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 The New Republic

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1. A New Augustine Peter Brown reviews Garry Wills' biography of St. Augustine

2. God and the Critic Jennifer Schuessler on James Wood's The Book Against God

3. Goodbye to All That David Lodge on Terry Eagleton's After Theory

4. Parables and Prizes James Wood on JM Coetzee's Disgrace

5. Making it New James Wood reviews Monica Ali's Brick Lane

6. Tagore and His India Amartya Sen presents the doyen of Bengali letters

7. Feminism and Literature Helen Vendler surveys feminism and feminist studies

8. The Idea of Gardening Gordimer on Coetzee's The Life and Times of Michael K

9. Naipaul's Book of the World H Mantel on Naipaul's The Writer and the World

10. The Decline and Fall of Literature Andrew Delbanco on English departments

11. Love and Death in South Africa Gabriele Annan on Coetzee and Gordimer

12. Playboy of the Roman World Bernard Knox on Ovid and why he is in favor again

13. A World Gone Up in Smoke Charles Simic on the poetry of Czeslaw Milosz

14. Freedom in Madness Brad Tabas on Coetzee's postmodern fictional techniques

15. Man in the Middle Aileen Kelly on Alexander Herzen's novel, Who is to Blame? 

16. The Two Dostoevskys Aileen Kelly on Frank's biography of the Russian master

17. A Life Elsewhere J Banville on Coetzee's Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life

18. Endgame John Banville on Coetzee's Booker prize winner, Disgrace

19. Like a Dog Elizabeth Lowry reviews Coetzee's Disgrace in the LRB

20. Not for Muggles Why are so many of the children's books British or American?

21. Night Thoughts Mark Lilla reviews the works of Michel Houellebecq

22. The Last Laugh Ian Buruma on Nirad Chaudhuri's Thy Hand, Great Anarch!

23. On Szymborska Czeslaw Milosz pays tribute to the poetry of his fellow Pole 

24. The Outsider J Weightman on Olivier Todd's biography of Albert Camus

25. Awakening JM Coetzee reviews two works of fiction by Nadine Gordimer

26. Bellow's Gift JM Coetzee on Saul Bellow's Novels, 1944-53

27. The Razor's Edge JM Coetzee reviews Naipaul's recent novel, Half a Life

28. Messaging and Fasting JM Coetzee reviews two works of fiction by Anita Desai

29. Sleeping Beauty JM Coetzee reviews Garcia Marquez

30. On Czeslaw Milosz (1911-2004) Zagajewski's essay on the Polish poet

31. Manager of Stories Michale Gilsenan examines Naipaul's travel writing

32. A Frog's Life  Has Coetzee finally met his match in critic James Wood?

SCIENCE & PHILOSOPHY

1. The Wake Leon Wieseltier on nature's indifference and the 2004 Tsunami

2. The World on a String FJ Dyson on Brian Greene's The Fabric of the Cosmos

3. Honesty and History Thomas Nagel on Bernard Williams's Truth and Truthfulness

4. Becoming Zarathustra Thomas Nagel on Safranski's biography of Nietzsche

5. Darwinian Storytelling H Allen Orr dissects Steven Pinkers' The Blank Slate

6. A Passion for Evolution H. Allen Orr on Richard Dawkins' A Devil's Chaplain

7. What's Not in Your Genes H Allen Orr on Matt Ridley's Nature via Nurture

8. At Home in This Century Tony Judt surveys the legacy of Hannah Arendt

9. On Human Dignity Isaiah Berlin's letter to George Kennan

10. Notes on Prejudice Isaiah Berlin in the New York Review of Books

11. On the Pursuit of the Ideal Isaiah Berlin in the New York Review of Books

12. On Political Judgment Isaiah Berlin on having good judgment in politics

13. The Last Days of Nietzsche John Banville reviews a biography of Nietzsche

14. The Case Against Science Timothy Ferris demolishes Brian Appleyard's thesis

15. Looking for a Black Swan McGinn refutes Popper & the Logical Positivists

16. What is Enlightenment? Michel Foucault's early essay on the Enlightenment

17. Ménage à Trois Mark Lilla on Heidegger, Arendt, and Jaspers (part 2)

18. The Lure of Syracuse Mark Lilla on tyrants and intellectuals in history

19. The Politics of Jacques Derrida A testy Lilla on Derrida's curious mysticism

20. Philosophy for a Messy World Lilla on Hampshire's Justice is Conflict (letter)

21. Vico for Now S Hampshire on Lilla's GB Vico: The Making of an Anti-Modern

22. What Confucius Said JD Spence on Simon Leys' The Analects of Confucius

23. Darwin's Trouble with the Finches Berry on Larson's Evolution Workshop

24. Before the Big Bang Weinberg reviews books on the origin of the universe

25. The Revolution That Didn't Happen Weinberg reevaluates Thomas Kuhn

26. Can Science Explain Everything? Anything? Weinberg on the reach of science

27. The Future of Science, and the Universe Weinberg on the big imponderables

28. The Case of Hannah Arendt Amos Alon on Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem

29. The Present of Past M Walzer on Avishai Margalit's Ethics of Memory

30. Wittgenstein's Philosophy DF Pears reviews the major works of the philosopher

31. Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) Judith Butler commemorates the philosopher

