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Volume 56, Number 6 · April 9, 2009

Pico Iyer, 'A Hell on Earth'

Joyce Carol Oates, The Parables of Flannery O'Connor

Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor by Brad Gooch

The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor

Collected Works: Wise Blood, A Good Man Is Hard to Find, The Violent Bear It Away, Everything That Rises Must Converge, Stories and Occasional Prose, Letters by Flannery O'Connor

Spiritual Writings by Flannery O'Connor, edited by Robert Ellsberg, with an introduction by Richard Giannone

Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose by Flannery O'Connor, selected and edited by Sally and Robert Fitzgerald

Michael Tomasky, Washington: Will the Lobbyists Win?

So Damn Much Money: The Triumph of Lobbying and the Corrosion of American Government by Robert G. Kaiser

Ingrid D. Rowland, The Flowering Genius of Maria Sibylla Merian

Maria Sibylla Merian & Daughters: Women of Art and Science an exhibition at the Rembrandt House Museum, Amsterdam, February 23–May 18, 2008, and the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, June 10–August 31, 2008.

Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis by Kim Todd

Joseph Lelyveld, How Mbeki Failed

A Legacy of Liberation: Thabo Mbeki and the Future of the South African Dream by Mark Gevisser

Colin Thubron, The Great Battle Against Islam

Empires of the Sea: The Siege of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto, and the Contest for the Center of the World by Roger Crowley

Jeremy Bernstein, He Changed History

Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, The Bob Marley Story

Before the Legend: The Rise of Bob Marley by Christopher John Farley

The Book of Exodus: The Making and Meaning of Bob Marley and the Wailers' Album of the Century by Vivien Goldman

Soul Rebel: An Intimate Portrait of Bob Marley by David Burnett

Bob Marley: Herald of the Postcolonial World? by Jason Toynbee

Richard Bernstein, At Last, Justice for Monsters

Closing Order Indicting Kaing Guek Eav alias Duch by the Office of the Co-Investigating Judges of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, Phnom Penh

James Oakes, A Different Lincoln

Lincoln President-Elect: Abraham Lincoln and the Great Secession Winter, 1860–1861 by Harold Holzer

Lincoln and His Admirals: Abraham Lincoln, the US Navy, and the Civil War by Craig L. Symonds

Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief by James M. McPherson

John Gray, The Way of All Debt

Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth by Margaret Atwood

Cathleen Schine, Skirmishes in the Family Garden

The Believers by Zoë Heller

Robert O. Paxton, Can You Really Become French?

How to Be French: Nationality in the Making Since 1789 by Patrick Weil, translated from the French by Catherine Porter

Integrating Islam: Political and Religious Challenges in Contemporary France by Jonathan Laurence and Justin Vaisse

Anthony Lewis, Shall We Get Rid of the Lawyers?

Life Without Lawyers: Liberating Americans from Too Much Law by Philip K. Howard

Freeman Dyson, Leaping into the Grand Unknown

The Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces by Frank Wilczek

Dan Chiasson, John Ashbery: 'Look, Gesture, Hearsay'

John Ashbery: Collected Poems, 1956–1987 edited by Mark Ford

Mark Danner, US Torture: Voices from the Black Sites

ICRC Report on the Treatment of Fourteen "High Value Detainees" in CIA Custody by the International Committee of the Red Cross

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Contributors

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)

Richard Bernstein is a former Time correspondent in China and a correspondent in France and Germany for The New York Times. His most recent book is The East, the West, and Sex: A History of Erotic Encounters. (November 2009)

Dan Chiasson's next book of poetry, Where’s the Moon, There’s the Moon, will be published in February. He teaches at Wellesley. (November 2009)

Mark Danner, longtime staff writer at The New Yorker and contributor to The New York Review of Books, is the author of three books: The Massacre at El Mozote: A Parable of the Cold War; The Road to Illegitimacy: One Reporter's Travels Through the 2000 Florida Recount; and Torture and Truth. Danner's work has been honored with many awards, including a National Magazine Award, three Overseas Press Awards, and an Emmy. In June 1999, he was named a MacArthur Fellow. He is Professor of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley and Henry R. Luce Professor of Human Rights and Journalism at Bard College. He divides his time between Berkeley and New York. His work is archived at markdanner.com.

Freeman Dyson has spent most of his life as a professor of physics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, taking time off to advise the US government and write books for the general public. He was born in England and worked as a civilian scientist for the Royal Air Force during World War II. He came to Cornell University as a graduate student in 1947 and worked with Hans Bethe and Richard Feynman, producing a user-friendly way to calculate the behavior of atoms and radiation. He also worked on nuclear reactors, solid-state physics, ferromagnetism, astrophysics, and biology, looking for problems where elegant mathematics could be usefully applied.

Dyson's books include Disturbing the Universe (1979), Weapons and Hope (1984), Infinite in All Directions (1988), Origins of Life (1986, second edition 1999), and The Sun, the Genome and the Internet (1999). He is a fellow of the American Physical Society, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and a fellow of the Royal Society of London. In 2000 he was awarded the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion.

John Gray is Professor of European Thought at the London School of Economics. Among his most recent books are Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals, False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism, and Heresies: Against Progress and Other Illusions.

Pico Iyer’s The Open Road, about the fourteenth Dalai Lama and globalism, was published in paperback in March. (November 2009)

Joshua Jelly-Schapiro is a doctoral student in geography at the University of California, Berkeley. (April 2009)

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

Anthony Lewis, a former columnist for The New York Times, has twice won the Pulitzer Prize. His book Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment was published last year.

James Oakes's most recent book is The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics. (April 2009)

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)

Robert O. Paxton is Mellon Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus at Columbia. His latest book is The Anatomy of Fascism. (April 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.

Cathleen Schine is the author of seven novels, including Rameau's Niece, The Love Letter, She is Me, and the forthcoming The New Yorkers. She is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books.

Colin Thubron has written many books on his travels in Asia and is also a novelist. His latest book is Shadow of the Silk Road.
 (June 2009)

Michael Tomasky is editor of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas and American editor-at-large for The Guardian.
 (December 2009)

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