Table of Contents
Volume 55, Number 7 · May 1, 2008
Garry Wills, Two Speeches on Race
William Dalrymple, Kashmir: The Scarred and the Beautiful
The Arts of Kashmir
Tony Judt, What Have We Learned, If Anything?
Frank Kermode, Ezra Conquers London
Ezra Pound: Poet: A Portrait of the Man and His Work, Volume 1: The Young Genius, 1885–1920 by A. David Moody
Ian Buruma, The Cruelest War
Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944–45 by Max Hastings
Michael Chabon, In Priceland
Lush Life by Richard Price
Tim Flannery, Queens of the Web
The Private Life of Spiders by Paul Hillyard
Life in Cold Blood by David Attenborough
Joyce Carol Oates, Youth!
All the Sad Young Literary Men by Keith Gessen
Harold W. Attridge, The Case for Judas, Continued
Reading Judas: The Gospel of Judas and the Shaping of Christianity by Elaine Pagels and Karen L. King
The Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot: A New Look at Betrayer and Betrayed by Bart D. Ehrman
Alison Lurie, The Girl in the Tower
Petrosinella: A Neapolitan Rapunzel retold and illustrated by Diane Stanley
Golden: A Retelling of "Rapunzel" by Cameron Dokey
Letters from Rapunzel by Sara Lewis Holmes
Rapunzel by Barbara Rogasky, illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman
Zel by Donna Jo Napoli
The Tower Room by Adèle Geras
Sugar Cane: A Caribbean Rapunzel by Patricia Storace, illustrated by Raúl Colón
Rapunzel: A Groovy Fairy Tale by Lynn Roberts, illustrated by David Roberts
Barbie as Rapunzel by Merry North
Anthony Lewis, The Terror President
David Lodge, 'The End of Heaven'
Day by A.L. Kennedy
Caleb Crain, 'Move Closer, Please'
The Art of the American Snapshot, 1888–1978: From the Collection of Robert E. Jackson an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., October 7–December 31, 2007, and the Amon Carter Museum, Forth Worth, Texas, February 16–April 27, 2008. Catalog of the exhibition by Sarah Greenough and Diane Waggoner, with Sarah Kennel and Matthew S. Witkovsky.
Gordon S. Wood, Praying with the Founders
Ten Tortured Words: How the Founding Fathers Tried to Protect Religion in America...and What's Happened Since by Stephen Mansfield
So Help Me God: The Founding Fathers and the First Great Battle over Church and State by Forrest Church
Rick Sanchez, Michael Ware, Martha Zoller, The Milestone
Hussein Agha, Robert Malley, Into the Lion's Den
Marat Grinberg, Tony Judt, 'The Problem of Evil': An Exchange
Letters
El Hassan Bin Talal, André Glucksmann, et al. Tibet: The Peace of the Graveyard
Quintin Hoare, Charles Simic, Hope for Kosovo
Andrew Branch, Branded By Pharma
Paul Epstein, The Market for Happiness
Jeremy J. Stone, The I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence
Contributors
Hussein Agha is Senior Associate Member of St. Antony’s College, Oxford. He is the author, with A.S. Khalidi, of A Framework for a Palestinian National Security Doctrine. (December 2009)
Harold W. Attridge is Dean of Yale Divinity School and Lillian Claus Professor of New Testament. His books include Hebrews: A Commentary on the Epistle to the Hebrews and Nag Hammadi Codex I: The Jung Codex. (May 2008)
Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard. He received the 2008 Erasmus Prize. His novel The China Lover was published in September 2008.
Michael Chabon is the author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier
and Clay and the children's book, Summerland. He lives in Berkeley, California.
Caleb Crain is the author of American Sympathy: Men, Friendship, and Literature in the New Nation. (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)
Tim Flannery is a Professor at Macquarie University in Sydney and Chair of the Copenhagen Climate Council. His latest book is Now or Never: Why We Must Act Now to End Climate Change and Create a Sustainable Future. (November 2009)
Tony Judt directs the Remarque Institute at NYU and is the author of Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945. His latest book, Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century, was recently reissued in paperback.
(February 2010)
Frank Kermode lives in Cambridge, England. His latest book, ConcerningE.M. Forster, will be published in December.
(October 2009)
Anthony Lewis, a former columnist for The New York Times, has twice won the Pulitzer Prize. His book Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment was published last year.
David Lodge is a novelist and critic and Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Birmingham, England. His novels include Changing Places, Small World, Nice Work, and Author, Author. His most recent works of criticism are Consciousness and
the Novel and The Year of Henry James.
Alison Lurie is a former Professor of English at Cornell. Her most recent novel is Truth and Consequences.
Robert Malley was Special Assistant to President Clinton for Arab–Israeli Affairs and Director for Near East and South Asian Affairs on the National Security Council staff. He is currently Middle East and North Africa Program Director at the International Crisis Group. (December 2009)
Joyce Carol Oates, the Roger S. Berlind Professor of Humanities at Princeton, is the author most recently of the novel Little Bird of Heaven and the story collection Dear Husband. (December 2009)
Garry Wills is Professor of History Emeritus at Northwestern. His most recent book, What Jesus Meant, was published in 2006.
Gordon Wood is the Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History at Brown. A collection of his essays, The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History, was published in March. (May 2008)