Table of Contents

Volume 52, Number 19 · December 1, 2005

Frederick C. Crews, Melville the Great

Melville: His World and Work by Andrew Delbanco

Charles Simic, The Lights Are on Everywhere (poem)

John Updike, Determined Spirit

Vincent Van Gogh: The Drawings Catalog of the exhibition by Colta Ives, Susan Alyson Stein, Sjraar van Heughten, and Marije Vellekoop

William Dalrymple, Inside the Madrasas

Islamic Education and Conflict: Understanding the Madrassahs of Pakistan by Saleem H. Ali

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

Bastions of the Believers: Madrasas and Islamic Education in India by Yoginder Sikand

Richard Dorment, What Art Does

The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa by Michael Kimmelman

Michael Massing, The End of News?

Tim Parks, The Horrors of War

Kaputt by Curzio Malaparte, translated from the Italian by Cesare Foligno, with an afterword by Dan Hofstadter

Robert Skidelsky, The Chinese Shadow: II

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

China's Urban Transition by John Friedmann

Made in China: Women Factory Workers in a Global Workplace by Pun Ngai

The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenge to China's Future by Elizabeth C. Economy

Frank Kermode, Arguing with God

Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine by Harold Bloom

The Life of David by Robert Pinsky

William H. McNeill, New World Symphony

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann

Caroline Moorehead, The Warrior Children

Children at War by P.W. Singer

They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky: The True Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan by Alephonsion Deng, Benson Deng, and Benjamin Ajak

The Lost Boys of Sudan: An American Story of the Refugee Experience by Mark Bixler

Sherwin B. Nuland, Top Doc

Harvey Cushing: A Life in Surgery by Michael Bliss

Michael Tomasky, The Boss

Boss Tweed: The Rise and Fall of the Corrupt Pol Who Conceived the Soul of Modern New York by Kenneth D. Ackerman

Fiona MacCarthy, The First Feminist

Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft by Lyndall Gordon

John Brewer, The Irish Indian Chief

White Savage: William Johnson and the Invention of America by Fintan O'Toole

André Aciman, Proust's Way?

Swann's Way by Marcel Proust, translated from the French by Lydia Davis

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Letters

Paul Auster, Shiva Balaghi, et al. Targeted in Lebanon
Staughton Lynd, Edmund S. Morgan, History from Below
Gerald Caplan, Guy Lawson, 'Shake Hands with the Devil'
Morris Dickstein, Irving Howe Lecture
Tony Judt, A Different Synagogue
Charles Glass, Query
The Editors, Correction

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Contributors

André Aciman teaches Comparative Literature at the City University Graduate Center. He is the author of False Papers and the memoir Out of Egypt.

John Brewerteaches in the Humanities and Social Sciences Division at the California Institute of Technology. His most recent book is A Sentimental Murder: Love and Madness in the Eighteenth Century. (June 2008)

Frederick Crews's most recent book is Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays. (December 2007)

William Dalrymple is the author of The White Mughals, which won the Wolfson Prize for History, and The Last Mughal, which won the Duff Cooper Prize. His new book, Nine Lives, will be published in the fall. (February 2009)

Richard Dorment is the art critic of the Daily Telegraph. (May 2009)

Frank Kermode lives in Cambridge, England. His most recent book is The Age of Shakespeare. (October 2008)

Fiona Maccarthy is the author of biographies of Eric Gill and William Morris. Her most recent book is Byron: Life and Legend. (December 2005)

Michael Massing, a contributing editor of the Columbia Journalism Review, writes frequently on the press and foreign affairs.

William H. McNeill is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Chicago. His most recent books are The Pursuit of Truth: A Historian’s Memoir and A Boyhood Memory: Long Ago on Grandfather’s Farm, which is currently in search of a publisher. (April 2008)

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)

Tim Parks, a novelist, essayist, and translator, is Associate Professor of Literature and Translation at IULM University in Milan. His most recent novel is Dreams of Rivers and Seas.

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.

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)

Michael Tomasky is editor of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas and American editor-at-large for The Guardian. (July 2009)

John Updike was born in 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania. In 1954 he began to publish in The New Yorker, where he continued to contribute short stories, poems, and criticism until his death in 2009. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, among other awards. His last books were the novel The Widows of Eastwick and Due Considerations, a collection of his essays and criticism.

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