Table of Contents
Volume 56, Number 2 · February 12, 2009
Russell Baker, A Revolutionary President
FDR: The First Hundred Days by Anthony J. Badger
The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope by Jonathan Alter
Nothing to Fear: FDR's Inner Circle and the Hundred Days That Created Modern America by Adam Cohen
Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt by H.W. Brands
Rosanna Warren, Porta Portese 
(poem)
Roger Cohen, Eyeless in Gaza
Robert Darnton, Google & the Future of Books
Julian Bell, The Pleasure of Watteau
Antoine's Alphabet: Watteau and His World by Jed Perl
Jeff Madrick, How We Were Ruined & What We Can Do
The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash by Charles R. Morris
The Reckoning a series of articles by Gretchen Morgenson et al.
Financial Shock: A 360° Look at the Subprime Mortgage Implosion, and How to Avoid the Next Financial Crisis by Mark Zandi
Norman Mailer, Norman Mailer: Letters on Writing
Christian Caryl, The Russians Are Coming?
The New Cold War: Putin's Russia and the Threat to the West by Edward Lucas
Tim Parks, The Dark in the Piazza
Woman of Rome: A Life of Elsa Morante by Lily Tuck
House of Liars by Elsa Morante, translated from the Italian by Adrienne Foulke, with the editorial assistance of Andrew Chiappe
Arturo's Island by Elsa Morante, translated from the Italian by Isabel Quigly
Aracoeli by Elsa Morante, translated from the Italian by William Weaver
History by Elsa Morante, translated from the Italian by William Weaver and with a foreword by Lily Tuck
Joshua Hammer, Will He Rule South Africa?
Garry Wills, Why the Government Can Legally Lie
In the Name of National Security: Unchecked Presidential Power and the Reynolds Case by Louis Fisher
Claim of Privilege: A Mysterious Plane Crash, a Landmark Supreme Court Case, and the Rise of State Secrets by Barry Siegel
Edmund White, The Loves of the Falcon
Glenway Wescott Personally: A Biography by Jerry Rosco
The Grandmothers with an introduction by Sargent Bush Jr.
Goodbye, Wisconsin with an introduction by Jerry Roscoe and illustrations by Steve Chappell
The Pilgrim Hawk: A Love Story with an introduction by Michael Cunningham
Apartment in Athens with an introduction by David Leavitt
William Dalrymple, Pakistan in Peril
Descent into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia by Ahmed Rashid
Mary Beard, The Truth About Cleopatra
Cleopatra: Last Queen of Egypt by Joyce Tyldesley
William Luers, Thomas R. Pickering, Jim Walsh, How to Deal with Iran
Letters
The Editors, A Note to Readers
Patrick French, Ian Buruma, et al. More on V.S. Naipaul
Joseph Woodward, 'How Historic a Victory?'
Michael Tomasky, A Swing to Obama
Franklin Toker, Martin Filler, 'Wright in Love'
Henry Wassermann, Adam Kirsch, Wagner & Jews
Andrew O'Hagan, She Didn't Play For Clyde
Steve Hendricks, Hoover's Triumph
Contributors
Russell Baker is a former columnist and correspondent for The New York Times and The Baltimore Sun. His books include The Good Times, Growing Up, and Looking Back.
Mary Beard is Professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge. Her latest book is Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found, which won the Wolfson History Prize for 2008. (August 2009)
Julian Bell is a painter and writer living in Lewes, England. He is the author of What Is Painting? and Mirror of the World: A New History of Art.
(October 2009)
Christian Caryl is a Contributing Editor at Foreign Policy and Newsweek and a Senior Fellow of the Center for International Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (October 2009)
Roger Cohen is a columnist for the The New York Times and International Herald Tribune and author of Hearts Grown Brutal: Sagas of Sarajevo. (August 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)
Robert Darnton is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor at Harvard. His latest book is George Washington's False Teeth: An Unconventional Guide to the Eighteenth Century. (February 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.
(October 2009)
William Luers is the president of the United Nations Association-USA and was formerly US Ambassador to Czechoslovakia and Venezuela. (February 2009)
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 latest book, The Case for Big Government, was a 2009 PEN Galbraith Award Finalist. (November 2009)
Norman Mailer (1923-2007) was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. In 1955 he co-founded The Village Voice. He is the author of more than thirty books, including The Naked and the Dead; The Armies of the Night, for which he won a National Book
Award and the Pulitzer Prize; The Executioner's Song, for which he won his second Pulitzer Prize; Harlot's Ghost; Oswald's Tale; The Gospel According to the Son; and The
Castle in the Forest.
Tim Parks, a novelist, essayist, and translator, is Associate Professor of Literature and Translation at IULM University in Milan. His most recent novel is Dreams of Rivers and Seas.
Thomas Pickering is Co-Chair of the United Nations Association-USA, former Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs, and former US Ambassador to Russia, Israel, India, Jordan, El Salvador, Nigeria, and the UN. (February 2009)
Jim Walsh, a Research Associate at MIT, was previously Executive Director of the Managing the Atom Project at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government.
(February 2009)
Rosanna Warren is a fellow this year at the Cullman Center at the New York Public Library. Her most recent book is Fables of the Self: Studies in Lyric Poetry.
(February 2009)
Edmund White has written biographies of Jean Genet, Marcel Proust, and Arthur Rimbaud. He has also written several novels, travel books, and a memoir. He teaches writing at Princeton and lives in New York City.
Garry Wills is Professor of History Emeritus at Northwestern. His most recent book, What Jesus Meant, was published in 2006.
