Table of Contents

Volume 54, Number 15 · October 11, 2007

François Hauter, Chinese Shadows

Peter W. Galbraith, The Victor?

Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the United States by Trita Parsi

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., The Turning Point

James M. McPherson, The Fight for Slavery in California

The California Gold Rush and the Coming of the Civil War by Leonard L. Richards

Caroline Moorehead, Women and Children for Sale

Selling Olga: Stories of Human Trafficking and Resistance by Louisa Waugh

"Human Trafficking: Submission to the Joint Committee on Human Rights" a report by Amnesty International UK

Trafficking in Human Beings in South Eastern Europe a report by Barbara Limanowska

"Used, Abused, Arrested and Deported: Extending Immigration Benefits to Protect the Victims of Trafficking and to Secure the Prosecution of Traffickers" by Dina Francesca Haynes

The Politics of Prostitution: Women's Movements, Democratic States and the Globalisation of Sex Commerce edited by Joyce Outshoorn

Gender, Trafficking, and Slavery edited by Rachel Masika

Journeys of Jeopardy: A Review of Research on Trafficking in Women and Children in Europe by Elizabeth Kelly

Making Harm Visible: Global Sexual Exploitation of Women and Girls edited by Donna M. Hughes and Claire Roche

Julian Bell, The Golden Age at Its Best

Dutch Portraits: The Age of Rembrandt and Frans Hals Catalog of the exhibition by Rudi Ekkart and Quentin Buvelot

The Rembrandt Book by Gary Schwartz

Rembrandt's Nose: Of Flesh and Spirit in the Master's Portraits by Michael Taylor

Sarah Kerr, In the Terror House of Mirrors

The Unknown Terrorist by Richard Flanagan

The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid

Brian Urquhart, Are Diplomats Necessary?

Independent Diplomat: Dispatches from an Unaccountable Elite by Carne Ross

Helen Vendler, From the Homicidal to the Ecstatic

God's Silence by Franz Wright

Earlier Poems by Franz Wright

Andrew Hacker, They'd Much Rather Be Rich

The Challenge of Affluence: Self-Control and Well-Being in the United States and Britain Since 1950 by Avner Offer

Century of Difference: How America Changed in the Last One Hundred Years by Claude S. Fischer and Michael Hout

In Pursuit of Knowledge: Scholars, Status, and Academic Culture by Deborah L. Rhode

The Williams Directory, 2006–2007

Standard and Poor's 500 CEO Profiles

Robin Robertson, My Girls (poem)

Ingrid D. Rowland, Rome: The Marvels and the Menace

Rome from the Ground Up by James H.S. McGregor

The Seven Hills of Rome: A Geological Tour of the Eternal City by Grant Heiken, Renato Funiciello, and Donatella De Rita

The Secrets of Rome: Love and Death in the Eternal City by Corrado Augias, translated from the Italian by A. Lawrence Jenkens

The Colosseum by Keith Hopkins and Mary Beard

Bill McKibben, Can Anyone Stop It?

Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming by Bjørn Lomborg

Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility by Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger

What We Know About Climate Change by Kerry Emanuel

Climate Change: What It Means for Us, Our Children, and Our Grandchildren edited by Joseph F.C. DiMento and Pamela Doughman

Eva Hoffman, Warsaw Underground

Nine by Andrzej Stasiuk,translated from the Polish by Bill Johnston

Edmund White, Sons and Brothers

The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1855–1872 edited by Pierre A. Walker and Greg W. Zacharias, with an introduction by Alfred Habegger

William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism by Robert D. Richardson

Letters of Marcel Proust translated from the French by Mina Curtiss, with an introduction by Adam Gopnik

Henry James at Work by Theodora Bosanquet, edited and with notes by Lyall H. Powers

Henry James Goes to Paris by Peter Brooks

Gitta Honegger, Tim Parks, 'How to Read Elfriede Jelinek': An Exchange

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Letters

Raymond A. Firestone, Freeman Dyson, 'Our Biotech Future'
William P. Mitchell, Nicholas D. Kristof, Beer & Poverty
Julie North Chelminski, Tim Flannery, A Schism among Bison Farmers
Lawrence Goldstone, Gordon S. Wood, 'Illusions' of the Founders
The Editors, Tintoretto & Hogarth in Seattle

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Contributors

Julian Bell is a painter and writer living in Lewes, England. He is the author of What Is Painting? and of Mirror of the World: A New History of Art, which was published last autumn. (March 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 The End of Iraq came out in paperback this summer. His forthcoming book is After Iraq: Cleaning Up After America’s Biggest Foreign Policy Mistake. (October 2007)

Andrew Hacker teaches political science at Queens College. He is currently writing a book on higher education in collaboration with Claudia Dreifus. (October 2007)

François Hauter is a longtime foreign correspondent for Le Figaro and the author of Rouge Glacé, a novel set in China. (October 2007)

Eva Hoffman's books include Shtetl: The Life and Death of a Small Town and the World of Polish Jews, Exit into History, and The Secret, a novel. (October 2007)

Sarah Kerr, a longtime contributor to The New York Review, lives near Washington, D.C. (May 2008)

Bill Mckibben is scholar in residence at Middlebury College, and the author of The End of Nature and Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future.

James M. McPherson is George Henry Davis ’86 Professor of American History Emeritus at Princeton. His most recent book is This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War, a collection of essays. (April 2008)

Caroline Moorehead is the author of Gellhorn: A Twentieth-Century Life and Human Cargo: A Journey Among Refugees. Her most recent book, an edition of Martha Gellhorn’s letters, appeared in paperback this year. (October 2007)

Robin Robertson's Swithering won the 2006 Forward Prize. His translation of Medea will be published in September. (May 2008)

Ingrid D. Rowland is a professor, based in Rome, at the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture. A frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, she is the author of The Culture of the High Renaissance: Ancients and Moderns in Sixteenth-Century Rome and The Scarith of Scornello: A Tale of Renaissance Forgery. She has published a translation of Vitruvius' Ten Books of Architecture. Her latest books are a biography of Giordano Bruno and a translation of Bruno's dialogue On the Heroic Frenzies.

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., the author of numerous books on American history, served as adviser to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. He died this year. His Journals: 1952– 2000, from which an excerpt appears in this issue, will be published in October by Penguin. (October 2007)

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)

Helen Vendler is the author, most recently, of Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form. She is preparing for publication her recent Mellon Lectures, entitled Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill. (June 2008)

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.

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