Table of Contents

Volume 54, Number 13 · August 16, 2007

Peter W. Galbraith, Iraq: The Way to Go

Russell Baker, Goodbye to Newspapers?

When the Press Fails: Political Power and the New Media from Iraq to Katrina by W. Lance Bennett, Regina G. Lawrence, and Steven Livingston

American Carnival: Journalism Under Siege in an Age of New Media by Neil Henry

Robert Gottlieb, Wake Up and Dream

The House That George Built by Wilfrid Sheed

Geoffrey O'Brien, A Northern New Jersey of the Mind

The Sopranos a television series created by David Chase

Timothy Garton Ash, The Road from Danzig

Beim Häuten der Zwiebel by Günter Grass

Dummer August by Günter Grass

Ein Buch, Ein Bekenntnis: Die Debatte um Günter Grass' "Beim Häuten der Zwiebel" by Martin Kölbel

Peeling the Onion by Günter Grass, translated from the German by Michael Henry Heim

William Easterly, How, and How Not, to Stop AIDS in Africa

The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West, and the Fight Against AIDS by Helen Epstein

Eliot Weinberger, Notes on Susan

At the Same Time: Essays & Speeches by Susan Sontag, edited by Paolo Dilonardo and Anne Jump, with a foreword by David Rieff

Robert L. Herbert, Cunning Claude Monet

The Unknown Monet: Pastels and Drawings Catalog of the exhibition by James A. Ganz and Richard Kendall

Claude Monet and His Posterity Catalog of the exhibition by Serge Lemoine, Shuji Takashina, Akiko Mabuchi, and Yusuka Minami

Monet in Normandy Catalog of the exhibition by Heather Lemonedes, Lynn Federle Orr, and David Steel, with essays by Richard Brettell

Claude Monet (1840–1926): A Tribute to Daniel Wildenstein and Katia Granoff Catalog of the exhibition edited by Joseph Baillio

H. Allen Orr, A Religion for Darwinians?

Living with Darwin: Evolution, Design, and the Future of Faith by Philip Kitcher

Darryl Pinckney, Paris: The Black Maestro

The Chevalier de Saint-Georges:Virtuoso of the Sword and the Bow by Gabriel Banat

Colin Thubron, The Credo of a Great Reporter

Travels with Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuscinski, translated from the Polish by Klara Glwczewska

Simon Head, They're Micromanaging Your Every Move

The Social Life of Information by John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid

Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream by Barbara Ehrenreich

The Culture of the New Capitalism by Richard Sennett

Brad Leithauser, The Shadow Man

Collected Poems of Louis MacNeice edited by Peter MacDonald

Louis MacNeice by Jon Stallworthy

Louis MacNeice and His Influence edited by Kathleen Devineand Alan J. Peacock

Daniel Mendelsohn, On the Town

The Grand Surprise: The Journals of Leo Lerman edited by Stephen Pascal

Max Hastings, Our Battle with Britain

Cold War at 30,000 Feet: The Anglo-American Fight for Aviation Supremacy by Jeffrey A. Engel

Malise Ruthven, The Islamic Optimist

In the Footsteps of the Prophet: Lessons from the Life of Muhammad by Tariq Ramadan

To Be a European Muslim by Tariq Ramadan

Western Muslims and the Future of Islam by Tariq Ramadan

Islam, the West and the Challenges of Modernity by Tariq Ramadan, translated by Said Amghar

The Heirs of the Prophet Muhammad and the Roots of the Sunni-Shia Schism by Barnaby Rogerson

Diego Sanchez Ancochea, Elizabeth Gould, Nicholas D. Kristof, Poverty: An Exchange

Jeremy Bernstein, Lee Smolin, Einstein: An Exchange

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Letters

Jane M. Jordan, Lucien R. Karhausen, 'What's Wrong with Doctors'
Steven Burch, G.W. Bowersock, The Revenge of the Trojan Women
Nicholas B. Dirks, William Dalrymple, 'The Scandal of Empire'
Jonathan Freedland, Bin Laden and the CIA
Sandra Tropp, Sighting the Stream
Walter Murch, Editing 'The Godfather'
William S. McFeely, No to US Atrocities
Frank Solomon, Penelope Gilliatt's Stories
The Editors, Correction

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Contributors

Russell Baker is a former columnist and correspondent for The New York Times and The Baltimore Sun. His books include The Good Times, Growing Up, and Looking Back. (November 2008)

William Easterly is Professor of Economics at New York University and Co-Director of NYU's Development Research Institute. The paperback edition of his latest book, The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good, appeared last year. (December 2008)

Peter W. Galbraith, a former US Ambassador to Croatia, is Senior Diplomatic Fellow at the Center for Arms Control and a principal at the Windham Resources Group, which has worked in Iraq. His new book, Unintended Consequences: How War in Iraq Strengthened America’s Enemies, has just been released. (October 2008)

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. (November 2008)

Robert Gottlieb has been Editor in Chief of Simon and Schuster, Knopf, and The New Yorker. He is the author of George Balanchine: The Ballet Maker and the dance critic of The New York Observer. (October 2008)

Max Hastings is a columnist for The Guardian. He has been an editor of The Daily Telegraph and The Evening Standard. His book Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944–45 was published in March. (April 2008)

Simon Head is a Senior Fellow at the Rothermere American Institute at Oxford. His most recent book is The New Ruthless Economy: Work and Power in the Digital Age. (August 2007)

Robert L. Herbert, after a long career at Yale, is now Andrew W. Mellon Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Mount Holyoke. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, and has been named Officier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government. Among his books are Impressionism: Art, Leisure and Parisian Society, Nature's Workshop: Renoir's Writings on the Decorative Arts, and Seurat: Drawings and Paintings. His most recent book is Seurat and the Making of “La Grande Jatte.”

Brad Leithauser is a novelist, poet, and essayist. He lives in Massachusetts.

Daniel Mendelsohn is the author, most recently, of How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken, a collection of essays mostly from these pages. His translations, with commentary, of Constantine Cavafy’s Complete Works and Unfinished Poems will be published next spring. (November 2008)

Geoffrey O'Brien is Editor in Chief of the Library of America. He is the author, most recently, of Sonata for Jukebox: An Autobiography of My Ears and Red Sky Café. (October 2008)

H. Allen Orr is the Shirley Cox Kearns Professor of Biology at the University of Rochester. He is the author, with Jerry A. Coyne, of Speciation. (March 2008)

Darryl Pinckney is the author of a novel, High Cotton, and Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature.

Malise Ruthven is the author of Islam: A Very Short Introduction, Islam in the World: The Divine Supermarket (a study of Christian fundamentalism), A Fury for God: The Islamist Attack on America, and A Satanic Affair: Salman Rushdie and the Wrath of Islam.

Colin Thubron has written many books on his travels in Asia, and is also a novelist. His latest book is Shadow of the Silk Road. (November 2008)

Eliot Weinberger'smost recent book is a sequence of essays, An Elemental Thing. (November 2008)

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