Table of Contents

Volume 53, Number 15 · October 5, 2006

Charles Simic, Back to the Beginning

The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million by Daniel Mendelsohn

John Updike, The Artful Clarks

The Clark Brothers Collect: Impressionist and Early Modern Paintings Catalog of the exhibition by Michael Conforti, James A. Ganz, Neil Harris, Sarah Lees, Gilbert T. Vincent, and others.

Robert Skidelsky, Drawing a Dog in Iraq

The Prince of the Marshes and Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq by Rory Stewart

Sue M. Halpern, Thanks for the Memory

In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind by Eric R. Kandel

Another Day in the Frontal Lobe: A Brain Surgeon Exposes Life on the Inside by Katrina Firlik

John Gray, The Moving Target

The Age of Fallibility: The Consequences of the War on Terror by George Soros

Jonathan Raban, The Prisoners Speak

The Road to Guantánamo a film directed by Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross

Enemy Combatant: My Imprisonment at Guantánamo, Bagram, and Kandahar by Moazzam Begg with Victoria Brittain

Guantánamo and the Abuse of Presidential Power by Joseph Margulies

Joyce Carol Oates, Men Without Qualities

The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud

When the World Was Steady by Claire Messud

The Last Life by Claire Messud

The Hunters by Claire Messud

Timothy Garton Ash, Islam in Europe

Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo Van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance by Ian Buruma

The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Charles Rosen, Opera: Follow the Music

Divas and Scholars: Performing Italian Opera by Philip Gossett

Mark Ford, Our Man in the Underworld

My Life in CIA: A Chronicle of 1973 by Harry Mathews

Oulipo Compendium edited by Harry Mathews and Alastair Brotchie

Nicholas D. Kristof, Aid: Can It Work?

The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good by William Easterly

The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time by Jeffrey D. Sachs

Millions Saved: Proven Successes in Global Health by Ruth Levine and the What Works Working Group, with Molly Kinder

The Trouble with Africa: Why Foreign Aid Isn't Working by Robert Calderisi

Africa's Stalled Development: International Causes and Cures by David K. Leonard and Scott Straus

Anthony Grafton, Rediscovering a Lost Continent

Italy Illuminated by Flavio Biondo, edited and translated by Jeffrey White

Invectives by Francesco Petrarca, edited and translated by David Marsh

Humanist Educational Treatises edited and translated by Craig W. Kallendorf

Biographical Writings by Giannozzo Manetti, edited and translated by Stefano U. Baldassarri and Rolf Bagemihl

Commentaries by Pius II, edited by Margaret Meserve and Marcello Simonetta

Later Travels by Cyriac of Ancona, edited and translated by Edward W. Bodnar with Clive Foss

History of the Florentine People by Leonardo Bruni, edited and translated by James Hankins

Platonic Theology by Marsilio Ficino, edited by James Hankins with William Bowen and translated by Michael J. B. Allen with John Warden

On Discovery by Polydore Vergil, edited and translated by Brian P. Copenhaver

Humanist Comedies edited and translated by Gary R. Grund

Short Epics by Maffeo Vegio, edited and translated by Michael C. J. Putnam with James Hankins

Silvae by Angelo Poliziano, edited and translated by Charles Fantazzi

Letters by Angelo Poliziano, edited and translated by Shane Butler

Joan Didion, Cheney: The Fatal Touch

A Very Thin Line: The Iran-Contra Affairs by Theodore Draper

Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror by Richard A. Clarke

Burn Before Reading: Presidents, CIA Directors, and Secret Intelligence by Admiral Stansfield Turner

Disarming Iraq by Hans Blix

The Halliburton Agenda: The Politics of Oil and Money by Dan Briody

My Year in Iraq: The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope by L. Paul Bremer III, with Malcolm McConnell

Now It's My Turn: A Daughter's Chronicle of Political Life by Mary Cheney

The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America's Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11 by Ron Suskind

Plan of Attack by Bob Woodward

The Rise and Rise of Richard B. Cheney: Unlocking the Mysteries of the Most Powerful Vice President in American History by John Nichols

Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush's War Cabinet by James Mann

Report of the Congressional Committees Investigating the Iran-Contra Affair, with Supplemental, Minority, and Additional Views

31 Days: The Crisis That Gave Us the Government We Have Today by Barry Werth

Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib, and the War on Terror by Mark Danner

Worse Than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush by John W. Dean

Years of Renewal by Henry Kissinger

Michael J Sandel, Thomas Nagel, The Case for Liberalism: An Exchange

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Letters

Hans Koning, All Aboard
David Parks, Tim Flannery, The Scorpion Mystery
Eve Fleisher, Amos Elon, Avigdor and Victor
Ahmed Rashid, The Wrong Company
The Editors, Correction

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Contributors

Joan Didion is the author of The Year of Magical Thinking and We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction. (February 2008)

Mark Ford teaches in the English Department at University College London. His edition of the poetry of Frank O’Hara was published in February. (April 2008)

Timothy Garton Ash is Professor of European Studies and Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St. Antony’s College, Oxford, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford. His most recent book is Free World. (August 2007)

Anthony Grafton teaches the history of Renaissance Europe at Princeton University. His books include Joseph Scaliger, Cardano's Cosmos, and Bring Out Your Dead.

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.

Sue Halpern, a frequent contributor to The New York Review, is a scholar in residence at Middlebury College. Her new book, Can’t Remember What I Forgot: The Good News From the Front Lines of Memory Research, will be published in May. (April 2008)

Nicholas D. Kristof is a columnist for The New York Times and the coauthor, with his wife, Sheryl WuDunn, of China Wakes and Thunder from the East. (May 2007)

Joyce Carol Oates is the Roger S. Berlind Professor of Humanities at Princeton. Her collection of short novellas Wild Nights! Stories About the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway has just been published, and her novel My Sister, My Love: The Intimate Story of Skyler Rampike will be published this summer. (June 2008)

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.

Charles Rosen's most recent book is Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist. (February 2008)

Charles Simic is a poet, essayist and translator. He has published twenty collections of his own poetry, five books of essays, a memoir, and numerous of books of translations. He has received many literary awards for his poems and his translations, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Griffin Prize and the MacArthur Fellowship. Voice at 3 A.M., his selected later and new poems, was published in 2003 and a new book of poems My Noiseless Entourage came out in the spring of 2005.

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)

John Updike was born in 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania. In 1954 he began to publish in The New Yorker, where he continues to contribute short stories, poems, and criticism. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, among other awards. His most recent books are the novel Terrorist and Due Considerations, a collection of his essays and criticism.

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