Table of Contents

Volume 54, Number 4 · March 15, 2007

Peter W. Galbraith, The Surge

Robert Secher, The Report of Captain Secher

Jeremy Waldron, What Would Hannah Say?

Reflections on Literature and Culture by Hannah Arendt, edited and with an introduction by Susannah Young-ah Gottlieb

The Jewish Writings by Hannah Arendt, edited by Jerome Kohn and Ron H. Feldman

Essays in Understanding, 1930–1954: Formation, Exile, and Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt, edited and with an introduction by Jerome Kohn

The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt, with an introduction by Samantha Power

Why Arendt Matters by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl

Mary Beard, Et Tu, Cicero?

Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome by Robert Harris

Michael Tomasky, The Democrats

The Way to Win: Taking the White House in 2008 by Mark Halperin and John F. Harris

Positively American: Winning Back the Middle-Class Majority One Family at a Time by Senator Chuck Schumer, with Daniel Squadron

The Plan: Big Ideas for America by Rahm Emanuel and Bruce Reed

Take It Back: A Battle Plan for Democratic Victory by James Carville and Paul Begala

The Moral Center: How We Can Reclaim Our Country from Die-Hard Extremists, Rogue Corporations, Hollywood Hacks, and Pretend Patriots by David Callahan

Blue Grit: True Democrats Take Back Politics from the Politicians by Laura Flanders

Whistling Past Dixie: How Democrats Can Win Without the South by Thomas F. Schaller

Alison Lurie, When Is a Building Beautiful?

The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton

The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton

The Consolations of Philosophy by Alain de Botton

How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain de Botton

The Romantic Movement: Sex, Shopping and the Novel by Alain de Botton

Household Gods: The British and Their Possessions by Deborah Cohen

Meghan O'Rourke, A Further Sea (poem)

Richard Horton, Palestinians: The Crisis in Medical Care

John Lanchester, The Heroine of Hill Top Farm

Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature by Linda Lear

Miss Potter a film directed by Chris Noonan

Jason Epstein, Hurry Up Please It's Time

Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons by Joseph Cirincione

Joyce Carol Oates, Brilliance, Silence, Courage

Twenty-eight Artists and Two Saints: Essays by Joan Acocella

Amos Elon, Thanks for the Memory

Istanbul: Memories and the City by Orhan Pamuk, translated from the Turkish by Maureen Freely

David Luban, The Defense of Torture

War by Other Means: An Insider's Account of the War on Terror by John Yoo

Ian Buruma, Dressing for Success

Glory in a Line: A Life of Foujita, the Artist Caught Between East and West by Phyllis Birnbaum

Bill McKibben, Warning on Warming

Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis: Summary for Policymakers

Michael Dirda, The Way We Live Now

Surveillance by Jonathan Raban

Sanford Schwartz, The Master Builder

Orson Welles: Volume 2, Hello Americans by Simon Callow

What Ever Happened to Orson Welles?: A Portrait of an Independent Career by Joseph McBride

Orson Welles: Volume 1, The Road to Xanadu by Simon Callow

Citizen Welles: A Biography of Orson Welles by Frank Brady

Rosebud: The Story of Orson Welles by David Thomson

This Is Orson Welles by Orson Welles and Peter Bogdanovich, edited by Jonathan Rosenbaum, with a new introduction by Peter Bogdanovich

The Magic World of Orson Welles by James Naremore

Jack Kaplan, Frank J. Sulloway, How to Inherit IQ: An Exchange

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Letters

Alan Dawley and over 150 other historians, Historians Take a Stand
Jefferson Morley, Open the JFK Files!
Edward T. Oakes, Notes from the Underworld
Mark DeVoto, Lucy K. Marks, et al. Queries

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Contributors

Mary Beard is Professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge. Her latest book is Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found, which won the Wolfson History Prize for 2008. (August 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 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.

Amos Elon's most recent book is The Pity of It All: German Jews Before Hitler. He is a Fellow at the Center for Law and Security at NYU. (February 2008)

Jason Epstein was for many years editorial director of Random House. He is chairman of On Demand Books, maker of the Espresso Book Machine. His latest book, Eating: A Memoir, will be published in October. (August 2009)

Peter W. Galbraith, a former US Ambassador to Croatia, is Senior Diplomatic Fellow at the Center for Arms Control and a principal at the Windham Resources Group, which has worked in Iraq. His new book, Unintended Consequences: How War in Iraq Strengthened America's Enemies, has just been released. (October 2008)

Richard Horton is a physician. He edits The Lancet, a weekly medical journal based in London and New York. He is also a visiting professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

John Lanchester's most recent book is a memoir, Family Romance. (March 2007)

David Luban is University Professor and Professor of Law at Georgetown. His latest book, Legal Ethics and Human Dignity, will be published later this year. (March 2007)

Alison Lurie is a former Professor of English at Cornell. Her most recent novel is Truth and Consequences.

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.

Meghan O'Rourke is the culture editor of Slate and a poetry editor of The Paris Review. She is the recipient of the 2005 Union League and Civic Arts Foundation Prize for poetry, awarded by Poetry magazine.

Joyce Carol Oates, the Roger S. Berlind Professor of Humanities at Princeton, is the author most recently of the novel Little Bird of Heaven and the story collection Dear Husband. (December 2009)

Sanford Schwartz is the author of Christen Købke and William Nicholson. (November 2009)

Captain Robert Secher, of the US Marine Corps, volunteered for service in Iraq on January 6, 2006, and was killed on October 8, 2006, in Anbar Province. (March 2007)

Michael Tomasky is editor of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas and American editor-at-large for The Guardian.
 (December 2009)

Jeremy Waldron is the author of Law and Disagreement and The Dignity of Legislation. He is University Professor in the Law School at New York University. (October 2008)

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