Contents


The Triumph of Fay Weldon

Kehua! by Fay Weldon

Praxis by Fay Weldon

Down Among the Women by Fay Weldon

Auto da Fay: A Memoir by Fay Weldon

Splitting by Fay Weldon

The Bulgari Connection by Fay Weldon

She May Not Leave by Fay Weldon

Long Live the King by Fay Weldon

The New Countess by Fay Weldon

Under the Volcano

Life and Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum catalog by Paul Roberts of a recent exhibition at the British Museum

Herculaneum: Art of a Buried City by Maria Paola Guidobaldi and Domenico Esposito, with photographs by Luciano Pedicini, translated from the Italian by Ceil Friedman

Pakistan: The Mess We Can’t Ignore

No Exit from Pakistan: America’s Tortured Relationship with Islamabad by Daniel S. Markey

The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth by Mark Mazzetti

Magnificent Delusions: Pakistan, the United States, and an Epic History of Misunderstanding by Husain Haqqani

The China-Pakistan Axis: Asia’s New Geopolitics by Andrew Small

Karachi: Ordered Disorder and the Struggle for the City by Laurent Gayer

The Prisoner by Omar Shahid Hamid

How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid

Queens of the Night

Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights by Marina Warner

One Thousand and One Nights a retelling by Hanan al-Shaykh, with a foreword by Mary Gaitskill

Will Scotland Go Independent?

Scotland’s Future: Your Guide to an Independent Scotland by the Scottish Government

The Road to Independence?: Scotland in the Balance by Murray Pittock, with a foreword by Alex Salmond

Contributors

Marcia Angell is a member of the faculty of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and former Editor-in-Chief of The New England Journal of Medicine.   (December 2015)

Dan Chiasson’s fourth collection of poetry is Bicentennial.  (September 2015)

Drew Gilpin Faust is the President and the Lincoln Professor of History at Harvard. She is the author, most recently, of This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War. Her essay in this issue is drawn from a speech she delivered in November at Duke to commemorate the one ­hundredth birthday of the late historian John Hope Franklin.  (December 2015)

Jonathan Freedland is Executive Editor for Opinion at The Guardian, where he also writes a weekly column. In 2014 he was awarded the Orwell Special Prize for journalism.  (May 2015)

John Gray is Emeritus Professor of European Thought at the London School of Economics. Among his recent books are Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals, False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism, Heresies: Against Progress and Other Illusions, The Immortalization Commission: Science and the Strange Quest to Cheat Death, and The Silence of Animals: On Progress and Other Modern Myths. His latest book is The Soul of the Marionette: A Short Inquiry into Human Freedom. 

Verlyn Klinkenborg’s books include Several Short Sentences About Writing and More Scenes from the Rural Life.  (May 2015)

Anatol Lieven is a Professor in the War Studies Department of King’s College London and a Senior Fellow of the New America Foundation in Washington, D.C. He is the author of Ukraine and Russia: A Fraternal Rivalry.

Alison Lurie is Frederic J. Whiton Professor of American Literature Emerita at Cornell. She is the author of two collections of essays on children’s literature, Don’t Tell the Grownups and Boys and Girls Forever, and the editor of The Oxford Book of Fairy Tales. Her most recent book is The Language of Houses.

Roderick Macfarquhar is Leroy B. Williams Research Professor of History and Political Science at Harvard. His latest publication as editor and contributor is The Politics of China: Sixty Years of the People’s Republic of China.  (August 2015)

Edward Mendelson is the Lionel Trilling Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University and the literary executor of the Estate of W. H. Auden. His books include The Things That Matter—about seven novels by Mary Shelley, Charlotte and Emily Brontë, George Eliot, and Virginia Woolf—and Early Auden and Later Auden. He has edited novels by Arnold Bennett, Thomas Hardy, George Meredith, Anthony Trollope, and H. G. Wells, and has written for The New York Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, the London Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, The New Republic, and many other publications. His Moral Agents: Eight Twentieth-Century American Writers was published by New York Review Books in March 2015. 

Angela Merkel is Chancellor of Germany. (March 2014)

Geoffrey O’Brien is Editor in Chief of the Library of America. His ­seventh collection of poetry, In a Mist, was published in March 2015.

Ingrid D. Rowland teaches in Rome for the University of Notre Dame’s Rome Global Gateway. 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. Her latest book is From Pompeii: The Afterlife of a Roman Town.

Leila Seth is former Chief Justice of Himachal Pradesh and the author of a memoir, On Balance. (March 2014)

Vikram Seth is a novelist and poet. His novels include  A Suitable Boy, and his next novel, to be published in 2016, will be a sequel, A Suitable Girl. (March 2014)

Timothy Snyder is the Housum Professor of History at Yale.  His essay in the September 24, 2015 issue is drawn from his new book, Black Earth: The ­Holocaust as History and Warning, published in September 2015 by Tim Duggan Books, an imprint of Random House.

Patricia Storace is the author of Heredity, a book of poems, Dinner with Persephone, a travel memoir about Greece, and Sugar Cane, a children’s book. Her new novel, A Book of Heaven, was published in February 2014. She lives in New York.

Jeremy Waldron is University Professor at the NYU School of Law. His latest book is Dignity, Rank, and Rights. (October 2015)

Michael Walzer is Professor Emeritus in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study and coeditor emeritus of Dissent. His new book is The Paradox of Liberation: Secular Revolutions and Religious Counterrevolutions.  (March 2015)
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