Table of Contents
Volume 53, Number 10 · June 8, 2006
Daniel Mendelsohn, The Way Out 
Everyman by Philip Roth
Garry Wills, Mousiness
Manliness by Harvey C. Mansfield
Joan Acocella, Between Comedy and Horror
The Afterlife by Donald Antrim
Robert L. Herbert, Unparallel Lives
The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism by Ross King
Ernest Meissonier: Master in His Genre by Constance Cain Hungerford
Eduard Iricinschi, Lance Jenott, Philippa Townsend, The Betrayer's Gospel
The Gospel of Judas from Codex Tchacos edited by Rodolphe Kasser, Marvin Meyer, and Gregor Wurst
Marcia Angell, Your Dangerous Drugstore
Jason Epstein, Eating Out
Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany by Bill Buford
My Life in France by Julia Child, with Alex Prud'homme
P.N. Furbank, The Charms of Selfishness
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius by Leo Damrosch
Jeff Madrick, The US in Peril?
American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century by Kevin Phillips
Anthony Lewis, Demagogue Without a Cause
Shooting Star: The Brief Arc of Joe McCarthy by Tom Wicker
Stephen Kinzer, The Trouble with Costa Rica
The Costa Rica Reader: History, Culture, Politics edited by Steven Palmer and Iván Molina
Estado de la Nación en Desarrollo Humano Sostenible (State of the Nation on Sustainable Human Development)
Foreign Investment, Development, and Globalization: Can Costa Rica Become Ireland? by Eva Paus
La Miel de los Mudos, y Otros Cuentos Ticos de Ciencia Ficción by Iván Molina Jiménez
Gordon S. Wood, American Religion: The Great Retreat
American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation by Jon Meacham
The Faiths of the Founding Fathers by David L. Holmes
Michael Massing, The Storm over the Israel Lobby
Letters
Betty McCollum, A Letter To Aipac
David Sofield, Benjamin Demott Memorial
Martin Mayer, Andrew Hacker, Rejected Legacies
John Hammond, Found Horizons
Contributors
Joan Acocella is a staff writer for The New Yorker. She is the author of Mark Morris, Creating Hysteria: Women and Multiple Personality Disorder, and Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism. She also edited the recent, unexpurgated Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky.
Marcia Angell is a Senior Lecturer in Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. A physician, she is a former Editor in Chief of The New England Journal of Medicine. Her latest book is The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It. (June 2006)
Jason Epstein was for many years editorial director of Random House and has written on food for various publications. (March 2008)
P. N. Furbank is the author of Diderot and, with W.R. Owens, A Political Biography of Daniel Defoe. (December 2007)
Robert L. Herbert, after a long career at Yale, is now Andrew W. Mellon Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Mount Holyoke. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, and has been named Officier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government. Among his books are Impressionism: Art, Leisure and Parisian Society, Nature's Workshop: Renoir's Writings on the Decorative Arts, and Seurat: Drawings and Paintings. His most recent book is Seurat and the Making of “La Grande Jatte.”
Eduard Iricinschi is completing doctoral studies at Princeton in the religions of late antiquity, specializing in Coptic texts. (June 2006)
Lance Jenott is completing doctoral studies at Princeton in the religions of late antiquity, specializing in Coptic texts. (June 2006)
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)
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 this year. (September 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 will be published this fall. (September 2008)
Michael Massing, a contributing editor of the Columbia Journalism Review, writes frequently on the press and foreign affairs.
Daniel Mendelsohn is the author, most recently, of How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken, a collection of essays mostly from these pages. His translations, with commentary, of Constantine Cavafy’s Complete Works and Unfinished Poems will be published next spring. (November 2008)
Philippa Townsend is completing doctoral studies at Princeton in the religions of late antiquity, specializing in Coptic texts. (June 2006)
Garry Wills was born in Atlanta, Georgia. One of our most distinguished
historians and critics, he is the author of numerous books, including Saint Augustine, Papal
Sin, and the Pulitzer Prize–winning Lincoln at Gettysburg. He has won many other awards,
among them two National Book Critics Circle Awards and the 1998 National Medal for the Humanities.
He is currently Professor of History Emeritus at Northwestern University. A regular contributor
to the New York Review of Books, he lives in Evanston, Illinois.
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)
