Table of Contents
Volume 53, Number 1 · January 12, 2006
John Gray, The Mirage of Empire 
Imperial Grunts: The American Military on the Ground by Robert D. Kaplan
The Case for Goliath: How America Acts as the World's Government in the 21st Century by Michael Mandelbaum
Andrew Butterfield, The Pious Revolutionary
Fra Angelico Catalog of the exhibition by Laurence Kanter and Pia Palladino, with contributions by Magnolia Scudieri, Carl Brandon Strehlke, Victor M. Schmidt, and Anneke de Vries
Russell Baker, Baker's 'World'
The World on Sunday: Graphic Art in Joseph Pulitzer's Newspaper (1898–1911) by Nicholson Baker and Margaret Brentano
Meghan O'Rourke, Spectacular (poem)
Bill McKibben, The Coming Meltdown
Thin Ice: Unlocking the Secrets of Climate in the World's Highest Mountains by Mark Bowen
Dancing at the Dead Sea: Tracking the World's Environmental Hotspots by Alanna Mitchell
Jim Hansen, The Tipping Point?
Ian Buruma, The Great Black Hope
Beyond Glory: Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling, and a World on the Brink by David Margolick
Charles Simic, Salvation Through Laughter
Polish Memories by Witold Gombrowicz, translated from the Polish by Bill Johnston
Bacacay by Witold Gombrowicz, translated from the Polishby Bill Johnston
Ferdydurke by Witold Gombrowicz, translated from the Polishby Danuta Borchardt, with a foreword by Susan Sontag
Cosmos by Witold Gombrowicz, translated from the Polish by Danuta Borchardt
A Guide to Philosophy in Six Hours and Fifteen Minutes by Witold Gombrowicz, translated from the Polish by Benjamin Ivry
The World of Witold Gombrowicz,1904–1969 by Vincent Girond
William H. McNeill, The Man Who Changed History
Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin by John Hope Franklin
Patricia Storace, Pagan Litany (poem)
Pankaj Mishra, The Unquiet American
Edmund Wilson: A Life in Literature by Lewis M. Dabney
Stephen Kinzer, Kurds in Turkey: The Big Change
The Kurds in Turkey: EU Accession and Human Rights by Kerim Yildiz, with a foreword by Noam Chomsky
Spoils of War: The Human Cost of America's Arms Trade by John Tirman
The Turks Today by Andrew Mango
Voices from the Front: Turkish Soldiers on the War with the Kurdish Guerrillas by Nadire Mater, translated from the Turkish by Ayse Gul Altinay, with a foreword by Cynthia Enloe
Jeff Madrick, The Way to a Fair Deal
The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth by Benjamin M. Friedman
Lorin Stein, Histoire de V.
Veronica by Mary Gaitskill
Joseph Kerman, Mozart's Magic Marriage
Jamey Gambrell, An Affair of State
Russia!
Russia! Nine Hundred Years of Masterpieces and Master Collections Catalog of the exhibition by Gerold Vzdornov, Sergei Androsov, and others
Russia! Catalogue of the Exhibition
Letters
Van Dyke Parks, Scott Staton, 'Smile'
Jean-Luc Vellut, Adam Hochschild, 'In the Heart of Darkness'
Contributors
Russell Baker is a former columnist and correspondent for The New York Times and The Baltimore Sun. His books include The Good Times, Growing Up, and Looking Back.
Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard. He received the 2008 Erasmus Prize. His novel The China Lover was published in September 2008.
Andrew Butterfield is is President of Andrew Butterfield Fine Arts. His books include The Sculptures of Andrea del Verrocchio. (July 2009)
Jamey Gambrell is a writer on Russian art and culture. Her translations include Marina Tsvetaeva's Earthly Signs: Moscow Diaries, 1917–1922, a volume of Aleksandr Rodchenko's writings, Experiments for the Future, and many of the stories included in Tatyana Tolstaya's White Walls. Her translation of Vladimir Sorokin's Ice has recently been published by NYRB Classics.
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.
Jim Hansen is Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Adjunct Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University’s Earth Institute. (July 2006)
Joseph Kerman is emeritus professor of music at the University of California, Berkeley. He began writing music criticism for The Hudson Review in the 1950s, and is a longtime contributor to The New York Review of Books and many other journals. His books include Opera as Drama (1956; new and revised edition 1988), The Beethoven Quartets (1967), Contemplating Music (1986), Concerto Conversations (1999), and The Art of Fugue (2005).
Stephen Kinzer, a former New York Times bureau chief in Managua, Berlin, and Istanbul, is the author of Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq. He is writing a book about Rwanda. (June 2008)
Jeff Madrick is editor of Challenge Magazine, Visiting Professor at Cooper Union, and Senior Fellow at the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis at the New School. His book, The Case for Big Government, was a 2009 PEN Galbraith Award Finalist. (June 2009)
Bill Mckibben is scholar in residence at Middlebury College, and the author of The End of Nature and Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future.
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)
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.
Meghan O'Rourke is the culture editor of Slate and a poetry
editor of The Paris Review. She is the recipient of the 2005
Union League and Civic Arts Foundation Prize for poetry,
awarded by Poetry magazine.
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.
Lorin Stein is an editor at Farrar, Straus and Giroux. His translation of Grégoire Bouillier's memoir L'Invité mystère (The Mystery Guest) will appear in fall 2006. (January 2006)
Patricia Storace is the author of Heredity, a book of poems, Dinner with Persephone, a travel memoir about Greece, and Sugar Cane, a children's book. She lives in New York.
