Table of Contents
Volume 49, Number 5 · March 28, 2002
Freeman Dyson, Science & Religion: No Ends in Sight
The God of Hope and the End of the World by John Polkinghorne
Frederick C. Crews, Zen & the Art of Success 
Shoes Outside the Door: Desire, Devotion, and Excess at San Francisco Zen Center by Michael Downing
James Fenton, The Vapour Trail (poem)
Garry Wills, Jesuits in Disarray
Passionate Uncertainty: Inside the American Jesuits by Peter McDonough and Eugene C. Bianchi
Owen Chadwick, Bad for the Jews
The Popes Against the Jews: The Vatican's Role in the Rise of Modern Anti-Semitism by David I. Kertzer
W.S. Merwin, Transit (poem)
Michael Tomasky, The World Trade Center: Before, During, & After
Divided We Stand: A Biography of New York's World Trade Center by Eric Darton
Twin Towers: The Life of New York City's World Trade Center by Angus Kress Gillespie
John Russell, In Goreyland
Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey interviews selected and edited by Karen Wilkin
The Object-Lesson by Edward Gorey
Michael Frayn, 'Copenhagen' Revisited
Thomas Powers, What Bohr Remembered
Derek Walcott, The Great Exile
Guilty of Dancing the Chachachá by Guillermo Cabrera Infante,translated from the Spanish by the author
James Chace, War Without Risk?
War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals by David Halberstam
Daniel Mendelsohn, When Not in Greece
Iphigeneia at Aulis by Euripides, directed by Shepard Sobel
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles, directed and designed by Tadashi Suzuki
Jack Flam, The Road to Minimalism
The Sculptural Imagination: Figurative, Modernist, Minimalist by Alex Potts
Joyce Carol Oates, 'All the King's Men'—A Case of Misreading?
All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren, restored edition edited by Noel Polk
Letters
Ruth Hubbard, Mark Wagner, et al. 'The Future of Science'
Michael Hofmann, Translating Joseph Roth
Peter J. Conradi, Iris the Seeker
Contributors
James Chace is the Paul W. Williams Professor of Government and Public Law at Bard College. He is the author of Acheson and, most recently, 1912: The Election That Changed the Country. He is now working on a biography of Lafayette. (October 2004)
Owen Chadwick is the former Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge and the author of The Reformation, The Victorian Church, The Secularization of the European Mind in the Nineteenth Century, and The Popes and European Revolution. (March 2002)
Frederick Crews's most recent book is Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays. (December 2007)
Freeman Dyson has spent most of his life as a professor of physics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, taking time off to advise the US government and write books for the general public. He was born in England and worked as a civilian scientist for the Royal Air Force during World War II. He came to Cornell University as a graduate student in 1947 and worked with Hans Bethe and Richard Feynman, producing a user-friendly way to calculate the behavior of atoms and radiation. He also worked on nuclear reactors, solid-state physics, ferromagnetism, astrophysics, and biology, looking for problems where elegant mathematics could be usefully applied.
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.
James Fenton iis the editor of The New Faber Book of Love Poems and D.H. Lawrence's Selected Poems. (July 2009)
Jack Flam is Distinguished Professor of Art History at Brooklyn College and at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His new book, Matisse and Picasso: The Story of Their Rivalry and Friendship, has just been published. (March 2003)
Michael Frayn is a playwright and novelist. His new novel, Spies, will be published in April. (March 2002)
Daniel Mendelsohn, a frequent contributor to The New York Review, is the Charles Ranlett Flint Professor of Humanities at Bard. His translations, with commentary, of the Collected Poems and Unfinished Poems of Constantine Cavafy were published earlier this year; a collection of his essays mostly from these pages, How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken, was just published in paperback.
(October 2009)
W.S. Merwin was born in New York City in 1927 and grew up in Union City, New Jersey, and in Scranton, Pennsylvania. From 1949 to 1951 he worked as a tutor in France, Portugal, and Majorca. He has since lived in many parts of the world, most recently on Maui in the Hawaiian Islands. He is the author of many books of poems, prose, and translations and has received both the Pulitzer and the Bollingen Prizes for poetry, among numerous other awards.
Joyce Carol Oates, the Roger S. Berlind Professor of Humanities at Princeton, is the author most recently of the novel Little Bird of Heaven and the story collection Dear Husband. (December 2009)
Thomas Powers is the author of The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA (1979), Heisenberg's War: The Secret History of the German Bomb (1993), Intelligence Wars: American Secret History from Hitler to al-Qaeda (2002; revised and expanded edition, 2004), and The Confirmation (2000), a novel. He won a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1971 and has contributed to The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, Harper's, The Nation, The Atlantic, and Rolling Stone.
John Russell was formerly Chief Art Critic of The New York Times, to which he continues to be a contributor. He is at work on a short history of the museum since 1800. (March 2003)
Michael Tomasky is editor of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas and American editor-at-large for The Guardian.
(December 2009)
Derek Walcott won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1992. His latest collection of poems, White Egrets, will be published next year. (November 2009)
Garry Wills is Professor of History Emeritus at Northwestern. His most recent book, What Jesus Meant, was published in 2006.
