Table of Contents, October 23, 2008 - The New York Review of Books

Louise Bourgeois an exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, June 27–September 28, 2008; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, October 26, 2008– January 25, 2009; and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., February 26–May 17, 2009.

Destruction of the Father/Reconstruction of the Father: Writings and Interviews, 1923–1997 by Louise Bourgeois, edited by Marie-Laure Bernadac and Hans-Ulrich Obrist

Louise Bourgeois: Aller-Retour edited by Gerald Matt and Peter Weiermair

James Oakes, They Soared Above the Din

Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates That Defined America by Allen C. Guelzo

The Lincoln-Douglas Debates edited by Rodney O. Davis and Douglas L. Wilson

Joyce Carol Oates, In Rough Country

Fine Just the Way It Is: Wyoming Stories 3 by Annie Proulx

Close Range: Wyoming Stories by Annie Proulx

Bad Dirt: Wyoming Stories 2 by Annie Proulx

Max Hastings, The Most Evil Emperor

Hitler’s Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe by Mark Mazower

Hitler, the Germans, and the Final Solution by Ian Kershaw

Anne Applebaum, Laughable and Tragic

The Red Prince: The Secret Lives of a Habsburg Archduke by Timothy Snyder

Joshua Hammer, The International Crooks Now in Power

McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld by Misha Glenny

Merchant of Death: Money, Guns, Planes, and the Man Who Makes War Possible by Douglas Farah and Stephen Braun

Geoffrey O'Brien, Our Nights Chez Rohmer

The Romance of Astrea and Celadon a film by Eric Rohmer

Alan Ryan, What Happened to the American Empire?

On Empire: America, War, and Global Supremacy by Eric Hobsbawm

Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance—and Why They Fall by Amy Chua

The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order by Parag Khanna

The Post-American World by Fareed Zakaria

The Return of History and the End of Dreams by Robert Kagan

Adam Kirsch, The Torch of Karl Kraus

The Anti-Journalist: Karl Kraus and Jewish Self-Fashioning in Fin-de-Siècle Europe by Paul Reitter

Pankaj Mishra, From a Mansion Near Tora Bora

The Wasted Vigil by Nadeem Aslam

Mark Lilla, A New, Political Saint Paul?

What Paul Meant by Garry Wills

The Political Theology of Paul by Jacob Taubes, translated from the German by Dana Hollander

The Time That Remains: A Commentary on the Letter to the Romans by Giorgio Agamben, translated from the Italian by Patricia Dailey

Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism by Alain Badiou, translated from the French by Ray Brassier

Being and Event by Alain Badiou, translated from the French by Oliver Feltham

The Century by Alain Badiou, translated from the French with commentary and notes by Alberto Toscano

Polemics by Alain Badiou, translated from the French with an introduction by Steve Corcoran

Une querelle avec Alain Badiou, philosophe by Éric Marty

On Belief by Slavoj Zizek

Peter W. Galbraith, Is This a 'Victory'?

William Dalrymple, The Egyptian Connection

The Lindisfarne Gospels: Society, Spirituality and the Scribe by Michelle P. Brown

Ritual and the Rood: Liturgical Images and the Old English Poems of the Dream of the Rood Tradition by Éamonn Ó Carragáin

Word and Image: An Introduction to Early Medieval Art by William J. Diebold

Daniel Fried, George Friedman, Georgia, the US, and the Balance of Power: An Exchange

Letters

Charles Ellwood Jones, Hugh Eakin, 'The Devastation of Iraq'
Mark Harman, Kafka's Unreliable Friend
Jean Vallier, Edmund White, 'In Love with Duras'
Nicholas McGegan, G.W. Bowersock, The Other Theodora
Kay Redfield Jamison, Ph.D., Not a Psychiatrist
The Editors, Correction

Contributors

Anne Applebaum is a columnist for The Washington Post. Her book Gulag: A History won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction. She lives in Poland. (October 2008)

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 2008)

John Cassidy, a staff writer at The New Yorker and a contributing editor at Conde Nast Portfolio, is the author of Dot.con: How America Lost Its Mind and Money in the Internet Era. (October 2008)

