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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 has written widely on foreign affairs. He reports on the Balkans for The Economist and its online column Eastern Approaches. He is the author of books about the region and a biography of Abebe Bikila, the first black African to win a gold medal at the Olympics.
 (May 2012)

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.

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 recent works include 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. His New and Selected Poems: 1962–2012 was published in March 2013.

Joyce Carol Oates is the author most recently of the novel The Accursed. She is Roger S. Berlind Professor in the Arts and the Humanities at Princeton.


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 is a regular contributor to The New York Review and the former Washington correspondent of The Atlantic and The New Yorker. She is the author of fourteen books.
 (March 2013)

Michael Tomasky is Special Correspondent for Newsweek/
The Daily Beast and Editor of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas.
 (April 2013)

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. Her latest novel, Fin & Lady, will be published in July 2013. She is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books.

Tony Judt (1948–2010) was the founder and director of the Remarque Institute at NYU and the author of Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945, Ill Fares the Land, and The Burden of Responsibility: Blum, Camus, Aron, and the French Twentieth Century, among other books.

Sanford Schwartz’s reviews have been collected in The Art Presence and Artists and Writers. (July 2013)

Robert Cottrell has served as a Moscow bureau chief for both The Economist and the Financial Times. (June 2007)

Tim Parks, a novelist, essayist, and translator, is Associate Professor of Literature and Translation at IULM University in Milan. His books include Teach Us to Sit Still: A Skeptic’s Search for Health and Healing and The Server.

Richard C. Lewontin is Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Professor of Biology at Harvard University. He is the author of The Genetic Basis of Evolutionary Change and Biology as Ideology, and the co-author of The Dialectical Biologist (with Richard Levins) and Not in Our Genes (with Steven Rose and Leon Kamin).

Jasper Griffin is Emeritus Professor of Classical Literature and a Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. His books include Homer on Life and Death.

H. Allen Orr is University Professor and Shirley Cox Kearns Professor of Biology at the University of Rochester. He is the author, with Jerry A. Coyne, of Speciation.

 (February 2013)

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