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Contents

November 4, 2004 • Volume 51, Number 17

  • Ian Buruma,
    Michael Ignatieff,
    Edmund S. Morgan,
    Brian Urquhart, 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. His books include Murderer in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo Van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance, Taming the Gods: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents, and the novel The China Lover. His book Year Zero: A History of 1945 will be published in September 2013.

Michael Ignatieff, a former leader of Canada’s Liberal Party, is a fellow at Massey College and teaches human rights and international politics at the University of Toronto.
 (December 2012)

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. His article in this issue draws on his essay in Tyringham Topics.
 (February 2013)

Garry Wills is Professor of History Emeritus at Northwestern. His study of Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1993. His latest book, Why Priests? A Failed Tradition, was published in February 2013.

Ronald Dworkin (1931–2013) was Professor of Philosophy and Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law at NYU. His books include Is Democracy Possible Here?, Justice in Robes, Freedom’s Law, and Justice for Hedgehogs. He was the 2007 winner of the Ludvig Holberg International Memorial Prize for “his pioneering scholarly work” of “worldwide impact” and he was recently awarded the Balzan Prize for his “fundamental contributions to Jurisprudence.”


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. His latest book, The Killing of Crazy Horse, won the 2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History. He is currently writing a memoir of his father, who once told him that the last time he met Clare Boothe Luce was in the office of Allen Dulles.


Kwame Anthony Appiah teaches philosophy at Princeton. His latest book is The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen.

 (November 2012)

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 teaches at Princeton. His recent works include The Making of Modern Liberalism and On Politics: A History of Political Thought.

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. His book Torture and the Forever War will be published in the spring of 2013. His writing and other 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 recent works include 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. His New and Selected Poems: 1962–2012 was published in March 2013.

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. 
(June 2013)

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

Lorrie Moore is the Distinguished Writer in Residence for the 2013 spring semester at NYU.

 (February 2013)

William Dalrymple was the curator of “Princes and Painters in Mughal Delhi 1707–1857,” an exhibition for the Asia Society in New York in 2012. His new book, Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839–42, is published this month. (June 2013)

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 President of Wolfson College, Oxford, and the author of biographies of Willa Cather, Virginia Woolf, and Edith Wharton. Her biography of Penelope Fitzgerald will be published later this year. (July 2013)

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 is the Charles Barnwell Straut Class of 1923 Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton. His books include Literature and the Taste of Knowledge and Yeats and Violence

Joseph Lelyveld is a former correspondent and Editor of The New York Times. His latest book is Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India.

 (June 2013)

Frederick C. Crews is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays.

J. H. Elliott is Regius Professor Emeritus of Modern History at the University of Oxford. He is the author of History in the Making.

Mark Lilla is Professor of the Humanities at Columbia and author of The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics. His article in the April 25, 2013 issue will appear as the introduction to Against the Current by Isaiah Berlin, to be published in a new edition by Prince­ton University Press in May 2013.

Tim Parks, a novelist, essayist, and translator, is Associate Professor of Literature and Translation at IULM University in Milan. His books include Teach Us to Sit Still: A Skeptic’s Search for Health and Healing and The Server.

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 also published a translation of Vitruvius’ Ten Books of Architecture and a history of Villa Taverna, the US ambassador’s residence in Rome.

Michael Kimmelman is chief architecture critic of The New York Times, a 2012 Poynter Fellow in Journalism at Yale, and a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics.
 (April 2012)