Table of Contents
Volume 55, Number 14 · September 25, 2008
Andrew Butterfield, The Genius of George Inness 
Like Breath on Glass: Whistler, Inness, and the Art of Painting Softly an exhibition at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, June 22–October 19, 2008.
George Inness: A Catalogue Raisonné by Michael Quick
George Inness and the Science of Landscape by Rachael Ziady DeLue
George Inness: Writings and Reflections on Art and Philosophy edited by Adrienne Baxter Bell
Andrew Hacker, Obama: The Price of Being Black
Restoring the Right to Vote by Erika Wood
Crawford v. Marion County [Indiana] Election Board
Florida State Conference of the NAACP v. Browning
Tim Parks, 'The Knife by the Handle at Last'
Alfred and Emily by Doris Lessing by Doris Lessing
Apples and Oranges: My Brother and Me, Lost and Found by Marie Brenner
Thrumpton Hall: A Memoir of Life in My Father’s House by Miranda Seymour
The Sum of Our Days by Isabel Allende, translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden
House Rules by Rachel Sontag
George Friedman, Georgia and the Balance of Power
Edward Mendelson, 'What We Love, Not Are'
Selected Poems by Frank O’Hara, edited by Mark Ford
George Soros, The Perilous Price of Oil
Mahmoud Darwish, Viewpoint (poem)
Michael Kimmelman, The 'Mash of Myriad Sounds'
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross
Anthony Lewis, Official American Sadism
Guantanamo: Beyond the Law a series of five articles by Tom Lasseter
Broken Laws, Broken Lives: Medical Evidence of Torture by US Personnel and Its Impact a report by Physicians for Human Rights, with a preface by Major General Antonio M. Taguba
The Challenge: Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and the Fight over Presidential Power by Jonathan Mahler
Adam Michnik, On the Side of Geremek
Alan Hollinghurst, Underground Men
Netherland by Joseph O’Neill
Oliver Sacks, A Summer of Madness
Hurry Down Sunshine by Michael Greenberg
Wisdom, Madness and Folly: The Philosophy of a Lunatic by John Custance
Manic-Depressive Illness: Bipolar Disorders and Recurrent Depression by Frederick K. Goodwin and Kay Redfield Jamison
An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness by Kay Redfield Jamison
Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament by Kay Redfield Jamison
The Seduction of Madness: Revolutionary Insights into the World of Psychosis and a Compassionate Approach to Recovery at Home by Edward M. Podvoll
Lectures on Clinical Psychiatry by Emil Kraepelin
Manic-Depressive Insanity and Paranoia by Emil Kraepelin
Joyce Carol Oates, The Woman in White
A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade by Christopher Benfey
White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson by Brenda Wineapple
Jeff Madrick, Time for a New Deal
The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker by Steven Greenhouse
Jonathan Raban, Crashing the Party
The Anglo Files: A Field Guide to the British by Sarah Lyall
Steven Weinberg, Without God
G.W. Bowersock, Brilliant, Beautiful & Byzantine
Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire by Judith Herrin
Michael Tomasky, Night Comes to the Appalachians
Coal River by Michael Shnayerson
The Scotia Widows: Inside Their Lawsuit Against Big Daddy Coal by Gerald M. Stern
Monongah: The Tragic Story of the Worst Industrial Accident in US History by Davitt McAteer
Mahmoud Darwish, I Can Speak About Love (poem)
Pico Iyer, The Return of 'The Snow Leopard'
William D. Nordhaus, Leigh Sullivan, Dimitri Zenghelis, et al. 'The Question of Global Warming': An Exchange
Letters
Dan Kurzman, István Deák, 'Hitler's Secret Plot'
Perez Zagorin, Christianity & Freedom
Bruce Fetter, It's Not Just Fleas
Contributors
G.W. Bowersock is Professor Emeritus of Ancient History at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Among his recent books are Mosaics as History: The Near East from Late Antiquity to Islam and Lorenzo Valla on the Donation of Constantine. (November 2008)
Andrew Butterfield is President of Andrew Butterfield Fine Arts. He is the author of The Sculptures of Andrea del Verrocchio. (September 2008)
Mahmoud Darwish, a widely admired Palestinian poet, was the author of more than thirty books of poetry and prose. He died in August, at age sixty-seven. (September 2008)
George Friedman is Founder and CEO of Stratfor, a private intelligence company publishing geopolitical and security analysis at www.stratfor.com. He is author of America's Secret War. His new book, The Next Hundred Years, will be published in January 2009. (September 2008)
Andrew Hacker teaches political science at Queens College. He is currently writing a book on higher education in collaboration with Claudia Dreifus. (September 2008)
Alan Hollinghurst was born in 1954 in Gloucestershire, England, and attended Magdalen College, Oxford. He is the author of the novels The Swimming-Pool Library, The Folding Star (shortlisted for the Booker Prize), The Spell, and the forthcoming The Line of Beauty, as well as of a translation of the play Bajazet by Racine. A former staff member at The Times Literary Supplement, Hollinghurst is a frequent contributor to that and other publications, including The Guardian. Hollinghurst's fourth novel, The Line of Beauty, won the Man Booker Prize in 2004. He lives in London.
Pico Iyer’s The Open Road , about the fourteenth Dalai Lama and globalism, was published this spring. His essay in this issue will appear, in somewhat different form, as the introduction to a new Penguin Classics edition of The Snow Leopard . (September 2008)
Michael Kimmelman is chief art critic of The New York Times . He is now based in Berlin, writing the Abroad column for the Times on culture and society across Europe. He is the author of The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa. (September 2008)
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 this year. (September 2008)
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 will be published this fall. (September 2008)
Edward Mendelson is the literary executor of the Estate of W.H. Auden and professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is the author of Early Auden, Later Auden, and many essays on (and editions of) nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers, including George Meredith, Thomas Hardy, H.G. Wells, Arnold Bennett, Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett, and Thomas Pynchon.
Adam Michnik is Editor in Chief of the Warsaw daily newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza. He spent six years in prisons in Communist Poland. In 1989, he participated in the Round Table agreements that led to establishing the first non-Communist government in the Soviet bloc. (September 2008)
Joyce Carol Oates, the Roger S. Berlind Professor of Humanities at Princeton, is the author most recently of the novel My Sister, My Love: The Intimate Story of Skyler Rampike. (October 2008)
Tim Parks, a novelist, essayist, and translator, is Associate Professor of English Literature at IULM University in Milan. His most recent novel is Cleaver. (September 2008)
Jonathan Raban's books include Arabia: A Journey Through the Labrynth, Old Glory, Bad Land, Passage to Juneau, and Waxwings. He is the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Heinemann Award of the Royal Society of Literature, the PEN/West Creative Nonfiction Award, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers' Award, and the Governor's Award of the State of Washington. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, The Guardian, and The Independent. He lives in Seattle.
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.
George Soros, Chairman of Soros Fund Management LLC and the Open Society Institute, is the author, most recently, of The New Paradigm for Financial Markets. (December 2008)
Michael Tomasky is Editor of Guardian America and writes a blog at www.guardian.co.uk. (December 2008)
Steven Weinberg holds the Josey Regental Chair in Science at the University of Texas at Austin. He has been awarded the Nobel Prize in physics and the National Medal of Science. (September 2008)
