Table of Contents
Volume 54, Number 11 · June 28, 2007
Andrew O'Hagan, Racing Against Reality
Falling Man by Don DeLillo
Max Rodenbeck, Lebanon's Agony
Killing Mr. Lebanon: The Assassination of Rafik Hariri and Its Impact on the Middle East by Nicholas Blanford
Hezbollah: A Short History by Augustus Richard Norton
Hizbullah: The Story from Within by Naim Qassem
Everyday Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam Among Palestinians in Lebanon by Bernard Rougier, translated from the French by Pascale Ghazaleh
Sanford Schwartz, The Hogarth Show 
Hogarth Catalog of the exhibition by Mark Hallett and Christine Riding
Hogarth, France and British Art: The Rise of the Arts inEighteenth-Century Britain by Robin Simon
John Banville, The Family Pinfold
Fathers and Sons: The Autobiography of a Family by Alexander Waugh
Jonathan D. Spence, The Dream of Catholic China
Journey to the East: The Jesuit Mission to China, 1579–1724 by Liam Matthew Brockey
Adam Michnik, The Polish Witch-Hunt
Tim Flannery, We're Living on Corn!
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future by Bill McKibben
Mark Lilla, Mr. Casaubon in America
The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin by Eric Voegelin
Peter Green, The Women and the Gods
Portrait of a Priestess: Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece by Joan Breton Connelly
Pico Iyer, 'A New Kind of Mongrel Fiction'
Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje
Helen Epstein, Death by the Numbers
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson
Harold Bloom, The Lost Jewish Culture
The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950–1492 translated, edited, and with an introduction by Peter Cole
Pankaj Mishra, Impasse in India
The Clash Within: Democracy, Religious Violence, and India's Future by Martha C. Nussbaum
Graham Robb, In His Nightmare City
The Temptation of the Impossible: Victor Hugo and Les Misérables by Mario Vargas Llosa, translated from the Spanish by John King
Willibald Sauerländer, The Artist Historian
Romanesque Architectural Sculpture: The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures by Meyer Schapiro, edited and with an introduction by Linda Seidel
Gordon S. Wood, Reading the Founders' Minds
Dark Bargain: Slavery, Profits, and the Struggle for the Constitution by Lawrence Goldstone
American Taxation, American Slavery by Robin L. Einhorn
Roderick MacFarquhar, Mission to Mao
Nixon and Mao: The Week that Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan
Norman Birnbaum, Istvan Deak, 'Did the Revolution Have to Fail?': An Exchange
Letters
141 writers, including scholars of Iran and the Middle East, and others, Release Haleh Esfandiari
Aryeh Neier, Release Kian Tajbakhsh!
Malcolm Bell, III, Garry Wills, 'We Are All Romans Now'
Contributors
John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He is the author of many novels, including The Book of Evidence, The Untouchable, and Eclipse. Banville's novel The Sea was awarded the 2005 Man Booker Prize. On occasion he writes under the pen name Benjamin Black.
Harold Bloom is Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale. He is the author of Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine and American Religious Poems: An Anthology. His new book is Fallen Angels, with illuminations by Mark Podwal. (November 2007)
Helen Epstein's book The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West, and the Fight Against AIDS has just been published. (July 2007)
Tim Flannery is a professor at Macquarie University in Sydney and chair of the Copenhagen Climate Council. His latest book is The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth. (May 2008)
Peter Green is Dougherty Centennial Professor Emeritus of Classics at the University of Texas at Austin and Adjunct Professor at the University of Iowa. His most recent book is The Hellenistic Age: A Short History. (May 2008)
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)
Mark Lilla is Professor at the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He is the author of G.B. Vico: The Making of an Anti-Modern (1993) and the editor of New French Thought: Political Philosophy (1991). His latest book is The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics, and the Modern West.
Roderick Macfarquhar is Leroy B. Williams Professor of History and Political Science at Harvard. His most recent book, written with Michael Schoenhals, is Mao’s Last Revolution. (June 2007)
Adam Michnik is Editor in Chief of the Warsaw daily newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza. He spent six years in prisons in Communist Poland. In 1989, he participated in the Round Table agreements that led to establishing the first non-
Communist government in the Soviet bloc. He is the author of several books, including Letters from Prison and Letters from Freedom.
(June 2007)
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.
Andrew O'Hagan's novel Be Near Me has just been published in the US. He is a recipient of the E.M. Forster Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. (June 2007)
Graham Robb has written biographies of Balzac, Rimbaud, and Victor Hugo. His latest book is The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography from the Revolution to the First World War. (March 2008)
Max Rodenbeck is The Economist’s Mideast Correspondent. He is based in Cairo. (May 2008)
Willibald Sauerländer is a former director of the Central Institute for Art History in Munich. His most recent books are Romanesque Art: Problems and Monuments and Essai sur les Visages des Bustes de Houdon. (June 2007)
Sanford Schwartz's essays and reviews have been collected in The Art Presence and Artists and Writers. (May 2008)
Jonathan Spence, author of The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci, teaches the history of modern China at Yale. His book Return to Dragon Mountain: Memories of a Late Ming Man will be published this autumn. (June 2007)
Gordon Wood is the Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History at Brown. A collection of his essays, The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History, was published in March. (May 2008)
