Table of Contents
Volume 53, Number 4 · March 9, 2006
Max Rodenbeck, Their Master's Voice 
Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama bin Laden edited and with an introductionby Bruce Lawrence, translated from the Arabic by James Howarth
The Osama bin Laden I Know: An Oral History of al Qaeda's Leader by Peter L. Bergen
Charles Simic, The Powers of Invention
Beyond the Visible: The Art of Odilon Redon by Jodi Hauptman, with essays by Marina van Zuylen and Starr Figura
David Cole, Are We Safer?
The Next Attack: The Failure of the War on Terror and a Strategy for Getting It Right by Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon
Alan Hollinghurst, Eminent Anti-Victorian
The Letters of Lytton Strachey edited by Paul Levy
Hussein Agha, Robert Malley, Hamas: The Perils of Power
Jasper Griffin, 'The True Epic Vision'
Gilgamesh: A New English Version by Stephen Mitchell
Peter W. Galbraith, The Mess
My Year in Iraq: The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope by L. Paul Bremer III with Malcolm McConnell
The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq by George Packer
Geoffrey O'Brien, He Walked with a Zombie
The Val Lewton Horror Collection 9 films by Val Lewton
Icons of Grief: Val Lewton's Home Front Pictures by Alexander Nemerov
Gabriele Annan, Suddenly, Last Summer
The Sea by John Banville
Arthur Kempton, 'Hey, It's Me'
Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke by Peter Guralnick
Evan Hughes, An Ordinary Girl
Trance by Christopher Sorrentino
Brad Leithauser, Baby, It's Cold Outside
The Ice Museum: In Search of the Lost Land of Thule by Joanna Kavenna
Ice: The Nature, the History, and the Uses of an Astonishing Substance by Mariana Gosnell
Charles Rosen, From the Troubadours to Sinatra: Part II
The Oxford History of Western Music by Richard Taruskin
Adrian Lyttelton, Italia Nostra
Mission Italy: On the Front Lines of the Cold War by Richard N. Gardner, with a foreword by Zbigniew Brzezinski
Donald Craig Mitchell, Peter Canby, 'The Specter Haunting Alaska': An Exchange
Letters
David Gordon, Martin Filler, 'The Bird Man'
Patrick Allitt, William R. Fitzsimmons, et al. 'The Truth about the Colleges'
Stephen Koch, Michael Scammell, The Willi Münzenberg Mystery
Renee Weiss, The First Book
Richard Geldard, Joy of the Worm
Contributors
Hussein Agha is Senior Associate Member of St. Antony’s College, Oxford. He is the author, with A.S. Khalidi, of A Framework for a Palestinian National Security Doctrine. (May 2008)
Gabriele Annan is a book and film critic living in London. (March 2006)
David Cole is Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center. He is the award-winning author of several books, including Less Safe, Less Free:Why America Is losing the War on Terror (with Jules Lobel, 2007) and Enemy Aliens: Double Standards and Constitutional Freedoms in the War on Terrorism (2003).
Peter W. Galbraith, a former US Ambassador to Croatia, is Senior Diplomatic Fellow at the Center for Arms Control and a principal at the Windham Resources Group, which has worked in Iraq. His The End of Iraq came out in paperback this summer. His forthcoming book is After Iraq: Cleaning Up After America’s Biggest Foreign Policy Mistake. (October 2007)
Jasper Griffin is Emeritus Professor of Classical Literature and a Fellow of Balliol College. His books include Homer on Life and Death. (June 2008)
Alan Hollinghurst was born in 1954 in Gloucestershire, England, and attended Magdalen College, Oxford. He is the author of the novels The Swimming-Pool Library, The Folding Star (shortlisted for the Booker Prize), The Spell, and the forthcoming The Line of Beauty, as well as of a translation of the play Bajazet by Racine. A former staff member at The Times Literary Supplement, Hollinghurst is a frequent contributor to that and other publications, including The Guardian. Hollinghurst's fourth novel, The Line of Beauty, won the Man Booker Prize in 2004. He lives in London.
Evan Hughes is on the editorial staff of The New York Review of Books. (March 2006)
Arthur Kempton, the author of Boogaloo: The Quintessence of American Popular Music, is a fellow at the Institute for African-American Research at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. (March 2006)
Brad Leithauser is a novelist, poet, and essayist. He lives in
Massachusetts.
Adrian Lyttelton is Professor of History at the Johns Hopkins University Center in Bologna and the author of The Seizure of Power: Fascism in Italy 1919–1929. (March 2006)
Robert Malley was Special Assistant to President Clinton for Arab-Israeli Affairs and Director for Near East and South Asian Affairs on the National Security Council staff from September 1998 to January 2001. He is currently Middle East and North Africa Program Director at the International Crisis Group. (May 2008)
Geoffrey O'Brien is Editor in Chief of the Library of America. He is the author, most recently, of Sonata for Jukebox: An Autobiography of My Ears and Red Sky Café. (April 2008)
Max Rodenbeck is The Economist’s Mideast Correspondent. He is based in Cairo. (May 2008)
Charles Rosen's most recent book is Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist. (February 2008)
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.
