Table of Contents
Volume 56, Number 15 · October 8, 2009
Garry Wills, Entangled Giant
Andrew O'Hagan, The Powers of Dr. Johnson
Samuel Johnson: A Biography by Peter Martin
Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings edited by Peter Martin
Samuel Johnson: The Struggle by Jeffrey Meyers
Samuel Johnson: A Life by David Nokes
Frederick Seidel, One Last Kick for Dick (poem)
David Cole, The Torture Memos: The Case Against the Lawyers
Christian Caryl, Pixar Genius 
WALL·E a film by Pixar Animation Studios
To Infinity and Beyond! The Story of Pixar Animation Studios by Karen Paik, based on research and interviews by Leslie Iwerks, with a foreword by John Lasseter, Steve Jobs, and Ed Catmull
The Art of Pixar Short Films by Amid Amidi, with a foreword by John Lasseter
The Pixar Touch: The Making of a Company by David A. Price
Malise Ruthven, Deception Over Lockerbie?
Julian Bell, Why Art?
Art Without Borders: A Philosophical Exploration of Art and Humanity by Ben-Ami Scharfstein
The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution by Denis Dutton
Joyce Carol Oates, The Witchcraft of Shirley Jackson
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson, with an introduction by Jonathan Lethem
Margaret Atwood, The Double Life & Its Dangers
The Confessions of Edward Day by Valerie Martin
William Easterly, The Anarchy of Success
The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives by Leonard Mlodinow
Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang
Joshua Hammer, The Price of Paradise
Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City by Greg Grandin
Madison Smartt Bell, Blood on the Border
Imperial by William T. Vollmann
Imperial photographs by William T. Vollmann
Christopher Benfey, Mary McCarthy's Room
A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx by Elaine Showalter
Jeremy Waldron, Right and Wrong: Psychologists vs. Philosophers
Experiments in Ethics by Kwame Anthony Appiah
Ahmed Rashid, The Afghanistan Impasse
To Live or to Perish Forever: Two Tumultuous Years in Pakistan by Nicholas Schmidle
Seeds of Terror: How Heroin Is Bankrolling the Taliban and al Qaeda by Gretchen Peters
Letters
Ionel Vasilescu, Theodore R. Marmor, et al. 'Health Reform: The Fateful Moment'
Menahem Yaari, Avishai Margalit, et al. Israel: The Code of Combat
The Editors, Clarification
Contributors
Margaret Atwood is the author of eleven novels, among them The Handmaid’s Tale, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin, and Oryx and Crake. Her new novel, The Year of the Flood, was published in September.
(October 2009)
Julian Bell is a painter and writer living in Lewes, England. He is the author of What Is Painting? and Mirror of the World: A New History of Art.
(October 2009)
Madison Smartt Bell is Professor of English and Director of the Kratz Center for Creative Writing at Goucher College. His new book, Devil’s Dream: A Novel About Nathan Bedford Forrest, is forthcoming in November. (October 2009)
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)
Christian Caryl is a Contributing Editor at Foreign Policy and Newsweek and a Senior Fellow of the Center for International Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (October 2009)
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).
William Easterly is Professor of Economics at New York University, Co-Director of NYU’s Development Research Institute, and Co-Editor of the Journal of Development Economics. His latest book is The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good. (October 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)
Andrew O'Hagan, who lives in London, is a recipient of the E.M. Forster Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His latest novel is Be Near Me.
(October 2009)
Joyce Carol Oates, the Roger S. Berlind Professor of Humanities at Princeton, is the author most recently of the novel Little Bird of Heaven and the story collection Dear Husband. (December 2009)
Ahmed Rashid, a Pakistani journalist and writer, is the author of Taliban and, most recently, Descent into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia. He writes for The Washington Post, El Mundo, BBC Online, and other newspapers. (October 2009)
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.
Frederick Seidel’s Poems, 1959–2009 was published this year. (October 2009)
Jeremy Waldron is the author of Law and Disagreement and The Dignity of Legislation. He is University Professor in the Law School at New York University. (October 2008)
Garry Wills is Professor of History Emeritus at Northwestern. His most recent book, What Jesus Meant, was published in 2006.
