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Volume 55, Number 3 · March 6, 2008

Sanford Schwartz, The Nerve and the Will

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly a film directed by Julian Schnabel

Before Night Falls a film directed by Julian Schnabel

Basquiat a film directed by Julian Schnabel

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death by Jean-Dominique Bauby, translated from the French by Jeremy Leggatt

C.V.J.: Nicknames of Maitre D's & Other Excerpts from Life by Julian Schnabel

J.M. Coetzee, Look Homeward, Angel

Lost Paradise by Cees Nooteboom, translated from the Dutch by Susan Massotty

Brian Urquhart, One Angry Man

Surrender Is Not an Option: Defending America at the United Nations and Abroad by John Bolton

Edmund White, Portrait of a Sissy

Joseph Cirincione, The Greatest Threat to Us All

Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race by Richard Rhodes

The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear Danger by Jonathan Schell

Deception: Pakistan, the United States, and the Secret Trade in Nuclear Weapons by Adrian Levy and Catherine Scott-Clark

America and the Islamic Bomb:The Deadly Compromise by David Armstrong and Joseph Trento

Julian Bell, The Way to All Flesh

Lucian Freud by William Feaver

Freud at Work: Lucian Freud in Conversation with Sebastian Smee by Bruce Bernard and David Dawson

Lucian Freud: The Painter's Etchings an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, December 16, 2007–March 10, 2008.

Richard Horton, Cancer: Malignant Maneuvers

The Secret History of the War on Cancer by Devra Davis

Larry McMurtry, He Went Against the Peace Pipe

Custerology: The Enduring Legacy of the Indian Wars and George Armstrong Custer by Michael A. Elliott

Jeremy Waldron, When Is It Right to Invade?

Thinking Politically: Essays in Political Theory by Michael Walzer, selected, edited, and with an introduction by David Miller

Colin McGinn, The Musical Mystery

Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks

Helen Vendler, Snatched from the Air

Littlefoot: A Poem by Charles Wright

Robert O. Paxton, Vichy vs. the Nazis

The Hunt for Nazi Spies: Fighting Espionage in Vichy France by Simon Kitson, translated from the French by Catherine Tihanyi

Joshua Weiner, First Walk After Cancer (poem)

Darryl Pinckney, Dreams from Obama

A Bound Man: Why We Are Excited About Obama and Why He Can't Win by Shelby Steele

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Letters

Paul Hockenos, Jenni Winterhagen, et al. In Darkest Montenegro
Jonathan Bennett, 'The Dear Old Year'
B. J. Layman, Nabokov Wasn't There
George Feifer, Christopher Benfey, The Unpacific Pacific
David Margolick, Hail Caesar!

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Contributors

Julian Bell is a painter and writer living in Lewes, England. He is the author of What Is Painting? and of Mirror of the World: A New History of Art, which was published last autumn. (March 2008)

Joseph Cirincione is Senior Fellow and Director for Nuclear Policy at the Center for American Progress. His book Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons was published last spring. (March 2008)

J. M. Coetzee, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 2003, is currently Visiting Professor of Humanities at the University of Adelaide. His latest novel, Diary of a Bad Year, was published in December. (March 2008)

Richard Horton is a physician. He edits The Lancet, a weekly medical journal based in London and New York. He is also a visiting professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Colin McGinn teaches in the philosophy department at the University of Miami and is a Cooper Fellow. His most recent book is Shakespeare’s Philosophy: Discovering the Meaning Behind the Plays. (March 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.

Robert O. Paxton is Mellon Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus at Columbia. His latest book is The Anatomy of Fascism. (March 2008)

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

Sanford Schwartz's essays and reviews have been collected in The Art Presence and Artists and Writers. (May 2008)

Brian Urquhart is a former Undersecretary-General of the United Nations. His books include Hammarskjöld, A Life in Peace and War, and Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey. (March 2008)

Helen Vendler's new book, Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form, was published last autumn. She is preparing for publication her recent Mellon Lectures, entitled Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill. (March 2008)

Jeremy Waldron is the author of Law and Disagreement and The Dignity of Legislation. He is University Professor in the Law School at NYU. (May 2008)

Joshua Weiner is the author of the poetry collections The World’s Room and From the Book of Giants. (March 2008)

Edmund White has written biographies of Jean Genet, Marcel Proust, and Arthur Rimbaud. He has also written several novels, travel books, and a memoir. He teaches writing at Princeton and lives in New York City.

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