Table of Contents

Volume 56, Number 8 · May 14, 2009

Robert M. Solow, How to Understand the Disaster

A Failure of Capitalism: The Crisis of '08 and the Descent into Depression by Richard A. Posner

John Gross, A Constant Reader

Hitler's Private Library: The Books That Shaped His Life by Timothy W. Ryback

Ian Buruma, Living with Islam

Beyond Terror and Martyrdom: The Future of the Middle East by Gilles Kepel, translated from the French by Pascale Ghazaleh

La Peur des barbares: Au-delà du choc des civilisations [Fear of the Barbarians: Beyond the Clash of Civilizations] by Tzvetan Todorov

Joshua Hammer, Mad Dreams in the Amazon

The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann

Hugh Eakin, Who Should Own the World's Antiquities?

Who Owns Antiquity? Museums and the Battle Over Our Ancient Heritage by James Cuno

Whose Culture? The Promise of Museums and the Debate Over Antiquities edited by James Cuno

Hugh Eakin, The Affair of the Chinese Bronze Heads

Avishai Margalit, Michael Walzer, Israel: Civilians & Combatants

Christopher Benfey, Transcendental Woman

Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life: The Public Years by Charles Capper

Margaret Fuller: Wandering Pilgrim by Meg McGavran Murray

Fuller in Her Own Time: A Biographical Chronicle of Her Life, Drawn from Recollections, Interviews, and Memoirs by Family, Friends, and Associates edited by Joel Myerson

Ingrid D. Rowland, A Silly, Very Cultured Club

Dilettanti: The Antic and the Antique in Eighteenth-Century England by Bruce Redford

Andrew Delbanco, The Universities in Trouble

Pioneering Portfolio Management: An Unconventional Approach to Institutional Investment by David F. Swensen

Tearing Down the Gates: Confronting the Class Divide in American Education by Peter Sacks

Creating a Class: College Admissions and the Education of Elites by Mitchell L. Stevens

Fulfilling the Commitment: Recommendations for Reforming Federal Student Aid in Brief by Sandy Baum, Michael McPherson, and others

Trends in College Spending: Where Does the Money Come From? Where Does It Go? by Jane V. Wellman and others

Garry Wills, The Voice of the Eagle

An Oresteia: Agamemnon by Aiskhylos, Elektra by Sophokles, Orestes by Euripides translated from the Greek by Anne Carson

An Oresteia: Part 1: Agamemnon by Aiskhylos, Elektra by Sophokles directed by Brian Kulick and Gisela Cardenas

An Oresteia: Part 2: Orestes by Euripides directed by Paul Lazar, with choreography by Annie-B Parson

Michael Wood, The Not-So-Good Cop

Crime by Irvine Welsh

G.W. Bowersock, The Scholar of Scholars

Worlds Made by Words: Scholarship and Community in the Modern West by Anthony Grafton

Arlen Specter, The Need to Roll Back Presidential Power Grabs

Philip K. Howard, Harrison Sheppard, Anthony Lewis, 'Life Without Lawyers': An Exchange

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Letters

Peter Aczel, Stephen Greenblatt, Shakespeare Goes to the Dogs
Thomas Frank, How Conservative Are Some Democrats?
Jeff Sewald, A Peter Matthiessen Movie
Benjamin Taylor, Letters From Saul Bellow
The Editors, Clarification
The Editors, Thanks!

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Contributors

Christopher Benfey is Mellon Professor of English at Mount Holyoke. His edition of Lafcadio Hearn: American Writings was published last spring by the Library of America. (October 2009)

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)

Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard. He received the 2008 Erasmus Prize. His novel The China Lover was published in September 2008.

Andrew Delbanco is Levi Professor in the Humanities and Director of American Studies at Columbia. He is working on a book about college education. (November 2009)

Hugh Eakin is on the editorial staff of The New York Review. (May 2009)

John Gross's most recent book is A Double Thread, a memoir. He is the editor of The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes, which was published in paperback last September. (May 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)

Avishai Margalit is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is currently the George Kennan Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. His forthcoming book is On Compromise and Rotten Compromises.
 (September 2009)

Ingrid D. Rowland is a professor, based in Rome, at the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture. A frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, she is the author of The Culture of the High Renaissance: Ancients and Moderns in Sixteenth-Century Rome and The Scarith of Scornello: A Tale of Renaissance Forgery. She has published a translation of Vitruvius' Ten Books of Architecture. Her latest books are a biography of Giordano Bruno and a translation of Bruno's dialogue On the Heroic Frenzies.

Robert M. Solow, Institute Professor Emeritus of Economics at MIT, won the 1987 Nobel Prize in economics. His most recent book is Work and Welfare. (May 2009)

Arlen Specter is the Senior Republican United States Senator from Pennsylvania and Ranking Member on the Senate Judiciary Committee. (May 2009)

Michael Walzer is Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., and co-editor of Dissent. He is the author of Just and Unjust Wars. (March 2003)

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

Michael Wood is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge. (September 2009)

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