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Contents

November 4, 2004 • Volume 51, Number 17

  • Ian Buruma,
    Michael Ignatieff,
    Edmund S. Morgan, et al.

    The Election and America’s Future

  • Charles Simic

    The Wealth Poverty Buys e-edition

    The Letters of Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov edited by Robert J. Bertholf and Albert Gelpi

  • Richard Dorment

    The Artistic Bloke e-edition

    William Nicholson by Sanford Schwartz

  • Robert Cottrell

    An Icelandic Saga e-edition

    Reagan and Gorbachev: How the Cold War Ended by Jack F. Matlock Jr.

  • Lorrie Moore

    Unanswered Prayer e-edition

    Checkpoint by Nicholson Baker

  • William Dalrymple

    The Truth About Muslims e-edition

    The Cross and the Crescent: Christianity and Islam from Muhammad to the Reformation by Richard Fletcher

    From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting the Middle East by Bernard Lewis

    In the Lands of the Christians: Arab Travel Writing in the Seventeenth Century edited and translated by Nabil Matar

    Turks, Moors, and Englishmen in the Age of Discovery by Nabil Matar

    Islam in Britain, 1558–1685 by Nabil Matar

  • Benjamin Moser

    Start Spreading the News e-edition

    Holland Mania: The Unknown Dutch Period in American Art and Culture by Annette Stott

    The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America by Russell Shorto

  • Tony Judt

    Dreams of Empire e-edition

    America’s Inadvertent Empire by William E. Odom and Robert Dujarric

    The Imperial Tense: Prospects and Problems of American Empire edited by Andrew J. Bacevich

    Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America’s Perilous Path in the Middle East by Rashid Khalidi

    The Right Nation: Conservative Power in America by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge

    Empire by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri

    Multitude by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri

    The New Imperialism by David Harvey

    Fear: The History of a Political Idea by Corey Robin

    A New World Order by Anne-Marie Slaughter

  • Hermione Lee

    Passionate Pilgrim e-edition

    The Cruise of the Vanadis by Edith Wharton, with photographs by Jonas Dovydenas

  • Lewis Lockwood

    Which Is the Real Mendelssohn? e-edition

    Mendelssohn: A Life in Music by R. Larry Todd

    A Portrait of Mendelssohn by Clive Brown

  • J.H. Elliott

    The Reigns in Spain e-edition

    Rivers of Gold: The Rise of the Spanish Empire, from Columbus to Magellan by Hugh Thomas

    Romans in a New World: Classical Models in Sixteenth-Century Spanish America by David A. Lupher

    Juan de Ovando: Governing the Spanish Empirein the Reign of Philip II by Stafford Poole

    Apogee of Empire: Spain and New Spain in the Age of Charles III, 1759–1789 by Stanley J. Stein and Barbara H. Stein

    Spain in the Age of Exploration, 1492–1819 Catalog of the exhibition edited by Chiyo Ishikawa

  • Michael Wood

    Taking Reality by Surprise e-edition

    The Dreamers a film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci

    The Dreamers by Gilbert Adair

    Afterglow: A Last Conversation with Pauline Kael by Frances Davis

    Godard: Portrait of the Artist at Seventy by Colin MacCabe

  • Mark Lilla

    The Closing of the Straussian Mind e-edition

    The Modern Prince: What Leaders Need to Know Now by Carnes Lord

    Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire by Anne Norton

  • Joseph Lelyveld

    The View from the Heartland

LETTERS

Contributors

Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard and a Cullman Fellow at the New York Public Library. His latest book is Taming the Gods: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents.


Michael Ignatieff is the Carr Professor and Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. His latest book is Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry. (April 2003)

Edmund S. Morgan is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. His most recent book is The Genuine Article: A Historian Looks at Early America. (June 2011)

Brian Urquhart is a former Undersecretary-General of the United Nations. His books include Hammarskjöld, A Life in Peace and War, and Ralph Bunche: An American Life. (April 2011)

Garry Wills is Professor of History Emeritus at Northwestern. The article in the Review‘s November 24, 2011 issue is drawn from his new book, Verdi’s Shakespeare: Men of the Theater (Viking).

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.”

Thomas Powers is the author of The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA (1979), Heisenberg’s War: The Secret History of the German Bomb (1993), Intelligence Wars: American Secret History from Hitler to al-Qaeda (2002; revised and expanded edition, 2004), and The Confirmation (2000), a novel. He won a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1971 and has contributed to The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, Harper’s, The Nation, The Atlantic, and Rolling Stone.

