Table of Contents

Volume 52, Number 3 · February 24, 2005

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

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Letters

Peter Schrag, Stephan Thernstrom, et al. 'Must Schools Fail?': An Exchange
Avis Bohlen, Tony Judt, How Bush Scuttled the Bioweapons Protocol

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Contributors

Michael Chabon is the author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay and the children's book, Summerland. He lives in Berkeley, California.

Joseph Connors, the Director of the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Villa I Tatti, Florence, writes on Italian Renaissance and Baroque architecture. He was formerly Director of the American Academy in Rome and professor of art history at Columbia.

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.

Martin Filler is the architecture critic of House & Garden and a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and The New Republic. He is the co-author, with Olivier Bossiere, of The Vitra Design Museum: Frank Gehry, Architect.

Benjamin Kunkel is the author of the novel Indecision and a founding editor of n+1 magazine.

Perry Link is Chancellorial Chair in Teaching Across Disciplines at the University of California, Riverside. He is working on a book on rhythm, metaphor, and politics in contemporary Chinese language. (January 2009)

Simon Sebag Montefiore is a historian specializing in Russia. His book Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar won the History Book of the Year Prize in the British Book Awards. His Potemkin: Catherine the Great's Imperial Partner, which was shortlisted for the British Samuel Johnson Prize, has just been published in paperback. (February 2005)

Darryl Pinckney is the author of a novel, High Cotton, and Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature.

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.

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)

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. (March 2009)

Michael Wood is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge. (May 2009)

Christopher de Bellaigue was born in London in 1971 and has worked as a journalist in the Middle East and South Asia since 1994. His first book, In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs: A Memoir of Iran, was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize. He lives in Tehran with his wife and two children.

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