Table of Contents
Volume 56, Number 11 · July 2, 2009
Tony Judt, Amos Elon (1926–2009)
Geoffrey O'Brien, When Hollywood Dared 
Pre-Code Hollywood Collection: The Cheat/Merrily We Go to Hell/Hot Saturday/Torch Singer/Murder at the Vanities/Search for Beauty
Forbidden Hollywood Collection, Volume Three: Other Men's Women/The Purchase Price/Frisco Jenny/Midnight Mary/Heroes for Sale/Wild Boys of the Road
David Cole, The Same-Sex Future
Gay Marriage: For Better or for Worse? What We've Learned from the Evidence by William N. Eskridge Jr. and Darren R. Spedale
Marriage, Sexuality, and Gender by Robin West
Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty: Emerging Conflicts edited by Douglas Laycock, Anthony R. Picarello Jr., and Robin Fretwell Wilson
Same-Sex Marriage and the Constitution by Evan Gerstmann
Ingrid D. Rowland, The Charms of Ancient Egypt
Les Portes du Ciel: Visions du monde dans l'Égypte ancienne an exhibition at the Louvre, Paris, March 6–June 29, 2009.
L'Égypte ancienne entre mémoire et sciences by Jan Assmann
Michael Tomasky, 'The Unencumbered Man'
Edmund White, Sensual in the South
Ardent Spirits: Leaving Home, Coming Back by Reynolds Price
Charles Simic, He Understood Evil
1941: Godina koja se vraća [1941: The Year That Keeps Returning] by Slavko Goldstein
Al Alvarez, Getting High on the Himalayas
Fallen Giants: A History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes by Maurice Isserman and Stewart Weaver, with maps and peak sketches by Dee Molenaar
Nicholas D. Kristof, What to Do About Darfur
Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror by Mahmood Mamdani
Darfur and the Crime of Genocide by John Hagan and Wenona Rymond-Richmond
The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur by Daoud Hari, as told to Dennis Michael Burke and Megan M. McKenna
Tears of the Desert: A Memoir of Survival in Darfur by Halima Bashir, with Damien Lewis
Michael Dirda, This Woman Is Dangerous
The Complete Ripley Novels: The Talented Mr. Ripley, Ripley Under Ground, Ripley's Game, The Boy Who Followed Ripley, Ripley Under Water by Patricia Highsmith
Arnold Relman, The Health Reform We Need & Are Not Getting
Healthcare, Guaranteed: A Simple, Secure Solution for America by Ezekiel J. Emanuel, with a foreword by Victor R. Fuchs
James Fenton, Jazzing Up Hazlitt
William Hazlitt: The First Modern Man by Duncan Wu
Hazlitt in Love: A Fatal Attachment by Jon Cook
New Writings of William Hazlitt edited by Duncan Wu
Anthony Lewis, Justice Holmes and the 'Splendid Prisoner'
Democracy's Prisoner: Eugene V. Debs, the Great War, and the Right to Dissent by Ernest Freeberg
Jonathan Mirsky, China's Dictators at Work: The Secret Story
Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Zhao Ziyang translated from the Chinese and edited by Bao Pu, Renee Chiang, and Adi Ignatius, with a foreword by Roderick MacFarquhar
Larry McMurtry, Indian Terror on Our New Frontier
War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the US–Mexican War by Brian DeLay
Shadows at Dawn: A Borderland Massacre and the Violence of History by Karl Jacoby
Malise Ruthven, Divided Iran on the Eve
Apocalyptic Islam and Iranian Shi'ism by Abbas Amanat
Sexual Politics in Modern Iran by Janet Afary
Guardians of the Revolution: Iran and the World in the Age of the Ayatollahs by Ray Takeyh
Richard Barber, Thomas McC. Chesney, Jonathan Freedland, 'Island of Shame': An Exchange on Diego Garcia
Daniel Howe, David S. Reynolds, Judging the Age of Jackson: An Exchange
Letters
Michael Nagler, William Easterly, 'Foreign Aid Goes Military!'
Harvey J. Kaye, Not an AntiFederalist
Edward T. Oakes, Joyce Carol Oates, The Faith of Flannery O'Connor
John Lloyd, On Whose Side Was Conor Cruise O'Brien?
David Kahn, The U-Boat Enigma
The Editors, Corrections
Contributors
Al Alvarez's most recent book is Risky Business, a selection of essays, many of which first appeared in The New York Review of Books.
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).
Michael Dirda is the author of two collections of essays, Readings and Bound to Please, the memoir An Open Book, and, most recently, Book by Book: Notes on Reading and Life. In 1993 he received the Pulitzer Prize for his reviews and essays in The Washington Post Book World. Before drifting into journalism, Dirda earned a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Cornell University, concentrating on medieval studies and European romanticism.
James Fenton iis the editor of The New Faber Book of Love Poems and D.H. Lawrence's Selected Poems. (July 2009)
Tony Judt directs the Remarque Institute at NYU and is the author of Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945. His latest book, Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century, was recently reissued in paperback. His new book, Ill Fares the Land, will be published this month. (March 2010)
Nicholas D. Kristof is a columnist for The New York Times and the coauthor, with his wife, Sheryl WuDunn, of Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, forthcoming in September.
Anthony Lewis, a former columnist for The New York Times, has twice won the Pulitzer Prize. His book Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment was published last year.
Larry McMurtry is the author of twenty-four novels, including The Last Picture Show, Terms of Endearment, Lonesome Dove, winner of the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and, most recently, Folly and Glory. His nonfiction works include a biography of Crazy Horse, Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen, Paradise, and Sacagawea's Nickname: Essays on the American West (published by New York Review Books). He lives in Archer City, Texas.
Jonathan Mirsky is a historian and journalist specializing in Chinese affairs. In 1989 he covered Tiananmen for The Observer. For his dispatches from Tiananmen he was named Britain's International Reporter of the Year in 1990. (March 2010)
Geoffrey O'Brien is Editor in Chief of the Library of America. He is the author of Sonata for Jukebox: An Autobiography of My Ears and Red Sky Café. His book The Fall of the House of Walworth will be published in 2010.
(January 2010)
Arnold Relman is Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and former Editor in Chief of The New England Journal of Medicine. His latest book is A Second Opinion: Rescuing America's Health Care.
(July 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.
Malise Ruthven is the author of Islam: A Very Short Introduction, Islam in the World: The Divine Supermarket (a study of Christian fundamentalism), A Fury for God: The Islamist Attack on America, and A Satanic Affair: Salman Rushdie and the Wrath of Islam.
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.
Michael Tomasky is editor of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas and American editor-at-large for The Guardian.
(April 2010)
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.
