Table of Contents, September 21, 2006 - The New York Review of Books

Giambologna: Gods and Heroes: Genesis and Fortune of a European Style in Sculpture Catalog of the exhibition edited by Beatrice Paolozzi Strozzi and Dimitrios Zikos

Giambologna: Triumph of the Body Catalog of the exhibition edited by Wilfried Seipel

Brian Urquhart, Living in an Impasse

It's Easier to Reach Heaven Than the End of the Street: A Jerusalem Memoir by Emma Williams

The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East by Robert Fisk

Fred Anderson, The Lost Founders

Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different by Gordon S. Wood

Jasper Griffin, The Hero's Wife Speaks

The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood

Larry McMurtry, Texas: The Death of the Natives

The Conquest of Texas: Ethnic Cleansing in the Promised Land, 1820–1875 by Gary Clayton Anderson

Alma Guillermoprieto, The New Bolivia: II

Lorrie Moore, A Pondered Life

Eudora Welty: A Biography by Suzanne Marrs

Eudora: A Writer's Life by Ann Waldron

The Eye of the Story by Eudora Welty

Welty: Complete Novels by Eudora Welty, edited by Richard Ford and Michael Kreyling

Welty: Stories, Essays, and Memoir by Eudora Welty, edited by Richard Ford and Michael Kreyling

One Time, One Place: Mississippi in the Depression: A Snapshot Album by Eudora Welty

Ian Buruma, Why They Hate Japan

The Making of the "Rape of Nanking": History and Memory in Japan, China, and the United States by Takashi Yoshida

Robert Malley, A New Middle East

Tony Judt, Goodbye to All That?

Main Currents of Marxism: The Founders, the Golden Age, the Breakdown by Leszek Kolakowski, translated from the Polish by P.S. Falla

My Correct Views on Everything by Leszek Kolakowski, edited by Zbigniew Janowski

Karl Marx ou l'esprit du monde by Jacques Attali

Richard A. Rosen, Ruth F. Weiner, Jim Hansen, 'The Threat to the Planet': An Exchange

Letters

Kem Knapp Sawyer, Barbara Epstein and 'The Diary of Anne Frank'
Conn Nugent, Robert Skidelsky, Which Road to Berlin?
Robert Craft, 'Stravinsky: the Second Exile'
Bill Dawes, The Case of Dr. Condor
Harvey C. Mansfield, Garry Wills, 'Manliness'
Barbara G. Fleischman, The Fleischman Collection and the Getty

Contributors

Fred Anderson is Professor of History at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is the author of Crucible of War: The Seven Years’ War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754–1766 (September 2006).

Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard. He received this year’s Shorenstein Award for writing about Asia. His latest book, Murder in Amsterdam, is available in paperback. (May 2008)

Andrew Butterfield is President of Andrew Butterfield Fine Arts. He is the author of The Sculptures of Andrea del Verrocchio. (April 2008)

Ronald Dworkin is Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law and Philosophy at NYU and Jeremy Bentham Professor of Law and Philosophy at University College London. His books include Is Democracy Possible Here? (2006), Justice in Robes, Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality, and Freedom's Law. He is the 2007 winner of the Ludvig Holberg International Memorial Prize for "his pioneering scholarly work" of "worldwide impact."

Jasper Griffin is Emeritus Professor of Classical Literature and Public Orator at Oxford and a Fellow of Balliol College. His books include Homer on Life and Death. (December 2007)

Alma Guillermoprieto often writes on Latin America in these pages. Her most recent book is Dancing with Cuba. (September 2006)

Tony Judt is University Professor at NYU. His new book, Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century, will be published in April. (May 2008)

Robert Malley was Special Assistant to President Clinton for Arab-Israeli Affairs and Director for Near East and South Asian Affairs on the National Security Council staff from September 1998 to January 2001. He is currently Middle East and North Africa Program Director at the International Crisis Group. (May 2008)

Hilary Mantel’s memoir, Giving Up the Ghost, was published in 2003. Her latest novel is Beyond Black. (January 2008)

Larry McMurtry is the author of twenty-four novels, including The Last Picture Show, Terms of Endearment, Lonesome Dove, winner of the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and, most recently, Folly and Glory. His nonfiction works include a biography of Crazy Horse, Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen, Paradise, and Sacagawea’s Nickname: Essays on the American West (published by New York Review Books). He lives in Archer City, Texas.

Daniel Mendelsohn, a frequent contributor to The New York Review, is the author, most recently, of The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Prix Médicis Étranger in France. A collection of his essays, mostly from these pages, will be published this year. He teaches at Bard. (January 2008)

Lorrie Moore teaches at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Her most recent book is the story collection Birds of America. She has won the Rea Award and the PEN/Malamud Award for Short Fiction. (September 2007)

Geoffrey O'Brien is Editor in Chief of the Library of America. He is the author, most recently, of Sonata for Jukebox: An Autobiography of My Ears and Red Sky Café. (April 2008)

H. Allen Orr is the Shirley Cox Kearns Professor of Biology at the University of Rochester. He is the author, with Jerry A. Coyne, of Speciation. (March 2008)

Max Rodenbeck is The Economist’s Mideast Correspondent. He is based in Cairo. (May 2008)

Cathleen Schine is the author of seven novels, including Rameau's Niece, The Love Letter, She is Me, and the forthcoming The New Yorkers. She is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books.

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

Jonathan Spence, author of The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci, teaches the history of modern China at Yale. His book Return to Dragon Mountain: Memories of a Late Ming Man will be published this autumn. (June 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. (March 2008)