Table of Contents

Volume 55, Number 2 · February 14, 2008

Diane Johnson, John F. Murray, Will to Live

Swimming in a Sea of Death: A Son's Memoir by David Rieff

Joan Didion, Darryl Pinckney, On Elizabeth Hardwick (1916–2007)

W.S. Merwin, The Odds (poem)

Anne Applebaum, A Movie That Matters

Katyn a film directed by Andrzej Wajda, written by Andrzej Mularczyk and Andrzej Wajda

Sarah Boxer, Blogs

We've Got Blog: How Weblogs Are Changing Our Culture compiled and edited by John Rodzvilla, with an introduction by Rebecca Blood

Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob by Lee Siegel

Republic.com 2.0 by Cass R. Sunstein

Blogwars by David D. Perlmutter

The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet by Daniel J. Solove

We're All Journalists Now: The Transformation of the Press and Reshaping of the Lawin the Internet Age by Scott Gant

Blog: Understanding the Information Reformation That's Changing Your World by Hugh Hewitt

The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet Is Killing Our Culture by Andrew Keen

Naked Conversations: How Blogs Are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel, foreword by Tom Peters

Blog! How the Newest Media Revolution Is Changing Politics, Business, and Culture by David Kline and Dan Burstein

Claire Messud, Signs of Struggle

Cheating at Canasta by William Trevor

Amos Elon, Olmert & Israel: The Change

Lords of the Land: The War Over Israel's Settlements in the Occupied Territories, 1967–2007 by Idith Zertal and Akiva Eldar, translated from the Hebrew by Vivian Eden

Walled: Israeli Society at an Impasse by Sylvain Cypel

Son of the Cypresses: Memories, Reflections, and Regrets from a Political Life by Meron Benvenisti, translated from the Hebrew by Maxine Kaufman-Lacusta, in consultation with Michael Kaufman-Lacusta

Alan Hollinghurst, Passion and Henry James

Henry James: The Mature Master by Sheldon M. Novick

Robin Robertson, A Simple Gift (poem)

John Golding, The Born Rebel Artist

Gustave Courbet Catalog of the exhibition by Sylvain Amic, Kathryn Calley Galitz, Laurence des Cars, Dominique de Font-Réaulx, Thomas Galifot, Michel Hilaire, Dominique Lobstein, Bruno Mottin, and Bertrand Tillier

The Most Arrogant Man in France: Gustave Courbet and the Nineteenth-Century Media Culture by Petra ten-Doesschate Chu

L'Origine du monde: Histoire d'un tableau de Gustave Courbet by Thierry Savatier

Courbet by Linda Nochlin

Tony Judt, The 'Problem of Evil' in Postwar Europe

Pankaj Mishra, The Revolt of the Monks

Crackdown: Repression of the 2007 Popular Protests in Burma a report by Human Rights Watch

Making Enemies: War and State Building in Burma by Mary P. Callahan

The River of Lost Footsteps: A Personal History of Burma by Thant Myint-U

"Burma/Myanmar: The Role of the Military in the Economy" by David I. Steinberg

Richard C. Lewontin, The Triumph of Stephen Jay Gould

The Richness of Life: The Essential Stephen Jay Gould edited by Steven Rose, with a foreword by Oliver Sacks

Punctuated Equilibrium by Stephen Jay Gould

James M. McPherson, Was It More Restrained Than You Think?

The Civil War and the Limits of Destruction by Mark E. Neely Jr.

Jonathan Mirsky, He Won't Give In

Confessions: An Innocent Life in Communist China by Kang Zhengguo, translated from the Chinese by Susan Wilf, with an introduction by Perry Link

Derek Walcott, On the Cathedral Steps (poem)

Charles Rosen, The Genius of Montaigne

Les Essais by Michel de Montaigne, edited by Jean Balsamo, Michel Magnien, andCatherine Magnin Simon

Frank Rich, On the Democrats

Gerald Curzon, Evan Hughes, Peter D. Kramer, et al. The Truth About Prozac: An Exchange

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Letters

Bernard Lytton, Freeman Dyson, Von Braun's Bargain
Jeremy Bernstein, In Hillary's Tent
Paul R. Ehrlich, Anne H. Ehrlich, et al. The Biggest Menace?
Arthur M. Shapiro, Frank Kermode, Infallible Since When?
John Diebold, Richard J. Evans, Sabotaging Hitler's Bombs
Campaign for Peace and Democracy, 'Against US Military Bases in the Czech Republic'
Paul Holdengräber, Live from the New York Public Library
The Editors, Correction

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Contributors

Anne Applebaum is a columnist for The Washington Post. Her book Gulag: A History won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction. She lives in Poland. (February 2008)

Sarah Boxer is the author of Ultimate Blogs: Masterworks from the Wild Web, an anthology to be published this month. (February 2008)

Joan Didion is the author of The Year of Magical Thinking and We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction. (February 2008)

Amos Elon's most recent book is The Pity of It All: German Jews Before Hitler. He is a Fellow at the Center for Law and Security at NYU. (February 2008)

John Golding is a painter and writer. His most recent book, Paths to the Absolute, was awarded the Mitchell Prize for the History of Art. (February 2008)

Alan Hollinghurst was born in 1954 in Gloucestershire, England, and attended Magdalen College, Oxford. He is the author of the novels The Swimming-Pool Library, The Folding Star (shortlisted for the Booker Prize), The Spell, and the forthcoming The Line of Beauty, as well as of a translation of the play Bajazet by Racine. A former staff member at The Times Literary Supplement, Hollinghurst is a frequent contributor to that and other publications, including The Guardian. Hollinghurst's fourth novel, The Line of Beauty, won the Man Booker Prize in 2004. He lives in London.

Diane Johnson is the author, most recently, of Into a Paris Quartier: Reine Margot’s Chapel and Other Haunts of St. Germain. Her latest novel is L’Affaire. (February 2008)

Tony Judt is University Professor at NYU. His new book, Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century, will be published in April. (May 2008)

Richard C. Lewontin is Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Professor of Biology at Harvard University. He is the author of The Genetic Basis of Evolutionary Change and Biology as Ideology, and the co-author of The Dialectical Biologist (with Richard Levins) and Not in Our Genes (with Steven Rose and Leon Kamin).

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)

W.S. Merwin was born in New York City in 1927 and grew up in Union City, New Jersey, and in Scranton, Pennsylvania. From 1949 to 1951 he worked as a tutor in France, Portugal, and Majorca. He has since lived in many parts of the world, most recently on Maui in the Hawaiian Islands. He is the author of many books of poems, prose, and translations and has received both the Pulitzer and the Bollingen Prizes for poetry, among numerous other awards.

Claire Messud's most recent novel is The Emperor’s Children. Her earlier novels include When the World Was Steady. (February 2008)

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

Pankaj Mishra was born in North India in 1969 and now lives in London and India. He is the author of The Romantics, winner of the Los Angeles Times's Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, and An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and The Guardian. His most recent book is Temptations of the West: How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet, and Beyond.

John F. Murray is the author of Intensive Care: A Doctor’s Journal. (February 2008)

Darryl Pinckney is the author of a novel, High Cotton, and Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature.

Frank Rich is a columnist for The New York Times. His latest book is The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth from 9/11 to Katrina.

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

Charles Rosen's most recent book is Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist. (February 2008)

Derek Walcott won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992. His most recent book is Selected Poems. (May 2008)

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