Freeman Dyson, The Race is Over
Robert Conquest, Terrorists
The Unknown Lenin: From the Secret Archives edited by Richard Pipes
Stalin's Letters to Molotov: 1925-1936 edited by Lars T. Lih, edited by Oleg V. Naumov, edited by Oleg V. Khlevniuk
James Fenton, Who Was Thomas Jones?
In The Light of Italy: Corot and Early Open-Air Painting 26-September 2, 1996; the Brooklyn Museum of Art, October 11, 1996-January 12, 1997; and the St. Louis Art Museum, February 21-May 18, 1997 exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., May
Corot in Italy: Open-Air Painting and the Classical Landscape Tradition by Peter Galassi
Before Photography: Painting and the Invention of Photography catalog of the exhibition, by Peter Galassi
In the Light of Italy: Corot and Early Open-Air Painting catalog of the exhibition, by Philip Conisbee, by Sarah Faunce, by Jeremy Strick, with guest curator Peter Galassi
Jared Diamond, Outcasts of the Islands
The Island of the Colorblind by Oliver Sacks
Jeff Madrick, The Cost of Living: A New Myth
Toward a More Accurate Measure of the Cost of Living Commission to Study the Consumer Price Index Final Report to the Senate Finance Committee from the Advisory
Bias in the Consumer Price Index: What is the Evidence? by Brent R. Moulton. Journal of Economic Perspectives
Getting Prices Right: A Methodologically Consistent Consumer Price Index, 1953-94 by Dean Baker
American Standards of Living, 1918-1988 by Clair Brown
Rosemary Dinnage, The Blasted Oak Tree
Augustus John: The New Biography by Michael Holroyd
Portraits of Women: Gwen John & Her Forgotten Contemporaries by Alison Thomas
Themes and Variations: The Drawings of Augustus John 1901-1931 with essays by Michael Holroyd, by Mark Evans, by Rebecca John
Garry Wills, American Adam
Kenneth Maxwell, Pirate Democracy
Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates by David Cordingly
Michael Wood, Hollywood: Money That Dreams Can't Buy
Monster: Living Off the Big Screen by John Gregory Dunne
J.M. Coetzee, Their Man On Earth
The Discovery of Heaven by Harry Mulisch, translated by Paul Vincent
John R. Searle, Consciousness & the Philosophers
The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory by David J. Chalmers
Wayne C. Booth, Richard C. Lewontin, Science & 'The Demon-Haunted World': An Exchange
Joseph L. Ruby, Janet Malcolm, Bellocq's Women
Charles Larmore, Isaac Levi, et al. Jonathan Lieberson Prize
Morris B. Abram, Nicholas Lemann, White Liberals, Black Problems
Peter Hart, Christopher Hitchens, Taking Off?
Dyson's books include Disturbing the Universe (1979), Weapons and Hope (1984), Infinite in All Directions (1988), Origins of Life (1986, second edition 1999), and The Sun, the Genome and the Internet (1999). He is a fellow of the American Physical Society, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and a fellow of the Royal Society of London. In 2000 he was awarded the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion.