Table of Contents

Volume 53, Number 12 · July 13, 2006

Sanford Schwartz, Ingres vs. Ingres

Ingres: 1780–1867 Catalog of the exhibition by Vincent Pomarède, Stéphane Guégan, Louis-Antoine Prat, and Éric Bertin

Ingres and His Critics by Andrew Carrington Shelton

Jonathan Raban, The Good Soldier

Terrorist by John Updike

Jim Hansen, The Threat to the Planet

The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth by Tim Flannery

Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change by Elizabeth Kolbert

An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It by Al Gore

An Inconvenient Truth a film directed by Davis Guggenheim

Joan Acocella, 'Beware of Pity'

John Gray, The Case for Decency

Political Ideas in the Romantic Age: Their Rise and Influence on Modern Thought by Isaiah Berlin, edited by Henry Hardy, with an introduction by Joshua L. Cherniss

Unfinished Dialogue by Isaiah Berlin and Beata Polanowska-Sygulska, with a foreword by Henry Hardy

Russia, Poland and Marxism: Isaiah Berlin to Andrzej Walicki, 1962–1996

Tim Parks, Beckett: Still Stirring

Samuel Beckett: The Grove Centenary Edition edited by Paul Auster, with introductions by Colm Tóibìn, Salman Rushdie, Edward Albee, and J.M. Coetzee

How It Was: A Memoir of Samuel Beckett by Anne Atik

Beckett Remembering, Remembering Beckett: A Centenary Celebration edited by James and Elizabeth Knowlson

Beckett After Beckett edited by S.E. Gontarski and Anthony Uhlmann

Darryl Pinckney, Blacking Up

Dancing in the Dark by Caryl Phillips

Gabriele Annan, After the Fall

Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky, translated from the French by Sandra Smith

J.H. Elliott, The First Bolivarian Revolution

Simón Bolìvar: A Life by John Lynch

Christian Caryl, At the Trough

Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart

David Cole, In Case of Emergency

Before the Next Attack: Preserving Civil Liberties in an Age of Terrorism by Bruce Ackerman

John Banville, In the Luminous Deep

Swithering by Robin Robertson

Slow Air by Robin Robertson

A Painted Field by Robin Robertson

Ingrid D. Rowland, The Light of Antonello

Antonello da Messina Catalog of the exhibition by Mauro Lucco, with essays by Dominique Thiébaut, Till-Holger Borchert, and others

Antonello da Messina e la pittura del '400 in Sicilia by Giorgio Vigni and Giovanni Carandente

Antonello da Messina by Alessandro Marabottini and Fiorella Sricchia Santoro

Antonello da Messina, Sicily's Renaissance Master by Gioacchino Barbera, with contributions by Keith Christiansen and Andrea Bayer

Robert Skidelsky, Hot, Cold and Imperial

1945: The War That Never Ended by Gregor Dallas

Among Empires: American Ascendancy and Its Predecessors by Charles S. Maier

Cecilia Todeschini, Peter Watson, Hugh Eakin, 'The Medici Conspiracy': An Exchange

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Letters

Daniel Pipes, Michael Massing, Campus Watch
Mansour Bonakdarian, Danny Postel, Open Letter to the President of Iran

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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.

Gabriele Annan is a book and film critic living in London. (March 2006)

John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He is the author of many novels, including The Book of Evidence, The Untouchable, and Eclipse. Banville's novel The Sea was awarded the 2005 Man Booker Prize. On occasion he writes under the pen name Benjamin Black.

Christian Caryl is the Tokyo Bureau Chief of Newsweek. He has reported from thirty-seven countries, including Russia, Afghanistan, North Korea, and Iraq. (August 2008)

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).

J. H. Elliott is Regius Professor Emeritus of Modern History at the University of Oxford. His books include The Count-Duke of Olivares and Spain and Its World. Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1492– 1830 has just been published. (June 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.

Jim Hansen is Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Adjunct Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University’s Earth Institute. (July 2006)

Tim Parks, a novelist, essayist, and translator, is Associate Professor of English Literature at IULM University in Milan. His most recent novel is Cleaver. (September 2008)

Darryl Pinckney is the author of a novel, High Cotton, and Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature.

Jonathan Raban's books include Arabia: A Journey Through the Labrynth, Old Glory, Bad Land, Passage to Juneau, and Waxwings. He is the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Heinemann Award of the Royal Society of Literature, the PEN/West Creative Nonfiction Award, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers' Award, and the Governor's Award of the State of Washington. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, The Guardian, and The Independent. He lives in Seattle.

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.

Sanford Schwartz's essays and reviews have been collected in The Art Presence and Artists and Writers. (October 2008)

Robert Skidelsky is Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at Warwick University, England. The single-volume abridgment of his three-volume biography of John Maynard Keynes was published last year in the US. He is currently completing a short history of Britain in the twentieth century. www.skidelskyr.com. (April 2008)

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