32. Plato's Grand Design Jasper Griffin reviews two works on the legacy of Plato

33. The Risk of Freedom Delbanco on Roger Shattuck's view of forbidden knowledge

34. Up from Hippocrates SB Nuland on Roy Porter's short history of medicine

35. Our Fellow Animals Ian Hacking on how modern humans relate to animals

36. Death in Jerusalem S Spender on Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem

37. The Mind on Sex GER Lloyd's review of Foucault's The History of Sexuality II

38. Kant on Wheels Peter Lipton reviews two books by/about Thomas Kuhn

39. Voltaire's Grin Richard Holmes on the giant of the Enlightenment

40. The Questions of Isaiah Berlin On a book of essays by the Oxford don

41. Free Spirit Robert Darnton on Isaiah Berlin's The Sense of Reality

42. Wise Man Alan Ryan reviews a book by, and a book about Isaih Berlin

43. Live and Let Live Alan Ryan on John Gray's Two Faces of Liberalism

44. The Moral Solipsism of Global Ethics Inc. Alex de Waal on Human Rights

45. Happiness Like Sandburg's fog, it creeps into our lives on little cat feet

46. When a Sage Dies, All are His Kin Leon Wieseltier on Isaiah Berlin (1909-97)

47. Straw Dogs by John Gray (book reviews: Terry Eagleton, Jason Cowley)

HISTORY & CULTURE

1. History Upside Down WH McNeill on J Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel (letter)

2. Decline of the West? WH McNeill on Huntington's The Clash of Civilizations

3. A Short History of Humanity WH McNeill presents a condensed, bird's eye view

4. How the West Won WH McNeill on D Landes' Wealth and Poverty of Nations

5. Some Girls Want Out Hillary Mantel reviews books on women & sainthood

6. Doing the Continental RJW Evans on Norman Davies' Europe: A History

7. The Way We Live Now Alfred Kazin on Robert Hughes Culture of Complaint

8. Israel: The Alternative Tony Judt questions the future of Israel and Palestine

9. The Last Romantic Tony Judt reviews Eric Hobsbawm's autobiography

10. A Partial Indictment A Margalit on Chomsky's Mid-East (Said, Chomsky letter)

11. Occidentalism Buruma and Margalit on the eastern counterpart of Orientalism

12. The Anti-American Ian Buruma on Arundhati Roy's political essays

13. India: The Perils of Democracy Ian Buruma reviews Khilnani's Idea of India

14. The One-State Solution Virginia Tilley on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

15. Nehru's Faith Sunil Khilnani on India's contribution to liberalism

16. States of Emergency Khilnani on Katherine Frank's biography of Indira Gandhi

17. The Visit Clifford Geertz reviews Cai Hua's work on the Na of China

18. Off the Menu Clifford Geertz on T Cohen's econometric measure of art and culture

19. Teen Angels Margaret Talbot on Carol Gilligan's The Birth of Pleasure

20. Be Rapture Ready! Sutherland on the best-selling 'Armageddon fiction' in the US

21. Effing the Ineffable G Newey on J Glover's moral history of the 20th century

22. The Greeks and Us Arnaldo Momigliano on Moses Finley's ancient Greeks

23. Anger Management Calamur on what keeps Indians Muslims away from militancy

24. Mission Impossible? Michael Ignatieff reviews David Rieff's A Bed for the Night

25. Human Rights: The Midlife Crisis Michael Ignatieff's broad survey of the topic

26. The Great Unwashed R Kagan on Fareed Zakaria's The Future of Freedom

27. Lucky City Mary Beard on John Murray's biography of Cicero

28. The Responsibility of Intellectuals Noam Chomsky in a special supplement, 1967

29. In Search of the Arab Soul S. Bakash on Hourani's A History of the Arab Peoples

