Table of Contents
Volume 54, Number 2 · February 15, 2007
Janet Malcolm, 'The Not Returning Part of It' 
Wish I Could Be There: Notes from a Phobic Life by Allen Shawn
J.M. Coetzee, Portrait of the Monster as a Young Artist
The Castle in the Forest by Norman Mailer
Joseph Lelyveld, No Exit
Sue Halpern, At the Gandhi Café
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
Ian Buruma, Eastwood's War
Flags of Our Fathers a film directed by Clint Eastwood
Letters from Iwo Jima a film directed by Clint Eastwood
Michael Chabon, After the Apocalypse
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Paul Krugman, Who Was Milton Friedman?
Graham Robb, Treasures of Vanity
Pages from the Goncourt Journals by Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, edited, translated from the French, and with an introduction by Robert Baldick, and with a foreword by Geoff Dyer
Tim Flannery, What Is a Tree?
The Tree: A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live, and Why They Matter by Colin Tudge
The Plant-Book: A Portable Dictionary of the Vascular Plants, Second Edition by D.J. Mabberley
John Leonard, A Feast of Shadows
Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties by Robert Stone
Helen Epstein, Julia Kim, AIDS and the Power of Women
Christopher de Hamel, The One and Only Book
Marking the Hours: English People and Their Prayers, 1240–1570 by Eamon Duffy
Tony Judt, Is the UN Doomed?
The UN Exposed: How The United Nations Sabotages America's Security and Fails the World by Eric Shawn
The Parliament of Man: The Past, Present, and Future of the United Nations by Paul Kennedy
The Best Intentions: Kofi Annan and the UN in the Era of American World Power by James Traub
Kofi Annan, Kofi Annan's Last Speech on the Middle East to the Security Council
Christopher Benfey, The Convert
Emma Lazarus by Esther Schor
Emma Lazarus: Selected Poems edited by John Hollander
William Pfaff, Manifest Destiny: A New Direction for America
Letters
Gholam Reza Afkhami and over one hundred others, On the Holocaust Conference Sponsored by the Government of Iran
Robert O. Paxton, It Wasn't Just Morale
Leo Steinberg, Ingrid D. Rowland, The King's Cross?
Edward Countryman, Tony Judt, The Case of E.P. Thompson
The Editors, Corrections
Contributors
Kofi Annan was until recently the Secretary-General of the United Nations. (February 2007)
Christopher Benfey is Mellon Professor of English at Mount Holyoke. His edition of Lafcadio Hearn: American Writings was published last spring by the Library of America. (October 2009)
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.
Michael Chabon is the author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier
and Clay and the children's book, Summerland. He lives in Berkeley, California.
J. M. Coetzee, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 2003, is currently Visiting Professor of Humanities at the University of Adelaide. His new work of fiction, Summertime, from which the piece in this issue is drawn, will be published by Harvill Secker in October. (August 2009)
Helen Epstein is the author of The Invisible Cure: Why We Are Losing the Fight Against AIDS.
(June 2009)
Tim Flannery is a Professor at Macquarie University in Sydney and Chair of the Copenhagen Climate Council. His latest book is Now or Never: Why We Must Act Now to End Climate Change and Create a Sustainable Future. (November 2009)
Sue Halpern is a scholar in residence at Middlebury. Her most recent book is Can’t Remember What I Forgot: The Good News from the Front Lines of Memory Research. (November 2009)
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)
Julia Kim is a physician and researcher based at the School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa) and the Health Policy Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (UK). She has been living and working in rural South Africa for the past nine years. (February 2007)
Paul Krugman is a columnist for The New York Times and Professor of Economics and International Affairs at Princeton. He was awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize in Economics. (June 2009)
Joseph Lelyveld's book Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White won a Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 1986. (April 2009)
John Leonard writes on books every month for Harper's and on television every week for New York magazine. (June 2007)
Janet Malcolm was born in Prague. She was educated at the High School of Music and Art, in New York, and at the University of Michigan. Along with In the Freud Archives, her books include Diana and Nikon: Essays on Photography, Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession, The Journalist and the Murderer, The Purloined Clinic: Selected Writings, The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, The Crime of Sheila McGough, and Reading Chekhov: A Critical Journey. She lives in New York.
William Pfaff is an American author and syndicated columnist in Paris. His most recent book is The Bullet's Song. (December 2007)
Graham Robb has written biographies of Balzac, Rimbaud, and Victor Hugo. His latest book is The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography from the Revolution to the First World War.
(February 2009)
Christopher de Hamel is Donnelley Fellow Librarian of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He was for many years responsible for sales of medieval illuminated manuscripts at Sotheby's. He is the author of many books on medieval manuscripts and the history of book collecting. (February 2007)
