Table of Contents
Volume 55, Number 5 · April 3, 2008
Charles Simic, The Troubled Birth of Kosovo
Richard Dorment, Lovable in Parts
Jasper Johns: Gray an exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, November 3, 2007–January 6, 2008, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, February 5–May 4, 2008.
Catalog of the exhibition by James Rondeau and Douglas Druick, with contributions by Mark Pascale, Richard Shiff, Barbara Rose, Kelly Keegan, and Kristin Lister, and an interview with the artist by Nan Rosenthal
Russell Baker, Condi and the Boys
Condoleezza Rice: An American Life by Elisabeth Bumiller
Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush by Robert Draper
The Confidante: Condoleezza Rice and the Creation of the Bush Legacy by Glenn Kessler
John Banville, The World's Last Novel 
The Executor: A Comedy of Letters by Michael Krüger, translated from the German by John Hargraves
William Dalrymple, A New Deal in Pakistan
Max Hastings, Up Against 'the Finest Soldiers in the World'
The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943–1944 by Rick Atkinson
Andrew Delbanco, The Right-Wing Christians
Head and Heart: American Christianities by Garry Wills
Sue Halpern, Are You Happy?
The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want by Sonja Lyubomirsky
Happier: Learn the Secrets to Daily Joy and Lasting Fulfillment by Tal Ben-Shahar
Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert
Against Happiness: In Praise of Melancholy by Eric G. Wilson
What Is Emotion?: History, Measures, and Meanings by Jerome Kagan
Charles Wright, Homage to What's-His-Name (poem)
David Bromwich, Euphemism and American Violence
Edmund White, The Making of John Rechy
About My Life and the Kept Woman: A Memoir by John Rechy
Michael Massing, The Volunteer Army: Who Fights and Why?
Mark Ford, How Yeats Did It
Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form by Helen Vendler
Perry Link, He Would Have Changed China
Zhao Ziyang: Ruanjinzhong de tanhua (Captive Conversations) by Zong Fengming
Robert Darnton, Finding a Lost Prince of Bohemia
Jeremy Bernstein, William Luers, Thomas R. Pickering, et al. 'A Solution for the US–Iran Nuclear Standoff': An Exchange
Letters
Robert L. Miller, Robert O. Paxton, A Patriot for Pétain?
Edwin M. Yoder Jr., Ma, Ma Where's My Pa?
Contributors
Russell Baker is a former columnist and correspondent for The New York Times and The Baltimore Sun. His books include The Good Times, Growing Up, and Looking Back.
John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He is the author of many novels, including The Book of Evidence, The Untouchable, and Eclipse. Banville's novel The Sea was awarded the 2005 Man Booker Prize. On occasion he writes under the pen name Benjamin Black.
David Bromwich is Sterling Professor of English at Yale. He is the author of Hazlitt: The Mind of a Critic and editor of a selection of Edmund Burke’s speeches, On Empire, Liberty, and Reform. (November 2009)
William Dalrymple is the author of The White Mughals, which won the Wolfson Prize for History, and The Last Mughal, which won the Duff Cooper Prize. His new book, Nine Lives, will be published in the fall. (February 2009)
Robert Darnton is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor at Harvard. His latest book is George Washington's False Teeth: An Unconventional Guide to the Eighteenth Century. (February 2009)
Andrew Delbanco is Levi Professor in the Humanities and Director of American Studies at Columbia. He is working on a book about college education. (November 2009)
Richard Dorment is the art critic of the Daily Telegraph. (October 2009)
Mark Ford teaches in the English Department at University College London. His most recent collection of poetry, Soft Sift, takes its title from Gerard Manley Hopkins's "The Wreck of the Deutschland. " This year he has published editions of the poetry of Frank O'Hara and John Ashbery. (January 2009)
Sue Halpern is a scholar in residence at Middlebury. Her most recent book is Can’t Remember What I Forgot: The Good News from the Front Lines of Memory Research. (November 2009)
Max Hastings has been an editor of The Daily Telegraph and The Evening Standard. His new book, Winston's War: Churchill as Warlord, 1940–45, will be published in the spring. (August 2009)
Perry Link is Chancellorial Chair in Teaching Across Disciplines at the University of California, Riverside. He is working on a book on rhythm, metaphor, and politics in contemporary Chinese language. (January 2009)
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.
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.
Charles Wright is Souder Family Professor of English at the University of Virginia. His most recent book is Sestets: Poems. (August 2009)
