Table of Contents

Volume 52, Number 18 · November 17, 2005

John Lanchester, A Will of His Own

Slow Man by J.M. Coetzee

David Cole, What Bush Wants to Hear

The Powers of War and Peace:The Constitution and Foreign Affairs After 9/11 by John Yoo

Cathleen Schine, The Witches of Corinth

Truth and Consequences by Alison Lurie

Pankaj Mishra, The Misunderstood Muslims

No God but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam by Reza Aslan

Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism by Janet Afary and Kevin B. Anderson

Edmund S. Morgan, The Unread Masterpiece

Henry Adams and the Making of America by Garry Wills

Daniel Mendelsohn, The Truman Show

Capote a film directed by Bennett Miller, based on the biography by Gerald Clarke

Mark Ford, The Man Who Came to Dinner

Just the Thing: Selected Letters of James Schuyler, 1951–1991 edited by William Corbett

Material Witness: The Selected Letters of Fairfield Porter edited by Ted Leigh, with an introduction by David Lehman and additional notes by Justin Spring

Robert Skidelsky, The Chinese Shadow

Three Billion New Capitalists: The Great Shift of Wealth and Power to the East by Clyde Prestowitz

China, Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World by Ted C. Fishman

George M. Fredrickson, Still Separate & Unequal

When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America by Ira Katznelson

Larry McMurtry, Angel in America

Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling by Richard Lyman Bushman

No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith by Fawn M. Brodie

Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer

Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism by Richard L. Bushman

Reconsidering No Man Knows My History: Fawn M. Brodie and Joseph Smith in Retrospect edited by Newell G. Bringhurst

Fintan O'Toole, The Saving Remnant

A Bit on the Side by William Trevor

Peter Canby, The Specter Haunting Alaska

The End of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New World by Paul Roberts

Where Mountains Are Nameless: Passion and Politics in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge by Jonathan Waterman

Cumulative Environmental Effects of Oil and Gas Activities on Alaska's North Slope by the National Research Council

Impacts of a Warming Arctic by the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment

Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska: Coastal Plain Resource Assessment

Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, 1002 Area, Petroleum Assessment, 1998, Including Economic Analysis

National Energy Policy: Report of the National Energy Policy Development Group, May 2001

Economics of Undiscovered Oil in the Federal Lands of the National Petroleum Reserve, Alaska by Emil D. Attanasi

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Letters

John Harding, Hilary Mantel, Crime & Punishment
Geremie Barmé, Jonathan Unger, et al. The Case of Dai Qing
Daniel Donoghue, Frank Kermode, Translating the Bible
Jack M. Hollander, Tim Flannery, Some Like It Hot
Cherif Sedky, 'Quartermaster of Terror'

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Contributors

Peter Canby is the author of The Heart of the Sky: Travels Among the Maya. He is an editor and the head of the fact-checking department at The New Yorker. (November 2005)

David Cole is Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center. He is the award-winning author of several books, including Less Safe, Less Free: Why America Is Losing the War on Terror (with Jules Lobel, 2007) and Enemy Aliens: Double Standards and Constitutional Freedoms in the War on Terrorism (2003).

Mark Ford teaches in the English Department at University College London. His most recent collection of poetry, Soft Sift, takes its title from Gerard Manley Hopkins's "The Wreck of the Deutschland. " This year he has published editions of the poetry of Frank O'Hara and John Ashbery. (January 2009)

George M. Fredrickson is Edgar E. Robinson Professor of US History Emeritus at Stanford. His most recent books are Racism: A Short History and Not Just Black and White, a collection co-edited with Nancy Foner. (August 2006)

John Lanchester's most recent book is a memoir, Family Romance. (March 2007)

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.

Daniel Mendelsohn, a frequent contributor to The New York Review, is the Charles Ranlett Flint Professor of Humanities at Bard. His translations, with commentary, of the Collected Poems and Unfinished Poems of Constantine Cavafy were published earlier this year; a collection of his essays mostly from these pages, How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken, was just published in paperback.
 (October 2009)

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.

Edmund S. Morgan is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. His most recent book, The Genuine Article: A Historian Looks at Early America, was published in 2004. (October 2008)

Fintan O'Toole is a columnist and critic with The Irish Times. His new book, Ship of Fools: How Corruption and Stupidity Killed the Celtic Tiger, will be published in the fall. (August 2009)

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.

Robert Skidelsky is Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at Warwick University, England. The single-volume abridgment of his three-volume biography of John Maynard Keynes was published in 2007 in the US. He is currently completing a short history of Britain in the twentieth century. www.skidelskyr.com. (January 2009)

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