Table of Contents
Volume 51, Number 5 · March 25, 2004
Freeman Dyson, One in a Million 
Debunked! ESP, Telekinesis, Other Pseudoscience by Georges Charpak and Henri Broch, translated from the French by Bart K. Holland
Jared Diamond, Twilight at Easter
The Enigmas of Easter Island by John Flenley and Paul Bahn
Among Stone Giants: The Life of Katherine Routledge and Her Remarkable Expedition to Easter Island by Jo Anne Van Tilburg
Pankaj Mishra, 'The First Citizen of India'
John Brewer, Breaking with the Past
Crowded with Genius: The Scottish Enlightenment, Edinburgh's Moment of the Mind by James Buchan
John Bayley, Sex & the City
Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century by Graham Robb
Queer Street: Rise and Fall of an American Culture, 1947–1985 by James McCourt
John Ashbery, Ignorance of the Law Is No Excuse (poem)
Vijay Joshi, Robert Skidelsky, One World?
One World: The Ethics of Globalization by Peter Singer
Free Trade Today by Jagdish Bhagwati
The Chastening: Inside the Crisis That Rocked the Global Financial System and Humbled the IMF by Paul Blustein
World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability by Amy Chua
Geoffrey O'Brien, Lear for Real
King Lear by William Shakespeare, directed by Jonathan Miller
Michael Chabon, Dust & Daemons
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
Lyra's Oxford by Philip Pullman
Jonathan D. Spence, Chiang's Monster
Spymaster: Dai Li andthe Chinese Secret Service by Frederic Wakeman Jr.
Gabriele Annan, Vile Bodies
Some Hope: A Trilogy by Edward St. Aubyn
George M. Fredrickson, America's Original Sin
Challenging the Boundaries of Slavery by David Brion Davis
Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves by Ira Berlin
The Slaveholding Republic: An Account of the United States Government's Relations to Slavery by Don E. Fehrenbacher, completed and edited by Ward M. McAfee
Emma Rothschild, Real, Pretended or Imaginary Dangers
Brian Urquhart, Hidden Truths
Disarming Iraq by Hans Blix
The Report of the Inquiry into the Circumstances Surrounding the Death of Dr. David Kelly, CMG by Lord Hutton
Robert G. Kaiser, Judith Miller, James Risen, et al. 'Now They Tell Us': An Exchange
Gregg Herken, Daniel J. Kevles, The Oppenheimer Case: An Exchange
Sherwin B. Nuland, Richard Horton, 'The Fool of Pest': An Exchange
Contributors
Gabriele Annan is a book and film critic living in London. (March 2006)
John Ashbery is the author of twenty books of poetry, including Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (1975), which received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the National Book Award; and Some Trees (1956), which was selected by W. H. Auden for the Yale Younger Poets Series. He has also published art criticism, plays, and a novel. Ashbery is currently the Charles P. Stevenson, Jr., Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard College.
John Bayley has written two books about his wife, the novelist Iris Murdoch, Elegy for Iris and Iris and Her Friends. (July 2004)
John Brewerteaches in the Humanities and Social Sciences Division at the California Institute of Technology. His most recent book is A Sentimental Murder: Love and Madness in the Eighteenth Century. (June 2008)
Michael Chabon is the author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier
and Clay and the children's book, Summerland. He lives in Berkeley, California.
Jared Diamond, a Professor of Physiology and Public Health at UCLA and winner of both a Pulitzer Prize and a National Medal of Science, is the author of, among other books, Guns, Germs, and Steel. (March 2004)
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.
George M. Fredrickson is Edgar E. Robinson Professor of US History Emeritus at Stanford. His most recent books are Racism: A Short History and Not Just Black and White, a collection co-edited with Nancy Foner. (August 2006)
Vijay Joshi is a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, and the author, with Ian Little, of India: Macroeconomics and Political Economy, 1964–1991, and India's Economic Reforms, 1991–2001. (March 2004)
Pankaj Mishra was born in North India in 1969 and now lives in London and India. He is the author of The Romantics, winner of the Los Angeles Times's Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, and An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and The Guardian. His most recent book is Temptations of the West: How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet, and Beyond.
Geoffrey O'Brien is Editor in Chief of the Library of America. He is the author, most recently, of Sonata for Jukebox: An Autobiography of My Ears and Red Sky Café. (April 2008)
Emma Rothschild is a fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and will be teaching history at Harvard next fall. Her latest book is Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet and the Enlightenment. (March 2004)
Robert Skidelsky is Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at Warwick University, England. The single-volume abridgment of his three-volume biography of John Maynard Keynes was published last year in the US. He is currently completing a short history of Britain in the twentieth century. www.skidelskyr.com. (April 2008)
Jonathan Spence, author of The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci, teaches the history of modern China at Yale. His book Return to Dragon Mountain: Memories of a Late Ming Man will be published this autumn. (June 2007)
Brian Urquhart is a former Undersecretary-General of the United Nations. His books include Hammarskjöld, A Life in Peace and War, and Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey. (June 2008)
