Table of Contents

Volume 53, Number 6 · April 6, 2006

Robert Hughes, The God of Realism

John Lanchester, A Matter of English Justice

Arthur & George by Julian Barnes

Anne Applebaum, The Real Patriotic War

Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939–1945 by Catherine Merridale

A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army, 1941–1945 edited and translated by Antony Beevor and Luba Vinogradova

Garry Wills, An American Iliad

At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965–68 by Taylor Branch

Ian Buruma, Mr. Natural

The R. Crumb Handbook by R. Crumb and Peter Poplaski

Robin Robertson, The Custom-House (poem)

Joyce Carol Oates, Dimming the Lights

The Good Life by Jay McInerney

Anthony Lewis, Woman in the Middle

Sandra Day O'Connor: How the First Woman on the Supreme Court Became Its Most Influential Justice by Joan Biskupic

Stephen Greenblatt, Who Killed Christopher Marlowe?

The World of Christopher Marlowe by David Riggs

Christopher Marlowe: Poet and Spy by Park Honan

Anita Desai, Pilgrim's Progress

Two Lives by Vikram Seth

Gordon S. Wood, Apologies to the Iroquois

The Divided Ground: Indians, Settlers, and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution by Alan Taylor

Frank Rich, 'The Secret Way to War'

Robert Gottlieb, Force of Nature

Elia Kazan: A Biography by Richard Schickel

Benjamin Moser, Pioneers

On Afric's Shore: A History of Maryland in Liberia, 1834–1857 by Richard L. Hall

Orville Schell, Baghdad: The Besieged Press

Charles Fried, Ronald Dworkin, 'The Strange Case of Justice Alito': An Exchange

Joel Conarroe, James Schamus, Daniel Mendelsohn, 'Brokeback Mountain': An Exchange

Lydia Davis, Marcel Muller, Christopher Prendergast, et al. 'Proust's Way?': An Exchange

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Letters

Fred Block, Christopher Jencks, 'What Happened to Welfare?'
Wendy Chavkin, Mothers of Ill Children
Stefan Talman, Andrew Hacker, 'The Truth about the Colleges'
Natalie Zemon Davis, It Wasn't Leo
Linda Simon, Luc Sante, William James and the Spiritualists
The Editors, Corrections

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Contributors

Anne Applebaum is a columnist for The Washington Post. Her book Gulag: A History won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction. She lives in Poland. (July 2009)

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.

Anita Desai's most recent novel is The Zigzag Way. (March 2009)

Robert Gottlieb has been Editor in Chief of Simon and Schuster, Knopf, and The New Yorker. He is the author of a biography of George Balanchine, the editor of the anthologies Reading Dance and Reading Jazz, and the dance critic of The New York Observer.
 (December 2009)

Stephen Greenblatt is John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard. He is the general editor of The Norton Shakespeare and the author of Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare. (November 2009)

Robert Hughes's most recent book, Things I Didn–?t Know, a memoir, was published last fall. (September 2007)

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

Anthony Lewis, a former columnist for The New York Times, has twice won the Pulitzer Prize. His book Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment was published last year.

Benjamin Moser's biography of Clarice Lispector, Why This World, will be published in summer 2009. He lives in the Netherlands. (August 2008)

Joyce Carol Oates, the Roger S. Berlind Professor of Humanities at Princeton, is the author most recently of the novel Little Bird of Heaven and the story collection Dear Husband. (December 2009)

Frank Rich is a columnist for The New York Times. His books include Ghost Light, a memoir, and The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth in Bush's America.

Robin Robertson's Swithering won the 2006 Forward Prize. His translation of Medea is published in paperback this month.
 (September 2009)

Orville Schell is the former Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, and currently the Arthur Ross Director of the Center on US–China Relations at the Asia Society in New York City. (August 2008)

Garry Wills is Professor of History Emeritus at Northwestern. His most recent book, What Jesus Meant, was published in 2006.

Gordon Wood is the Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History at Brown. A collection of his essays, The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History, was published in March. (May 2008)

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