Table of Contents
Volume 54, Number 20 · December 20, 2007
Simon Leys, 'Ravished by Oranges' 
Return to Dragon Mountain: Memories of a Late Ming Man by Jonathan D. Spence
Andrew Butterfield, Recreating Picasso
A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917–1932 by John Richardson
Christian Caryl, The Amazing Wanderer
Shadow of the Silk Road by Colin Thubron
John Updike, Gold & Geld
Gustav Klimt: The Ronald S. Lauder and Serge Sabarsky Collections Catalog of the exhibition edited by Renée Price, with contributions by Ronald S. Lauder and others.
Joshua Hammer, In the Pit of Africa
When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa by Peter Godwin
Colm Tóibín, The Shadow of Rose
Notebooks by Tennessee Williams, edited by Margaret Bradham Thornton
Tim Flannery, Where Wonders Await Us
The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss by Claire Nouvian
The Silent Deep: The Discovery, Ecology and Conservation of the Deep Sea by Tony Koslow
Garry Wills, Dark Victories
The Roman Triumph by Mary Beard
Anthony Lewis, The Court: How 'So Few Have So Quickly Changed So Much'
The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin
Michael Dirda, The Wand of the Enchanter
The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates, 1973–1982 edited by Greg Johnson
The Gravedigger's Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates
The Museum of Dr. Moses: Tales of Mystery and Suspense by Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates: Conversations, 1970–2006 edited by Greg Johnson
Colin Jones, At the Heart of the Terror
Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution by Ruth Scurr
Charles Simic, The Renegade
Madison Smartt Bell, At Home in Paradise
Boone: A Biography by Robert Morgan
Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America by Peter Silver
Daniel Boone: His Own Story by Daniel Boone
The Life of Daniel Boone by Lyman C. Draper, edited by Ted Franklin Belue
My Father, Daniel Boone: The Draper Interviews with Nathan Boone edited by Neal O. Hammon
A Sketch of the Life and Character of Daniel Boone by Peter Houston, edited by Ted Franklin Belue
The Strange Attractor: New and Selected Poems by Robert Morgan
The Mountains Won't Remember Us and Other Stories by Robert Morgan
The Abstract Wild by Jack Turner
Richard J. Evans, Immoral Rearmament
The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy by Adam Tooze
Elaine Blair, From the Other Shore
The Last Chicken in America: A Novel in Stories by Ellen Litman
Michael Massing, Iraq: The Hidden Human Costs
One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer by Nathaniel Fick
Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War by Evan Wright
House to House: An Epic Memoir of War by David Bellavia, with John R. Bruning
Chasing Ghosts: Failures and Facades in Iraq: A Soldier's Perspective by Paul Rieckhoff
Love My Rifle More Than You: Young and Female in the US Army by Kayla Williams, with Michael E. Staub
Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq by Michael R. Gordon and Bernard E. Trainor
Mark London, John Terborgh, 'The Green vs. the Brown Amazon': An Exchange
Allen Schill, Bill McKibben, Will Slower Population Growth Stop Global Warming?
Jorie Graham, Just Before (poem)
Letters
Jason Epstein, Norman Mailer (1923–2007)
Francisco Goldman, Aryeh Neier, 'The Death of the Good Bishop'
Garry Wills, The Gates of Paradise
The Editors, Clarifications
Contributors
Madison Smartt Bell is Professor of English and Director of the Kratz Center for Creative Writing at Goucher College and the author of twelve novels. His most recent book, Toussaint Louverture: A Biography, was published last year. (December 2007)
Elaine Blair is the author of Literary St. Petersburg, published earlier this year. (December 2007)
Andrew Butterfield is President of Andrew Butterfield Fine Arts. He is the author of The Sculptures of Andrea del Verrocchio. (April 2008)
Christian Caryl is the Tokyo Bureau Chief of Newsweek. He has reported from thirty-seven countries, including Russia, Afghanistan, North Korea, and Iraq. (December 2007)
Michael Dirda is the author of two collections of essays, Readings and Bound to Please, the memoir An Open Book, and, most recently, Book by Book: Notes on Reading and Life. In 1993 he received the Pulitzer Prize for his reviews and essays in The Washington Post Book World. Before drifting into journalism, Dirda earned a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Cornell University, concentrating on medieval studies and European romanticism.
Richard J. Evans is Professor of Modern History at Cambridge. He is the author, most recently, of The Third Reich in Power, 1933–1939. (December 2007)
Tim Flannery is a professor at Macquarie University in Sydney and chair of the Copenhagen Climate Council. His latest book is The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth. (May 2008)
Jorie Graham is the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard. Her book Sea Change: Poems will be published next spring. (December 2007)
Joshua Hammer is the former Africa Bureau Chief
for Newsweek. His latest book is Yokohama Burning: The Deadly 1923 Earthquake and the Fire That Helped Forge the Path to World War II. (December 2007)
Colin Jones is a professor of history at Queen Mary University of London. He is the author of The Longman Companion to the French Revolution and, most recently, Paris: Biography of a City. (December 2007)
Anthony Lewis, a former columnist for The New York Times, has twice won the Pulitzer Prize. His book Freedom for the Thought We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment was published this year. (May 2008)
Simon Leys is the author of a dozen books, mostly on Chinese art, culture, and politics. His latest work is The Wreck of the Batavia: A True Story. (December 2007)
Michael Massing, a contributing editor of the Columbia Journalism Review, writes frequently on the press and foreign affairs.
Charles Simic is a poet, essayist and translator. He has published twenty collections of his own poetry, five books of essays, a memoir, and numerous of books of translations. He has received many literary awards for his poems and his translations, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Griffin Prize and the MacArthur Fellowship. Voice at 3 A.M., his selected later and new poems, was published in 2003 and a new book of poems My Noiseless Entourage came out in the spring of 2005.
Colm Tóibín is the author of five novels, including The Story of the Night, The Blackwater Lightship, and The Heather Blazing. The Master, a novel based on the life of Henry James, was published in 2004 and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Among his nonfiction works are Bad Blood: A Walk Along the Irish Border, Homage to Barcelona, The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe, and, most recently, Love in a Dark Time. In 2004, his first play, Beauty in a Broken Place, was produced in Dublin. His most recent novel, The Master, which is based on the life of Henry James, won the Los Angeles Times Novel of the Year Award in 2005 and the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger in France. He lives in Dublin.
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.
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.
