Table of Contents

Volume 53, Number 18 · November 16, 2006

Andrew O'Hagan, King Tony

The Queen a film directed by Stephen Frears

Garry Wills, A Country Ruled by Faith

Diane Johnson, True Confessions

I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman by Nora Ephron

Caroline Moorehead, Amnesia in Australia

Exiles and Emigrants: Epic Journeys to Australia in the Victorian Era exhibition catalog edited by Patricia Tryon MacDonald

The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes

A Commonwealth of Thieves: The Improbable Birth of Australia by Thomas Keneally

The Secret River by Kate Grenville

The Ballad of Desmond Kale by Roger McDonald

The Marsh Birds by Eva Sallis

The Infernal Optimist by Linda Jaivin

Sarah Kerr, The Girl in the Woods

The Uses of Enchantment by Heidi Julavits

David Cole, How to Skip the Constitution

Not a Suicide Pact: The Constitution in a Time of National Emergency by Richard Posner

Bill McKibben, How Close to Catastrophe?

The Revenge of Gaia: Earth's Climate in Crisis and the Fate of Humanity by James Lovelock

China Shifts Gears: Automakers, Oil, Pollution, and Development by Kelly Sims Gallagher

Solar Revolution: The Economic Transformation of the Global Energy Industry by Travis Bradford

WorldChanging:A User's Guide for the 21st Century edited by Alex Steffen

Design Like You Give a Damn: Architectural Responses to Humanitarian Crises edited by Architecture for Humanity

Robert O. Paxton, The Jew Hater

Bad Faith: A Forgotten History of Family, Fatherland and Vichy France by Carmen Callil

The Unfree French: Life Under the Occupation by Richard Vinen

Edmund S. Morgan, Inventing the 'Liberal Republican' Mind

Dangerous Nation by Robert Kagan

Perry Link, Chinese Shadows

Love in a Fallen City by Eileen Chang,translated from the Chinese by Karen S. Kingsbury and Eileen Chang

Loud Sparrows: Contemporary Chinese Short-Shorts edited by Aili Mu, Julie Chiu, and Howard Goldblatt

The Banquet Bug by Geling Yan

Love and Revolution: A Novel about Song Qingling and Sun Yat-sen by Ping Lu, translated from the Chinese by Nancy Du

David Brion Davis, Blacks: Damned by the Bible

The Curse of Ham: Race and Slavery in Early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam by David M. Goldenberg

Norman Rush, The Devil in Africa

Acts of Faith by Philip Caputo

Robert M. Solow, How to Understand the Economy

Adam's Fallacy: A Guide to Economic Theology by Duncan K. Foley

Martin Filler, The Getty: For Better and Worse

The Getty Villa by Marion True and Jorge Silvetti, with an introduction by Salvatore Settis

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Letters

Mark Lilla, Richard Sennett, The Case of Tony Judt: An Open Letter to the ADL
Thomas A. Dubbs, Marcia Angell, The 'Dangerous Drugstore'
Jonathan Mirsky, Edgar Snow's Alterations
Richard S. Levy, What Fritz Haber Did
Stuart Klipper, A Cemetery in Limbo
Declan Kiely, 'All Will Be Well'
Burton Raffel, P.N. Furbank, Lost in Translation
Mark Jaccard, Tim Flannery, Capturing Carbon
The Editors, Correction

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Contributors

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).

David Brion Davis is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale and Director Emeritus of Yale’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. His most recent book is Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World. (May 2007)

Martin Filler is the architecture critic of House & Garden and a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and The New Republic. He is the co-author, with Olivier Bossiere, of The Vitra Design Museum: Frank Gehry, Architect.

Diane Johnson is the author, most recently, of Into a Paris Quartier: Reine Margot’s Chapel and Other Haunts of St. Germain. Her latest novel is L’Affaire. (February 2008)

Sarah Kerr, a longtime contributor to The New York Review, lives near Washington, D.C. (May 2008)

Perry Link is Professor of East Asian Studies at Princeton. He is working on a book on rhythm, metaphor, and politics in contemporary Chinese language. (April 2008)

Bill Mckibben is scholar in residence at Middlebury College, and the author of The End of Nature and Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future.

Caroline Moorehead is the author of Gellhorn: A Twentieth-Century Life and Human Cargo: A Journey Among Refugees. Her most recent book, an edition of Martha Gellhorn’s letters, appeared in paperback this year. (October 2007)

Edmund S. Morgan is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. His most recent book, The Genuine Article: A Historian Looks at Early America, was published in 2004. (June 2008)

Andrew O'Hagan's novel Be Near Me has just been published in the US. He is a recipient of the E.M. Forster Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. (June 2007)

Robert O. Paxton is Mellon Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus at Columbia. His latest book is The Anatomy of Fascism. (March 2008)

Norman Rush was raised in Oakland, California, and graduated from Swarthmore College in 1956. He has been an antiquarian book dealer, a college instructor, and, with his wife Elsa, he lived and worked in Africa from 1978 to 1983. They now reside in Rockland County, New York. His stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and Best American Short Stories. Whites, a collection of stories, was published in 1986, and his first novel, Mating, the recipient of the National Book Award, was published in 1991. Mortals is his second novel.

Robert M. Solow, Institute Professor Emeritus of Economics at MIT, won the 1987 Nobel Prize in Economics. His most recent book is Work and Welfare. (November 2007)

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.

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