Table of Contents, November 18, 2004 - The New York Review of Books

Scientific Integrity in Policymaking: An Investigation into the Bush Administration's Misuse of Science a report by the Union of Concerned Scientists

The Great Betrayal: Fraud in Science by Horace Freeland Judson

Rosemary Dinnage, Lessons of the Master

Author, Author by David Lodge

Gordon S. Wood, What Slavery Was Really Like

Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World by Trevor Burnard

Landon Carter's Uneasy Kingdom: Revolution and Rebellion on a Virginia Plantation by Rhys Isaac

Gabriele Annan, Love in Upper Bohemia

The Rare and the Beautiful: The Art, Loves, and Lives of the Garman Sisters by Cressida Connolly

Pico Iyer, The Perfect Traveler

David Cole, Uncle Sam Is Watching You

The Intruders: Unreasonable Searches and Seizures from King John to John Ashcroft by Samuel Dash

The Naked Crowd: Reclaiming Security and Freedom in an Anxious Age by Jeffrey Rosen

Letters

E.L. Doctorow, Jirí Grusa, et al. Paul Klebnikov
Marina Warner, Benjamin Moser, Eckhout in Brazil
Nancy Brach, Russell Baker, Der FÜHrer's Face
Gerard DiSenso, Reading Hopkins
Andrew I. Killgore, A Letter from US Diplomats to George W. Bush
William H. McNeill, Alive!
Dr. Michael W. Flamm, Query
The Editors, Correction

Contributors

Gabriele Annan is a book and film critic living in London. (March 2006)

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. (April 2008)

J. M. Coetzee, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 2003, is currently Visiting Professor of Humanities at the University of Adelaide. His latest novel, Diary of a Bad Year, was published in December. (March 2008)

David Cole is Professor of Law at Georgetown. His latest book, written with Jules Lobel, is Less Safe, Less Free: Why America Is Losing the War on Terror.

Rosemary Dinnage's books include The Ruffian on the Stair, One to One: Experiences of Psychotherapy, and Annie Besant.

Robert Gottlieb has been Editor in Chief of Simon and Schuster, Knopf, and The New Yorker. He is the author of George Balanchine: The Ballet Maker and is the dance critic of The New York Observer. (May 2008)

Pico Iyer’s most recent novel is Abandon. A new book, The Open Road, about the fourteenth Dalai Lama and globalism, will be out next spring. (December 2007)

John Lanchester's most recent book is a memoir, Family Romance. (March 2007)

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

Richard C. Lewontin is Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Professor of Biology at Harvard University. He is the author of The Genetic Basis of Evolutionary Change and Biology as Ideology, and the co-author of The Dialectical Biologist (with Richard Levins) and Not in Our Genes (with Steven Rose and Leon Kamin).

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.

Eugenio Montale was born in Genoa in 1896 and died in 1981. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1975. (November 2004)

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)

Samantha Power, a lecturer in public policy at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, is the author of "A Problem from Hell," which won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize. Parts of the essay in this issue will appear as a foreword to Roméo Dallaire's Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda, to be published in January. (November 2004)

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.

Garry Wills was born in Atlanta, Georgia. One of our most distinguished historians and critics, he is the author of numerous books, including Saint Augustine, Papal Sin, and the Pulitzer Prize–winning Lincoln at Gettysburg. He has won many other awards, among them two National Book Critics Circle Awards and the 1998 National Medal for the Humanities. He is currently Professor of History Emeritus at Northwestern University. A regular contributor to the New York Review of Books, he lives in Evanston, Illinois.

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)