Table of Contents
Volume 56, Number 14 · September 24, 2009
Tony Judt, Leszek Kołakowski (1927–2009) 
G.W. Bowersock, Men and Boys
The Greeks and Greek Love: A Bold New Exploration of the Ancient World by James Davidson
Images of Ancient Greek Pederasty: Boys Were Their Gods by Andrew Lear and Eva Cantarella
Garry Wills, Conservatives: The Tanenhaus Taxonomy
The Death of Conservatism by Sam Tanenhaus
Robin Robertson, Tinsel (poem)
Philippe Sands, The Complicit General
Eyes on the Horizon: Serving on the Front Lines of National Security by General Richard B. Myers, USAF (Ret.), with Malcolm McConnell
Sanford Schwartz, Mysteries of Ensor
James Ensor an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, June 28–September 21, 2009, and at the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, October 20, 2009–February 4, 2010
Between Street and Mirror: The Drawings of James Ensor edited by Catherine de Zegher
Michael Massing, A New Horizon for the News
Lorrie Moore, The Brazilian Sphinx
Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector by Benjamin Moser
Near to the Wild Heart translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero
Selected Crônicas translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero
Family Ties translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero
The Apple in the Dark translated from the Portuguese and with an introduction by Gregory Rabassa
The Passion According to G.H. translated from the Portuguese by Ronald W. Sousa
The Hour of the Star translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero
Closer to the Wild Heart: Essays on Clarice Lispector edited by Cláudia Pazos Alonso and Claire Williams
Reading with Clarice Lispector by Hélène Cixous, edited, translated from the French, and with an introduction by Verena Andermatt Conley
Ronald Dworkin, Justice Sotomayor: The Unjust Hearings
Harold Bloom, Pilgrim to Eros
Byron in Love: A Short Daring Life by Edna O'Brien
Howard W. French, Kagame's Hidden War in the Congo
Africa's World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe by Gérard Prunier
The Dynamics of Violence in Central Africa by René Lemarchand
The Congo Wars: Conflict, Myth and Reality by Thomas Turner
Oliver Sacks, The Lost Virtues of the Asylum
Martin Filler, Grading the New Acropolis
The New Acropolis Museum edited by Bernard Tschumi Architects, with contributions by Dimitrios Pandermalis, Yannis Aesopos, Bernard Tschumi, and Joel Rutten
Bernard Tschumi by Gilles de Bure, translated from the French by Gammon Sharply, English adaptation by Jasmine Benyamin and Lisa Palmer
Jean Tschumi: Architecture at Full Scale by Jacques Gubler, translated from the French by Jasmine Benyamin
Geoffrey O'Brien, The Glimmerglass 'Traviata'
La Traviata an opera by Giuseppe Verdi, directed by Jonathan Miller
Mark Strand, The Golden Frogs of Panama (poem)
James M. McPherson, Lincoln Off His Pedestal
A. Lincoln: A Biography by Ronald C. White Jr.
Abraham Lincoln: A Life by Michael Burlingame
Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer by Fred Kaplan
Mrs. Lincoln: A Life by Catherine Clinton
Avishai Margalit, Israel: The Writers' Writer
Midnight Convoy and Other Stories by S. Yizhar, translated from the Hebrew by Misha Louvish and others, with an introduction by Dan Miron
Preliminaries by S. Yizhar, translated from the Hebrew by Nicholas de Lange, with an introduction by Dan Miron
Khirbet Khizeh by S. Yizhar, translated from the Hebrew by Nicholas de Lange and Yaacob Dweck, with an afterword by David Shulman
Joel E. Cohen, Disaster Watch
Global Catastrophes and Trends: The Next Fifty Years by Vaclav Smil
Michael Wood, What Happened at Gordita Beach?
Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon
Roderick MacFarquhar, The Pride of Empire
The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781–1997 by Piers Brendon
Jonathan Mirsky, The True Story of Izzy
American Radical: The Life and Times of I.F. Stone by D.D. Guttenplan
Fiona MacCarthy, A Hero of the Gothic
God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain by Rosemary Hill
John R. Searle, Why Should You Believe It?
Fear of Knowledge: Against Relativism and Constructivism by Paul A. Boghossian
Letters
Juan Cole, Arien Mack, et al. Release Kian Tajbakhsh!
Shmuel Galai, Avishai Margalit, et al. Israel At War (Cont'd)
Bill Keller, Michael Massing, The Times & the Internet
Contributors
Harold Bloom's forthcoming books are Living Labyrinth: Literature and Influence and Till I End My Song: A Gathering of Last Poems. He teaches at Yale. (December 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)
Joel E. Cohen, Professor of Populations at Rockefeller and Columbia Universities, is the author most recently of Forecasting Product Liability Claims: Epidemiology and Modeling in the Manville Asbestos Case and editor of International Perspectives on the Goals of Universal Basic and Secondary Education.
(August 2009)
Ronald Dworkin is Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law and Philosophy at NYU and Jeremy Bentham Professor of Law and Philosophy at University College London. His books include Is Democracy Possible Here? (2006), Justice in Robes, Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality, and Freedom's Law. He is the 2007 winner of the Ludvig Holberg International Memorial Prize for "his pioneering scholarly work" of "worldwide impact."
Martin Filler was the longtime architecture critic of House & Garden until it ceased publication in 2007. He is the co-author, with Olivier Bossiere, of The Vitra Design Museum: Frank Gehry, Architect, and author of Makers of Modern Architecture, based on essays from the New York Review.
Howard W. French is an associate professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and an occasional columnist for The International Herald Tribune. He spent many years as a foreign correspondent for The New York Times, covering Africa, East Asia, and the Americas. He is completing a novel about Africa. His most recent book is A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa.
(September 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. (September 2009)
Fiona Maccarthy is the author of biographies of Eric Gill, William Morris, and Byron. Her most recent book is Last Curtsey: The End of the Debutantes. She is currently writing a biography of Edward Burne-Jones.
(September 2009)
Roderick Macfarquhar is Leroy B. Williams Professor of History and Political Science at Harvard. His most recent book, Mao’s Last Revolution, written with Michael Schoenhals, came out in paperback in 2008.
(September 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)
Michael Massing, a contributing editor of the Columbia Journalism Review, writes frequently on the press and foreign affairs.
James M. McPherson is George Henry Davis ’86 Professor of American History Emeritus at Princeton. His most recent book is Abraham Lincoln.
(September 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)
Lorrie Moore teaches at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. She has won the Rea Award and the PEN/Malamud Award for Short Fiction. Her new novel, A Gate at the Stairs, is published this month. (September 2009)
Geoffrey O'Brien is Editor in Chief of the Library of America. He is the author, most recently, of Sonata for Jukebox: An Autobiography of My Ears and Red Sky Café. (September 2009)
Robin Robertson's Swithering won the 2006 Forward Prize. His translation of Medea is published in paperback this month.
(September 2009)
Oliver Sacks is a physician and the author of ten books, including The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Awakenings, An Anthropologist on Mars, and, most recently, Musicophilia. He lives in New York City, where he is University Artist and Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at Columbia University.
Philippe Sands, QC, is Professor of Law at University College London. His most recent book is Torture Team.
(September 2009)
Sanford Schwartz is the author of Christen Købke and William Nicholson. (November 2009)
John R. Searle is Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. His most recent books are Mind: A Brief Introduction, Freedom and Neurobiology, and Philosophy in a New Century.
(September 2009)
Mark Strand teaches in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia. His most recent book is New Selected Poems.
(September 2009)
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)
