Contents

May 1, 2003 • Volume 50, Number 7
  • Ian Buruma

    Revolution from Above

    Terror and Liberalism by Paul Berman

  • Charles Simic

    Archives of Horror e-edition

    Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag

  • Joyce Carol Oates

    Desire and Dread e-edition

    Property by Valerie Martin

  • Jason Epstein

    Leviathan e-edition

  • Elizabeth Drew

    The Enforcer e-edition

    Bush’s Brain: How Karl Rove Made George W. Bush Presidential by James Moore and Wayne Slater

    Boy Genius: Karl Rove, the Brains Behind the Remarkable Political Triumph of George W. Bush by Lou Dubose, Jan Reid,and Carl M. Cannon

  • Michael Tomasky

    Battleground Zero e-edition

    American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center by William Langewiesche

  • Cathleen Schine

    A Nice Little Visit e-edition

    A Box of Matches by Nicholson Baker

  • Tony Judt

    Anti-Americans Abroad

    L’Ennemi américain: Généalogie de l’antiaméricanisme français by Philippe Roger

    11 septembre 2001: L’Effroyable Imposture (9/11: The Big Lie) by Thierry Meyssan

    Pourquoi le monde déteste-t-il l’Amérique? (Why Do People Hate America?) by Ziauddin Sardar and Merryl Wyn Davies

    Le Livre noir des États-Unis by Peter Scowen

    Dangereuse Amérique: Chronique d’une guerre annoncée by Noël Mamère and Patrick Farbiaz

    Après l’empire: Essai sur la décomposition du système américain by Emmanuel Todd

    L’Obsession anti-américaine:Son fonctionnement, ses causes, ses inconséquences by Jean-François Revel

  • Sanford Schwartz

    The Instinct Artist e-edition

    Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1880–1938 Catalog of the exhibition edited by Jill Lloyd and Magdalena M. Moeller

  • Robert Cottrell

    L’Homme Nikita e-edition

    Khrushchev: The Man and His Era by William Taubman

    Conversations with Gorbachev: On Perestroika, the Prague Spring, and the Crossroads of Socialism by Mikhail Gorbachev and Zdenek Mlynár, translated from the Russian by George Shriver, with a foreword by Archie Brown

    A Century of Violence in Soviet Russia by Alexander N. Yakovlev,translated from the Russian by Anthony Austin, with a foreword by Paul Hollander

  • Tim Parks

    Mad at the Medicis e-edition

    April Blood: Florence and the Plot Against the Medici by Lauro Martines

  • Richard C. Lewontin

    Science and Simplicity e-edition

    Making Sense of Life: Explaining Biological Development with Models, Metaphors, and Machines by Evelyn Fox Keller

    Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA by Brenda Maddox

    Watson and DNA: Making a Scientific Revolution by Victor K. McElheny

    DNA: The Secret of Life by James D. Watson, with Andrew Berry

  • Jasper Griffin

    That Old Black Magic e-edition

    Cicero on the Emotions: Tusculan Disputations 3 and 4 translated from the Latin and with commentary by Margaret Graver

    Greek and Roman Necromancy by Daniel Ogden

  • Tim Judah

    Death in Baghdad

  • Steven Pinker,
    H. Allen Orr

    The Blank Slate’: An Exchange

LETTERS

Contributors

Tim Judah is the Balkans Correspondent of TheEconomist. He is the author of The Serbs: History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia, a new edition of which has just been published. He is also the author of two books on Kosovo and one on the Ethiopian marathon runner Abebe Bikila. He has reported on the Balkans, Afghanistan, Kurdistan, Iraq, and Sudan for The New York Review.
 (March 2010)

Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard and a Cullman Fellow at the New York Public Library. His latest book is Taming the Gods: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents.


Charles Simic is a poet, essayist, and translator. He has published some twenty collections of poetry, six books of essays, a memoir, and numerous translations. He is the recipient of many awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Griffin Prize, and a MacArthur Fellowship. Simic’s most recent works are Voice at 3 a.m., a selection of later and new poems; Master of Disguises, new poems; and Confessions of a Poet Laureate, a collection of short essays that was published by New York Review Books as an e-book original. In 2007 Simic was appointed the fifteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress.

Joyce Carol Oates is Roger S. Berlind Professor of Humanities and the Arts at Princeton. Her most recent books are A Widow’s Story: A Memoir and the forthcoming The Corn Maiden: Novellas and Stories. (September 2011)

Jason Epstein launched the trade paperback format in the US in 1952 as a young editor at Doubleday. In 1963 he was a founder of The New York Review and in 1979 cofounder with the late Edmund Wilson of the Library of America. In 2007 he cofounded On Demand Books. Among his many awards are the National Book Award Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the Lifetime Achievement Award of the National Book Critics Circle, and the Curtis Benjamin Award given by the American Association of Publishers for enriching the world of books.
 (February 2011)

Elizabeth Drew, who lives in Washington, is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books. She is the author of fourteen books, including one of the first books on the role of money in modern US politics, from 1983.


Michael Tomasky is Special Correspondent for Newsweek/The Daily Beast. He is also Editor of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas.
 (February 2012)

Cathleen Schine is the author of several novels, including Rameau’s Niece, The Love Letter, She is Me, The New Yorkers, and The Three Weissmanns of Westport. She is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books.