Table of Contents

Volume 54, Number 5 · March 29, 2007

Julian Barnes, The Odd Couple

That Sweet Enemy: The French and the British from the Sun King to the Present by Robert and Isabelle Tombs

Vaclav Havel, The Freedom Tower

Eamon Duffy, Early Christian Impresarios

Christianity and the Transformation of the Book: Origen, Eusebius, and the Library of Caesarea by Anthony Grafton and Megan Williams

The Monk and the Book: Jerome and the Making of Christian Scholarship by Megan Hale Williams

Joseph Lelyveld, Jimmy Carter and Apartheid

Palestine Peace Not Apartheid by Jimmy Carter

Prisoners: A Muslim and a Jew Across the Middle East Divide by Jeffrey Goldberg

James M. McPherson, What Did He Really Think About Race?

The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics by James Oakes

Helen Vendler, The Democratic Eye

A Worldly Country: New Poems by John Ashbery

Stephen Kinzer, Big Gamble in Rwanda

Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda by Roméo Dallaire, with a foreword by Samantha Power

The Rwanda Crisis: History of a Genocide by Gérard Prunier

Imagined Olympians: Body Culture and Colonial Representation in Rwanda by John Bale

Silent Accomplice: The Untold Story of France's Role in Rwandan Genocide by Andrew Wallis

An Ordinary Man: An Autobiography by Paul Rusesabagina with Tom Zoellner

Anne Barton, 'Words, Words, Words'

The Shakespeare Wars: Clashing Scholars, Public Fiascoes, Palace Coups by Ron Rosenbaum

Christopher Benfey, Three Ways of Looking at Thomas Eakins

Eakins Revealed: The Secret Life of an American Artist by Henry Adams

The Revenge of Thomas Eakins by Sidney D. Kirkpatrick

Portrait: The Life of Thomas Eakins by William S. McFeely

Brian Urquhart, Disaster: From Suez to Iraq

Ends of British Imperialism: The Scramble for Empire, Suez and Decolonization by Wm. Roger Louis

The International Struggle over Iraq: Politics in the UN Security Council, 1980–2005 by David M. Malone

Diane Johnson, The Triumph of Turgenev

Twilight of Love: Travels with Turgenev by Robert Dessaix

Darryl Pinckney, Black Wisdom

All Aunt Hagar's Children by Edward P. Jones

Andrew Delbanco, Scandals of Higher Education

Equity and Excellence in American Higher Education by William G. Bowen, Martin A. Kurzweil, and Eugene M. Tobin, in collaboration with Susanne C. Pichler

The Price of Admission: How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges—and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates by Daniel Golden

The Trouble with Diversity: How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality by Walter Benn Michaels

Excellence Without a Soul: How a Great University Forgot Education by Harry R. Lewis

Our Underachieving Colleges: A Candid Look at How Much Students Learn and Why They Should Be Learning More by Derek Bok

Powers of the Mind: The Reinvention of Liberal Learning in America by Donald N. Levine

John Friedmann, Richard Stern, John Banville, Translating Rilke: An Exchange

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Letters

Edward Nelson, Anna J. Schwartz, et al. 'Who Was Milton Friedman?'
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, Melvin Konner, 'The Old Way'

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Contributors

Julian Barnes has written nine novels, a book of short stories, and two collections of essays. His most recent book is Something to Declare: Essays on France.

Anne Barton is a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. She is the author of Essays, Mainly Shakespearean. (March 2007)

Christopher Benfey is Mellon Professor of English at Mount Holyoke. His book A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade was published in April. (June 2008)

Andrew Delbanco is Julian Clarence Levi Professor in the Humanities and Director of American Studies at Columbia. His most recent book is Melville: His World and Work. (April 2008)

Eamon Duffy is Professor of the History of Christianity at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Magdalene College. His latest book is Marking the Hours: English People and Their Prayers, 1240–1570. (May 2008)

Vaclav Havel, one of the six signers of the statement “Tibet: The Peace of the Graveyard,” is former president of the Czech Republic. (May 2008)

Diane Johnson is the author, most recently, of Into a Paris Quartier: Reine Margot’s Chapel and Other Haunts of St. Germain. Her latest novel is L’Affaire. (February 2008)

Stephen Kinzer, a former New York Times bureau chief in Managua, Berlin, and Istanbul, is the author of Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq. He is writing a book about Rwanda. (June 2008)

Joseph Lelyveld is a former editor and correspondent of The New York Times. He is the author of Omaha Blues: A Memory Loop. (May 2008)

James M. McPherson is George Henry Davis ’86 Professor of American History Emeritus at Princeton. His most recent book is This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War, a collection of essays. (April 2008)

Darryl Pinckney is the author of a novel, High Cotton, and Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature.

Brian Urquhart is a former Undersecretary-General of the United Nations. His books include Hammarskjöld, A Life in Peace and War, and Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey. (June 2008)

Helen Vendler is the author, most recently, of Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form. She is preparing for publication her recent Mellon Lectures, entitled Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill. (June 2008)

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