K. Anthony Appiah teaches philosophy at Princeton and is President of the PEN American Center. His most recent book is The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen.
 (December 2011)

Anthony Lewis, a former columnist for The New York Times, has twice won the Pulitzer Prize. His latest book is Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment.

Steven Weinberg holds the Josey Regental Chair in Science at the University of Texas at Austin. He has been awarded the Nobel Prize in physics and the National Medal of Science. His latest book for general readers is Lake Views: This World and the Universe.

Alan Ryan, the author of biographies of John Stuart Mill, John Dewey, and Bertrand Russell, is editor of the Norton Critical Edition of Mill: The Spirit of the Age, On Liberty, The Subjection of Women. He teaches at Princeton. (December 2011)

Mark Danner is the author, most recently, of Stripping Bare the Body: Politics Violence War. He is Chancellor’s Professor of English, Journalism and Politics at the University of California at Berkeley and James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs, Politics and the Humanities at Bard College and is currently teaching at Al Quds University in East Jerusalem. Parts of his essay in the Review‘s October 13, 2011 issue were drawn from his Tanner Lectures on Human Value at Stanford University, which will be published next year as Torture and the Forever War. His work can be found at markdanner.com.

Norman Mailer (1923-2007) was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. In 1955 he co-founded The Village Voice. He is the author of more than thirty books, including The Naked and the Dead; The Armies of the Night, for which he won a National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize; The Executioner’s Song, for which he won his second Pulitzer Prize; Harlot’s Ghost; Oswald’s Tale; The Gospel According to the Son; and The Castle in the Forest.

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.

Charles Simic is a poet, essayist, and translator. He has published some twenty collections of poetry, six books of essays, a memoir, and numerous translations. He is the recipient of many awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Griffin Prize, and a MacArthur Fellowship. Simic’s most recent works are Voice at 3 a.m., a selection of later and new poems; Master of Disguises, new poems; and Confessions of a Poet Laureate, a collection of short essays that was published by New York Review Books as an e-book original. In 2007 Simic was appointed the fifteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress.

Richard Dorment is the art critic of the Daily Telegraph. Among the exhibitions he has organized is “James McNeill Whistler,” seen at the Tate Gallery, London, the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
(February 2012)

Robert Cottrell has served as a Moscow bureau chief for both The Economist and the Financial Times. (June 2007)

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 most recent book is A Gate at the Stairs.
 (December 2011)

William Dalrymple is the author of The White Mughals, which won the Wolfson Prize for History, and The Last Mughal, which won the Duff Cooper Prize. His new book, Nine Lives, will be published in the fall. (February 2009)

Benjamin is the New Books columnist for Harper’s and the author of Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector. He lives in the Netherlands. (June 2010)

Tony Judt (1948–2010) was the founder and director of the Remarque Institute at NYU and the author of Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945, Ill Fares the Land, and The Burden of Responsibility: Blum, Camus, Aron, and the French Twentieth Century, among other books.

Hermione Lee is the author of a biography of Virginia Woolf and of Virginia Woolf’s Nose: Essays on Biography, which has recently appeared in paperback. Her new biography, Edith Wharton, has just been published. (May 2007)

Lewis Lockwood is Fanny Peabody Research Professor of Music at Harvard. He is the author of Beethoven: The Music and the Life and, most recently, co-editor with Mark Kroll of The Beethoven Violin Sonatas: History, Criticism, Performance. (November 2004)

Michael Wood teaches at Princeton and is the author, most recently, of Yeats and Violence. -

Joseph Lelyveld is a former correspondent and editor of The New York Times. His latest book, Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India, was published in April.
 (December 2011)

Frederick Crews is a fellow of the Institute for Science in Medicine. His most recent book is Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays. (October 2011)

J. H. Elliott is Regius Professor Emeritus of Modern History at Oxford. His most recent volume of essays, Spain, Europe and the Wider World, 1500–1800, was published in 2009. (August 2011)

Mark Lilla is Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University. 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.

Tim Parks, a novelist, essayist, and translator, is Associate Professor of Literature and Translation at IULM University in Milan. His latest book is Teach Us to Sit Still: A Skeptic’s Search for Health and Healing. A new novel, The Server, will be published in 2012.

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.

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.
 (January 2011)