Table of Contents

Volume 56, Number 4 · March 12, 2009

Ian McEwan, On John Updike

Hilton Als, Revolutionary Road

Milk a film directed by Gus Van Sant

Fred Halliday, One Big Unhappy Family

The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century by Steve Coll

Anita Desai, Elektra in Tehran

Things I've Been Silent About: Memories by Azar Nafisi

Julian Barnes, Such, Such Was Eric Blair

Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays by George Orwell, compiled and with an introduction by George Packer

Why I Write by George Orwell

All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays by George Orwell, compiled by George Packer, with an introduction by Keith Gessen

Robert Pogue Harrison, The Ecstasy of John Muir

A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir by Donald Worster

Charles Simic, Connoisseurs of Cruelty

Like Eating a Stone: Surviving the Past in Bosnia by Wojciech Tochman, translated from the Polishby Antonia Lloyd-Jone

Madame Prosecutor: Confrontations with Humanity's Worst Criminals and the Culture of Impunity by Carla Del Ponte with Chuck Sudetic

Kosovo: What Everyone Needs to Know by Tim Judah

Norman Mailer, Norman Mailer: Letters to Jack Abbott

Charles Rosen, Happy Birthday, Elliott Carter!

Elliott Carter: A Centennial Portrait in Letters and Documents by Felix Meyer and Anne C. Shreffler

Sanford Schwartz, An Eye on the Tremors

Let's See: Writings on Art from The New Yorker by Peter Schjeldahl

The Hydrogen Jukebox: Selected Writings of Peter Schjeldahl, 1978–1990 edited by Malin Wilson, with an introduction by Robert Storr

Columns and Catalogues by Peter Schjeldahl

The 7 Days Art Columns, 1988–1990 by Peter Schjeldahl

Wyatt Mason, The Color Money

A Mercy by Toni Morrison

Richard Parker, Government Beyond Obama?

The Case for Big Government by Jeff Madrick

Garry Wills, Closer Than Ever to Vergil

The Aeneid by Vergil, translated from the Latin by Sarah Ruden

James Salter, On Richard Seaver

Victor Gilinsky, Robert R. Holt, Nikki Keddie, et al. 'How to Deal with Iran': Two Exchanges

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Letters

John Sweeney, Jeff Madrick, Sticking to the Union
Rudolph H. Weingartner, A Puzlax For Readers
Jonathan Lopez, James Fenton, Forger's Justice
The Editors, Correction

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Contributors

Hilton Als is a staff writer for The New Yorker. (August 2009)

Julian Barnes has written nine novels, a book of short stories, and two collections of essays. His most recent book is Something to Declare: Essays on France.

Anita Desai's most recent novel is The Zigzag Way. (February 2010)

Fred Halliday is ICREA Research Professor at the Barcelona Institute for International Studies. His books Language and Politics in the Middle East and Britain’s First Muslims will be published in the uk later this year.

(March 2009)

Robert Pogue Harrison is Rosina Pierotti Professor in Italian Literature at Stanford. His latest book is Gardens: An Essay on the Human Condition. (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.

Wyatt Mason is a contributing editor at Harper’s. He has published two translations of Arthur Rimbaud, Rimbaud Complete and I Promise to Be Good.
 (January 2010)

Ian McEwan is the author most recently of On Chesil Beach. (March 2009)

Richard Parker is Lecturer in Public Policy and Senior Fellow of the Shorenstein Center at Harvard. His most recent book is John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, His Politics, His Economics. (March 2009)

Charles Rosen's latest book is Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist. (February 2010)

James Salter is the author of twelve books, including A Sport and a Pastime, Light Years, and Dusk and Other Stories, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award. He was an Air Force pilot for twelve years, including six months of combat in the Korean War.
 (January 2010)

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

Charles Simic is a poet, essayist and translator. He has published twenty collections of his own poetry, five books of essays, a memoir, and numerous of books of translations. He has received many literary awards for his poems and his translations, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Griffin Prize and the MacArthur Fellowship. Voice at 3 A.M., his selected later and new poems, was published in 2003 and a new book of poems My Noiseless Entourage came out in the spring of 2005.

Garry Wills is Professor of History Emeritus at Northwestern. His most recent book, What Jesus Meant, was published in 2006.

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