December 17, 2001 Issue, THE NEW REPUBLIC

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- Correspondence, pp. 4-5
  Does free verse make good poetry?, etc.
- TRB: Duty Free
  Peter Beinart
  , p. 6
  Thank goodness for the black helicopter crowd
- The Last Time, Again
  The Editors
  , p. 7
  What Israel has learned
- Notebook, pp. 8-9
  Why doesn't our ambassador to France speak French?, etc.
- On the Hill: Mean Time
  Michael Crowley
  , pp. 10-12
  Bill Thomas blows it
- Jerusalem Dispatch: Normalcy
  Yossi Klein Halevi
  , p. 13
  Reality hits back
- Invested Interest
  Jonathan Chait
  , pp. 14-15
  The SEC's chief foe takes over the SEC
- Kabul Dispatch: Prep School
  Elizabeth Rubin
  , pp. 16-17
  How Afghans learn to fight
- Force of Habit
  Gregg Easterbrook
  , pp. 18-21
  Our bloated, outdated military wins again
- Right Turn
  Andrew Sullivan
  , pp. 22-27
  The conservative movement still hasn't adjusted to our new era
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  On Films: Down to Earth (Review)
  Stanley Kauffmann
  , pp. 28-29
  In the Bedroom (2001 Film), by Todd Field
  1. In the Bedroom (2001 Film) by Todd Field
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  On Art: Bookings (26 Reviews)
  Jed Perl
  , pp. 30-35
  What is an art book? A luxury object, a primary tex, and much else desides. A survey of...
  1. Ansel Adams at 100 by John Szarkowski and Ansel Adams
  2. Atget by John Szarkowski
  3. Proust in the Power of Photography by Brassai
  4. Still Life by Irving Penn
  5. Richard Avedon: Made in France by Richard Avedon
  6. Viennese Types by Emil Mayer and Edward Rosser
  7. Crosstown by Helen Levitt
  8. Migrations: Humanity in Transition by Sebastiao Salgado
  9. New York September 11 by Magnum Photographers
  10. Gandhara: The Memory of Afghanistan
  11. Belles Lettres by Roselyne de Ayala and Jean-Pierre Gueno
  12. The Tale of Genji by Miyeko Murase and Mitsuoki Tosa
  13. The Sketchbooks of Hiroshige by Ando Hiroshige
  14. A Degas Sketchbook by Carol Armstrong, David Hockney, and Degas
  15. Apollinaire on Art by Guillaume Apollinaire and LeRoy C. Breunig
  16. Between Street and Mirror by James Ensor and Catherine de Zegher
  17. Darger by Brooke Davis Anderson, Michel Thevoz, and Henry Darger, ...
  18. The Vermont Notebook by John Ashbery and Joe Brainard
  19. Novel by John Ashbery
  20. Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Prints and Drawings by Nadine M. Orenstein and Pieter Bruegel
  21. Hieronymus Bosch: The Complete Paintings and Drawings by Jos Koldeweij, Paul Vandenbroeck, and Hieronymus Bosch, ...
  22. Matthias Grunewald by Horst Ziermann and Matthias Grunewald
  23. Secret Knowledge by David Hockney
  24. Cezanne by Mary Tomkins Lewis and Cezanne
  25. Matisse Portraits by John Klein
  26. Seurat: Drawings and Paintings by Robert L. Herbert
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  The Accidental Jurist (Review)
  Richard A. Posner
  , pp. 36-37
  John Marshall and the Heroic Age of the Supreme Court, by R. Kent Newmyer
  1. John Marshall and the Heroic Age of the Supreme Court by R. Kent Newmyer
- Temptation
  Jill Bialosky
  , pp. 38-39
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  States of Emergency (Review)
  Sunil Khilnani
  , pp. 40-45
  Indira, by Katherine Frank
  1. Indira by Katherine Frank
- Cambridge Diarist: The Bomb's Diameters
  Martin Peretz
  , pp. 46-48
- On the Cover: Illustration
  Milton Glaser