Table of Contents
Volume 54, Number 18 · November 22, 2007
Orlando Figes, Tolstoy's Real Hero
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy,translated from the Russian by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
Epigram by Callimachus, 310–240 BCE 
(poem)
Cathleen Schine, The In-Between Woman
Learning to Drive: And Other Life Stories by Katha Pollitt
Michael Tomasky, The Partisan
The Conscience of a Liberal by Paul Krugman
John Updike, The Purest of Styles
Vincent van Gogh—Painted with Words: The Letters to Émile Bernard Catalog of the exhibition by Leo Jansen, Hans Luijten, and Nienke Bakker
Harold Bloom, Who Will Praise the Lord?
The Book of Psalms: A Translation with Commentary by Robert Alter
Max Hastings, How They Won
Partners in Command: George Marshall and Dwight Eisenhower in War and Peace by Mark Perry
15 Stars: Eisenhower, MacArthur, Marshall: Three Generals Who Savedthe American Century by Stanley Weintraub
William Dalrymple, The Most Magnificent Muslims
Goa and the Great Mughal edited by Jorge Flores and Nuno Vassallo e Silva
Domesticity and Power in the Early Mughal World by Ruby Lal
The Complete Taj Mahal and the Riverfront Gardens of Agra by Ebba Koch, with drawings byRichard André Barraud
Aryeh Neier, The Death of the Good Bishop
The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop? by Francisco Goldman
John Terborgh, The Green vs. the Brown Amazon
The Last Forest: The Amazon in the Age of Globalization by Mark London and Brian Kelly
Al Alvarez, The Trouble with Happiness
Tomorrow by Graham Swift
Robin Robertson, Diving (poem)
Robert M. Solow, 'Survival of the Richest'?
A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World by Gregory Clark
Robert Stone, The Unconscionable War
The Father of All Things: A Marine, His Son, and the Legacy of Vietnam by Tom Bissell
Daniel Mendelsohn, Looking for 'Lucia'
Lucia di Lammermoor an opera by Gaetano Donizetti, libretto by Salvatore Cammarano, directed by Mary Zimmerman
Robert O. Paxton, Inside the Panic
Fleeing Hitler: France 1940 by Hanna Diamond
Francine Prose, In Sicilian Shadows
Behind Closed Doors: Her Father's House and Other Stories of Sicily by Maria Messina, translated from the Italian by Elise Magistro
Alan Ryan, Tocqueville: The Flaws of Genius
Alexis de Tocqueville: A Life by Hugh Brogan
Peter Matthiessen, Alaska: Big Oil and the Inupiat-Americans
Sergei Kovalev, Why Putin Wins
Francis M. Bator, Bruce Cumings, Richard Bernstein, The Korean War: An Exchange
Letters
Akbar Ganji, The US and the Plight of the Iranians
Jerome W. Anderson, Christopher Jencks, Have Illegals Paid for Iraq?
Barbara Ehrenreich, William H. McNeill, 'Shall We Dance?'
Claude Gintz, Corbu's Condo
Avner Offer, Andrew Hacker, 'They'd Much Rather Be Rich'
William C. Waterhouse, The Source of the Stream
The Editors, Gertrude Bell Peter Shapiro
Contributors
Al Alvarez's most recent book is Risky Business, a selection of essays, many of which first appeared in The New York Review of Books.
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)
William Dalrymple is the author of The White Mughals, which won the Wolfson Prize for History, and The Last Mughal, which won the Duff Cooper Prize. His new book, Nine Lives, will be published in the fall. (February 2009)
Orlando Figes is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, London University. His latest book is The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia. (April 2009)
Max Hastings has been an editor of The Daily Telegraph and The Evening Standard. His new book, Winston's War: Churchill as Warlord, 1940–45, will be published in the spring. (August 2009)
Sergei Kovalev, a biologist and former political prisoner, is a leading candidate on the Yabloko Party list for the December election to the Russian State Duma. He is President of the Institute for Human Rights and Chairman of the Andrei Sakharov Foundation in Moscow. (November 2007)
Peter Matthiessen won the 2008 National Book Award for his novel Shadow Country. His recent books include End of the Earth: Voyage to Antarctica and The Birds of Heaven: Travels with Cranes. (November 2009)
Daniel Mendelsohn, a frequent contributor to The New York Review, is the Charles Ranlett Flint Professor of Humanities at Bard. His translations, with commentary, of the Collected Poems and Unfinished Poems of Constantine Cavafy were published earlier this year; a collection of his essays mostly from these pages, How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken, was just published in paperback.
(October 2009)
Aryeh Neier, former Executive Director of Human Rights Watch, is President of the Open Society Institute. His most recent book is Taking Liberties: Four Decades in the Struggle for Rights. (November 2007)
Robert O. Paxton is Mellon Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus at Columbia. His latest book is The Anatomy of Fascism. (April 2009)
Francine Prose is the author of three collections of stories and ten novels. Her most recent novel, The Blue Angel, was nominated for the National Book Award.
Robin Robertson's Swithering won the 2006 Forward Prize. His translation of Medea is published in paperback this month.
(September 2009)
Alan Ryan is Warden of New College, Oxford, and the author of biographies of John Stuart Mill, Bertrand Russell, and John Dewey. (October 2008)
Cathleen Schine is the author of seven novels, including Rameau's Niece, The Love Letter, She is Me, and the forthcoming The New Yorkers. She is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books.
Robert M. Solow, Institute Professor Emeritus of Economics at MIT, won the 1987 Nobel Prize in economics. His most recent book is Work and Welfare. (May 2009)
Robert Stone was born in Brooklyn in 1937. He is the author of seven novels: A Hall of Mirrors, the National Book Award–winning Dog Soldiers, A Flag for Sunrise, Children of Light, Outerbridge Reach, Damascus Gate, and Bay of Souls. He has also written short stories, essays, and screenplays, and published a short story collection, Bear and His Daughter, which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. He lives in New York City and in Key West, Florida.
John Terborgh is Research Professor in the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences and Director of the Center for Tropical Conservation at Duke. His latest book is Making Parks Work: Strategies for Preserving Tropical Nature. (December 2009)
Michael Tomasky is editor of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas and American editor-at-large for The Guardian.
(December 2009)
John Updike was born in 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania. In 1954 he began to publish in The New Yorker, where he continued to contribute short stories, poems, and criticism until his death in 2009. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, among other awards. His last books were the novel The Widows of Eastwick and Due Considerations, a collection of his essays and criticism.
