Table of Contents
Volume 55, Number 13 · August 14, 2008
Joshua Hammer, Scandal in Africa
Janet Malcolm, Burdock 
Zadie Smith, E.M. Forster, Middle Manager
The BBC Talks of E.M. Forster, 1929–1960 edited by Mary Lago, Linda K. Hughes, and Elizabeth MacLeod Walls, with a foreword by P.N. Furbank
John Updike, Splendid Lies
J.M.W. Turner an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., October 1, 2007–January 6, 2008; the Dallas Museum of Art, February 10–May 18, 2008; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, June 24–September 21, 2008
Ronald Dworkin, Why It Was a Great Victory
Geoffrey Wheatcroft, Bondage
For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming and James Bond
For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming and James Bond by Ben Macintyre
ZigZag: The Incredible Wartime Exploits of Double Agent Eddie Chapman by Nicholas Booth
The Spy Within: Larry Chin and China's Penetration of the CIA by Tod Hoffman
Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal by Ben Macintyre
Devil May Care by Sebastian Faulks, writing as Ian Fleming
Christian Caryl, The Other North Korea
Jia: A Novel of North Korea by Hyejin Kim
A Corpse in the Koryo by James Church
Hidden Moon by James Church
Escaping North Korea: Defiance and Hope in the World's Most Repressive Country by Mike Kim
North of the DMZ: Essays on Daily Life in North Korea by Andrei Lankov
Cathleen Schine, Walking on Water
Breath by Tim Winton
Orville Schell, China: Humiliation & the Olympics
Dark Matter a film directed by Chen Shi-Zheng
Olympic Dreams: China and Sports, 1895–2008 by Xu Guoqi
China's New Confucianism: Politics and Everyday Life in a Changing Society by Daniel A. Bell
China's Great Leap: The Beijing Olympic Games and Olympian Human Rights Challenges Edited by Minky Worden, with an introduction by Nicholas Kristof
China's New Nationalism: Pride, Politics, and Diplomacy by Peter Hays Gries
Benjamin Moser, Rembrandt—The Jewish Connection?
Rembrandt's Jews by Steven Nadler
Rembrandt in de propaganda 1940–1945
De "joodse" Rembrandt: De mythe ontrafeld [The "Jewish" Rembrandt: The Myth Revealed] an exhibition at the Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam, November 10, 2006–February 4, 2007.
Hugh Eakin, The Devastation of Iraq's Past
Catastrophe! The Looting and Destruction of Iraq's Past an exhibition at the Oriental Institute Museum, Chicago, April 10-December 31, 2008.
The Destruction of Cultural Heritage in Iraq edited by Peter G. Stone and Joanne Farchakh Bajjaly
Antiquities Under Siege: Cultural Heritage Protection After the Iraq War edited by Lawrence Rothfield
Muqtada: Muqtada al-Sadr, the Shia Revival, and the Struggle for Iraq by Patrick Cockburn
The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Epic of Gilgamesh by David Damrosch
American Hostage by Micah Garen and Marie-Hélène Carleton
Reclaiming a Plundered Past: Archaeology and Nation Building in Modern Iraq by Magnus T. Bernhardsson
Jane Mayer, The Battle for a Country's Soul
Hilary Mantel, Cromwell & Wolsey: From 'Wolf Hall'
Jonathan D. Spence, The Passions of Joseph Needham
The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom by Simon Winchester
Roger Cohen, How Kofi Annan Rescued Kenya
Michael Dirda, The Treasure Hunter
Books: A Memoir by Larry McMurtry
Helen Epstein, The Strange History of Birth Control
Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population by Matthew Connelly
Reproducing Inequities: Poverty and the Politics of Population in Haiti by M. Catherine Maternowska, with a foreword by Paul Farmer
Richard Holmes, The Fantoms of Théophile Gautier
Samantha Power, The Democrats & National Security
Us vs. Them: How a Half Century of Conservatism Has Undermined America's Security by J. Peter Scoblic
Heads in the Sand: How the Republicans Screw Up Foreign Policy and Foreign Policy Screws Up the Democrats by Matthew Yglesias
Jean-Claude Guédon, Boudewijn Walraven, Robert Darnton, Who Will Digitize the World's Books?
