of The New Faber Book of Love Poems and D.H. Lawrence's Selected Poems. (July 2009)
Tim Flannery is a Professor at Macquarie University in Sydney and Chair of the Copenhagen Climate Council. His latest book is Now or Never: Why We Must Act Now to End Climate Change and Create a Sustainable Future. (November 2009)
Peter W. Galbraith, a former US Ambassador to Croatia, is Senior Diplomatic Fellow at the Center for Arms Control and a principal at the Windham Resources Group, which has worked in Iraq. His new book, Unintended Consequences: How War in Iraq Strengthened America's Enemies, has just been released. (October 2008)
John Gray is Professor of European Thought at the London School of Economics. Among his most recent books are Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals, False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism, and Heresies: Against Progress and Other Illusions.
Alan Hollinghurst was born in 1954 in Gloucestershire, England, and attended Magdalen College, Oxford. He is the author of the novels The Swimming-Pool Library, The Folding Star (shortlisted for the Booker Prize), The Spell, The Line of Beauty, as well as of a translation of the play Bajazet by Racine. A former staff member at The Times Literary Supplement, Hollinghurst is a frequent contributor to that and other publications, including The Guardian. Hollinghurst's fourth novel, The Line of Beauty, won the Man Booker Prize in 2004. He lives in London.
Tim Judah is the author of Kosovo: War and Revenge and The Serbs: History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia. He has reported on the Balkans, Afghanistan, Kurdistan, Iraq, and Sudan for The New York Review. (October 2006)
Michael Kimmelman is chief art critic of The New York Times. He is based in Berlin, writing the Abroad column for the Times on culture and society across Europe. (November 2009)
Lorrie Moore teaches at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. She has won the Rea Award and the PEN/Malamud Award for Short Fiction. Her new novel, A Gate at the Stairs, is published this month. (September 2009)
Caroline Moorehead is the author of Gellhorn: A Twentieth-Century Life and Human Cargo: A Journey Among Refugees. Her most recent book, an edition of Martha Gellhorn's letters, appeared in paperback this year. (October 2007)
Sherwin B. Nuland is Clinical Professor of Surgery and a Fellow of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale. He is the author of How We Die, which won the National Book Award in 1994, and Lost in America. (December 2005)
Geoffrey O'Brien is Editor in Chief of the Library of America. He is the author, most recently, of Sonata for Jukebox: An Autobiography of My Ears and Red Sky Café. (September 2009)
Max Rodenbeck is The Economist’s Mideast Correspondent. He lives in Cairo. (November 2009)
Norman Rush was raised in Oakland, California, and graduated from Swarthmore College in 1956. He has been an antiquarian book dealer, a college instructor, and, with his wife Elsa, he lived and worked in Africa from 1978 to 1983. They now reside in Rockland County, New York. His stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and Best American Short Stories. Whites, a collection of stories, was published in 1986, and his first novel, Mating, the recipient of the National Book Award, was published in 1991. Mortals is his second novel.
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.
Hilary Spurling second volume of her two-volume life of Matisse will be published in the US in September. She is also the author of Ivy: The Life of I. Compton-Burnett and The Girl from the Fiction Department: A Portrait of Sonia Orwell. The article in this issue is based on a lecture at the National Gallery, London. (August 2005)
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 Life. (August 2009)
Christopher de Bellaigue was born in London in 1971 and has worked as a journalist in the Middle East and South Asia since 1994. His first book, In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs: A Memoir of Iran, was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize. He lives in Tehran with his wife and two children.
