Table of Contents
Volume 54, Number 6 · April 12, 2007
Jonathan Raban, Cracks in the House of Rove
The Conservative Soul: How We Lost It, How to Get It Back by Andrew Sullivan
Colm Tóibín, Learning to Love 
Call Me by Your Name by André Aciman
Sanford Schwartz, A Track All His Own
Martìn Ramìrez Catalog of the exhibition by Brooke Davis Anderson, with essays by Vìctor M. Espinosa and Kristin E. Espinosa, Daniel Baumann, and Victor Zamudio-Taylor, a foreword by Maria Ann Conelli, and an introduction by Robert Storr.
George Soros, On Israel, America and Aipac
Hayden N. Pelliccia, 'Let Virgil Be Virgil'
The Aeneid by Virgil, translated from the Latin by Robert Fagles, with anintroduction by Bernard Knox
Aeneid by Virgil, translated from the Latin by Stanley Lombardo, with anintroduction by W.R. Johnson
Hilary Mantel, Insight Without Anger
Family Romance: A Love Story by John Lanchester
Jason DeParle, The American Prison Nightmare
Punishment and Inequality in America by Bruce Western
Confronting Confinement: A Report of the Commission on Safety and Abuse in America's Prisons by John J. Gibbons and Nicholas de B. Katzenbach, co-chairs
Locked Out: Felon Disenfranchisement and American Democracy by Jeff Manza and Christopher Uggen
William Finnegan, Double-Cross in the Congo
The Mission Song by John le Carré
Taylor Branch, Justice for Warriors
The Bonus Army: An American Epic by Paul Dickson and Thomas B. Allen
Soldiers to Citizens: The G.I. Bill and the Making of the Greatest Generation by Suzanne Mettler
Over Here: How the G.I. Bill Transformed the American Dream by Edward Humes
Richard Holmes, The Passionate Partnership
The Friendship: Wordsworth and Coleridge by Adam Sisman
Pankaj Mishra, Muslims in the Dark
In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar
Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits by Laila Lalami
Keith Thomas, A Highly Paradoxical Historian
Letters from Oxford: Hugh Trevor-Roper to Bernard Berenson edited by Richard Davenport-Hines
Europe's Physician: The Various Life of Sir Theodore de Mayerne by Hugh Trevor-Roper
Pico Iyer, Swans' Way
Devotion by Howard Norman
Daniel J. Kevles, The Poor Man's Atomic Bomb
War of Nerves: Chemical Warfare from World War I to Al-Qaeda by Jonathan B. Tucker
John Gross, A Scandal at the Villa Paradiso
All for Love by Dan Jacobson
William H. McNeill, How the Winds Changed History
Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration by Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Avishai Margalit, The Lessons of Spinoza
The Courtier and the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza, and the Fate of God in the Modern World by Matthew Stewart
Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity by Rebecca Goldstein
Stephen Greenblatt, Shakespeare and the Uses of Power
Letters
Edmund Morris, Russell Baker, 'Dutch'
Larry Kramer, Reagan and Aids
Hugh Thomas, A Nuclear Way Forward
Stanley Marcus, Tim Parks, Doom and Thomas Hardy
Bertrand Horwitz, Paul Krugman, Milton Friedman in China
Walter Laqueur, Jeremy Waldron, Unkind to Arendt
The Editors, Corrections
Robert Conquest, Kingsley Amis and 'The Great Terror'
Gene H. Bell-Villada, Daniel Mendelsohn, Singing 'Volver'
Michael Cisco, H.P. Lovecraft and 'Tsathoggua'
Tony Judt, Humphrey Wrote It
Ian MacDougall, Martin Filler, Half the Fun
Contributors
Taylor Branch is the author of America in the King Years, a narrative history of the modern Civil Rights era in three volumes: Parting the Waters, Pillar of Fire, and At Canaan’s Edge. (April 2007)
Jason DeParle, a reporter for The New York Times, is the author of American Dream: Three Women, Ten Kids, and a Nation’s Drive to End Welfare. (April 2007)
William Finnegan’s books include A Complicated War: The Harrowing of Mozambique and Cold New World: Growing Up in a Harder Country. (April 2007)
Stephen Greenblatt is John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard. His play Cardenio, coauthored with Charles Mee, will be performed next year by the American Repertory Theatre and the Public Theater. (November 2007)
John Gross’s most recent book is A Double Thread, a memoir. He is the editor of The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes, which will be published in paperback in September. (May 2008)
Richard Holmes is the author of Shelley: The Pursuit, for which he won the Somerset Maugham Prize in 1974; Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage, which won the 1993 James Tait Black Prize; and Coleridge: Early Visions, winner of the 1989 Whitbread Book of the Year Prize. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 1992. He lives in London and Norwich with the novelist Rose Tremain. He is also a professor of biographical studies at the University of East Anglia.
Pico Iyer’s most recent novel is Abandon. A new book, The Open Road, about the fourteenth Dalai Lama and globalism, will be out next spring. (December 2007)
Daniel J. Kevles is Stanley Woodward Professor of History at Yale University. His most recent book is The Baltimore Case.
Hilary Mantel’s memoir, Giving Up the Ghost, was published in 2003. Her latest novel is Beyond Black. (January 2008)
Avishai Margalit is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is currently the George Kennan Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He has just been awarded the 2007 Emet Prize by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for his work in political thought, ethics, and philosophy. (December 2007)
William H. McNeill is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Chicago. His most recent books are The Pursuit of Truth: A Historian’s Memoir and A Boyhood Memory: Long Ago on Grandfather’s Farm, which is currently in search of a publisher. (April 2008)
Pankaj Mishra was born in North India in 1969 and now lives in London and India. He is the author of The Romantics, winner of the Los Angeles Times's Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, and An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and The Guardian. His most recent book is Temptations of the West: How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet, and Beyond.
Hayden Pelliccia teaches Classics at Cornell. (April 2007)
Jonathan Raban's books include Arabia: A Journey Through the Labrynth, Old Glory, Bad Land, Passage to Juneau, and Waxwings. He is the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Heinemann Award of the Royal Society of Literature, the PEN/West Creative Nonfiction Award, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers' Award, and the Governor's Award of the State of Washington. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, The Guardian, and The Independent. He lives in Seattle.
Sanford Schwartz's essays and reviews have been collected in The Art Presence and Artists and Writers. (May 2008)
George Soros, Chairman of Soros Fund Management LLC and the Open Society Institute, is the author most recently of The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What It Means, which was published as an eBook in April and will be coming out in hardcover this month. The interview in this issue is based on one of the "Conversations with Judy Woodruff" broadcast on Bloomberg News. (May 2008)
Colm Tóibín is the author of five novels, including The Story of the Night, The Blackwater Lightship, and The Heather Blazing. The Master, a novel based on the life of Henry James, was published in 2004 and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Among his nonfiction works are Bad Blood: A Walk Along the Irish Border, Homage to Barcelona, The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe, and, most recently, Love in a Dark Time. In 2004, his first play, Beauty in a Broken Place, was produced in Dublin. His most recent novel, The Master, which is based on the life of Henry James, won the Los Angeles Times Novel of the Year Award in 2005 and the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger in France. He lives in Dublin.
Keith Thomas is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. His books include Religion and the Decline of Magic, Man and the Natural World, and The Oxford Book of Work. (April 2007)
