Table of Contents
Volume 54, Number 7 · April 26, 2007
Charles Taylor, A Different Kind of Courage
Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation by Jonathan Lear
Andrew Butterfield, Brush with Genius
Tintoretto Catalog of the exhibition edited by Miguel Falomir
Sarah Kerr, The Unclosed Circle
We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction by Joan Didion, with an introduction by John Leonard
William Pfaff, Happy Birthday! 
Edmund S. Morgan, Marie Morgan, Our Shaky Beginnings
Captain John Smith: Writings with Other Narratives of Roanoke, Jamestown, and the First English Settlement of America by Captain John Smith
The Jamestown Project by Karen Ordahl Kupperman
Jamestown: The Buried Truth by William M. Kelso
Savage Kingdom: The True Story of Jamestown, 1607, and the Settlement of America by Benjamin Woolley
A Land as God Made It: Jamestown and theBirth of America by James Horn
Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough: Three Indian Lives Changed by Jamestown by Helen C. Rountree
Prudence Crowther, The Outsourcer's Apprentice
Amos Elon, Hard Truth About Palestine
Once Upon a Country: A Palestinian Life by Sari Nusseibeh, with Anthony David
Diane Johnson, The Malibu Decameron
Ten Days in the Hills by Jane Smiley
Frances FitzGerald, The Evangelical Surprise
Charles Simic, The Philosophy of 3 AM
The Collected Poems, 1956–1998 by Zbigniew Herbert, edited and translated from the Polish by Alissa Valles, with additional translations by Czeslaw Milosz and Peter Dale Scott and an introduction by Adam Zagajewski
Edmund White, The House of Edith
Edith Wharton by Hermione Lee
John Terborgh, Hero of Birdland
All Things Reconsidered: My Birding Adventures by Roger Tory Peterson, edited by Bill Thompson III
Joyce Carol Oates, The Art of Vengeance
Collected Stories by Roald Dahl, with an introduction by Jeremy Treglown
William Dalrymple, Plain Tales from British India
The Scandal of Empire: India and the Creation of Imperial Britain by Nicholas B. Dirks
The Ruling Caste: Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj by David Gilmour
Phillip Knightley, Turning the Philby Case on Its Head
Deceiving the Deceivers: Kim Philby, Donald Maclean, and Guy Burgess by S.J. Hamrick
P.N. Furbank, A Capacity for Impudence
Beaumarchais in Seville: An Intermezzo by Hugh Thomas
Aileen Kelly, Why They Believed in Stalin
Tear Off the Masks! Identity and Imposture in Twentieth-Century Russia by Sheila Fitzpatrick
Revolution on My Mind: Writing a Diary Under Stalin by Jochen Hellbeck
Geza Jeszenszky, William Raymond Smith, Istvan Deak, The Hungarian Revolution: An Exchange
Lawrence Blum, Henry Wasser, Frank Wolf, et al. 'Scandals of Higher Education': An Exchange
Letters
Michael Lind, James M. McPherson, Lincoln & Race
Avishai Margalit, Sorry
Contributors
Andrew Butterfield is President of Andrew Butterfield Fine Arts. He is the author of The Sculptures of Andrea del Verrocchio. (September 2008)
Prudence Crowther is the copy chief at BusinessWeek. (April 2007)
William Dalrymple is the author of From the Holy Mountain, The White Mughals, and The Last Mughal. (October 2008)
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)
Frances FitzGerald's books include Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars, and the End of the Cold War. (November 2008)
P. N. Furbank is the author of Diderot and, with W.R. Owens, A Political Biography of Daniel Defoe. (December 2007)
Diane Johnson’s new novel, Lulu in Marrakech, will be published this month. (October 2008)
Aileen Kelly, a fellow of King’s College, Cambridge, is the author of Toward Another Shore: Russian Thinkers Between Necessity and Chance and, most recently, Views from the Other Shore: Essays on Herzen, Chekhov, and Bakhtin. (April 2007)
Sarah Kerr, a longtime contributor to The New York Review, lives near Washington, D.C. (May 2008)
Phillip Knightley is the author of The Master Spy: The Story of Kim Philby and the Second Oldest Profession. He has written on espionage for, among others, the London Sunday Times, The New York Times, and the London Review of Books. He is currently Visiting Professor of Journalism at the University of Lincoln in England. (April 2007)
Edmund S. Morgan is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. His most recent book, The Genuine Article: A Historian Looks at Early America, was published in 2004. (October 2008)
Marie Morgan, author of Chariot of Fire, is a historian of nineteenth-century America who frequently collaborates with Edmund Morgan in the writing of history and the designing and making of furniture. (October 2008)
Joyce Carol Oates, the Roger S. Berlind Professor of Humanities at Princeton, is the author most recently of the novel My Sister, My Love: The Intimate Story of Skyler Rampike. (October 2008)
William Pfaff is an American author and syndicated columnist in Paris. His most recent book is The Bullet’s Song. (December 2007)
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.
Charles Taylor was recently awarded the 2007 Templeton Prize. He is Professor of Law and Philosophy at Northwestern and Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Philosophy at McGill. His books include Hegel and The Ethics of Authenticity. (April 2007)
John Terborgh is Research Professor in the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences and Director of the Center for Tropical Conservation at Duke. His latest book is Making Parks Work: Strategies for Preserving Tropical Nature. (November 2007)
Edmund White has written biographies of Jean Genet, Marcel Proust, and Arthur Rimbaud. He has also written several novels, travel books, and a memoir. He teaches writing at Princeton and lives in New York City.
