Table of Contents
Volume 56, Number 3 · February 26, 2009
Robert Gottlieb, The Silent Superstar
Douglas Fairbanks by Jeffrey Vance with Tony Maietta
John Ashbery, Structures in Sand (poem)
Emma Rothschild, Can We Transform the Auto-Industrial Society?
Darryl Pinckney, What He Really Said
James Fenton, How to Paint Like Titian 
Benjamin West and the Venetian Secret an exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, September 18, 2008–January 4, 2009.
Max Hastings, Germans Confront the Nazi Past
Germany and the Second World War, Volume IX/I: German Wartime Society, 1939–1945: Politicization, Disintegration, and the Struggle for Survival edited for the Research Institute for Military History, Potsdam, Germany, by Jörg Echternkamp, translated from the German by Derry Cook-Radmore and others
Norman Mailer, Norman Mailer: 'Deer Park' Letters
Tim Flannery, The Superior Civilization
The Superorganism: The Beauty, Elegance, and Strangeness of Insect Societies by Bert Hölldobler and Edward O. Wilson, with line drawings by Margaret C. Nelson
Frank Kermode, Heroic Milton: Happy Birthday
John Milton: Life, Work, and Thought by Gordon Campbell and Thomas N. Corns
Milton: Poet, Pamphleteer, and Patriot by Anna Beer
Is Milton Better Than Shakespeare? by Nigel Smith
Joseph Frank, In Stalin's Trap
The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia by Orlando Figes
Graham Robb, Cruising with Genius
Afloat by Guy de Maupassant, translated from the French and with an introduction by Douglas Parmée
G.W. Bowersock, Court Poet & Pornographer
Martial's Epigrams: A Selection translated from the Latin and with an introduction by Garry Wills
Jonathan Mirsky, The China We Don't Know
Catastrophe and Contention in Rural China: Mao's Great Leap Forward Famine and the Origins of Righteous Resistance in Da Fo Village by Ralph A. Thaxton Jr.
Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China by Leslie T. Chang
Zadie Smith, Speaking in Tongues
Hugh Eakin, Robert Malley, The Middle East: What Next?
Nada L. Stotland, Debra L. Zumwalt, Marcia Angell, 'Drug Companies & Doctors': An Exchange
Letters
Daniel Barenboim, 'Please Listen, Before It Is Too Late'
Kate Farrell, Charles Rosen, T.S. Eliot Repents
Thomas Bishop, A French–American Encounter
Contributors
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.
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 From Gibbon to Auden: Essays on the Classical Tradition.
(September 2009)
Hugh Eakin is on the editorial staff of The New York Review. (May 2009)
James Fenton iis the editor of The New Faber Book of Love Poems and D.H. Lawrence's Selected Poems. (July 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)
Joseph Frank is Professor Emeritus of Slavic and Comparative Literature at Stanford. He is the author of Dostoyevsky: The Mantle of the Prophet, 1871–1881. (June 2008)
Robert Gottlieb has been Editor in Chief of Simon and Schuster, Knopf, and The New Yorker. He is the author of a biography of George Balanchine, the editor of the anthologies Reading Dance and Reading Jazz, and the dance critic of The New York Observer.
(December 2009)
Max Hastings has been an editor of The Daily Telegraph and The Evening Standard. His new book, Winston's War: Churchill as Warlord, 1940–45, will be published in the spring. (August 2009)
Frank Kermode lives in Cambridge, England. His latest book, ConcerningE.M. Forster, will be published in December.
(October 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.
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)
Jonathan Mirsky is a historian and journalist specializing in Chinese affairs. In 2002 he was the first I.F. Stone Teaching Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, Journalism School.
(August 2009)
Darryl Pinckney is the author of a novel, High Cotton, and Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature.
Graham Robb has written biographies of Balzac, Rimbaud, and Victor Hugo. His latest book is The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography from the Revolution to the First World War.
(February 2009)
Emma Rothschild is Director of the Joint Centre for History and Economics at King's College, Cambridge and Harvard, and Professor of History at Harvard. Her latest book is Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet and the Enlightenment.
(February 2009)
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.
