Table of Contents
Volume 51, Number 3 · February 26, 2004
Paul Krugman, The Wars of the Texas Succession
American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush by Kevin Phillips
The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill by Ron Suskind
Joan Acocella, No Bloody Toe Shoes 
The Company a film by Robert Altman, story by Neve Campbell and Barbara Turner, screenplay by Barbara Turner
Richard Horton, The Fool of Pest
The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignác Semmelweis by Sherwin B. Nuland
John Banville, The Rescue of W.B. Yeats
W.B. Yeats: A Life II: The Arch-Poet 1915–1939 by R.F. Foster
Henry Siegman, Israel: The Threat from Within
Joyce Carol Oates, Can This Marriage Be Saved?
The Amateur Marriage by Anne Tyler
Roger Shattuck, A World of Words
Niall Ferguson, Engines of Destruction
Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea by Robert K. Massie
H. Allen Orr, A Passion for Evolution
A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love by Richard Dawkins
Christopher de Bellaigue, Big Deal in Iran
Anthony Grafton, In No Man's Land
Judaism and Enlightenment by Adam Sutcliffe
The Languages of Paradise: Aryans and Semites, a Match made in Heaven by Maurice Olender, translated from the French by Arthur Goldhammer
J.H. Elliott, A Pan-American Flight
The Americas: A Hemispheric History by Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Gabriele Annan, Tales of Two Cities
Bliss by Ronit Matalon,translated from the Hebrew by Jessica Cohen
Someone to Run With by David Grossman,translated from the Hebrew by Vered Almog and Maya Gurantz
Michael Massing, Now They Tell Us
Letters
Patricia Bosworth, Portrait of Diane Arbus
Shimshon Arad, Amos Elon, A Likud 'Liberal'?
Eric E. Lampard, Gordon A. Craig, 'Talking All the Way'
Contributors
Joan Acocella is a staff writer for The New Yorker. She is the author of Mark Morris, Creating Hysteria: Women and Multiple Personality Disorder, and Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism. She also edited the recent, unexpurgated Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky.
Gabriele Annan is a book and film critic living in London. (March 2006)
John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He is the author of many novels, including The Book of Evidence, The Untouchable, and Eclipse. Banville's novel The Sea was awarded the 2005 Man Booker Prize. On occasion he writes under the pen name Benjamin Black.
J. H. Elliott is Regius Professor Emeritus of Modern History at the University of Oxford. His books include The Count-Duke of Olivares and Spain and Its World. Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1492– 1830 has just been published. (June 2006)
Niall Ferguson is Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford. His most recent book is The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West. (November 2006)
Anthony Grafton teaches the history of Renaissance Europe at Princeton University. His books include Joseph Scaliger, Cardano's Cosmos, and Bring Out Your Dead.
Richard Horton is a physician. He edits The Lancet, a weekly medical journal based in London and New York. He is also a visiting professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Paul Krugman is a columnist for The New York Times and Professor of Economics and International Affairs at Princeton. (February 2007)
Michael Massing, a contributing editor of the Columbia Journalism Review, writes frequently on the press and foreign affairs.
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. (May 2008)
H. Allen Orr is the Shirley Cox Kearns Professor of Biology at the University of Rochester. He is the author, with Jerry A. Coyne, of Speciation. (March 2008)
Roger Shattuck is the author of Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography. He has most recently edited new editions of two books by Helen Keller. He is University Professor Emeritus at Boston University. (May 2005)
Henry Siegman is a Senior Fellow on the Middle East at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is a former executive head of the American Jewish Congress and the Synagogue Council of America, and has served as general secretary of the American Association for Middle East Studies. (April 2006)
Christopher de Bellaigue was born in London in 1971 and has worked as a journalist in the Middle East and South Asia since 1994. His first book, In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs: A Memoir of Iran, was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize. He lives in Tehran with his wife and two children.
