Table of Contents

Volume 52, Number 14 · September 22, 2005

Jonathan Raban, September 11: The View from the West

John Banville, The Furies

Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel

W.S. Merwin, Traces (poem)

Richard Dorment, On Hanging

Art and the Power of Placement by Victoria Newhouse

J.M. Coetzee, Love and Walt Whitman

Memoranda During the War by Walt Whitman, edited by Peter Coviello

Leaves of Grass: The First (1855) Edition by Walt Whitman, edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom

Leaves of Grass: 150th Anniversary Edition by Walt Whitman, edited and with an afterword by David S. Reynolds

Walt Whitman by David S. Reynolds

To Walt Whitman, America by Kenneth M. Price

Transatlantic Connections: Whitman US, Whitman UK by M. Wynn Thomas

Christian Caryl, Why They Do It

Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism by Robert A. Pape

Making Sense of Suicide Missions edited by Diego Gambetta

Suicide Bombers: Allah's New Martyrs by Farhad Khosrokhavar,translated from the Frenchby David Macey

Perfect Soldiers: The Hijackers—Who They Were, Why They Did It by Terry McDermott

The Road to Martyrs' Square:A Journey into the Worldof the Suicide Bomber by Anne Marie Oliver and Paul F. Steinberg

Suicide Terrorism by Ami Pedahzur

Dying to Kill: The Allure of Suicide Terror by Mia Bloom

Orlando Figes, The Divine Terrorist

Ivan the Terrible: First Tsar of Russia by Isabel de Madariaga

William H. McNeill, Ah, Wilderness!

Wandering Home: A Long Walk Across America's Most Hopeful Landscape: Vermont's Champlain Valley and New York's Adirondacks by Bill McKibben

Confluence: A River, the Environment, Politics, and the Fate of All Humanity by Nathaniel Tripp, with a foreword by Howard Dean

Edmund S. Morgan, The Other Founders

The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America by Gary B. Nash

Shaul Bakhash, Letter from Evin Prison

Anita Desai, A Shadow World

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Adam Shatz, The Jewish Question

The Jewish Prison: A Rebellious Meditation on the State of Judaism by Jean Daniel, translated from the French by Charlotte Mandell

Michael Chabon, After Strange Gods

Scott Staton, A Lost Pop Symphony

Smile an album by Brian Wilson

Joyce Carol Oates, Domestic Gothic

Christopher Benfey, American Jeremiad

The American Classics: A Personal Essay by Denis Donoghue.

Keith Gessen, Horror Tour

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer

Thomas Powers, An American Tragedy

American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin

The Ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Birth of the Modern Arms Race by Priscilla J. McMillan

Oppenheimer: Portrait of an Enigma by Jeremy Bernstein

J. Robert Oppenheimer and the American Century by David C. Cassidy

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Letters

Steve J. Heims, Hope Franklin O'Neill, Knowing Norbert Wiener
Peter Balakian, Hal Fessenden, et al. 'Left Out in Turkey'
Mark Klempner, Louis Begley, It Couldn't Happen Here
Bruce E. Buxton, Patricia Jones, et al. 'The Shame of the Schools'
Charles G. Gillispie, P.N. Furbank, 'The Scientific Takeover'
Leo Steinberg, Max Ernst's Blasphemy
Peter Nabokov, Nailed Down
Jonathan M. Hansen, Query

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Contributors

Shaul Bakhash is Robinson Professor of History at George Mason University and the author of The Reign of the Ayatollahs: Iran and the Islamic Revolution. (September 2005)

John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He is the author of many novels, including The Book of Evidence, The Untouchable, and Eclipse. Banville's novel The Sea was awarded the 2005 Man Booker Prize. On occasion he writes under the pen name Benjamin Black.

Christopher Benfey is Mellon Professor of English at Mount Holyoke. His edition of Lafcadio Hearn: American Writings was published last spring by the Library of America. (October 2009)

Christian Caryl is a Contributing Editor at Foreign Policy and Newsweek and a Senior Fellow of the Center for International Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (October 2009)

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

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 new work of fiction, Summertime, from which the piece in this issue is drawn, will be published by Harvill Secker in October. (August 2009)

Anita Desai's most recent novel is The Zigzag Way. (March 2009)

Richard Dorment is the art critic of the Daily Telegraph. (October 2009)

Orlando Figes is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, London University. His latest book is The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia. (April 2009)

Keith Gessen is a contributing editor at New York magazine. He is also co-editor of n+1, a new journal of literature and politics. (September 2005)

William H. McNeill is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Chicago. His most recent books are The Pursuit of Truth: A Historian's Memoir and A Boyhood Memory: Long Ago on Grandfather's Farm, which is currently in search of a publisher. (April 2008)

W.S. Merwin was born in New York City in 1927 and grew up in Union City, New Jersey, and in Scranton, Pennsylvania. From 1949 to 1951 he worked as a tutor in France, Portugal, and Majorca. He has since lived in many parts of the world, most recently on Maui in the Hawaiian Islands. He is the author of many books of poems, prose, and translations and has received both the Pulitzer and the Bollingen Prizes for poetry, among numerous other awards.

Edmund S. Morgan is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. His most recent book, The Genuine Article: A Historian Looks at Early America, was published in 2004. (October 2008)

Joyce Carol Oates, the Roger S. Berlind Professor of Humanities at Princeton, is the author most recently of the novel Little Bird of Heaven and the story collection Dear Husband. (December 2009)

Thomas Powers is the author of The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA (1979), Heisenberg's War: The Secret History of the German Bomb (1993), Intelligence Wars: American Secret History from Hitler to al-Qaeda (2002; revised and expanded edition, 2004), and The Confirmation (2000), a novel. He won a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1971 and has contributed to The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, Harper's, The Nation, The Atlantic, and Rolling Stone.

Jonathan Raban's books include Surveillance, My Holy War, Arabia, Old Glory, Hunting Mister Heartbreak, Bad Land, Passage to Juneau, and Waxwings. He is the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Heinemann Award of the Royal Society of Literature, the PEN/West Creative Nonfiction Award, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers' Award, and the Governor's Award of the State of Washington. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, The Guardian, and The Independent. He lives in Seattle.

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

Scott Staton is on the editorial staff of The New York Review. (September 2005)

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