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
Letters
David S. Reynolds, The Concise Whitman
The Editors, Corrections
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. (July 2008)
Jeremy Bernstein is a physicist who worked at
Los Alamos. His forthcoming book is about the element plutonium. (May 2006)
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's book The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West, and the Fight Against AIDS has just been published. (July 2007)
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. (August 2007)
Andrew Hacker teaches political science at Queens College. He is currently writing a book on higher education in collaboration with Claudia Dreifus. (October 2007)
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 the author of two collections of essays on children’s literature, Don’t Tell the Grownups and Boys and Girls Forever. She is a former professor of English at Cornell and has published nine novels, of which the most recent is Truth and Consequences. (May 2008)
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)
Charles Rosen's most recent book is Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist. (February 2008)
Alan Ryan is Warden of New College, Oxford, and the author of intellectual biographies of John Stuart Mill, Bertrand Russell, and John Dewey. (November 2007)
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, author of The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci, teaches the history of modern China at Yale. His book Return to Dragon Mountain: Memories of a Late Ming Man will be published this autumn. (June 2007)
