Table of Contents

Volume 50, Number 7 · May 1, 2003

Ian Buruma, Revolution from Above

Terror and Liberalism by Paul Berman

Charles Simic, Archives of Horror

Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag

Joyce Carol Oates, Desire and Dread

Property by Valerie Martin

Jason Epstein, Leviathan

Elizabeth Drew, The Enforcer

Bush's Brain: How Karl Rove Made George W. Bush Presidential by James Moore and Wayne Slater

Boy Genius: Karl Rove, the Brains Behind the Remarkable Political Triumph of George W. Bush by Lou Dubose, Jan Reid,and Carl M. Cannon

Michael Tomasky, Battleground Zero

American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center by William Langewiesche

Cathleen Schine, A Nice Little Visit

A Box of Matches by Nicholson Baker

Tony Judt, Anti-Americans Abroad

L'Ennemi américain: Généalogie de l'antiaméricanisme français by Philippe Roger

11 septembre 2001: L'Effroyable Imposture (9/11: The Big Lie) by Thierry Meyssan

Pourquoi le monde déteste-t-il l'Amérique? (Why Do People Hate America?) by Ziauddin Sardar and Merryl Wyn Davies

Le Livre noir des États-Unis by Peter Scowen

Dangereuse Amérique: Chronique d'une guerre annoncée by Noël Mamère and Patrick Farbiaz

Après l'empire: Essai sur la décomposition du système américain by Emmanuel Todd

L'Obsession anti-américaine:Son fonctionnement, ses causes, ses inconséquences by Jean-François Revel

Sanford Schwartz, The Instinct Artist

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1880–1938 Catalog of the exhibition edited by Jill Lloyd and Magdalena M. Moeller

Robert Cottrell, L'Homme Nikita

Khrushchev: The Man and His Era by William Taubman

Conversations with Gorbachev: On Perestroika, the Prague Spring, and the Crossroads of Socialism by Mikhail Gorbachev and Zdenek Mlynár, translated from the Russian by George Shriver, with a foreword by Archie Brown

A Century of Violence in Soviet Russia by Alexander N. Yakovlev,translated from the Russian by Anthony Austin, with a foreword by Paul Hollander

Tim Parks, Mad at the Medicis

April Blood: Florence and the Plot Against the Medici by Lauro Martines

Richard C. Lewontin, Science and Simplicity

Making Sense of Life: Explaining Biological Development with Models, Metaphors, and Machines by Evelyn Fox Keller

Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA by Brenda Maddox

Watson and DNA: Making a Scientific Revolution by Victor K. McElheny

DNA: The Secret of Life by James D. Watson, with Andrew Berry

Jasper Griffin, That Old Black Magic

Cicero on the Emotions: Tusculan Disputations 3 and 4 translated from the Latin and with commentary by Margaret Graver

Greek and Roman Necromancy by Daniel Ogden

Tim Judah, Death in Baghdad

Steven Pinker, H. Allen Orr, 'The Blank Slate': An Exchange

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Letters

Adam Shatz, Omission of an Exception
The Editors, Correction
Carl E. Meacham, Query
Daniel Statman, Henry Siegman, 'A Frustratingly Impossible Task'

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Contributors

Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard. He received this year’s Shorenstein Award for writing about Asia. His novel The China Lover will be published this fall. (June 2008)

Robert Cottrell has served as a Moscow bureau chief for both The Economist and the Financial Times. (June 2007)

Elizabeth Drew, who lives in Washington, is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books. She is the author of twelve books.

Jason Epstein was for many years editorial director of Random House and has written on food for various publications. (March 2008)

Jasper Griffin is Emeritus Professor of Classical Literature and a Fellow of Balliol College. His books include Homer on Life and Death. (June 2008)

Tim Judah is the author of Kosovo: War and Revenge and The Serbs: History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia. He has reported on the Balkans, Afghanistan, Kurdistan, Iraq, and Sudan for The New York Review. (October 2006)

Tony Judt is University Professor at NYU. His new book, Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century, will be published in April. (May 2008)

Richard C. Lewontin is Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Professor of Biology at Harvard University. He is the author of The Genetic Basis of Evolutionary Change and Biology as Ideology, and the co-author of The Dialectical Biologist (with Richard Levins) and Not in Our Genes (with Steven Rose and Leon Kamin).

Joyce Carol Oates is the Roger S. Berlind Professor of Humanities at Princeton. Her collection of short novellas Wild Nights! Stories About the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway has just been published, and her novel My Sister, My Love: The Intimate Story of Skyler Rampike will be published this summer. (June 2008)

Tim Parks, a novelist, essayist, and translator, is Associate Professor of English Literature at IULM University in Milan. His novel Cleaver was published in February. (April 2008)

Cathleen Schine is the author of seven novels, including Rameau's Niece, The Love Letter, She is Me, and the forthcoming The New Yorkers. She is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books.

Sanford Schwartz's essays and reviews have been collected in The Art Presence and Artists and Writers. (July 2008)

Charles Simic is a poet, essayist and translator. He has published twenty collections of his own poetry, five books of essays, a memoir, and numerous of books of translations. He has received many literary awards for his poems and his translations, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Griffin Prize and the MacArthur Fellowship. Voice at 3 A.M., his selected later and new poems, was published in 2003 and a new book of poems My Noiseless Entourage came out in the spring of 2005.

Michael Tomasky is Editor of Guardian America, The Guardian’s American Web site. (June 2008)

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