Table of Contents
Volume 55, Number 4 · March 20, 2008
Michael Tomasky, A Possibly Super Problem
Nicholson Baker, The Charms of Wikipedia
Wikipedia: The Missing Manual by John Broughton
Cathleen Schine, The Call of the Wild
His Illegal Self by Peter Carey
Mark Strand, Those Last Moments 
(poem)
Martin Filler, Broad-Minded Museum
The Broad Contemporary Art Museum at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2008
Renzo Piano Museums by Renzo Piano, with an essay by Victoria Newhouse
Collecting Collections: Highlights from the Permanent Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
William Luers, Thomas R. Pickering, Jim Walsh, A Solution for the US–Iran Nuclear Standoff
John Hollander, By Nature (poem)
Jason Epstein, A New Way to Think About Eating
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan
Benjamin M. Friedman, Chairman Greenspan's Legacy
The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World by Alan Greenspan
Christopher Ricks, A Successful Defiance
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A New Verse Translation by Simon Armitage
Robin Robertson, Hammersmith Winter (poem)
H. Allen Orr, The Genetic Adventurer
A Life Decoded: My Genome: My Life by J. Craig Venter
Graham Robb, The Pens of the Musketeer
Georges by Alexandre Dumas, translated from the French by Tina A. Kover, edited with an introduction and notes by Werner Sollors, and with a foreword by Jamaica Kincaid
The Last Cavalier: Being the Adventures of Count Sainte-Hermine in the Age of Napoleon by Alexandre Dumas, translated from the French by Lauren Yoder
Oliver Sacks, A Journey Inside the Brain
Jeff Madrick, The Specter Haunting Old Age
Age Shock: How Finance Is Failing Us by Robin Blackburn
Working Longer: The Solution to the Retirement Income Challenge by Alicia H. Munnell and Steven A. Sass
The Great Risk Shift: The Assault on American Jobs, Families, Health Care, and Retirement and How You Can Fight Back by Jacob S. Hacker
When I'm Sixty-four: The Plot Against Pensions and the Plan to Save Them by Teresa Ghilarducci
The Conservatives Have No Clothes: Why Right-Wing Ideas Keep Failing by Greg Anrig
Jennifer Schuessler, The Artist and the Upper Class
The Reserve by Russell Banks
James M. McPherson, They Chose Freedom
A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation by David W. Blight
Peter Brown, The Private Art of Early Christians
Picturing the Bible: The Earliest Christian Art an exhibition at the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, November 18, 2007–March 30, 2008.
Catalog of the exhibition by Jeffrey Spier, with contributions by Mary Charles-Murray, Johannes G. Deckers, Steven Fine, Robin M. Jensen, and Herbert L. Kessler
Dianne Feinstein, Chuck Hagel, Statements on 'A Solution for the US–Iran Nuclear Standoff'
Letters
Samuel Berger, Mickey Bergman, et al. In Defense of Robert Malley
Norman Ravitch, Darryl Pinckney, The Appeal of Obama
Helen E. Fisher, J. Anderson Thomson Jr., Prozac and Sexual Desire
David R. Slavitt, Discovering the Dutch Mountains
Contributors
Nicholson Baker’s new book, Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization, will be published this month. (March 2008)
Peter Brown is Philip and Beulah Rollins Professor of History at Princeton. The twentieth-anniversary edition of his book The Body and Society: Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity was published last year.
(June 2009)
Jason Epstein was for many years editorial director of Random House and has written on food for various publications. (March 2008)
Martin Filler is the architecture critic of House & Garden and a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and The New Republic. He is the co-author, with Olivier Bossiere, of The Vitra Design Museum: Frank Gehry, Architect.
Benjamin M. Friedman is the William Joseph Maier Professor of Political Economy at Harvard. His most recent book is The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth. (November 2008)
John Hollander is Sterling Professor Emeritus of English at Yale. His new book of poems, A Draft of Light, will be published by Knopf in May. (March 2008)
William Luers is the president of the United Nations Association-USA and was formerly US Ambassador to Czechoslovakia and Venezuela. (February 2009)
Jeff Madrick is editor of Challenge Magazine, Visiting Professor at Cooper Union, and Senior Fellow at the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis at the New School. His book, The Case for Big Government, was a 2009 PEN Galbraith Award Finalist. (June 2009)
James M. McPherson is George Henry Davis '86 Professor of American History Emeritus at Princeton. His most recent book is Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief. (December 2008)
H. Allen Orr is University Professor and Shirley Cox Kearns Professor of Biology at the University of Rochester. He is the author, with Jerry A. Coyne, of Speciation. (March 2009)
Thomas Pickering is Co-Chair of the United Nations Association-USA, former Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs, and former US Ambassador to Russia, Israel, India, Jordan, El Salvador, Nigeria, and the UN. (February 2009)
Christopher Ricks teaches at Boston University and is the Immediate Past President of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics. He wrote Keats and Embarrassment.
(June 2009)
Graham Robb has written biographies of Balzac, Rimbaud, and Victor Hugo. His latest book is The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography from the Revolution to the First World War.
(February 2009)
Robin Robertson's Swithering won the 2006 Forward Prize. His translation of Medea will be published in September. (May 2008)
Oliver Sacks is a physician and the author of ten books, including The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Awakenings, An Anthropologist on Mars, and, most recently, Musicophilia. He lives in New York City, where he is University Artist and Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at Columbia University.
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.
Jennifer Schuessler is an editor at The New York Times Book Review. (June 2009)
Mark Strand teaches in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia. His most recent book is New Selected Poems. (March 2008)
Michael Tomasky is editor of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas and American editor-at-large for The Guardian. (July 2009)
Jim Walsh, a Research Associate at MIT, was previously Executive Director of the Managing the Atom Project at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government.
(February 2009)
