Brian Urquhart, Extreme Makeover
America Right or Wrong: An Anatomy of American Nationalism by Anatol Lieven
Martin Filler, Filling the Hole
Imagining Ground Zero: Official and Unofficial Proposals for the World Trade Center Site by Suzanne Stephens with Ian Luna and Ron Broadhurst, and with a foreword by Robert A. Ivy
Sixteen Acres: Architecture and the Outrageous Struggle for the Future of Ground Zero by Philip Nobel
Up from Zero: Politics, Architecture, and the Rebuilding of New York by Paul Goldberger
Breaking Ground by Daniel Libeskind with Sarah Crichton
Freeman Dyson, Seeing the Unseen
The Fly in the Cathedral: How a Group of Cambridge Scientists Won the International Race to Split the Atom by Brian Cathcart
A Sense of the Mysterious: Science and the Human Spirit by Alan Lightman
Michael Chabon, The Game's Afoot
The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, Volumes 1 and 2 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, edited with a foreword and notes by Leslie S. Klinger, and with an introduction by John le Carré
Joseph Connors, A Scandal in Etruria
The Scarith of Scornello: A Tale of Renaissance Forgery by Ingrid D. Rowland
Robert Skidelsky, In the Führer's Face
Making Friends with Hitler: Lord Londonderry, the Nazis and the Road to World War II by Ian Kershaw
Benjamin Kunkel, The Ideal Husband
The Lost Girl by D.H. Lawrence, with an introduction by Lee Siegel and notes by Keith Cushman
Simon Sebag Montefiore, An Affair to Remember
Love and Conquest: Personal Correspondence of Catherine the Great and Prince Grigory Potemkin edited and translated from the Russian by Douglas Smith
Michael Wood, Don't Cry for Me, Guatemala
The Divine Husband by Francisco Goldman
Perry Link, China: Wiping Out the Truth
Zhongguo zhengfu ruhe kongzhi meiti (How the Chinese Government Controls the Media) a report by He Qinglian
Charles Simic, The Memory Piano
Collected Poems by Donald Justice
Darryl Pinckney, 'Blood on the Forge'
Christopher de Bellaigue, Bush, Iran & the Bomb
The Persian Puzzle: The Conflict Between Iran and America by Kenneth M. Pollack
Peter Schrag, Stephan Thernstrom, et al. 'Must Schools Fail?': An Exchange
Avis Bohlen, Tony Judt, How Bush Scuttled the Bioweapons Protocol
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.
Benjamin Kunkel is the author of the novel Indecision and a founding editor of n+1 magazine.
Darryl Pinckney is the author of a novel, High Cotton, and Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature.
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 in 2007 in the US. He is currently completing a short history of Britain in the twentieth century. www.skidelskyr.com. (January 2009)