Table of Contents
Volume 53, Number 19 · November 30, 2006
John Updike, After Katrina
New Orleans After the Flood: Photographs by Robert Polidori
After the Flood by Robert Polidori, with an introduction by Jeff L. Rosenheim
Michael Tomasky, The Phenomenon
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama
Daniel Mendelsohn, Lost in Versailles
Marie Antoinette a film directed by Sofia Coppola
John Ashbery, Image Problem (poem)
Larry McMurtry, The Lives of Gore 
Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir, 1964 to 2006 by Gore Vidal
Niall Ferguson, A 'Miracle of Deliverance'?
Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore
Charles Simic, The Elegist
White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected Poems, 1946–2006 by Donald Hall, with a CD of poems read by the author
Max Rodenbeck, How Terrible Is It?
The National Security Strategy of the United States of America (September 2002)
The National Security Strategy of the United States of America (March 2006)
What Terrorists Want: Understanding the Enemy, Containing the Threat by Louise Richardson
Overblown: How Politicians and the Terrorism Industry Inflate National Security Threats, and Why We Believe Them by John Mueller
Winning the Un-War: A New Strategy for the War on Terrorism by Charles Peña
Frank J. Sulloway, Parallel Lives
Indivisible by Two: Lives of Extraordinary Twins by Nancy L. Segal
John Leonard, The Adventures of Doris Lessing
Time Bites: Views and Reviews by Doris Lessing
The Story of General Dann and Mara's Daughter, Griot and the Snow Dog by Doris Lessing
James M. McPherson, The Great Betrayal
Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War by Nicholas Lemann
Colm Tóibín, A Thousand Prayers
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers by Yiyun Li
Gordon S. Wood, Without Him, No Bill of Rights
James Madison and the Struggle for the Bill of Rights by Richard Labunski
John Brewer, Selling the American Way
Irresistible Empire: America's Advance Through Twentieth-Century Europe by Victoria de Grazia
Peter Green, Finding Ithaca
Rediscovering Homer: Inside the Origins of the Epic by Andrew Dalby
Odysseus Unbound: The Search for Homer's Ithaca by Robert Bittlestone with James Diggle and John Underhill
Archaeology and the Emergence of Greece by A.M. Snodgrass
Abraham H. Foxman, Myrna Shinbaum, Mark Lilla, et al. The ADL and Tony Judt: An Exchange
Letters
Eden Naby, Peter W. Galbraith, The Plight of Christians in Iraq
Peter Friedman, Pat Schroeder, et al. 'Books @ Google'
The Editors, 'Punishment: the US Record'
The Editors, Corrections
Contributors
John Ashbery is the author of twenty books of poetry, including Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (1975), which received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the National Book Award; and Some Trees (1956), which was selected by W. H. Auden for the Yale Younger Poets Series. He has also published art criticism, plays, and a novel. Ashbery is currently the Charles P. Stevenson, Jr., Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard College.
John Brewerteaches in the Humanities and Social Sciences Division at the California Institute of Technology. His most recent book is A Sentimental Murder: Love and Madness in the Eighteenth Century. (June 2008)
Niall Ferguson is Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford. His most recent book is The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World. (June 2009)
Peter Green is Dougherty Centennial Professor Emeritus of Classics at the University of Texas at Austin and Adjunct Professor at the University of Iowa. His most recent book is The Hellenistic Age: A Short History. (May 2008)
John Leonard writes on books every month for Harper’s and on television every week for New York magazine. (June 2007)
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.
James M. McPherson is George Henry Davis '86 Professor of American History Emeritus at Princeton. His most recent book is Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief. (December 2008)
Daniel Mendelsohn, a frequent contributor to The New York Review, is the Charles Ranlett Flint Professor of Humanities at Bard College. His translations, with commentary, of the Collected Poems and Unfinished Poems of Constantine Cavafy will be published this month. His other books include The Elusive Embrace: Desire and the Riddle of Identity (1999), Gender and the City in Euripides' Political Plays (2002), The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million (2006), and How Beautiful It Is And How Easily It Can Be Broken: Essays (2008). (March 2009)
Max Rodenbeck is The Economist's Mideast Correspondent. He is based in Cairo. (January 2009)
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.
Frank J. Sulloway is Visiting Scholar in the Institute of Personality and Social Research at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author most recently of Born to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics, and Creative Lives. (November 2006)
Colm Tóibín is the author of five novels, including The Story of the Night, The Blackwater Lightship, and The Heather Blazing. The Master, a novel based on the life of Henry James, was published in 2004 and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. It also won the Los Angeles Times Novel of the Year Award in 2005 and the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger in France. Among his nonfiction works are Bad Blood: A Walk Along the Irish Border, Homage to Barcelona, The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe, and, most recently, Love in a Dark Time. In 2004, his first play, Beauty in a Broken Place, was produced in Dublin where he lives.
Michael Tomasky is editor of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas and American editor-at-large for The Guardian. (July 2009)
John Updike was born in 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania. In 1954 he began to publish in The New Yorker, where he continued to contribute short stories, poems, and criticism until his death in 2009. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, among other awards. His last books were the novel The Widows of Eastwick and Due Considerations, a collection of his essays and criticism.
Gordon Wood is the Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History at Brown. A collection of his essays, The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History, was published in March. (May 2008)
