Table of Contents
Volume 55, Number 6 · April 17, 2008
Stanley Wells, Mistress Shakespeare
Shakespeare's Wife by Germaine Greer
Elizabeth Drew, Molehill Politics
Andrew Butterfield, The Magical Painting of Poussin
Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions An exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, February 12–May 11, 2008.
Jay Neugeboren, Infiltrating the Enemy of the Mind 
The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness by Elyn R. Saks
Adam Zagajewski, Was it (poem)
Edward Mortimer, Big Ideas for a New President
Memo to the President Elect: How We Can Restore America's Reputation and Leadership by Madeleine Albright, with Bill Woodward
The Great Experiment: The Story of Ancient Empires, Modern States, and the Quest for a Global Nation by Strobe Talbott
The Next American Century: How the US Can Thrive as Other Powers Rise by Nina Hachigian and Mona Sutphen
Colm Tóibín, A Great American Visionary
Hart Crane: Complete Poems and Selected Letters by Hart Crane
Peter Brown, The Voice of the Stones
Mosaics as History: The Near East from Late Antiquity to Islam by G.W. Bowersock
William H. McNeill, Man Slaughters Man
Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur by Ben Kiernan
Tim Parks, The Fantasy Family
The Gathering by Anne Enright.
Raymond Bonner, Forever Guantánamo
Eight O'Clock Ferry to the Windward Side: Seeking Justice in Guantánamo Bay by Clive Stafford Smith
Detainee 002: The Case of David Hicks by Leigh Sales
The Terrorist Watch: Inside the Desperate Race to Stop the Next Attack by Ronald Kessler
The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America's Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11 by Ron Suskind
Michael Wood, The Passionate Egoist
The Voyage That Never Ends: Fictions, Poems, Fragments, Letters by Malcolm Lowry, edited by Michael Hofmann
Robert Skidelsky, Gloomy About Globalization
Making Globalization Work by Joseph E. Stiglitz
Brad Leithauser, Glassed In
Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke, 1943–63 edited by David Wagoner
Alexander Stille, Italy: The Crooks in Control
Gomorrah by Roberto Saviano, translated from the Italian by Virginia Jewiss
Geoffrey O'Brien, A World of Saints and Gangsters
Kill All Your Darlings: Pieces 1990–2005 by Luc Sante
James M. McPherson, Dark Victories
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust
Awaiting the Heavenly Country: The Civil War and America's Culture of Death by Mark S. Schantz
Robert Gottlieb, The Rescue of John Steinbeck
Travels with Charley and Later Novels, 1947–1962: The Wayward Bus / Burning Bright / Sweet Thursday / The Winter of Our Discontent / Travels with Charley in Search of America by John Steinbeck
Geoffrey Forden, Bennett Ramberg, John Thomson, et al. Iran & the Bomb: An Exchange
Letters
Earle Martin, The Wikipedia Dump
Robert Avery, Dresden and the 'Anglo-American Terror Raid'
Contributors
Raymond Bonner has been a foreign correspondent and investigative reporter for The New York Times, and has written extensively about the Bush administration’s treatment of terrorist suspects. (April 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 will be published in June. (April 2008)
Andrew Butterfield is President of Andrew Butterfield Fine Arts. He is the author of The Sculptures of Andrea del Verrocchio. (April 2008)
Elizabeth Drew, who lives in Washington, is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books. She is the author of twelve books.
Robert Gottlieb has been Editor in Chief of Simon and Schuster, Knopf, and The New Yorker. He is the author of George Balanchine: The Ballet Maker and is the dance critic of The New York Observer. (May 2008)
Brad Leithauser is a novelist, poet, and essayist. He lives in
Massachusetts.
William H. McNeill is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Chicago. His most recent books are The Pursuit of Truth: A Historian’s Memoir and A Boyhood Memory: Long Ago on Grandfather’s Farm, which is currently in search of a publisher. (April 2008)
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)
Edward Mortimer was until 2006 the Director of Communications in the Executive Office of the United Nations Secretary-General. He is a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and Senior Vice President and Chief Program Officer at the Salzburg Global Seminar. (April 2008)
Jay Neugeboren is the author of fourteen books. His new novel, 1940, is published this month. (April 2008)
Geoffrey O'Brien is Editor in Chief of the Library of America. He is the author, most recently, of Sonata for Jukebox: An Autobiography of My Ears and Red Sky Café. (April 2008)
Tim Parks, a novelist, essayist, and translator, is Associate Professor of English Literature at IULM University in Milan. His novel Cleaver was published in February. (April 2008)
Robert Skidelsky is Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at Warwick University, England. The single-volume abridgment of his three-volume biography of John Maynard Keynes was published last year in the US. He is currently completing a short history of Britain in the twentieth century. www.skidelskyr.com. (April 2008)
Alexander Stille is the author of Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic and The Future of the Past. His most recent book is The Sack of Rome: Money + Media + Celebrity = Power = Silvio Berlusconi. (April 2008)
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.
Stanley Wells is Chairman of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and General Editor of the Oxford and Penguin editions of Shakespeare. His book Shakespeare & Co. appears in paperback this month. (April 2008)
Michael Wood is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge. (April 2008)
Adam Zagajewski's books include Another Beauty and Without End: New and Selected Poems. The poem in this issue is from his new book, Eternal Enemies, just published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. (April 2008)
