Table of Contents

Volume 51, Number 8 · May 13, 2004

Ian Buruma, Master of Fear

Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Sebag Montefiore

Brian Urquhart, A Matter of Truth

Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror by Richard A. Clarke

National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States Staff Statements Nos. 1-8 www.9-11commission.gov

Sue M. Halpern, City Folks

Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants by Robert Sullivan

Animals in Translation by Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson

Freeman Dyson, The World on a String

The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality by Brian Greene

David Gilmour, Eastward Ho!

The Man Who Would Be King: The First American in Afghanistan by Ben Macintyre

Luc Sante, Disco Dreams

Songbook by Nick Hornby

Sonata for Jukebox: Pop Music, Memory, and the Imagined Life by Geoffrey O'Brien

Russell Baker, In Bush's Washington

Adam Shatz, In Search of Hezbollah-II

Hizbollah: Rebel Without a Cause? by the International Crisis Group

My Life Is a Weapon: A Modern History of Suicide Bombing by Christoph Reuter, translated from the German by Helena Ragg-Kirkby

Hizbu'llah: Politics and Religion by Amal Saad-Ghorayeb

Should Hezbollah Be Next? by Daniel Byman

Hizballah of Lebanon: Mundane Politics vs. Extremist Ideals a paper byAugustus Richard Norton

Hezbollah: The Changing Face of Terrorism by Judith Palmer Harik

Hizballah: Terrorism, National Liberation, or Menace? a report by Sami G. Hajjar

David Herbert Donald, Making It

Vinnie Ream: An American Sculptor by Edward S. Cooper

Daniel Mendelsohn, The Strange Music of Horace

Horace, the Odes: New Translations by Contemporary Poets edited by J.D. McClatchy

Jonathan Mirsky, The Party Isn't Over

Red Capitalists in China: The Party, Private Entrepreneurs, and Prospects for Political Change by Bruce J. Dickson

Beyond Tiananmen: The Politics of US–China Relations, 1989–2000 by Robert L. Suettinger

Linda Colley, Tough Guys

From Chivalry to Terrorism: War and the Changing Nature of Masculinity by Leo Braudy

Peter W. Galbraith, How to Get Out of Iraq

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Letters

Victor Gilinsky, Israel's Bomb
R.W. Davies, 'Spain & the Communists'
Sara Jones Nelson, Newton & Civil Liberties
Hal Hellman, 'The Fool of Pest'
The Editors, Correction
Carter Bancroft, H. Allen Orr, Miracles & the Scientist

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Contributors

Russell Baker is a former columnist and correspondent for The New York Times and The Baltimore Sun. His books include The Good Times, Growing Up, and Looking Back. (July 2008)

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)

Linda Colley is Shelby M.C. Davis 1958 Professor of History at Princeton. Her latest book is The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History. (July 2008)

David Herbert Donald is the author, most recently, of We Are Lincoln Men: Abraham Lincoln and His Friends. (May 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.

Peter W. Galbraith, a former US Ambassador to Croatia, is Senior Diplomatic Fellow at the Center for Arms Control and a principal at the Windham Resources Group, which has worked in Iraq. His The End of Iraq came out in paperback this summer. His forthcoming book is After Iraq: Cleaning Up After America’s Biggest Foreign Policy Mistake. (October 2007)

David Gilmour is the author of The Last Leopard: A Life of Giuseppe di Lampedusa, which was published in a revised and enlarged edition last year. He has written biographies of Rudyard Kipling and Lord Curzon. (June 2008)

Sue Halpern, a frequent contributor to The New York Review, is a scholar in residence at Middlebury College. Her new book, Can’t Remember What I Forgot: The Good News From the Front Lines of Memory Research, will be published in May. (April 2008)

Daniel Mendelsohn, is the author of The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Prix Médicis Étranger in France. A collection of his essays, How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken, mostly from these pages, will be published in August. He teaches at Bard. (June 2008)

Jonathan Mirsky is a journalist and historian specializing in Chinese affairs. He has been to Tibet six times. (July 2008)

Luc Sante is the author of Low Life, Evidence, The Factory of Facts, and, most recently, Kill All Your Darlings: Pieces 1990–2005. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and teaches writing and the history of photography at Bard College.

Adam Shatz is the literary editor of The Nation. (September 2005)

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)

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