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March 15, 2007 • Volume 54, Number 4

  • Peter W. Galbraith

    The Surge e-edition

  • Robert Secher

    The Report of Captain Secher

  • Jeremy Waldron

    What Would Hannah Say? e-edition

    Reflections on Literature and Culture by Hannah Arendt, edited and with an introduction by Susannah Young-ah Gottlieb

    The Jewish Writings by Hannah Arendt, edited by Jerome Kohn and Ron H. Feldman

    Essays in Understanding, 1930–1954: Formation, Exile, and Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt, edited and with an introduction by Jerome Kohn

    The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt, with an introduction by Samantha Power

    Why Arendt Matters by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl

  • Mary Beard

    Et Tu, Cicero? e-edition

    Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome by Robert Harris

  • Michael Tomasky

    The Democrats e-edition

    The Way to Win: Taking the White House in 2008 by Mark Halperin and John F. Harris

    Positively American: Winning Back the Middle-Class Majority One Family at a Time by Senator Chuck Schumer, with Daniel Squadron

    The Plan: Big Ideas for America by Rahm Emanuel and Bruce Reed

    Take It Back: A Battle Plan for Democratic Victory by James Carville and Paul Begala

    The Moral Center: How We Can Reclaim Our Country from Die-Hard Extremists, Rogue Corporations, Hollywood Hacks, and Pretend Patriots by David Callahan

    Blue Grit: True Democrats Take Back Politics from the Politicians by Laura Flanders

    Whistling Past Dixie: How Democrats Can Win Without the South by Thomas F. Schaller

  • Alison Lurie

    When Is a Building Beautiful? e-edition

    The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton

    The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton

    The Consolations of Philosophy by Alain de Botton

    How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain de Botton

    The Romantic Movement: Sex, Shopping and the Novel by Alain de Botton

    Household Gods: The British and Their Possessions by Deborah Cohen

  • Meghan O’Rourke

    A Further Sea (poem)

  • Richard Horton

    Palestinians: The Crisis in Medical Care e-edition

  • John Lanchester

    The Heroine of Hill Top Farm e-edition

    Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature by Linda Lear

    Miss Potter a film directed by Chris Noonan

  • Jason Epstein

    Hurry Up Please It’s Time e-edition

    Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons by Joseph Cirincione

  • Joyce Carol Oates

    Brilliance, Silence, Courage e-edition

    Twenty-eight Artists and Two Saints: Essays by Joan Acocella

  • Amos Elon

    Thanks for the Memory e-edition

    Istanbul: Memories and the City by Orhan Pamuk, translated from the Turkish by Maureen Freely

  • David Luban

    The Defense of Torture e-edition

    War by Other Means: An Insider’s Account of the War on Terror by John Yoo

  • Ian Buruma

    Dressing for Success e-edition

    Glory in a Line: A Life of Foujita, the Artist Caught Between East and West by Phyllis Birnbaum

  • Bill McKibben

    Warning on Warming

    Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis: Summary for Policymakers

  • Michael Dirda

    The Way We Live Now e-edition

    Surveillance by Jonathan Raban

  • Sanford Schwartz

    The Master Builder e-edition

    Orson Welles: Volume 2, Hello Americans by Simon Callow

    What Ever Happened to Orson Welles?: A Portrait of an Independent Career by Joseph McBride

    Orson Welles: Volume 1, The Road to Xanadu by Simon Callow

    Citizen Welles: A Biography of Orson Welles by Frank Brady

    Rosebud: The Story of Orson Welles by David Thomson

    This Is Orson Welles by Orson Welles and Peter Bogdanovich, edited by Jonathan Rosenbaum, with a new introduction by Peter Bogdanovich

    The Magic World of Orson Welles by James Naremore

  • Jack Kaplan,
    Frank J. Sulloway

    How to Inherit IQ: An Exchange

LETTERS

Contributors

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 Americaå?s Enemies, has just been released. (October 2008)

Captain Robert Secher, of the US Marine Corps, volunteered for service in Iraq on January 6, 2006, and was killed on October 8, 2006, in Anbar Province. (March 2007)

Jeremy Waldron is University Professor at New York University School of Law and Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at All Souls College, Oxford. His most recent book is Torture, Terror, and Trade-Offs: Philosophy for the White House.
 (January 2012)

Mary Beard is Professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge. She delivered a version of the essay in this issue as the Robert B. Silvers Lecture at the New York Public Library this autumn.
 
(January 2012)

Michael Tomasky is Special Correspondent for Newsweek/The Daily Beast. He is also Editor of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas.
 (February 2012)

Alison Lurie is a former Professor of English at Cornell. Her most recent novel is Truth and Consequences.

Meghan O’Rourke is the culture editor of Slate and a poetry editor of The Paris Review. She is the recipient of the 2005 Union League and Civic Arts Foundation Prize for poetry, awarded by Poetry magazine.

Richard Horton is a physician. He edits The Lancet, a weekly medical journal based in London and New York. He is also a visiting professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

John Lanchester is the author of five books including, most recently, I.O.U.: Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay. In 2008 he received the E.M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
 (December 2011)

Jason Epstein launched the trade paperback format in the US in 1952 as a young editor at Doubleday. In 1963 he was a founder of The New York Review and in 1979 cofounder with the late Edmund Wilson of the Library of America. In 2007 he cofounded On Demand Books. Among his many awards are the National Book Award Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the Lifetime Achievement Award of the National Book Critics Circle, and the Curtis Benjamin Award given by the American Association of Publishers for enriching the world of books.
 (February 2011)

Joyce Carol Oates is Roger S. Berlind Professor of Humanities and the Arts at Princeton. Her most recent books are A Widow’s Story: A Memoir and the forthcoming The Corn Maiden: Novellas and Stories. (September 2011)

Amos Elon’s most recent book is The Pity of It All: German Jews Before Hitler. He is a Fellow at the Center for Law and Security at NYU. (February 2008)

David Luban is University Professor and Professor of Law at Georgetown. His latest book, Legal Ethics and Human Dignity, will be published later this year. (March 2007)

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.


Bill McKibben is scholar in residence at Middlebury College, and the author of The End of Nature, Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future and Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet. He is also the founder of 350.org, the global climate campaign that has been actively involved in the fight against natural gas fracking.

Michael Dirda, a weekly book columnist for The Washington Post, received the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for criticism. He is the author of the memoir An Open Book and of four collections of essays: Readings, Bound to Please, Book by Book, and Classics for Pleasure. His latest book, On Conan Doyle, is part of Princeton’s “Writers on Writers” series. Dirda graduated with Highest Honors in English from Oberlin College and earned a Ph.D. in comparative literature (medieval studies and European romanticism) from Cornell University. He is a contributor to The New York Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, the online Barnes & Noble Review, and several other periodicals, as well as a frequent lecturer and an occasional college teacher. (February 2012)

Sanford Schwartz is the author of Christen Købke and 
William Nicholson. (December 2011)

Frank J. Sulloway is Visiting Scholar in the Institute of Personality and Social Research at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author most recently of Born to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics, and Creative Lives. (November 2006)