Table of Contents
Volume 51, Number 4 · March 11, 2004
Thomas Powers, Tomorrow the World
An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror by David Frum and Richard Perle
Richard Horton, The Dawn of McScience 
Science in the Private Interest: Has the Lure of Profits Corrupted Biomedical Research? by Sheldon Krimsky
Ian Buruma, Avishai Margalit, Seeds of Revolution
James M. McPherson, The Moses of Her People
Harriet Tubman: The Life and the Life Stories by Jean M. Humez
Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero by Kate Clifford Larson
Harriet Jacobs: A Life by Jean Fagan Yellin
Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom by Catherine Clinton
James Chace, The Winning Hand
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom by Conrad Black
Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship by Jon Meacham
Charles Simic, Difference in Similarity
Departure by Rosanna Warren
The Strange Hours Travelers Keep by August Kleinzahler
The Singing by C.K. Williams
Tim Flannery, Flaming Creatures
For Love of Insects by Thomas Eisner
Alan Hollinghurst, On 'The Ivory Tower'
Christian Caryl, Mysteries of the Caucasus
Stories I Stole by Wendell Steavenson
Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan through Peace and War by Thomas de Waal
Highlanders: A Journey to the Caucasus in Quest of Memory by Yo'av Karny
Caucasus: Mountain Men and Holy Wars by Nicholas Griffin
The Oath: A Surgeon Under Fire by Khassan Baiev, with Ruth and Nicholas Daniloff
Gordon S. Wood, The Hidden France
George Washington's False Teeth: An Unconventional Guide to the Eighteenth Century by Robert Darnton
John Banville, A Double Life
Judge Savage by Tim Parks
Frederick C. Crews, The Trauma Trap
Remembering Trauma by Richard J. McNally
Memory, Trauma Treatment, and the Law by Daniel Brown, Alan W. Scheflin, and D. Corydon Hammond
Elizabeth Drew, Primary Colors
Letters
Hugh Brogan, Edmund S. Morgan, 'Inventing a Nation'
Richard Murphy, Sherwin B. Nuland, 'A Beaut'
John Barker, Jared Diamond, Learning from New Guinea
The Editors, Correction
Contributors
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.
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)
Christian Caryl is the Tokyo Bureau Chief of Newsweek. He has reported from thirty-seven countries, including Russia, Afghanistan, North Korea, and Iraq. (August 2008)
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)
Frederick Crews's most recent book is Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays. (December 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.
Tim Flannery is a professor at Macquarie University in Sydney and chair of the Copenhagen Climate Council. His latest book is The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth. (May 2008)
Alan Hollinghurst was born in 1954 in Gloucestershire, England, and attended Magdalen College, Oxford. He is the author of the novels The Swimming-Pool Library, The Folding Star (shortlisted for the Booker Prize), The Spell, and the forthcoming The Line of Beauty, as well as of a translation of the play Bajazet by Racine. A former staff member at The Times Literary Supplement, Hollinghurst is a frequent contributor to that and other publications, including The Guardian. Hollinghurst's fourth novel, The Line of Beauty, won the Man Booker Prize in 2004. He lives in London.
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.
Avishai Margalit is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is currently the George Kennan Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He has just been awarded the 2007 Emet Prize by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for his work in political thought, ethics, and philosophy. (December 2007)
James M. McPherson is George Henry Davis ’86 Professor of American History Emeritus at Princeton. His most recent book is This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War, a collection of essays. (April 2008)
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.
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.
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)
