Table of Contents
Volume 53, Number 7 · April 27, 2006
Bill McKibben, The Hope of the Web
Crashing the Gate: Netroots, Grassroots, and the Rise of People-Powered Politics by Jerome Armstrong and Markos Moulitsas Zúniga, with a foreword by Simon Rosenberg
Ingrid D. Rowland, The Titan of Titans 
Michelangelo Drawings: Closer to the Master Catalog of the exhibition by Hugo Chapman
Michelangelo and the Reinvention of the Human Body by James Hall
Michelangelo’s Mountain: The Quest for Perfection in the Marble Quarries of Carrara by Eric Scigliano
Andrew O'Hagan, Word Wizard
Defining the World: The Extraordinary Story of Dr. Johnson's Dictionary by Henry Hitchings
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., History and National Stupidity
Julia Hartwig, Old Fashions (poem)
Charles Simic, The Power of Reticence
Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments by Elizabeth Bishop, edited and annotated by Alice Quinn
John Gray, The Global Delusion
Globalization and Its Enemies by Daniel Cohen, translated by Jessica B. Baker
How We Compete: What Companies Around the World Are Doing to Make It in Today's Global Economy by Suzanne Berger and the MIT Industrial Performance Center
End of the Line: The Rise and Coming Fall of the Global Corporation by Barry C. Lynn
Colm Tóibín, Happy Birthday, Sam!
William H. McNeill, Beyond Words
The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind and Body by Steven Mithen
Christopher de Bellaigue, Iran and the Bomb
Keith Thomas, Speak of the Devil
Witchfinders: A Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy by Malcolm Gaskill
Remember Remember: A Cultural History of Guy Fawkes Day by James Sharpe
Leonard Benardo, Aryeh Neier, Russia: The Persecution of Civil Society
Darryl Pinckney, Zanzibar: Love and Exile
Desertion by Abdulrazak Gurnah
Henry Siegman, Hamas: The Last Chance for Peace?
Geremie Barmé, Dai Qing, Jonathan Mirsky, 'Tiananmen Follies': An Exchange
Letters
The Editors, Corrections
Contributors
Leonard Benardo is Regional Director for Russia at the Open Society Institute. He is the coauthor (with Jennifer Weiss) of Brooklyn by Name: How the Neighborhoods, Streets, Bridges, Parks, and More Got Their Names, to be published in July. (April 2006)
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.
Julia Hartwig is one of the most admired poets in Poland today. (April 2006)
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)
Aryeh Neier, former Executive Director of Human Rights Watch, is President of the Open Society Institute. His most recent book is Taking Liberties: Four Decades in the Struggle for Rights. (November 2007)
Andrew O'Hagan's novel Be Near Me has just been published in the US. He is a recipient of the E.M. Forster Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. (June 2007)
Darryl Pinckney is the author of a novel, High Cotton, and Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature.
Ingrid D. Rowland is a professor, based in Rome, at the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture. A frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, she is the author of The Culture of the High Renaissance: Ancients and Moderns in Sixteenth-Century Rome and The Scarith of Scornello: A Tale of Renaissance Forgery. She has published a translation of Vitruvius' Ten Books of Architecture. Her latest books are a biography of Giordano Bruno and a translation of Bruno's dialogue On the Heroic Frenzies.
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., the author of numerous books on American history, served as adviser to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. He died this year. His Journals: 1952– 2000, from which an excerpt appears in this issue, will be published in October by Penguin. (October 2007)
Henry Siegman is a Senior Fellow on the Middle East at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is a former executive head of the American Jewish Congress and the Synagogue Council of America, and has served as general secretary of the American Association for Middle East Studies. (April 2006)
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.
Colm Tóibín is the author of five novels, including The Story of the Night, The Blackwater Lightship, and The Heather Blazing. The Master, a novel based on the life of Henry James, was published in 2004 and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Among his nonfiction works are Bad Blood: A Walk Along the Irish Border, Homage to Barcelona, The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe, and, most recently, Love in a Dark Time. In 2004, his first play, Beauty in a Broken Place, was produced in Dublin. His most recent novel, The Master, which is based on the life of Henry James, won the Los Angeles Times Novel of the Year Award in 2005 and the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger in France. He lives in Dublin.
Keith Thomas is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. His books include Religion and the Decline of Magic, Man and the Natural World, and The Oxford Book of Work. (April 2007)
Christopher de Bellaigue was born in London in 1971 and has worked as a journalist in the Middle East and South Asia since 1994. His first book, In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs: A Memoir of Iran, was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize. He lives in Tehran with his wife and two children.
