Table of Contents
Volume 52, Number 16 · October 20, 2005
Freeman Dyson, Wise Man 
Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman edited and with an introduction by Michelle Feynman, with a foreword by Timothy Ferris
John Leonard, The Black Album
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Ronald Dworkin, Judge Roberts on Trial
Anne Applebaum, Hero
The KGB File of Andrei Sakharov edited and annotated by Joshua Rubenstein and Alexander Gribanov
Christopher Benfey, Patriotic Gore
The March by E.L. Doctorow
Alma Guillermoprieto, The Gambler
Alma Guillermoprieto, The Cuban Connection
Ingrid D. Rowland, What the Frescoes Said
The Web of Images: Vernacular Preaching from Its Origins to St. Bernardino da Siena by Lina Bolzoni,translated from the Italian by Carole Preston and Lisa Chien
Frank Kermode, A New Story of Stories
The Five Books of Moses translated and with commentary by Robert Alter
Joyce Carol Oates, The Treasure of Comanche County
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
The Orchard Keeper by Cormac McCarthy
Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy
Child of God by Cormac McCarthy
Suttree by Cormac McCarthy
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
The Stonemason: A Play in Five Acts by Cormac McCarthy
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy
Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy
Joseph Kerman, The Voice of Masters
Choral Masterworks: A Listener's Guide by Michael Steinberg
Anne Carson, The Beat Goes On
Avishai Margalit, The Genius of Spinoza
Spinoza and Spinozism by Stuart Hampshire
Richard C. Lewontin, The Wars Over Evolution
The Evolution–Creation Struggle by Michael Ruse
Not By Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution by Peter J. Richerson and Robert Boyd
Letters
Martin Gaynes, Freeman Dyson, 'The Bitter End'
Gary Hart, Tony Judt, America the Vulnerable
Mia Bloom, Christian Caryl, The Truth about Dhanu
Anna Saxon-Forti, Masolino d'Amico, et al. Bassani's Father
J.G.A. Pocock, Keith Thomas, Antipodean Historians
Contributors
Anne Applebaum is a columnist for The Washington Post. Her book Gulag: A History won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction. She lives in Poland. (February 2008)
Christopher Benfey is Mellon Professor of English at Mount Holyoke. His book A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade was published in April. (June 2008)
Anne Carson is professor of classics and comparative literature at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She has been honored with the Lannan Award for Poetry and the Pushcart Prize for Poetry. In 2000, she received the MacArthur Genius fellowship. She was twice a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Ronald Dworkin is Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law and Philosophy at NYU and Jeremy Bentham Professor of Law and Philosophy at University College London. His books include Is Democracy Possible Here? (2006), Justice in Robes, Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality, and Freedom's Law. He is the 2007 winner of the Ludvig Holberg International Memorial Prize for "his pioneering scholarly work" of "worldwide impact."
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.
Alma Guillermoprieto often writes on Latin America in these pages. Her most recent book is Dancing with Cuba. (September 2006)
Joseph Kerman is emeritus professor of music at the University of California, Berkeley. He began writing music criticism for The Hudson Review in the 1950s, and is a longtime contributor to The New York Review of Books and many other journals. His books include Opera as Drama (1956; new and revised edition 1988), The Beethoven Quartets (1967), Contemplating Music (1986), Concerto Conversations (1999), and The Art of Fugue (2005).
Frank Kermode lives in Cambridge, England. His most recent book is The Age of Shakespeare. (May 2008)
John Leonard writes on books every month for Harper’s and on television every week for New York magazine. (June 2007)
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).
Avishai Margalit is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is currently the George Kennan Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He has just been awarded the 2007 Emet Prize by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for his work in political thought, ethics, and philosophy. (December 2007)
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. (June 2008)
Ingrid D. Rowland is a professor, based in Rome, at the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture. A frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, she is the author of The Culture of the High Renaissance: Ancients and Moderns in Sixteenth-Century Rome and The Scarith of Scornello: A Tale of Renaissance Forgery. She has published a translation of Vitruvius' Ten Books of Architecture. Her latest books are a biography of Giordano Bruno and a translation of Bruno's dialogue On the Heroic Frenzies.
