Table of Contents
Volume 57, Number 3 · February 25, 2010
Jonathan D. Spence, The Triumph of Madame Chiang 
The Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-shek and the Birth of Modern China by Hannah Pakula
Charles Petersen, In the World of Facebook
The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal by Ben Mezrich
Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America by Julia Angwin
Nazila Fathi, Iran: The Deadly Game
Francine Prose, A Knife at the Door
Lit: A Memoir by Mary Karr
Tony Judt, Three More Memoirs by Tony Judt
Freeman Dyson, Silent Quantum Genius
The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom by Graham Farmelo
Mark Ford, Rinse and Repeat (poem)
Mischa Berlinski, Port-au-Prince: The Moment
Nicholas D. Kristof, On Isaiah Berlin: Explorer
Charles Rosen, On Isaiah Berlin: Gossip
Steve Coll, The Cabinet of Dr. Strangelove
A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon by Neil Sheehan
Charles Baxter, Stars Without Sky
Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem
Walter Kaiser, Not So Grand Illusion
The American Leonardo: A Tale of Obsession, Art and Money by John Brewer
Ahmed Rashid, A Deal with the Taliban?
My Life with the Taliban by Abdul Salam Zaeef, translated from the Pashto and edited by Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn
Ronald Dworkin, The "Devastating" Decision
Roy Blount, Jr., Judy Blume, Pat Cummings, et al. The Google Books Settlement: An Exchange with the Authors Guild
Paul Alexander, Michael Findlay, Joel Wachs, et al. The Warhol Foundation on Trial
Letters
Rainer Crone, What Andy Warhol Really Did
Contributors
Charles Baxter is Edelstein-Keller Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Minnesota. His most recent novel is The Soul Thief. (February 2010)
Mischa Berlinski is the author of the novel Fieldwork. He has lived in Haiti since the spring of 2007.
(February 2010)
Steve Coll, a staff writer for The New Yorker and president of the New America Foundation, is the author, most recently, of The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century. (February 2010)
Ronald Dworkin is Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law and Philosophy at NYU and Jeremy Bentham Professor of Law and Philosophy at University College London. His books include Is Democracy Possible Here? (2006), Justice in Robes, Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality, and Freedom's Law. He is the 2007 winner of the Ludvig Holberg International Memorial Prize for "his pioneering scholarly work" of "worldwide impact."
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.
Nazila Fathi is a reporter for The New York Times, formerly based in Tehran.
(February 2010)
Mark Ford has recently translated Raymond Roussel's Nouvelles Impressions d'Afrique. He teaches in the English Department at University College London. (February 2010)
Tony Judt directs the Remarque Institute at NYU and is the author of Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945. His latest book, Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century, was recently reissued in paperback.
(February 2010)
Walter Kaiser is a former director of Villa I Tatti, the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence. He is Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English and Professor of Comparative Literature Emeritus at Harvard. (February 2010)
Nicholas D. Kristof is a columnist for The New York Times and the coauthor, with his wife, Sheryl WuDunn, of Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, forthcoming in September.
Charles Petersen, an assistant editor at n + 1, has written for The Village Voice, The San Francisco Chronicle, and The Wall Street Journal. He has 144 friends on Facebook. (February 2010)
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.
Ahmed Rashid is the author of Descent into Chaos:
The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia and Taliban, an updated edition of which will be published in April. He lives in Lahore.
(February 2010)
Charles Rosen's latest book is Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist. (February 2010)
Jonathan Spence is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. His latest book is Return to Dragon Mountain: Memories of a Late Ming Man. (February 2010)
