Table of Contents
Volume 53, Number 5 · March 23, 2006
Neal Ascherson, Ghosts 
The Living Unknown Soldier: A Story of Grief and the Great War by Jean-Yves Le Naour, translated from the French by Penny Allen
Warriors: Portraits from the Battlefield by Max Hastings
John Updike, Love of Fact
Treasures from Olana: Landscapes by Frederic Edwin Church Catalog of the exhibit by Kevin J. Avery, with anintroduction by John Wilmerding
Tony Judt, A Story Still to Be Told
The Cold War: A New History by John Lewis Gaddis
Elizabeth Bishop, Two Poems (poem)
James M. McPherson, Was It a Just War?
Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History ofthe American Civil War by Harry S. Stout
Al Alvarez, The Best and the Brightest
One of a Kind: The Rise and Fall of Stuey "The Kid" Ungar, the World's Greatest Poker Player by Nolan Dalla and Peter Alson, with a foreword by Mike Sexton
The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King: Inside the Richest Poker Game of All Time by Michael Craig
Clifford Geertz, Among the Infidels
Trickster Travels: A Sixteenth-Century Muslim Between Worlds by Natalie Zemon Davis
W.S. Merwin, Dishonor in Hawaii
Honor Killing: How the Infamous "Massie Affair" Transformed Hawai'i by David E. Stannard
John Gross, The Genius of Ambiguity
William Empson, Volume 1: Among the Mandarins by John Haffenden
Denis Donoghue, A Version of Pastoral
All Will Be Well: A Memoir by John McGahern
Tim Flannery, When a Scorpion Meets a Scorpion
Life in the Undergrowth by David Attenborough
The Smaller Majority: The Hidden World of the Animals That Dominate the Tropics by Piotr Naskrecki
Locust: The Devastating Rise and Mysterious Disappearance of the Insect That Shaped the American Frontier by Jeffrey A. Lockwood
Paul Krugman, Robin Wells, The Health Care Crisis and What to Do About It
Can We Say No? The Challenge of Rationing Health Care by Henry J. Aaron and William B. Schwartz, with Melissa Cox
The Health Care Mess: How We Got into It and What It Will Take to Get Out by Julius Richmond and Rashi Fein
Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise: Five Steps to a Better Health Care System by John F. Cogan, R. Glenn Hubbard, and Daniel P. Kessler
David Cole, Are We Safer? An Epilogue
Ronald Dworkin, The Right to Ridicule
Letters
Lisa Vives, Michael Massing, 'The End of News?'
Larry McMurtry, 'Angel in America'
Chella Rajan, Bill McKibben, 'The Coming Meltdown'
Anne Pecheux Lang, Charles Rosen, Paul Henry Lang
Eliot Weinberger, Not a Terrorist
Contributors
Al Alvarez's most recent book is Risky Business, a selection of essays, many of which first appeared in The New York Review of Books.
Neal Ascherson is the author of The Struggles for Poland, The Black Sea, and Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland. He is the editor of the journal Public Archaeology at University College London.
(July 2009)
Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979) was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and a National Book Critics Circle Award for her poetry. The poems in this issue will appear in Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments, edited by Alice Quinn, to be published this month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. (March 2006)
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).
Denis Donoghue is University Professor at NYU, where he holds the Henry James Chair of English and American Letters. He is the author of The Practice of Reading, Words Alone: The Poet T.S. Eliot, and, most recently, The American Classics. (October 2006)
Ronald Dworkin is Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law and Philosophy at NYU and Jeremy Bentham Professor of Law and Philosophy at University College London. His books include Is Democracy Possible Here? (2006), Justice in Robes, Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality, and Freedom's Law. He is the 2007 winner of the Ludvig Holberg International Memorial Prize for "his pioneering scholarly work" of "worldwide impact."
Tim Flannery, former director of the South Australian Museum, is a professor at Macquarie University in Sydney and chair of the Copenhagen Climate Council. His latest book is The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth. (December 2008)
Clifford Geertz is Professor Emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He is the author of, among other works, The Social History of an Indonesian Town and Negara: The Balinese State in the Nineteenth Century. (March 2006)
John Gross’s most recent book is A Double Thread, a memoir. He is the editor of The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes, which was published in paperback last September. (May 2009)
Tony Judt is University Professor at NYU. His latest book, Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century, was recently reissued by Penguin in paperback.
(July 2009)
Paul Krugman is a columnist for The New York Times and Professor of Economics and International Affairs at Princeton. He was awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize in Economics. (June 2009)
James M. McPherson is George Henry Davis '86 Professor of American History Emeritus at Princeton. His most recent book is Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief. (December 2008)
W.S. Merwin was born in New York City in 1927 and grew up in Union City, New Jersey, and in Scranton, Pennsylvania. From 1949 to 1951 he worked as a tutor in France, Portugal, and Majorca. He has since lived in many parts of the world, most recently on Maui in the Hawaiian Islands. He is the author of many books of poems, prose, and translations and has received both the Pulitzer and the Bollingen Prizes for poetry, among numerous other awards.
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.
Robin Wells is the coauthor, with Paul Krugman, of Economics, and a former Researcher in Economics at Princeton. (June 2009)
