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 J. 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 these pages. (May 2008)
Harold Bloom is Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale. He is the author of Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine and American Religious Poems: An Anthology. His most recent book is Fallen Angels, with illuminations by Mark Podwal. (November 2008)
William Dalrymple is the author of From the Holy Mountain, The White Mughals, and The Last Mughal. (October 2008)
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)
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)
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's most recent book is End of the Earth: Voyages to Antarctica. His novel Shadow Country will be published in the spring. The Nation Institute Investigative Fund provided assistance for his article in this issue. (November 2007)
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)
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. He is also a Regional Editor of North American Birds magazine. (November 2008)
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 will be published in September. (May 2008)
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. (November 2008)
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. (November 2007)
Michael Tomasky is Editor of Guardian America and writes a blog at www.guardian.co.uk. (December 2008)
John Updike was born in 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania. In 1954 he began to publish in The New Yorker, where he continues to contribute short stories, poems, and criticism. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, among other awards. His most recent books are the novel Terrorist and Due Considerations, a collection of his essays and criticism.
