Table of Contents
Volume 54, Number 9 · May 31, 2007
Timothy Garton Ash, The Stasi on Our Minds
The Lives of Others a film directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Das Leben der anderen: Filmbuch by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
John Updike, Frankie Laine (1913–2007) 
(poem)
Rory Stewart, Iraq: The Question
Garry Wills, We Are All Romans Now
Art of the Classical World in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Greece, Cyprus, Etruria, Rome by Carlos A. Picón, Joan R. Mertens, Elizabeth J. Milleker, Christopher S. Lightfoot, and Seán Hemingway, with contributions from Richard De Puma
Richard Horton, What's Wrong with Doctors
How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman
Ronald Dworkin, The Court & Abortion: Worse Than You Think
Michael Dirda, The Pleasures of Casanova
History of My Life by Giacomo Casanova, translated from the French by Willard R. Trask
History of My Life by Giacomo Casanova, translated from the French by Willard R. Trask, abridged by Peter Washington, with an introduction by John Julius Norwich
Casanova's Women: The Great Seducer and the Women He Loved by Judith Summers
Michael Tomasky, How Democrats Should Talk
The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth from 9/11 to Katrina by Frank Rich
Words That Work: It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hear by Dr. Frank Luntz
The Political Brain: The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation by Drew Westen
Jennifer Schuessler, Doggy Affections
The New Yorkers by Cathleen Schine, with drawings by Leanne Shapton
Anthony Grafton, Stoppard's Romance
The Coast of Utopia a trilogy by Tom Stoppard, directed by Jack O'Brien
The Coast of Utopia by Tom Stoppard
Nicholas D. Kristof, Wretched of the Earth
Poor People by William T. Vollmann
Understanding Poverty edited by Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee, Roland Bénabou, and Dilip Mookherjee
Daniel Mendelsohn, Duty
300 a film directed by Zack Snyder
Brian Urquhart, India's Great Tragedy
The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857 by William Dalrymple
David Lodge, 'Bad Behavior' & Kingsley Amis
The Life of Kingsley Amis by Zachary Leader
David Margolick, The Reader in the Ring
Tunney: Boxing's Brainiest Champ and His Upset of the Great Jack Dempsey by Jack Cavanaugh
Ringside: A Treasury of Boxing Reportage by Budd Schulberg, with an introduction by Hugh McIlvanney
Robert Skidelsky, Winning a Gamble with Communism
By Force of Thought: Irregular Memoirs of an Intellectual Journey by János Kornai
David Brion Davis, He Changed the New World
Toussaint Louverture: A Biography by Madison Smartt Bell
Richard Strier, Stephen Greenblatt, An Exchange on Shakespeare & Power
Elliott Green, Everard O'Donnell, Stephen Kinzer, Rwanda: An Exchange
Letters
Timothy Beecroft, Freeman Dyson, Francis Bacon & the Frozen Chicken
William H. Slavick, 'Jimmy Carter & Apartheid'
Cass Cliatt, J.J. Stevenson III, et al. 'Scandals of Higher Education'
David Leverenz, Hatred in the Common Room
Milton Leitenberg, Daniel J. Kevles, Keeping Mum about 'No First Use'
The Editors, Corrections
Contributors
David Brion Davis is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale and Director Emeritus of Yale’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. His most recent book is Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World. (May 2007)
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.
Ronald Dworkin is Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law and Philosophy at NYU and Jeremy Bentham Professor of Law and Philosophy at University College London. His books include Is Democracy Possible Here? (2006), Justice in Robes, Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality, and Freedom's Law. He is the 2007 winner of the Ludvig Holberg International Memorial Prize for "his pioneering scholarly work" of "worldwide impact."
Timothy Garton Ash is Professor of European Studies and Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St. Antony’s College, Oxford, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford. His most recent book is Free World. (August 2007)
Anthony Grafton teaches the history of Renaissance Europe at Princeton University. His books include Joseph Scaliger, Cardano's Cosmos, and Bring Out Your Dead.
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.
Nicholas D. Kristof is a columnist for The New York Times and the coauthor, with his wife, Sheryl WuDunn, of China Wakes and Thunder from the East. (May 2007)
David Lodge is a novelist and critic and Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Birmingham, England. His novels include Changing Places, Small World, Nice Work, and Author, Author. His most recent works of criticism are Consciousness and
the Novel and The Year of Henry James.
David Margolick is the author of Beyond Glory: Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling, and a World on the Brink. He is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. (May 2007)
Daniel Mendelsohn, is the author 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, How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken, mostly from these pages, will be published in August. He teaches at Bard. (June 2008)
Jennifer Schuessler is on the staff of The New York Times Book Review. (March 2008)
Robert Skidelsky is Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at Warwick University, England. The single-volume abridgment of his three-volume biography of John Maynard Keynes was published last year in the US. He is currently completing a short history of Britain in the twentieth century. www.skidelskyr.com. (April 2008)
Rory Stewart is the former Coalition Deputy Governor of Maysan and Dhi Qar provinces in Iraq and the author of The Prince of the Marshes and Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq. He now lives in Kabul, where he is the Chief Executive of the Turquoise Mountain Foundation. (October 2007)
Michael Tomasky is Editor of Guardian America, The Guardian’s American Web site. (June 2008)
John Updike was born in 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania. In 1954 he began to publish in The New Yorker, where he continues to contribute short stories, poems, and criticism. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, among other awards. His most recent books are the novel Terrorist and Due Considerations, a collection of his essays and criticism.
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)
Garry Wills was born in Atlanta, Georgia. One of our most distinguished
historians and critics, he is the author of numerous books, including Saint Augustine, Papal
Sin, and the Pulitzer Prize–winning Lincoln at Gettysburg. He has won many other awards,
among them two National Book Critics Circle Awards and the 1998 National Medal for the Humanities.
He is currently Professor of History Emeritus at Northwestern University. A regular contributor
to the New York Review of Books, he lives in Evanston, Illinois.
