Table of Contents
Volume 56, Number 18 · November 19, 2009
Russell Baker, Ted 
True Compass: A Memoir by Edward M. Kennedy
Derek Walcott, Two poems by Derek Walcott (poem)
Jonathan Raban, American Pastoral
Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits by Linda Gordon
Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field by Anne Whiston Spirn
Joost R. Hiltermann, Iraq on the Edge
Martin Filler, The Mighty Penn
Michael Kimmelman, At the Bad New Ballparks
The Last Days of Shea: Delight and Despair in the Life of a Mets Fan by Dana Brand
István Deák, Heroes from Hungary
Double Exile: Migrations of Jewish-Hungarian Professionals Through Germany to the United States, 1919–1945 by Tibor Frank
Enemies of the People: My Family's Journey to America by Kati Marton
Andrew Delbanco, Dreams of Better Schools
The Making of Americans: Democracy and Our Schools by E.D. Hirsch Jr.
Why School? Reclaiming Education for All of Us by Mike Rose
Peter Brooks, Napoleon's Eye
Dominique-Vivant Denon: L'oeil de Napoléon an exhibition at the Louvre, Paris, October 20, 1999–January 17, 2000
No Tomorrow by Vivant Denon, translated from the French by Lydia Davis, and with an introduction by Peter Brooks
Inventing the Louvre: Art, Politics, and the Origins of the Modern Museum in Eighteenth-Century Paris by Andrew McClellan
Sue Halpern, Breaking a Conspiracy of Silence
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism by Muhammad Yunus, with Karl Weber
Pico Iyer, Secret Love in the Lost City
The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk, translated from the Turkish by Maureen Freely
David Cole, Can Our Shameful Prisons Be Reformed?
Race, Incarceration, and American Values by Glenn C. Loury, with Pamela S. Karlan, Tommie Shelby, and Loïc Wacquant
Let's Get Free: A Hip-Hop Theory of Justice by Paul Butler
Releasing Prisoners, Redeeming Communities: Reentry, Race, and Politics by Anthony C. Thompson
Bernard Bailyn, How England Became Modern: A Revolutionary View
1688: The First Modern Revolution by Steve Pincus
Richard Bernstein, The Empire of Sister Ping
The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream by Patrick Radden Keefe
David Shulman, A Passion for Hindu Myths
The Hindus: An Alternative History by Wendy Doniger
David Lodge, The Subtle Touch
Love and Summer by William Trevor
Tim Flannery, A Great Jump to Disaster?
The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning by James Lovelock
James Lovelock: In Search of Gaia by John Gribbin and Mary Gribbin
The Medea Hypothesis: Is Life on Earth Ultimately Self-Destructive? by Peter Ward
Peter Matthiessen, The Tragedy of Leonard Peltier vs. the US
Dan Chiasson, The Invented World of Wallace Stevens
Selected Poems by Wallace Stevens, edited by John N. Serio
Richard Ekstract, David Mearns, Richard Polsky, et al. 'What Is an Andy Warhol?': An Exchange
Letters
Burt Neuborne, How Lawyers 'Lose Their Souls'
Ha-Joon Chang, James Rossant, et al. 'The Anarchy of Success'
Jeremy Bernstein, Steven Weinberg, Give Credit to Kepler and Brahe!
The Editors, Corrections
Contributors
Bernard Bailyn is Adams University Professor Emeritus at Harvard. His most recent books include Atlantic History: Concept and Contours and To Begin the World Anew.
(November 2009)
Russell Baker is a former columnist and correspondent for The New York Times and The Baltimore Sun. His books include The Good Times, Growing Up, and Looking Back.
Richard Bernstein is a former Time correspondent in China and a correspondent in France and Germany for The New York Times. His most recent book is The East, the West, and Sex: A History of Erotic Encounters. (November 2009)
Peter Brooks is the author of Henry James Goes to Paris, Realist Vision, Troubling Confessions, Reading for the Plot, The Melodramatic Imagination, and a number of other books, including the historical novel World Elsewhere. He taught for many years at Yale, where he was Sterling Professor of Comparative Literature, and currently is Andrew W. Mellon Scholar at Princeton.
Dan Chiasson's next book of poetry, Where’s the Moon, There’s the Moon, will be published in February. He teaches at Wellesley. (November 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).
István Deák is Seth Low Professor Emeritus at Columbia and the author most recently of Essays on Hitler’s Europe. (November 2009)
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)
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.
Tim Flannery is a Professor at Macquarie University in Sydney and Chair of the Copenhagen Climate Council. His latest book is Now or Never: Why We Must Act Now to End Climate Change and Create a Sustainable Future. (November 2009)
Sue Halpern is a scholar in residence at Middlebury. Her most recent book is Can’t Remember What I Forgot: The Good News from the Front Lines of Memory Research. (November 2009)
Joost R. Hiltermann is the Middle East and North Africa Deputy Program Director at the International Crisis Group and the author of A Poisonous Affair: America, Iraq, and the Gassing of Halabja. (November 2009)
Pico Iyer’s The Open Road, about the fourteenth Dalai Lama and globalism, was published in paperback in March. (November 2009)
Michael Kimmelman is chief art critic of The New York Times. He is based in Berlin, writing the Abroad column for the Times on culture and society across Europe. (November 2009)
David Lodge is a novelist and critic and Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Birmingham, England. His novels include Changing Places, Small World, Nice Work, and Author, Author. His most recent works of criticism are Consciousness and
the Novel and The Year of Henry James.
Peter Matthiessen won the 2008 National Book Award for his novel Shadow Country. His recent books include End of the Earth: Voyage to Antarctica and The Birds of Heaven: Travels with Cranes. (November 2009)
Jonathan Raban's books include Surveillance, My Holy War, Arabia, Old Glory, Hunting Mister Heartbreak, Bad Land, Passage to Juneau, and Waxwings. He is the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Heinemann Award of the Royal Society of Literature, the PEN/West Creative Nonfiction Award, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers' Award, and the Governor's Award of the State of Washington. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, The Guardian, and The Independent. He lives in Seattle.
David Shulman is the Renee Lang Professor of Humanistic Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His most recent book is Spring, Heat, Rains: A South Indian Diary.
(November 2009)
Derek Walcott won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1992. His latest collection of poems, White Egrets, will be published next year. (November 2009)
