Table of Contents

Volume 55, Number 11 · June 26, 2008

Ian Buruma, Ghosts

Standard Operating Procedure a film directed by Errol Morris

Standard Operating Procedure by Philip Gourevitch and Errol Morris

Anne Carson, Necks (poem)

John Updike, 'The Clarity of Things'

Elizabeth Drew, The Jim Webb Story

A Time to Fight: Reclaiming a Fair and Just America by Jim Webb

Jasper Griffin, Virgil Lives!

The Virgilian Tradition: The First Fifteen Hundred Years edited by Jan M. Ziolkowski and Michael C.J. Putnam

Joshua Hammer, The Reign of Thuggery

Edmund White, In Love with Duras

Wartime Writings: 1943–1949 by Marguerite Duras, edited by Sophie Bogaert and Olivier Corpet, and translated from the French by Linda Coverdale

The War: A Memoir by Marguerite Duras,translated from the French by Barbara Bray

The North China Lover by Marguerite Duras, translated from the French by Leigh Hafrey

William Dalrymple, India: The Place of Sex

Chola: Sacred Bronzes of Southern India catalog of the 2007 exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, edited by Vidya Dehejia

The Book of Love: The Story of the Kamasutra by James McConnachie

Kamasutra: A New, Complete English Translation of the Sanskrit Text by Wendy Doniger and Sudhir Kakar

Kiss of the Yogini: "Tantric Sex" in Its South Asian Contexts by David Gordon White

Pico Iyer, Holy Restlessness

The Religious Case Against Belief by James P. Carse

Brian Urquhart, The UN and the Race Against Death

A Billion Lives: An Eyewitness Report from the Frontlines of Humanity by Jan Egeland

David Gilmour, Garibaldi's Gift

Garibaldi: Citizen of the World by Alfonso Scirocco, translated from the Italian by Allan Cameron

Edmund S. Morgan, Jefferson & Betrayal

Friends of Liberty: Thomas Jefferson, Tadeusz Kosciuszko, and Agrippa Hull: A Tale of Three Patriots, Two Revolutions, and a Tragic Betrayal of Freedom in the New Nation by Gary B. Nash and Graham Russell Gao Hodges

Freedom's Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers by Richard S. Newman

Christopher Benfey, Melville's Second Act

Melville: The Making of the Poet by Hershel Parker

Exiled Royalties: Melville and the Life We Imagine by Robert Milder

Francine Prose, Casting a Lifeline

Beijing Coma by Ma Jian, translated from the Chinese by Flora Drew

John Brewer, England: The Big Change

A Mad, Bad, and Dangerous People? England 1783–1846 by Boyd Hilton

Richard J. Evans, How Willing Were They?

Life and Death in the Third Reich by Peter Fritzsche

Ghettostadt: Lodz and the Making of a Nazi City by Gordon J. Horwitz

Israel Rosenfield, Edward Ziff, How the Mind Works: Revelations

The Physiology of Truth: Neuroscience and Human Knowledge by Jean-Pierre Changeux, translated from the French by M.B. DeBevoise

Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors: From Molecular Biology to Cognition by Jean-Pierre Changeux and Stuart J. Edelstein

Conversations on Mind, Matter, and Mathematics by Jean-Pierre Changeux and Alain Connes, translated from the French by M.B. DeBevoise

What Makes Us Think? A Neuroscientist and a Philosopher Argue about Ethics, Human Nature, and the Brain by Jean-Pierre Changeux and Paul Ricoeur, translated from the French by M.B. DeBevoise

Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind by V.S. Ramachandran and Sandra Blakeslee, with a foreword by Oliver Sacks

Mirrors in the Brain: How Our Minds Share Actions and and Emotions by Giacomo Rizzolatti and Corrado Sinigaglia, translated from the Italian by Frances Anderson

A Universe of Consciousness: How Matter Becomes Imagination by Gerald M. Edelman and Giulio Tononi

Barbara Epler, Helen Vendler, 'The Poets Light...': An Exchange

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Letters

Gayle Greene, 'Malignant Maneuvers'

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Contributors

Christopher Benfey is Mellon Professor of English at Mount Holyoke. His book A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade was published in April. (June 2008)

John Brewerteaches in the Humanities and Social Sciences Division at the California Institute of Technology. His most recent book is A Sentimental Murder: Love and Madness in the Eighteenth Century. (June 2008)

Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard. He received this year’s Shorenstein Award for writing about Asia. His novel The China Lover will be published this fall. (June 2008)

Anne Carson is professor of classics and comparative literature at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She has been honored with the Lannan Award for Poetry and the Pushcart Prize for Poetry. In 2000, she received the MacArthur Genius fellowship. She was twice a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

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

Elizabeth Drew, who lives in Washington, is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books. She is the author of twelve books.

Richard J. Evans is Professor of Modern History at Cambridge. He is the author, most recently, of The Third Reich in Power, 1933–1939. (June 2008)

David Gilmour is the author of The Last Leopard: A Life of Giuseppe di Lampedusa, which was published in a revised and enlarged edition last year. He has written biographies of Rudyard Kipling and Lord Curzon. (June 2008)

Jasper Griffin is Emeritus Professor of Classical Literature and a Fellow of Balliol College. His books include Homer on Life and Death. (June 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)

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)

Edmund S. Morgan is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. His most recent book, The Genuine Article: A Historian Looks at Early America, was published in 2004. (October 2008)

Francine Prose is the author of three collections of stories and ten novels. Her most recent novel, The Blue Angel, was nominated for the National Book Award.

Israel Rosenfield's most recent book is Freud's Megalomania. (June 2008)

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.

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 Odyssey. (June 2008)

Edmund White has written biographies of Jean Genet, Marcel Proust, and Arthur Rimbaud. He has also written several novels, travel books, and a memoir. He teaches writing at Princeton and lives in New York City.

Edward Ziff is Professor of Biochemistry at the NYU School of Medicine. A new edition of his and Israel Rosenfield's book DNA for Beginners will be published next year. (June 2008)

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