Table of Contents

Volume 54, Number 3 · March 1, 2007

Russell Baker, Reconstructing Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan: Fate, Freedom, and the Making of History by John Patrick Diggins

Reagan: A Life in Letters edited by Kiron K. Skinner, Annelise Anderson, and Martin Anderson, with a foreword by George P. Shultz

Transforming America: Politics and Culture During the Reagan Years by Robert M. Collins

The Reagan Imprint: Ideas in American Foreign Policy from the Collapse of Communism to the War on Terror by John Arquilla

Daniel Mendelsohn, The Women of Pedro Almodóvar

Volver a film directed by Pedro Almodóvar

Richard Dorment, Power Portraits

Sir Thomas Lawrence by Michael Levey

John Banville, Executioner Songs

House of Meetings by Martin Amis

Adam Zagajewski, Subject: Brodsky (poem)

Eliot Weinberger, At the Feet of Ezra Pound

The Way It Wasn't: From the Files of James Laughlin edited by Barbara Epler and Daniel Javitch

Tim Parks, Return of the Master

Thomas Hardy by Claire Tomalin

Adam Zagajewski, Reading Milosz (poem)

Jennifer Schuessler, Gorgeously Minimal

Mothers and Sons: Stories by Colm Tóibìn

Melvin Konner, Dim Beginnings

The Old Way: A Story of the First People by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

Christian Caryl, Gods of the Mall

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami, translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel and Jay Rubin

Christopher de Bellaigue, The Uncontainable Kurds

Richard J. Bernstein, How Not to Deal with North Korea

A Moment of Crisis: Jimmy Carter, the Power of a Peacemaker, and North Korea's Nuclear Ambitions by Marion V. Creekmore Jr.

Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes On the World by Gordon G. Chang

Rogue Regime: Kim Jong Il and the Looming Threat of North Korea by Jasper Becker

Charles Simic, When Night Forgets to Fall

The Curved Planks by Yves Bonnefoy, translated from the French by Hoyt Rogers, with a foreword by Richard Howard

Ian Buruma, Thailand: All the King's Men

The King Never Smiles: A Biography of Thailand's Bhumibol Adulyadej by Paul M. Handley

Istvan Deak, Did the Revolution Have to Fail?

Revolution in Hungary: The 1956 Budapest Uprising by Erich Lessing, with texts by George Konrad, François Fejtö, Erich Lessing, and Nicolas Bauquet

Twelve Days: The Story of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution by Victor Sebestyen

Failed Illusions: Moscow, Washington, Budapest, and the 1956 Hungarian Revolt by Charles Gati

The Hungarian Revolution of 1956: Myths and Realities by László Eörsi, translated from the Hungarian by Mario D. Fenyo

A Good Comrade: János Kádár, Communism and Hungary by Roger Gough

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Letters

Daniel C. Dennett, H. Allen Orr, 'The God Delusion'

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Contributors

Russell Baker is a former columnist and correspondent for The New York Times and The Baltimore Sun. His books include The Good Times, Growing Up, and Looking Back. (April 2008)

John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He is the author of many novels, including The Book of Evidence, The Untouchable, and Eclipse. Banville's novel The Sea was awarded the 2005 Man Booker Prize. On occasion he writes under the pen name Benjamin Black.

Richard J. Bernstein, formerly Time magazine’s correspondent in China and a correspondent in France and Germany for The New York Times, is the author of Ultimate Journey. (October 2007)

Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard. He received this year’s Shorenstein Award for writing about Asia. His latest book, Murder in Amsterdam, is available in paperback. (May 2008)

Christian Caryl is the Tokyo Bureau Chief of Newsweek. He has reported from thirty-seven countries, including Russia, Afghanistan, North Korea, and Iraq. (December 2007)

Istvan Deak has written books on Weimar Germany’s left-wing intellectuals, the 1848 revolution in Hungary, the Habsburg army officer corps, and Europe during World War II. (March 2007)

Richard Dorment is the art critic of the Daily Telegraph. (April 2008)

Melvin Konner is Dobbs Professor of Anthropology at Emory University. His books include The Tangled Wing: Biological Constraints on the Human Spirit, published in a revised edition in 2002. (March 2007)

Daniel Mendelsohn, a frequent contributor to The New York Review, is the author, most recently, of The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Prix Médicis Étranger in France. A collection of his essays, mostly from these pages, will be published this year. He teaches at Bard. (January 2008)

Tim Parks, a novelist, essayist, and translator, is Associate Professor of English Literature at IULM University in Milan. His novel Cleaver was published in February. (April 2008)

Jennifer Schuessler is on the staff of The New York Times Book Review. (March 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.

Eliot Weinberger's most recent book is a sequence of essays, An Elemental Thing. (August 2007)

Adam Zagajewski's books include Another Beauty and Without End: New and Selected Poems. The poem in this issue is from his new book, Eternal Enemies, just published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. (April 2008)

Christopher de Bellaigue was born in London in 1971 and has worked as a journalist in the Middle East and South Asia since 1994. His first book, In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs: A Memoir of Iran, was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize. He lives in Tehran with his wife and two children.

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