Forthcoming in the November 6, 2008 issue
Georgia: The Ignored History
By Robert English
Zviad Gamsakhurdia, Georgia's first post-Soviet president, from 1991 to 1992, has been dead for fifteen years. But in view of his responsibility for initially provoking the South Ossetian campaign to secede from Georgia—the conflict that set off last month's war with Russia—his brief but tumultuous reign merits some fresh scrutiny.
Who Killed Anna Politkovskaya?
By Amy Knight
On Letter to Anna: The Story of Journalist Politkovskaya's Death, a film directed by Eric Bergkraut.
Volume 55, Number 16 · October 23, 2008
He Foresaw the End of an Era
By John Cassidy
On The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What It Means by George Soros.
Is This a 'Victory'?
By Peter Galbraith
We hear again and again from Washington that we have turned a corner in Iraq and are on the path to victory. If so, it is a strange victory.
James Baldwin & Barack Obama
By Colm Tóibín
Had their ambitions been less focused and their personalities less complex, Baldwin and Obama could easily have become pastors, preachers, leaders of black churches. But for both of them there was a shadow, a sense of an elsewhere that would form them and make them, eventually, more interested in leading America itself, or as much of it as would follow, than merely leading their own race in America.
Daring and Disturbing
By Sanford Schwartz
Perhaps the most amazing of the many remarkable aspects of Louise Bourgeois is that if she had died in her middle seventies we would not have known how daring, strange, ambitious, or disturbing an artist she could be.
The Egyptian Connection
By William Dalrymple
On The Lindisfarne Gospels: Society, Spirituality and the Scribe by Michelle P. Brown and other books.
Struggle for the Islands
By Freeman Dyson
On Galápagos: The Islands That Changed the World by Paul D. Stewart and others.
In Rough Country
By Joyce Carol Oates
On Fine Just the Way It Is: Wyoming Stories 3 by Annie Proulx.
Plus: Julian Bell on The Craftsman by Richard Sennett, Max Hastings on Hitler, Anne Applebaum on The Red Prince by Timothy Snyder, Adam Kirsch on Karl Kraus, Pankaj Mishra on Nadeem Aslam's The Wasted Vigil, Mark Lilla on Saint Paul, a poem by John Updike and more.
Volume 55, Number 15 · October 9, 2008
- John & Sarah in St. Paul by Joseph Lelyveld
- Obama & the Conquest of Denver by Michael Chabon
- A New Bank to Save Our Infrastructure by Felix Rohatyn and Everett Ehrlich
- Jefferson's Concubine by Marie Morgan and Edmund S. Morgan
- The Nicest Boy in the World by Charles Simic
- Keeper of the Jewels by Robert Gottlieb
- Fabrication & Bucky Fuller by Martin Filler
- Plus: Daniel J. Kevles on The Murder of Nikolai Vavilov by Peter Pringle, Diane Johnson on J.G. Ballard, Jonathan Freeland on Tony Judt's Reappraisals, Colin Thubron on Marco Polo, poems by Henri Cole and John Ashbery, Frank Kermode on Julian Barnes' Nothing to Be Frightened Of, and more.
Volume 55, Number 14 · September 25, 2008
- Obama: The Price of Being Black by Andrew Hacker
- Georgia and the Balance of Power by George Friedman
- The Perilous Price of Oil by George Soros
- Official American Sadism by Anthony Lewis
- A Summer of Madness by Oliver Sacks
- The 'Mash of Myriad Sounds' by Michael Kimmelman
- The Woman in White by Joyce Carol Oates
- Plus: Andrew Butterfield on George Inness, Edward Mendelson on Frank O'Hara, Adam Michnik on Bronislaw Geremek, Alan Hollinghurst on Joseph O'Neill's Netherland, Jeff Madrick on the American worker, G. W. Bowersock on the Byzantine empire, poems by Mahmoud Darwish (1941–2008), and more.
Volume 55, Number 13 · August 14, 2008
- China: Humiliation & the Olympics by Orville Schell
- The Devastation of Iraq's Past by Hugh Eakin
- The Democrats & National Security by Samantha Power
- The Battle for a Country's Soul by Jane Mayer
- E.M. Forster, Middle Manager by Zadie Smith
- Bondage by Geoffrey Wheatcroft
- Scandal in Africa by Joshua Hammer
- Plus: John Updike on J.M.W. Turner, Ronald Dworkin on a great victory in the Supreme Court, Christian Caryl on North Korea, Cathleen Schine on Tim Winton's Breath, Orville Schell on China and the West, Benjamin Moser on the "Jewish" Rembrandt, Helen Epstein on the history of birth control, and more.
