Table of Contents

Volume 53, Number 8 · May 11, 2006

Russell Baker, Talking It Up

Conversation: A History of a Declining Art by Stephen Miller

Alan Ryan, Founding Mother

Citizen: Jane Addams and the Struggle for Democracy by Louise W. Knight

Israel Rosenfield, Edward Ziff, Evolving Evolution

From DNA to Diversity: Molecular Genetics and the Evolution of Animal Design by Sean B. Carroll, Jennifer K. Grenier, and Scott D. Weatherbee

Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo and the Making of the Animal Kingdom by Sean B. Carroll

The Plausibility of Life:Resolving Darwin's Dilemma by Marc W. Kirschner and John C. Gerhart

John Brewer, City Lights

Building Jerusalem:The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City by Tristram Hunt

Anne Barton, The One and Only

A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599 by James Shapiro

Secret Shakespeare: Studies in Theatre, Religion and Resistance by Richard Wilson

Shadowplay: The Hidden Beliefs and Coded Politics of William Shakespeare by Clare Asquith

Shakespeare: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd

That Man Shakespeare: Icon of Modern Culture by David Ellis

Brian Urquhart, The Outlaw World

Lawless World: America and the Making and Breaking of Global Rules from FDR's Atlantic Charter to George W. Bush's Illegal War by Philippe Sands

Lawless World: The Whistle-Blowing Account of How Our Leaders Are Taking the Law into Their Own Hands by Philippe Sands

War Law: Understanding International Law and Armed Conflict by Michael Byers

Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq by Stephen Kinzer

David Lodge, History Boy

Untold Stories by Alan Bennett

Claire Messud, The Way We Lived Then

The Last of Her Kind by Sigrid Nunez

James Fenton, In Samuel Palmer's Garden

Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881: Vision and Landscape Catalog of the exhibition by William Vaughan, Elizabeth E. Barker, and Colin Harrison

Jonathan Mirsky, China: The Shame of the Villages

Revolution, Resistance, and Reform in Village China by Edward Friedman, Paul G. Pickowicz, and Mark Selden

From Comrade to Citizen: The Struggle for Political Rights in China by Merle Goldman

William Pfaff, France: The Children's Hour

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Letters

Richard N. Gardner, Adrian Lyttelton, The Italian Communists and the Us
Calvin H. Johnson, Gordon S. Wood, 'Righteous Anger'
Marcela Raffaelli, Kenneth J. Winkle, Open Letter
Mark Tushnet, Ronald Dworkin, What Lincoln Said
The Editors, Correction

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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. (July 2008)

Anne Barton is a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. She is the author of Essays, Mainly Shakespearean. (March 2007)

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)

James Fenton's new book, School of Genius, a history of the Royal Academy in London, will be published in the US in May. (May 2006)

David Lodge is a novelist and critic and Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Birmingham, England. His novels include Changing Places, Small World, Nice Work, and Author, Author. His most recent works of criticism are Consciousness and the Novel and The Year of Henry James.

Claire Messud's most recent novel is The Emperor’s Children. Her earlier novels include When the World Was Steady. (July 2008)

Jonathan Mirsky is a journalist and historian specializing in Chinese affairs. He has been to Tibet six times. (July 2008)

William Pfaff is an American author and syndicated columnist in Paris. His most recent book is The Bullet’s Song. (December 2007)

Israel Rosenfield's most recent book is Freud's Megalomania. (June 2008)

Alan Ryan is Warden of New College, Oxford, and the author of intellectual biographies of John Stuart Mill, Bertrand Russell, and John Dewey. (November 2007)

Brian Urquhart is a former Undersecretary-General of the United Nations. His books include Hammarskjöld, A Life in Peace and War, and Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey. (June 2008)

Edward Ziff is Professor of Biochemistry at the NYU School of Medicine. A new edition of his and Israel Rosenfield's book DNA for Beginners will be published next year. (June 2008)

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