Table of Contents
Volume 52, Number 15 · October 6, 2005
George Friedman, The Ghost City 
Darryl Pinckney, On Our Own
Pankaj Mishra, Massacre in Arcadia
Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie
Tony Judt, From The House of the Dead: On Modern European Memory
Gabriele Annan, When the Russians Came
A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City by Anonymous, translated from the German by Philip Boehm
Robin Robertson, Strindberg in London (poem)
Peter W. Galbraith, Last Chance for Iraq
Marcia Angell, The Body Hunters
The Constant Gardener a film directed by Fernando Meirelles, based on the novel by John le Carré
Alma Guillermoprieto, Don't Cry for Me, Venezuela
Chávez, un hombre que anda por ahí: Una entrevista con Hugo Chávez by Aleida Guevara
Hugo Chávez sin uniforme: Una historia personal by Cristina Marcano and Alberto Barrera Tyszka
Hugo Chávez: The Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela by Richard Gott
La Revolución como espectáculo by Colette Capriles
William L. Taylor, John Roberts: The Nominee
James M. McPherson, Brahmins at War
Harvard's Civil War: A History of the Twentieth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry by Richard F. Miller
The Nature of Sacrifice: A Biography of Charles Russell Lowell, Jr., 1835–64 by Carol Bundy
Jonathan Mirsky, China: The Uses of Fear
Tiananmen Follies: Prison Memoirs and Other Writings by Dai Qing,translated and edited by Nancy Yang Liu, Peter Rand, and Lawrence R. Sullivan, with a foreword by Ian Buruma
Adam Hochschild, In the Heart of Darkness
Memory of Congo: The Colonial Era
La mémoire du Congo: Le temps colonial catalog of the exhibition, in French or Dutch, edited by Jean-Luc Vellut et al
Brad Leithauser, Love in a Cold Climate
Garry Wills, Fringe Government
Letters
Herman Lebovics, Roger Shattuck, Malraux's Culture
Contributors
Marcia Angell is a Senior Lecturer in Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. A physician, she is a former Editor in Chief of The New England Journal of Medicine. Her latest book is The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It. (June 2006)
Gabriele Annan is a book and film critic living in London. (March 2006)
George Friedman is the Founder, Chairman, and Chief Intelligence Officer of Stratfor, a private geopolitical and public policy intelligence firm. The article in this issue draws from his analysis for a Stratfor geopolitical intelligence report. He was the Founder and Director of the Center for Geopolitical Studies at Louisiana State University. (October 2005)
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 The End of Iraq came out in paperback this summer. His forthcoming book is After Iraq: Cleaning Up After America’s Biggest Foreign Policy Mistake. (October 2007)
Alma Guillermoprieto often writes on Latin America in these pages. Her most recent book is Dancing with Cuba. (September 2006)
Adam Hochschild's most recent book, Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves, was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2005. He teaches at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley. (June 2007)
Tony Judt is University Professor at NYU. His new book, Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century, will be published in April. (May 2008)
Brad Leithauser is a novelist, poet, and essayist. He lives in
Massachusetts.
James M. McPherson is George Henry Davis ’86 Professor of American History Emeritus at Princeton. His most recent book is This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War, a collection of essays. (April 2008)
Jonathan Mirsky is a journalist and historian specializing in Chinese affairs. He has been to Tibet six times. (July 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.
Darryl Pinckney is the author of a novel, High Cotton, and Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature.
Robin Robertson's Swithering won the 2006 Forward Prize. His translation of Medea will be published in September. (May 2008)
William L. Taylor is Adjunct Professor of Law at the Georgetown Law School. He has been a civil rights lawyer for fifty years and played a leading part in the voting rights and court-stripping legislative battles described in his article. His memoir, The Passion of My Times: An Advocate’s Fifty-Year Journey in the Civil Rights Movement, was published last year.
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.
