Table of Contents

Volume 52, Number 17 · November 3, 2005

Timothy Garton Ash, Soldiers of the Hidden Imam

Russell Baker, The Entertainer

Buffalo Bill's America: William Cody and the Wild West Show by Louis S. Warren

The Colonel and Little Missie: Buffalo Bill, Annie Oakley, and the Beginnings of Superstardom in America by Larry McMurtry

Buffalo Bill in Bologna: The Americanization of the World,1869–1922 by Robert W. Rydell and Rob Kroes

Alan Ryan, After the Fall

Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 by Tony Judt

Alison Lurie, Liberated Girls

Little Women, Little Men, Jo's Boys by Louisa May Alcott

Jonathan D. Spence, Portrait of a Monster

Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday

Charles Simic, The Spirit of Play

Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera by Anne Carson

Glass, Irony and God by Anne Carson

Eros the Bittersweet by Anne Carson

Men in the Off Hours by Anne Carson

Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson

The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos by Anne Carson

Plainwater: Essays and Poetry by Anne Carson

Michael Scammell, The Mystery of Willi Münzenberg

The Red Millionaire: A Political Biography of Willi Münzenberg, Moscow's Secret Propaganda Tsar in the West by Sean McMeekin

Double Lives: Stalin, Willi Münzenberg, and the Seduction of the Intellectuals by Stephen Koch, with an introduction by Sam Tanenhaus

Joyce Carol Oates, Dangling Men

Indecision by Benjamin Kunkel

Helen Epstein, The Lost Children of AIDS

Charles Rosen, Playing Music: The Lost Freedom

Performing Music in the Age of Recording by Robert Philip

Andrew Hacker, The Truth About the Colleges

Privilege: Harvard and the Education of the Ruling Class by Ross Gregory Douthat

I'm the Teacher, You're the Student: A Semester in the University Classroom by Patrick Allitt

What the Best College Teachers Do by Ken Bain

University, Inc.: The Corporate Corruption of American Higher Education by Jennifer Washburn

The Best 357 Colleges: 2005 Edition by the Princeton Review

Profiles of American Colleges: 2005

John Brewer, The Return of the Imperial Hero

Trafalgar: The Men, the Battle, the Storm by Tim Clayton and Phil Craig

Nelson: The New Letters edited by Colin White

Seize the Fire: Heroism, Duty, and the Battle of Trafalgar by Adam Nicolson

Admiral Lord Nelson: Context and Legacy edited by David Cannadine

Robert Hass, Poet of Wonders

Jeremy Bernstein, The Man Who Said No

Aileen Kelly, A Great Russian Prophet

The Word That Causes Death's Defeat: Poems of Memory by Anna Akhmatova,translated from the Russian, with an introductory biography, critical essays, and commentary, by Nancy K. Anderson

Human Rights Watch, Torture in Iraq

Paul Chodoff, Andrew Scull, Sherwin B. Nuland, 'Killing Cures': An Exchange

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Letters

David S. Reynolds, The Concise Whitman
The Editors, Corrections

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Contributors

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.

Jeremy Bernstein is a physicist who worked at Los Alamos. His Plutonium: A History of the World's Most Dangerous Element was published in paperback in March. (April 2009)

John Brewerteaches in the Humanities and Social Sciences Division at the California Institute of Technology. His most recent book is A Sentimental Murder: Love and Madness in the Eighteenth Century. (June 2008)

Helen Epstein is the author of The Invisible Cure: Why We Are Losing the Fight Against AIDS.
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Timothy Garton Ash is Professor of European Studies and Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St. Antony’s College, Oxford, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford. His most recent book is Free World. (November 2008)

Andrew Hacker teaches political science at Queens College. He is currently writing a book on higher education in collaboration with Claudia Dreifus. (April 2009)

Robert Hass is the author of several books of poems, most recently Sun Under Wood. Poet laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997, he teaches English at the University of California at Berkeley. (November 2005)

Human Rights Watch, the largest human rights organization based in the United States, conducts fact-finding investigations into human rights abuses worldwide. (November 2005)

Aileen Kelly, a fellow of King’s College, Cambridge, is the author of Toward Another Shore: Russian Thinkers Between Necessity and Chance and, most recently, Views from the Other Shore: Essays on Herzen, Chekhov, and Bakhtin. (April 2007)

Alison Lurie is a former Professor of English at Cornell. Her most recent novel is Truth and Consequences.

Joyce Carol Oates, the Roger S. Berlind Professor of Humanities at Princeton, is the author most recently of the novel My Sister, My Love: The Intimate Story of Skyler Rampike and the forthcoming story collection Dear Husband. (April 2009)

Charles Rosen's latest book is Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist. (March 2009)

Alan Ryan is Warden of New College, Oxford, and the author of biographies of John Stuart Mill, Bertrand Russell, and John Dewey. (October 2008)

Michael Scammell is Professor of Writing and Translation at Columbia. He is the author of Solzhenitsyn: A Biography, and has just completed a biography of Arthur Koestler. (November 2005)

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.

Jonathan Spence is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. His latest book is Return to Dragon Mountain: Memories of a Late Ming Man. (May 2009)

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