Table of Contents

Volume 53, Number 17 · November 2, 2006

Joseph Lelyveld, The Good Soldier

Soldier: The Life of Colin Powell by Karen DeYoung

Russell Baker, The Wealth of Loneliness

Mellon: An American Life by David Cannadine

Ian Buruma, Weimar Faces

April Bernard, Romance (poem)

Joyce Carol Oates, Margaret Atwood's Tale

Moral Disorder by Margaret Atwood

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, with an introduction by Valerie Martin

Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature by Margaret Atwood, with a new introduction by the author

Surfacing by Margaret Atwood, with a new introduction by the author

Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood, with a new introduction by the author

Paul Kennedy, The Worst of Times?

The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West by Niall Ferguson

David Bromwich, Lincoln at War

Lincoln: A Life of Purpose and Power by Richard Carwardine

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Geoffrey O'Brien, The Jimmy Stewart Story

Jimmy Stewart: A Biography by Marc Eliot

Aryeh Neier, The Attack on Human Rights Watch

Michael Wood, The Far Side of Fiction

A Temple of Texts by William H. Gass

The Tunnel: An Audio Book by William H. Gass, read by William H. Gass

David Gilmour, Surprises of the Empire

Edge of Empire: Lives, Culture, and Conquest in the East, 1750–1850 by Maya Jasanoff

John R. Searle, Minding the Brain

Seeing Red: A Study in Consciousness by Nicholas Humphrey

Darryl Pinckney, Branding in America

Apex Hides the Hurt by Colson Whitehead

Christopher de Bellaigue, Defiant Iran

Confronting Iran: The Failure of American Foreign Policy and the Next Great Crisis in the Middle East by Ali M. Ansari

Hidden Iran: Paradox and Power in the Islamic Republic by Ray Takeyh

Danis Rose, Ronald Dworkin, Darwin and Spirituality: An Exchange

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Letters

Perry Link, Maochun Yu, Shut Down in China
Paul Starobin, Joan Didion, In Cheney's Shadow
Stephen P. Schwartz, Freeman Dyson, Respect for Our Enemies
William J. Connell, Il Duce's Brain
Ann Jones, Angry in Afghanistan
Robert Palter, Jeremy Bernstein, What Happened at Oak Ridge
David Wheatley, Edwin Muir's Field
Norman Dorsen, McCarthy's Forgotten Nemesis
Nancy Yang Liu, Dai Qing, et al. Disheartened Author
James Hall, Ingrid D. Rowland, Michelangelo and the Etruscans
Mitchell T. Rabkin, V.A. Care Is Better
Morris Dickstein, Irving Howe Memorial Lecture
The Editors, Corrections
Gerald J. Oppenheimer, Sheffer Was American
Liu Xiaobo and ninety-nine others, One Hundred Intellectuals' Letter of Appeal on the Shutdown of Century China

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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. (July 2008)

April Bernard has published a novel and three collections of poetry, most recently Swan Electric. (November 2006)

David Bromwich is Sterling Professor of English at Yale. He is the author of Hazlitt: The Mind of a Critic and editor of a selection of Edmund Burke’s speeches, On Empire, Liberty, and Reform. (April 2008)

Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard. He received this year’s Shorenstein Award for writing about Asia. His novel The China Lover will be published this fall. (June 2008)

David Gilmour is the author of The Last Leopard: A Life of Giuseppe di Lampedusa, which was published in a revised and enlarged edition last year. He has written biographies of Rudyard Kipling and Lord Curzon. (June 2008)

Paul Kennedy, the J. Richardson Dilworth Professor of History and Director of International Security Studies at Yale, is the author and editor of fifteen books, including The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers. His latest book is The Parliament of Man: The Past, Present, and Future of the United Nations. (November 2006)

Joseph Lelyveld is a former editor and correspondent of The New York Times. He is the author of Omaha Blues: A Memory Loop. (May 2008)

Aryeh Neier, former Executive Director of Human Rights Watch, is President of the Open Society Institute. His most recent book is Taking Liberties: Four Decades in the Struggle for Rights. (November 2007)

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)

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)

Darryl Pinckney is the author of a novel, High Cotton, and Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature.

John R. Searle is Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. His most recent books are Mind: A Brief Introduction and Freedom and Neurobiology. (November 2006)

Michael Wood is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge. (April 2008)

Christopher de Bellaigue was born in London in 1971 and has worked as a journalist in the Middle East and South Asia since 1994. His first book, In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs: A Memoir of Iran, was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize. He lives in Tehran with his wife and two children.

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