Letters
Sanford Schwartz, Questions About Kafka
Janet Kestenberg Amighi, Stephen Shalom, An Open Letter on Iran to Barack Obama
Edward Mortimer, David Hare & Orhan Pamuk In Salzburg
Nicholas D. Kristof, Jonathan Mirsky, The Chinese and the Dalai Lama
H.S. Robert Glaser, Tim Flannery, What They See and Hear
Steven Jervis, Martin Filler, Justice for Bing & Bing
The Editors, Corrections
Contributors
Christian Caryl iis the Tokyo Bureau Chief of Newsweek. He has reported from thirty-seven countries, including Russia, Afghanistan, North Korea, and Iraq. (February 2009)
Roger Cohen is a columnist for the International Herald Tribune and The New York Times and author of Hearts Grown Brutal: Sagas of Sarajevo. (February 2009)
Michael Dirda is the author of two collections of essays, Readings and Bound to Please, the memoir An Open Book, and, most recently, Book by Book: Notes on Reading and Life. In 1993 he received the Pulitzer Prize for his reviews and essays in The Washington Post Book World. Before drifting into journalism, Dirda earned a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Cornell University, concentrating on medieval studies and European romanticism.
Ronald Dworkin is Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law and Philosophy at NYU and Jeremy Bentham Professor of Law and Philosophy at University College London. His books include Is Democracy Possible Here? (2006), Justice in Robes, Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality, and Freedom's Law. He is the 2007 winner of the Ludvig Holberg International Memorial Prize for "his pioneering scholarly work" of "worldwide impact."
Hugh Eakin is on the editorial staff of The New York Review. (May 2009)
Helen Epstein is the author of The Invisible Cure: Why We Are Losing the Fight Against AIDS.
(June 2009)
Joshua Hammer is a former Newsweek bureau chief and correspondent at large in Africa and the Middle East. His next book, the story of a colonial-era uprising in German Southwest Africa, will be published in 2010. (May 2009)
Richard Holmes is the author of Shelley: The Pursuit (published by NYRB Classics), which won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1974; Coleridge: Early Visions, winner of the 1989 Whitbread Book of the Year award; Dr Johnson & Mr Savage, which won the 1993 James Tait Black Prize; and Coleridge: Darker Reflections, which won the 1990 Duff Cooper Prize and Heinemann Award. His other works include Footsteps (1985) and Sidetracks (2000). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 1992. He is also a professor of biographical studies at the University of East Anglia. He lives in London and Norwich with the novelist Rose Tremain.
Janet Malcolm was born in Prague. She was educated at the High School of Music and Art, in New York, and at the University of Michigan. Along with In the Freud Archives, her books include Diana and Nikon: Essays on Photography, Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession, The Journalist and the Murderer, The Purloined Clinic: Selected Writings, The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, The Crime of Sheila McGough, and Reading Chekhov: A Critical Journey. She lives in New York.
Hilary Mantel is the author of nine novels, including Beyond Black. Her new novel, Wolf Hall, will be published in the UK in 2009.
Jane Mayer is a staff writer for The New Yorker. The essay in this issue is based on her book The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals, which was published in July by Doubleday. (August 2008)
Benjamin Moser’s biography of Clarice Lispector, Why This World, will be published in summer 2009. He lives in the Netherlands. (August 2008)
Samantha Power is the Anna Lindh Professor of the Practice of Global Leadership at Harvard’s Kennedy School. Her latest book, Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World, was published in February. (August 2008)
Orville Schell is the former Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, and currently the Arthur Ross Director of the Center on US–China Relations at the Asia Society in New York City. (August 2008)
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.
Zadie Smith is the author of three novels, most recently On Beauty, and the editor of the short-story anthology The Book of Other People. (February 2009)
Jonathan Spence is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. His latest book is Return to Dragon Mountain: Memories of a Late Ming Man. (May 2009)
John Updike was born in 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania. In 1954 he began to publish in The New Yorker, where he continued to contribute short stories, poems, and criticism until his death in 2009. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, among other awards. His last books were the novel The Widows of Eastwick and Due Considerations, a collection of his essays and criticism.
Geoffrey Wheatcroft's books include The Controversy of Zion, which won a National Jewish Book Award in 1996, The Strange Death of Tory England, and Yo, Blair! (March 2009)