30. Hanging Out With Greeks Garry Wills reviews two books by Bernard Knox

31. A Reader's Guide to the Century Garry Wills on histories of the 20th century

32. Politics by Other Means Benny Morris on Ilan Pappe's history of Palestine

33. What do Women Want? Diane Johnson on the discourses of womanhood

34. Dancing with the Moon KA Appiah on Grinker's biography of Colin Turnbull

35. Victory in Defeat Neal Asherson on Issac Deutscher's life of Trotsky

36. Africa: The Hard Truth Neal Ascherson on Howard French's history of Africa

37. Bringing Homer Home J Griffin on Robert Fagles' translation of The Odyssey

38. A Passion for the Past Grafton on Burckhardt's Greeks and Greek Civilization

39. An Unsentimental Education Amos Alon on the memoirs of Queen Noor

40. Apocalypse Two Johnson reviews the role of the West in Rwanda's genocide

41. The Trial of Henry Kissinger Johnson on the case by Christopher Hitchens

42. Democracy and its Global Roots Amartya Sen expands and updates his thesis

43. Anthropology As It Should Be Fox on Grinker's biography of Colin Turnbull

44. The Question of Orientalism Bernard Lewis comes out against it (Said's letter) 

45. Africa: The Hidden History K. Anthony Appiah on a new history of Africa

46. Your Money or Your Life CR Sunstein on knowing the price, not the value

47. In the Waiting-Room of History Amit Chaudhuri on Dipesh Chakrabarty

48. The Truth About Muslims William Dalrymple reviews a few history books

49. The Flood of Manu by John  Keay (Outlook1, Outlook2, India Today, Herald Tribune)

50. Debt to Society How the land of the free became the world's leading jailer 

51. Wendy's Child Syndrome  Rajiv Malhotra on 'scholars' of Hinduism in the US (more)

ECONOMICS & GEOPOLITICS

1. Mystries of Growth Robert M Solow on Jeff Marick's Why Economies Grow

2. Welfare: The Cheapest Country Robert M Solow on modern welfare capitalism

3. Should We Pay the Debt? Robert M Solow on the American national debt

4. Globalization: Stiglitz's Case B Friedman on Globalization and Its Discontents

5. A Fair Deal for the World Joseph Stiglitz on George Soros' On Globalization

6. Lexus & the Olive Tree B Friedman rips T Friedman's paean to Globalization

7. The World is Round John Gray rips T. Friedman's paean to Globalization

8. Missed Target Is outsourcing really so bad? Clay Risen opines

9. Busted George Soros on why the markets can't fix themselves

10. The Theater of Good and Evil Eduardo Galeano on September 11, 2001

11. Beyond Vietnam MLK Jr. speaks on the 'time to break the silence of the night'

12. How America Sees the World that it so badly wants to shape (opinions)

13. India's Dangerous Idea Mishra and Khilnani disagree about the state of India

BIBLIO: A Review of Books

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8. Mar-Apr 06

1. The Gambler James Wood on J Frank's biography of Dostoevsky

2. History of Laughter by James Wood on Alberti and Erasmus

3. The Trick of Truth James Wood on Ian McEwan's Atonement

4. Just Like Us DA Bell on Englund's Napolean: A Political Life

5. Both Sides Now Stephen Holmes on Wolin's Tocqueville

6. When She was Good M Nussbaum on Conradi's biography of Iris Murdoch

7. The Experiment R Franklin on C Angier's biography of Primo Levi

8. Victorian Selection Jenkyns on Browne's Darwin: The Power of Place

9. Both/And Erin Leib on Alastair Hannay's Kierkegaard: A Biography

1. You Must Remember This KA Appiah on Avishai Margalit's Ethics of Memory

2. The Hidden History KA Appiah on Reader's Africa: A Biography of the Continent