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Volume 55, Number 9 · May 29, 2008

Geoffrey Wheatcroft, Churchill and His Myths

Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: The Dire Warning by John Lukacs

Troublesome Young Men: The Rebels Who Brought Churchill to Power and Helped Save England by Lynne Olson

Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization by Nicholson Baker

Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War": How Britain Lost the Empire and the West Lost the World by Patrick J. Buchanan.

Frank Rich, How to Cover an Election

Joseph Lelyveld, Looking for Naipaul

A Writer's People: Ways of Looking and Feeling by V.S. Naipaul

Robin Robertson, Through the Tweed (poem)

Thomas Powers, Iraq: Will We Ever Get Out?

The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict by Joseph E. Stiglitz and Linda J. Bilmes

The Other Side of the Mountain: Mujahideen Tactics in the Soviet-Afghan War by Ali Ahmad Jalali and Lester W. Grau

Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 by Steve Coll

The Persian Puzzle: The Conflict Between Iran and America by Kenneth M. Pollack

The Nuclear Sphinx of Tehran: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the State of Iran by Yossi Melman and Meir Javedanfar

The Fateful Pebble: Afghanistan's Role in the Fall of the Soviet Empire by Anthony Arnold

The Bear Went Over the Mountain: Soviet Combat Tactics in Afghanistan translated from the Russian and edited by Lester W. Grau

Rumsfeld: His Rise, Fall, and Catastrophic Legacy by Andrew Cockburn

Still Broken: A Recruit's Inside Account of Intelligence Failures, from Baghdad to the Pentagon by A.J. Rossmiller

The Soviet-Afghan War: How a Superpower Fought and Lost by the Russian General Staff, translated from the Russian and edited by Lester W. Grau and Michael A. Gress

Eamon Duffy, 'The First Great Pandemic in History'

Plague and the End of Antiquity: The Pandemic of 541–750 edited by Lester K. Little

Brad Leithauser, Old Globe (poem)

Joyce Carol Oates, The Mystery of the Ring

Boxing: A Cultural History by Kasia Boddy

Larry McMurtry, The Conquering Indians

The Comanche Empire by Pekka Hämäläinen

Ingrid D. Rowland, Women Artists Win!

Bathers, Bodies, Beauty: The Visceral Eye by Linda Nochlin

WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution an exhibition at the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, February 17–May 12, 2008

Francine Prose, Giddy & Malevolent

Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky: A London Trilogy by Patrick Hamilton, with an introduction by Susanna Moore

The Slaves of Solitude by Patrick Hamilton, with an introduction by David Lodge

Hangover Square: A Story of Darkest Earl's Court by Patrick Hamilton

Malise Ruthven, The Rise of the Muslim Terrorists

Leaderless Jihad: Terror Networks in the Twenty-first Century by Marc Sageman

Islam and the Secular State: Negotiating the Future of Shari'a by Abdullahi Ahmed an-Na'im

How We Missed the Story: Osama bin Laden, the Taliban, and the Hijacking of Afghanistan by Roy Gutman

The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State by Noah Feldman

The Talibanization of Southeast Asia: Losing the War on Terror to Islamist Extremists by Bilveer Singh

The Sayyid Qutb Reader: Selected Writings on Politics, Religion, and Society edited by Albert J. Bergesen

Jihad and Jew-Hatred: Islamism, Nazism and the Roots of 9/11 by Matthias Küntzel, translated from the German by Colin Meade

Architect of Global Jihad: The Life of al-Qaida Strategist Abu Mus'ab al-Suri by Brynjar Lia

Al Qaeda in Its Own Words edited by Gilles Kepel and Jean-Pierre Milelli, translated from the Arabic by Pascale Ghazaleh

Al Alvarez, On the Edge

A Treatise of Civil Power by Geoffrey Hill

Jeremy Waldron, Free Speech & the Menace of Hysteria

Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment by Anthony Lewis

Robert Barnett, Thunder from Tibet

The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama by Pico Iyer

Joaquim Pijoan, Herbert Schreier, Jay Neugeboren, 'The Enemy of the Mind': An Exchange

Letters

Nicolaas H. Biegman, Charles Simic, Will They Accept Kosovo?
Michael McGiffert, In The Name of the Father

Contributors

Al Alvarez's most recent book is Risky Business, a selection of essays, many of which first appeared in The New York Review of Books.

Robert Barnett is Director of the Modern Tibetan Studies Program at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia and the author most recently of–?Lhasa: Streets with Memories and co-editor with Ronald Schwartz of Tibetan Modernities: Notes from the Field on Cultural and Social Change. (May 2008)

Eamon Duffy is Professor of the History of Christianity at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Magdalene College. His latest book is Marking the Hours: English People and Their Prayers, 1240–1570. (May 2008)

Brad Leithauser is a novelist, poet, and essayist. He lives in Massachusetts.

Joseph Lelyveld's book Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White won a Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 1986. (April 2009)

Larry McMurtry is the author of twenty-four novels, including The Last Picture Show, Terms of Endearment, Lonesome Dove, winner of the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and, most recently, Folly and Glory. His nonfiction works include a biography of Crazy Horse, Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen, Paradise, and Sacagawea's Nickname: Essays on the American West (published by New York Review Books). He lives in Archer City, Texas.

Joyce Carol Oates, the Roger S. Berlind Professor of Humanities at Princeton, is the author most recently of the novel Little Bird of Heaven and the story collection Dear Husband. (December 2009)

Thomas Powers is the author of The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA (1979), Heisenberg's War: The Secret History of the German Bomb (1993), Intelligence Wars: American Secret History from Hitler to al-Qaeda (2002; revised and expanded edition, 2004), and The Confirmation (2000), a novel. He won a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1971 and has contributed to The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, Harper's, The Nation, The Atlantic, and Rolling Stone.

Francine Prose is the author of three collections of stories and ten novels. Her most recent novel, The Blue Angel, was nominated for the National Book Award.

Frank Rich is a columnist for The New York Times. His books include Ghost Light, a memoir, and The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth in Bush's America.

Robin Robertson's Swithering won the 2006 Forward Prize. His translation of Medea is published in paperback this month.  (September 2009)

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.

Malise Ruthven is the author of Islam: A Very Short Introduction, Islam in the World: The Divine Supermarket (a study of Christian fundamentalism), A Fury for God: The Islamist Attack on America, and A Satanic Affair: Salman Rushdie and the Wrath of Islam.

Jeremy Waldron is the author of Law and Disagreement and The Dignity of Legislation. He is University Professor in the Law School at New York University. (October 2008)

Geoffrey Wheatcroft’s books include The Controversy of Zion, which won a National Jewish Book Award in 1996, The Strange Death of Tory England, and Yo, Blair! He is writing a book on Winston Churchill’s reputation and legacy. (October 2009)

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