Table of Contents

Volume 54, Number 17 · November 8, 2007

Colin Thubron, Locked in the Writer's Room

Other Colors: Essays and a Story by Orhan Pamuk, translated from the Turkish by Maureen Freely

Garry Wills, The Loveliest Doors

The Gates of Paradise: Lorenzo Ghiberti's Renaissance Masterpiece Catalog of the exhibition edited by Gary M. Radke, with essays by Andrew Butterfield and eleven other contributors.

Joseph Lelyveld, The Adventures of Arthur

Journals, 1952–2000 by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., edited by Andrew and Stephen Schlesinger

Stephen Greenblatt, Stroking

In Praise of the Whip: A Cultural History of Arousal by Niklaus Largier, translated from the German by Graham Harman

Michael Tomasky, Election Fever

Jennifer Schuessler, Mommie Dearest

The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold

Benjamin M. Friedman, FDR & the Depression: The Big Debate

The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression by Amity Shlaes

Long-Range Public Investment: The Forgotten Legacy of the New Deal by Robert D. Leighninger Jr.

Larry McMurtry, Diane Keaton on Photography

Still Life edited by Diane Keaton and Marvin Heiferman

Mr. Salesman edited by Diane Keaton and Marvin Heiferman

Local News by Diane Keaton and Marvin Heiferman, edited by Carole Kismaric

Clown Paintings edited and with an introduction by Diane Keaton

Gordon S. Wood, What America Started

The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788–1800 by Jay Winik

American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic by Joseph J. Ellis

Billy Collins, Greek and Roman Statuary (poem)

Orlando Figes, Rise of a Gangster

Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore

Fintan O'Toole, What Haunted Eugene O'Neill?

Collected Shorter Plays by Eugene O'Neill, with an introduction by Robert Brustein

Eugene O'Neill's America: Desire Under Democracy by John Patrick Diggins

Neal Ascherson, Do They Crave War?

Echoes of Violence: Letters from a War Reporter by Carolin Emcke

Another Bloody Love Letter by Anthony Loyd

Mary Beard, Looking for the Emperor

Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor by Anthony Everitt

Jonathan Mirsky, China's Area of Darkness

Eurasian Crossroads: A History of Xinjiang by James A. Millward

Mark Danner, 'The Moment Has Come to Get Rid of Saddam'

Malise Ruthven, How to Understand Islam

Arguing the Just War in Islam by John Kelsay

Islam: Past, Present and Future by Hans Küng, translated from the German by John Bowden

Jihad in Islamic History: Doctrines and Practice by Michael Bonner

Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Secularism Confronts Islam by Olivier Roy, translated from the French by George Holoch

Paul Berman, Ian Buruma, 'His Toughness Problem—and Ours': An Exchange

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Letters

Zbigniew Brzezinski, Lee Hamilton, et al. 'Failure Risks Devastating Consequences'
Carne Ross, Brian Urquhart, 'Are Diplomats Necessary?'
Gino Segrè, Einstein & Bohr
Norman MacAfee, Nathaniel Rich, The Poems of Pasolini
Gabriel Tortella, Was Spain So Bad?
Morris Dickstein, Irving Howe Lecture
The Editors, Conference on Disasters
The Editors, Corrections

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Contributors

Neal Ascherson is the author of The Struggles for Poland, The Black Sea, and Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland. He is the editor of the journal Public Archaeology at University College London. (November 2007)

Mary Beard is Professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge. Her new book, The Roman Triumph, has just been published. (November 2007)

Billy Collins is the author of five books of poetry, including Nine Horses, Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems, The Art of Drowning, The Apple That Astonished Paris, and Questions About Angels. He is a regular contributor to The New Yorker, Poetry, The Paris Review, Harper's, and The Atlantic Monthly, among other publications. He has received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation, and is the winner of numerous awards. In 1992, he was chosen by the New York Public Library to serve as "Literary Lion," and is currently serving as the 2001-2003 Poet Laureate of the United States. A Distinguished Professor of English at Lehman College (CUNY), Collins lives with his wife, Diane, in northern Westchester County, New York.

Mark Danner, longtime staff writer at The New Yorker and contributor to The New York Review of Books, is the author of three books: The Massacre at El Mozote: A Parable of the Cold War; The Road to Illegitimacy: One Reporter's Travels Through the 2000 Florida Recount; and Torture and Truth. Danner's work has been honored with many awards, including a National Magazine Award, three Overseas Press Awards, and an Emmy. In June 1999, he was named a MacArthur Fellow. He is Professor of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley and Henry R. Luce Professor of Human Rights and Journalism at Bard College. He divides his time between Berkeley and New York. His work is archived at markdanner.com.

Orlando Figes is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, London University. His new book, The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin’s Russia, will be published this month. (November 2007)

Benjamin M. Friedman is the William Joseph Maier Professor of Political Economy at Harvard. His most recent book is The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth. (March 2008)

Stephen Greenblatt is John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard. His play Cardenio, coauthored with Charles Mee, will be performed next year by the American Repertory Theatre and the Public Theater. (November 2007)

Joseph Lelyveld is a former editor and correspondent of The New York Times. He is the author of Omaha Blues: A Memory Loop. (May 2008)

Larry McMurtry is the author of twenty-four novels, including The Last Picture Show, Terms of Endearment, Lonesome Dove, winner of the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and, most recently, Folly and Glory. His nonfiction works include a biography of Crazy Horse, Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen, Paradise, and Sacagawea’s Nickname: Essays on the American West (published by New York Review Books). He lives in Archer City, Texas.

Jonathan Mirsky is a journalist and historian specializing in Chinese affairs. (May 2008)

Fintan O'Toole is a columnist and critic with The Irish Times. He is the author of White Savage: William Johnson and the Invention of America. (November 2007)

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.

Jennifer Schuessler is on the staff of The New York Times Book Review. (March 2008)

Colin Thubron is the author of many novels as well as books on his travels. His latest book is Shadow of the Silk Road. (January 2008)

Michael Tomasky is Editor of Guardian America, The Guardian’s American Web site. (March 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.

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)

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