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November 21, 2002 • Volume 49, Number 18

  • Felix G. Rohatyn

    From New York to Baghdad

  • Marshall Frady

    The Prospero of the Senate e-edition

    The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Master of the Senate by Robert A. Caro

  • Caroline Fraser

    The Mormon Murder Case e-edition

    Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows by Will Bagley

    Red Water by Judith Freeman

  • Ian Buruma

    Suicide for the Empire e-edition

    Kamikaze, Cherry Blossoms, and Nationalists: The Militarization of Aesthetics in Japanese History by Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney

    Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852–1912 by Donald Keene

  • David Levering Lewis

    An American Pastime e-edition

    At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America by Philip Dray

    A Lynching in the Heartland: Race and Memory in America by James H. Madison

  • Larry McMurtry

    Out of the Mists e-edition

    Ancestral Voices by James Lees-Milne

    Prophesying Peace by James Lees-Milne

    Caves of Ice: Diaries, 1946 & ‘47 by James Lees-Milne

    Midway on the Waves by James Lees-Milne

    A Mingled Measure: Diaries, 1953–1972 by James Lees-Milne

    Ancient as the Hills: Diaries, 1973–1974 by James Lees-Milne

    Through Wood and Dale: Diaries, 1975–1978 by James Lees-Milne

    Deep Romantic Chasm: Diaries, 1979–1981 by James Lees-Milne

    Holy Dread: Diaries, 1982–1984 by James Lees-Milne

  • James Chace

    Tomorrow the World e-edition

    First Great Triumph: How Five Americans Made Their Country a World Power by Warren Zimmermann

  • Neal Ascherson

    At War with Stupidity e-edition

    When Eve Was Naked: Stories of a Life’s Journey by Josef Skvorecky

  • Dan Jacobson

    Bad Trip e-edition

    Cherry: A Life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard by Sara Wheeler

    The Coldest March: Scott’s Fatal Antarctic Expedition by Susan Solomon

  • Brent D. Shaw

    Loving the Poor e-edition

    Poverty and Leadership in the Later Roman Empire by Peter Brown

  • Colin McGinn

    Looking for a Black Swan e-edition

    All Life Is Problem Solving by Karl Popper, translated from the German by Patrick Camiller

    Wittgenstein’s Poker: The Story of a Ten-Minute Argument Between Two Great Philosophers by David Edmonds and John Eidinow

    Karl Popper—The Formative Years, 1902–1945: Politics and Philosophyin Interwar Vienna by Malachi Haim Hacohen

    Karl Popper: Lesson of This Century interviewed by Giancarlo Bosetti, translated from the German by Patrick Camiller

  • James Fenton

    Making It by Making It e-edition

    The Genius of Robert Adam: His Interiors by Eileen Harris

  • Adam Shatz

    The Torture of Algiers e-edition

    The Battle of the Casbah: Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism in Algeria, 1955–1957 by General Paul Aussaresses, with an introduction by Robert L. Miller

    Algérienne by Louisette Ighilahriz, as told to Anne Nivat

    Une Vie Debout: Mémoires Politiques, Tome 1: 1945–1962 by Mohammed Harbi

    Les Harkis: Une Mémoire Enfouie by Jean-Jacques Jordi and Mohand Hamoumou

    Une Drôle de Justice: Les Magistrats dans la Guerre d’Algérie by Sylvie Thénault

    Uncivil War: Intellectuals and Identity Politics During the Decolonization of Algeria by James D. Le Sueur, with aforeword by Pierre Bourdieu

    La Gangrène et l’Oubli:La Mémoire de la Guerre d’Algérie by Benjamin Stora

    La Torture et l’Armée pendant la Guerre d’Algérie, 1954–1962 by Raphaëlle Branche

    Aux Origines de la Guerre d’Algérie, 1940–1945 by Annie Rey-Goldzeiguer

LETTERS

Contributors

Felix Rohatyn is an investment banker and has been a governor of the New York Stock Exchange, Chairman of the New York Municipal Assistance Corporation, and US Ambassador to France. (October 2008)

Marshall Frady’s books include Wallace, Billy Graham, Southerners, Jesse: The Life and Pilgrimage of Jesse Jackson, and, most recently, Martin Luther King, Jr. He is currently writing a biography of Fidel Castro. (February 2004)

Caroline Fraser ‘s most recent book, Rewilding the World: Dispatches from the Conservation Revolution, was published in December. (May 2010)

Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard. His books include Murderer in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo Van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance, Taming the Gods: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents, and the novel The China Lover. His book Year Zero: A History of 1945 will be published in September 2013.

David Levering Lewis is Martin Luther King Jr. University Professor of History at Rutgers and the author of a two-volume biography of W.E.B. DuBois, which won a Pulitzer Prize for each volume in 1994 and 2001. (November 2002)

Larry McMurtry lives in Archer City, Texas. His novels include The Last Picture Show, Terms of Endearment, Lonesome Dove (winner of the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction), Folly and Gloryand Rhino Ranch. His nonfiction works include a biography of Crazy Horse, Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen, Paradise, Sacagawea’s Nickname: Essays on the American West and, most recently, Custer.

James Chace is the Paul W. Williams Professor of Government and Public Law at Bard College. He is the author of Acheson and, most recently, 1912: The Election That Changed the Country. He is now working on a biography of Lafayette. (October 2004)

Neal Ascherson is the author of The Struggles for Poland, The Black Sea, and Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland. He is an Honorary Professor at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London.


Dan Jacobson is a novelist and essayist. His latest book is Heschel’s Kingdom, a memoir and account of his travels in Lithuania. (November 2002)

Brent D. Shaw is Professor of Classical Studies and Chair of the Graduate Group in Ancient History at the University ofPennsylvania. His most recent book is Spartacus and the Slave Wars.

Colin McGinn’s books include Shakespeare’s Philosophy, Basic Structures of Reality, and, most recently, Truth by Analysis.
 (July 2013)

James Fenton is a British poet and literary critic. From 1994 until 1999, Fenton was Oxford Professor of Poetry; in 2007 he was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry.

Adam Shatz is the literary editor of The Nation. (September 2005)

Garry Wills is Professor of History Emeritus at Northwestern. His study of Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1993. His latest book, Why Priests? A Failed Tradition, was published in February 2013.