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, István Deák, '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's forthcoming books are Living Labyrinth: Literature and Influence and Till I End My Song: A Gathering of Last Poems. He teaches at Yale. (December 2009)
Helen Epstein is the author of The Invisible Cure: Why We Are Losing the Fight Against AIDS.
(June 2009)
Tim Flannery is a Professor at Macquarie University in Sydney and Chair of the Copenhagen Climate Council. His latest book is Now or Never: Why We Must Act Now to End Climate Change and Create a Sustainable Future. (November 2009)
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 The Open Road, about the fourteenth Dalai Lama and globalism, was published in paperback in March. (November 2009)
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, Mao’s Last Revolution, written with Michael Schoenhals, came out in paperback in 2008.
(September 2009)
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. (September 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.
Andrew O'Hagan, who lives in London, is a recipient of the E.M. Forster Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His latest novel is Be Near Me.
(October 2009)
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.
(February 2009)
Max Rodenbeck is The Economist’s Mideast Correspondent. He lives in Cairo. (November 2009)
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 is the author of Christen Købke and William Nicholson. (November 2009)
Jonathan Spence is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. His latest book is Return to Dragon Mountain: Memories of a Late Ming Man. (December 2009)
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)
