Table of Contents

Volume 56, Number 1 · January 15, 2009

Mark Ford, The Poet and the Wreck

Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Life by Paul Mariani

Exiles by Ron Hansen.

Alison Lurie, Widcraft

The Widows of Eastwick by John Updike

John Ashbery, Working Overtime (poem)

Marcia Angell, Drug Companies & Doctors: A Story of Corruption

Side Effects: A Prosecutor, a Whistleblower, and a Bestselling Antidepressant on Trial by Alison Bass

Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness by Christopher Lane

Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs by Melody Petersen

Andrew Butterfield, Sacred, Earthy & Sublime

Mantegna, 1431–1506 an exhibition at the Musée du Louvre, Paris, September 26, 2008– January 5, 2009.

Giovanni Bellini an exhibition at the Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome, September 30, 2008– January 11, 2009

David Cole, What to Do About the Torturers?

Torture Team: Rumsfeld's Memo and the Betrayal of American Values by Philippe Sands

The Trial of Donald Rumsfeld: A Prosecution by Book by Michael Ratner and the Center for Constitutional Rights

Administration of Torture: A Documentary Record from Washington to Abu Ghraib and Beyond by Jameel Jaffer and Amrit Singh

Robert Skidelsky, Can You Spare a Dime?

The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson

Daniel Mendelsohn, Oppie in New York

Doctor Atomic an opera in two acts by John Adams, libretto by Peter Sellars, directed by Penny Woolcock, with stage design by Julian Crouch

Joel Simon, 'Dictatorial Designs' in Nicaragua

Max Rodenbeck, The Iran Mystery Case

Bitter Friends, Bosom Enemies: Iran, the US, and the Twisted Path to Confrontation by Barbara Slavin

Reading Khamenei: The World View of Iran's Most Powerful Leader by Karim Sadjadpour

The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran by Hooman Majd

The Struggle for Iran by Christopher de Bellaigue

Ahmadinejad: The Secret History of Iran's Radical Leader by Kasra Naji

Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the United States by Trita Parsi

Cathleen Schine, Adventures in the Opium Trade

Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh

Hussein Agha, Robert Malley, How Not to Make Peace in the Middle East

The Much Too Promised Land: America's Elusive Search for Arab–Israeli Peace by Aaron David Miller

Negotiating Arab–Israeli Peace: American Leadership in the Middle East by Daniel C. Kurtzer and Scott B. Lasensky

Innocent Abroad: An Intimate Account of American Peace Diplomacy in the Middle East by Martin Indyk

Janet Malcolm, Capitalist Pastorale

A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter

Freckles by Gene Stratton-Porter

The Harvester by Gene Stratton-Porter

Her Father's Daughter by Gene Stratton-Porter

The Keeper of the Bees by Gene Stratton-Porter

Gene Stratton-Porter: Novelist and Naturalist by Judith Reich Long

The Lady of the Limberlost: The Life and Letters of Gene Stratton-Porter by Jeannette Porter Meehan

Sanford Schwartz, American Parable

Thomas Chambers: American Marine and Landscape Painter, 1808–1869 an exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, September 27– December 28, 2008; the Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, New York, February 8–April 19, 2009; the American Folk Art Museum, New York City, September 29, 2009–March 7, 2010; and the Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, March 26–May 30, 2010

China's Charter 08

Alan Rusbridger, A Chill on 'The Guardian'

Margaret Murray, Paul Theroux, Ian Buruma, On V.S. Naipaul: An Exchange

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Letters

Orlando Figes, The Raid on Memorial
Sarah Kerr, Bolaño & Drugs
David Rosand, 'On Meyer Schapiro'

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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)

Marcia Angell is a Senior Lecturer in Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. A physician, she is a former Editor in Chief of The New England Journal of Medicine. Her latest book is The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It. (January 2009)

John Ashbery is the author of twenty books of poetry, including Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (1975), which received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the National Book Award; and Some Trees (1956), which was selected by W. H. Auden for the Yale Younger Poets Series. He has also published art criticism, plays, and a novel. Ashbery is currently the Charles P. Stevenson, Jr., Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard College.

Andrew Butterfield is is President of Andrew Butterfield Fine Arts. His books include The Sculptures of Andrea del Verrocchio. (July 2009)

David Cole is Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center. He is the award-winning author of several books, including Less Safe, Less Free: Why America Is Losing the War on Terror (with Jules Lobel, 2007) and Enemy Aliens: Double Standards and Constitutional Freedoms in the War on Terrorism (2003).

Mark Ford has recently translated Raymond Roussel's Nouvelles Impressions d'Afrique. He teaches in the English Department at University College London. (February 2010)

Alison Lurie is a former Professor of English at Cornell. Her most recent novel is Truth and Consequences.

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.

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)

Daniel Mendelsohn's translations, with commentary, of the Collected Poems and Unfinished Poems of Constantine Cavafy were published last year. A collection of his essays mostly from these pages, How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken, was recently published in paperback. He teaches at Bard.
(February 2010)

Max Rodenbeck is The Economist’s Mideast Correspondent. He lives in Cairo. (November 2009)

Alan Rusbridger is Editor in Chief of TheGuardian. (January 2009)

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.

Sanford Schwartz is the author of The Art Presence and Artists and Writers. (February 2010)

Joel Simon is the Executive Director of the Committee to Protect Journalists. (January 2009)

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 in 2007 in the US. He is currently completing a short history of Britain in the twentieth century. www.skidelskyr.com. (January 2009)

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