William Dalrymple is the author of From the Holy Mountain, The White Mughals, and The Last Mughal. (October 2008)

Freeman Dyson has spent most of his life as a professor of physics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, taking time off to advise the US government and write books for the general public. He was born in England and worked as a civilian scientist for the Royal Air Force during World War II. He came to Cornell University as a graduate student in 1947 and worked with Hans Bethe and Richard Feynman, producing a user-friendly way to calculate the behavior of atoms and radiation. He also worked on nuclear reactors, solid-state physics, ferromagnetism, astrophysics, and biology, looking for problems where elegant mathematics could be usefully applied.

Dyson's books include Disturbing the Universe (1979), Weapons and Hope (1984), Infinite in All Directions (1988), Origins of Life (1986, second edition 1999), and The Sun, the Genome and the Internet (1999). He is a fellow of the American Physical Society, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and a fellow of the Royal Society of London. In 2000 he was awarded the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion.

Peter W. Galbraith, a former US Ambassador to Croatia, is Senior Diplomatic Fellow at the Center for Arms Control and a principal at the Windham Resources Group, which has worked in Iraq. His new book, Unintended Consequences: How War in Iraq Strengthened America’s Enemies, has just been released. (October 2008)

Joshua Hammer is the former Africa Bureau Chief for Newsweek. His latest book is Yokohama Burning: The Deadly 1923 Earthquake and the Fire That Helped Forge the Path to World War II. The Nation Institute Investigative Fund provided assistance for his article in this issue. (August 2008)

Max Hastings is a columnist for The Guardian. He has been an editor of The Daily Telegraph and The Evening Standard. His book Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944–45 was published in March. (April 2008)

Pico Iyer’s The Open Road , about the fourteenth Dalai Lama and globalism, was published this spring. His essay in this issue will appear, in somewhat different form, as the introduction to a new Penguin Classics edition of The Snow Leopard . (September 2008)

Diane Johnson’s new novel, Lulu in Marrakech, will be published this month. (October 2008)

Adam Kirsch is the author of a new biography, Benjamin Disraeli. (October 2008)

Mark Lilla is Professor at the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He is the author of G.B. Vico: The Making of an Anti-Modern (1993) and the editor of New French Thought: Political Philosophy (1991). His latest book is The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics, and the Modern West.

Pankaj Mishra was born in North India in 1969 and now lives in London and India. He is the author of The Romantics, winner of the Los Angeles Times's Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, and An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and The Guardian. His most recent book is Temptations of the West: How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet, and Beyond.

John F. Murray is the author of Intensive Care: A Doctor’s Journal. (October 2008)

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. (October 2008)

James Oakes's most recent book is The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics. (October 2008)

Joyce Carol Oates, the Roger S. Berlind Professor of Humanities at Princeton, is the author most recently of the novel My Sister, My Love: The Intimate Story of Skyler Rampike. (October 2008)

Alan Ryan is Warden of New College, Oxford, and the author of biographies of John Stuart Mill, Bertrand Russell, and John Dewey. (October 2008)

Sanford Schwartz's essays and reviews have been collected in The Art Presence and Artists and Writers. (October 2008)

Colm Tóibín is the author of five novels, including The Story of the Night, The Blackwater Lightship, and The Heather Blazing. The Master, a novel based on the life of Henry James, was published in 2004 and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Among his nonfiction works are Bad Blood: A Walk Along the Irish Border, Homage to Barcelona, The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe, and, most recently, Love in a Dark Time. In 2004, his first play, Beauty in a Broken Place, was produced in Dublin. His most recent novel, The Master, which is based on the life of Henry James, won the Los Angeles Times Novel of the Year Award in 2005 and the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger in France. He lives in Dublin.

John Updike was born in 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania. In 1954 he began to publish in The New Yorker, where he continues to contribute short stories, poems, and criticism. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, among other awards. His most recent books are the novel Terrorist and Due Considerations, a collection of his essays and criticism.