Table of Contents

Volume 50, Number 19 · December 4, 2003

Diane Johnson, False Promises

Where I Was From by Joan Didion

Christopher Benfey, The Art of Disaster

Goya by Robert Hughes

Thomas Powers, The Vanishing Case for War

Darryl Pinckney, Hate

Love by Toni Morrison

Gordon S. Wood, Uncle Ben

Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson

Robert Cottrell, Putin's Trap

Violent Entrepreneurs: The Use of Force in the Making of Russian Capitalism by Vadim Volkov

Across the Moscow River: The World Turned Upside Down by Rodric Braithwaite

State and Evolution: Russia's Search for a Free Market by Yegor Gaidar, translated from the Russian by Jane Ann Miller

John Updike, Chasing After Providence

Daniel J. Kevles, The Strange Case of Robert Oppenheimer

Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller by Gregg Herken

Pandora's Keepers: Nine Men and the Atomic Bomb by Brian VanDeMark

Brad Leithauser, Young Old Soldiers

Poets of World War II edited by Harvey Shapiro

Alan Ryan, The Way to Reason

Rationality and Freedom by Amartya Sen

John Gross, The Scholar in the Bedroom

Dead from the Waist Down: Scholars and Scholarship in Literature and the Popular Imagination by A.D. Nuttall

Gordon A. Craig, The Goblin at War

Hitler Strikes Poland: Blitzkrieg, Ideology, and Atrocity by Alexander B. Rossino

Hitler's Arctic War: The German Campaigns in Norway, Finland,and the USSR, 1940–1945 by Chris Mann and Christer Jörgensen

Hitler and His Generals: Military Conferences, 1942–1945 edited by Helmut Heiber and David M. Glantz, with an introduction by Gerhard L. Weinberg; translated from the German by Roland Winter, Krista Smith, and Mary Beth Friedrich

William Dalrymple, Murder in Karachi

A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Husband, Danny Pearl by Mariane Pearl, with Sarah Crichton

Who Killed Daniel Pearl? by Bernard-Henri Lévy, translated from the French by James X. Mitchell

Omer Bartov, Amos Elon, Abraham H. Foxman, et al. An Alternative Future: An Exchange

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Letters

Richard Cohen, Unjustly Executed
Alfred M. Freedman, Abraham L. Halpern, et al. 'The Culture of Control'
Eric Alterman, Stanley Aronowitz, et al. Repression in Cuba

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Contributors

Christopher Benfey is Mellon Professor of English at Mount Holyoke and the author of The Great Wave: Gilded Age Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics, and the Opening of Old Japan. His new book, A Summer of Hummingbirds, will be published next spring. (December 2007)

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

Gordon A. Craig is J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Stanford. His latest book is Politics and Culture in Modern Germany. (December 2003)

William Dalrymple is the author of The White Mughals, which won the 2003 Wolfson Prize for History, and The Last Mughal, which won the 2007 Duff Cooper Memorial Prize. He lives in New Delhi. (May 2008)

John Gross’s most recent book is A Double Thread, a memoir. He is the editor of The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes, which will be published in paperback in September. (May 2008)

Diane Johnson is the author, most recently, of Into a Paris Quartier: Reine Margot’s Chapel and Other Haunts of St. Germain. Her latest novel is L’Affaire. (February 2008)

Daniel J. Kevles is Stanley Woodward Professor of History at Yale University. His most recent book is The Baltimore Case.

Brad Leithauser is a novelist, poet, and essayist. He lives in Massachusetts.

Darryl Pinckney is the author of a novel, High Cotton, and Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature.

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), 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.

Alan Ryan is Warden of New College, Oxford, and the author of intellectual biographies of John Stuart Mill, Bertrand Russell, and John Dewey. (November 2007)

John Updike was born in 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania. In 1954 he began to publish in The New Yorker, where he continues to contribute short stories, poems, and criticism. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, among other awards. His most recent books are the novel Terrorist and Due Considerations, a collection of his essays and criticism.

Gordon Wood is the Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History at Brown. A collection of his essays, The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History, was published in March. (May 2008)

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