Table of Contents
Volume 54, Number 1 · January 11, 2007
David Grossman, Looking at Ourselves 
Luc Sante, Inside the Time Machine
Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon
John Ashbery, Pavane pour Helen Twelvetrees (poem)
Michael Tomasky, Better Late Than Never
"Work Hard, Study...and Keep Out of Politics!": Adventures and Lessons from an Unexpected Public Life by James A. Baker III, with Steve Fiffer
The Iraq Study Group Report: The Way Forward—A New Approach by James A. Baker III and Lee H. Hamilton, co-chairs
Joyce Carol Oates, Memoirs of the Artist
Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer's Life, 1990–2005
A Photographer's Life, 1990–2005 by Annie Leibovitz
H. Allen Orr, A Mission to Convert
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast: The Evolutionary Origins of Belief by Lewis Wolpert
Evolution and Christian Faith: Reflections of an Evolutionary Biologist by Joan Roughgarden
Claire Messud, A Case of Development
The Lay of the Land by Richard Ford
Raymond Bonner, The CIA's Secret Torture
Ghost Plane: The True Story of the CIA Torture Program by Stephen Grey
Report of the Events Relating to Maher Arar by the Commission of Inquiry into the Actions of Canadian Officials in Relation to Maher Arar
Zbigniew Herbert, The End (poem)
Robert Darnton, On Clifford Geertz: Field Notes from the Classroom
Cathleen Schine, In the Space Between Words
The Collected Stories by Amy Hempel, with an introduction by Rick Moody
Christian Caryl, What About the Iraqis?
Baghdad Burning: Girl Blog from Iraq by Riverbend, with a foreword by Ahdaf Soueif and an introduction by James Ridgeway
Baghdad Burning II: More Girl Blog from Iraq by Riverbend, with an introduction by James Ridgeway and Jean Cassella
Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War by Anthony Shadid
In the Belly of the Green Bird: The Triumph of the Martyrs in Iraq by Nir Rosen
Clive James, Golden Boy
Things I Didn't Know by Robert Hughes
Elizabeth Drew, Democrats: The Big Surprise
Tim Parks, The Genius of Bad News
Thomas Bernhard: The Making of an Austrian by Gitta Honegger
Frost by Thomas Bernhard, translated from the German by Michael Hofmann
Paul Ginsborg, In the Shadow of Berlusconi
The Sack of Rome: How a Beautiful European Country with a Fabled History and a Storied Culture Was Taken Over by a Man Named Silvio Berlusconi by Alexander Stille
Michael Dirda, Dante: The Supreme Realist
Hilary Mantel, The Perils of Antoinette
Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution by Caroline Weber
A Scented Palace: The Secret History of Marie Antoinette's Perfumer by Elisabeth de Feydeau, translated from the French by Jane Lizop
Richard Posner, David Cole, 'How to Skip the Constitution': An Exchange
Letters
Caroline Moorehead, 'Amnesia in Australia'
The Editors, Corrections
William Easterly, 'The White Man's Burden'
Michael Tomasky, Invitation to a Steak-Fry
Claude Cahn, Carl Djerassi, et al. Handing over Jews
Mark Collins, Robert M. Solow, Wrong Values
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.
Raymond Bonner has been a foreign correspondent and investigative reporter for The New York Times, and has written extensively about the Bush administration’s treatment of terrorist suspects. (April 2008)
Christian Caryl iis the Tokyo Bureau Chief of Newsweek. He has reported from thirty-seven countries, including Russia, Afghanistan, North Korea, and Iraq. (February 2009)
Robert Darnton is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor at Harvard. His latest book is George Washington’s False Teeth: An Unconventional Guide to the Eighteenth Century. (February 2009)
Michael Dirda is the author of two collections of essays, Readings and Bound to Please, the memoir An Open Book, and, most recently, Book by Book: Notes on Reading and Life. In 1993 he received the Pulitzer Prize for his reviews and essays in The Washington Post Book World. Before drifting into journalism, Dirda earned a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Cornell University, concentrating on medieval studies and European romanticism.
Elizabeth Drew, who lives in Washington, is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books. She is the author of twelve books.
Paul Ginsborg is a Professor of European History at the University of Florence. He is the author of several books on Italy, including Silvio Berlusconi: Television, Power and Patrimony. (January 2007)
David Grossman, who lives near Jerusalem, is the author of The Yellow Wind, a report on life in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. His most recent work of fiction is Her Body Knows: Two Novellas, which was awarded the Koret International Jewish Book Award for fiction in 2006. (January 2007)
Zbigniew Herbert, a leading Polish poet, died in 1998. The Collected Poems: 1956–1998, edited and translated by Alissa Valles, will be published by Ecco in February. (January 2007)
Clive James is the author of many books of criticism, autobiography, fiction, and poetry. His latest and longest book, Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts, will be published in the spring. (January 2007)
Hilary Mantel is the author of nine novels, including Beyond Black. Her new novel, Wolf Hall, will be published in the UK in 2009.
Claire Messud's most recent novel is The Emperor's Children. Her earlier novels include When the World Was Steady. (July 2009)
Joyce Carol Oates, the Roger S. Berlind Professor of Humanities at Princeton, is the author most recently of the novel My Sister, My Love: The Intimate Story of Skyler Rampike and the forthcoming story collection Dear Husband. (April 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)
Tim Parks, a novelist, essayist, and translator, is Associate Professor of Literature and Translation at IULM University in Milan. His most recent novel is Dreams of Rivers and Seas.
Luc Sante is the author of Low Life, Evidence, The Factory of Facts, and, most recently, Kill All Your Darlings: Pieces 1990–2005. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and teaches writing and the history of photography at Bard College.
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.
Michael Tomasky is editor of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas and American editor-at-large for The Guardian. (July 2009)
