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 the 2008 Erasmus Prize. His novel The China Lover was published in September 2008.

Andrew Butterfield is is President of Andrew Butterfield Fine Arts. His books include The Sculptures of Andrea del Verrocchio. (July 2009)

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 a Fellow of Balliol College. His books include Homer on Life and Death. (June 2008)

Alma Guillermoprieto often writes on Latin America in these pages. Her most recent book is Dancing with Cuba. (December 2008)

Tony Judt directs the Remarque Institute at NYU and is the author of Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945. His latest book, Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century, was recently reissued in paperback. (September 2009)

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. He is currently Middle East and North Africa Program Director at the International Crisis Group. (December 2009)

Hilary Mantel is the author of nine novels, including Beyond Black. Her new novel, Wolf Hall, will be published in the US this month. (November 2009)

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 Charles Ranlett Flint Professor of Humanities at Bard. His translations, with commentary, of the Collected Poems and Unfinished Poems of Constantine Cavafy were published earlier this year; a collection of his essays mostly from these pages, How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken, was just published in paperback.  (October 2009)

Lorrie Moore teaches at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. She has won the Rea Award and the PEN/Malamud Award for Short Fiction. Her new novel, A Gate at the Stairs, is published this month. (September 2009)

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. (September 2009)

H. Allen Orr is University Professor and Shirley Cox Kearns Professor of Biology at the University of Rochester. He is the author, with Jerry A. Coyne, of Speciation. (March 2009)

Max Rodenbeck is The Economist’s Mideast Correspondent. He lives in Cairo. (November 2009)

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 is the author of Christen Købke and William Nicholson. (November 2009)

Jonathan Spence is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. His latest book is Return to Dragon Mountain: Memories of a Late Ming Man. (December 2009)

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 Life. (August 2009)

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