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Thomas Powers
The Failure
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Ronald Steel
George Kennan at 100
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Adam Zagajewski,
Clare CavanaghOur World (poem)
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Christopher Benfey
Their Ignorance and Majesty
Blood Horses: Notes of a Sportswriter’s Son by John Jeremiah Sullivan
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Max Rodenbeck
Islam Confronts Its Demons
The Malady of Islam by Abdelwahab Meddeb, translated from the French by Pierre Joris and Ann Reid
Shaping the Current Islamic Reformation edited by B.A. Roberson
Following Muhammad: Rethinking Islam in the Contemporary World by Carl W. Ernst
Tolerance and Coercion in Islam: Interfaith Relations in the Muslim Tradition by Yohanan Friedmann
The Future of Political Islam by Graham E. Fuller
Islam Without Fear: Egypt and the New Islamists by Raymond William Baker
Islam and Democracy in the Middle East edited by Larry Diamond, Marc F. Plattner, and Daniel Brumberg
Progressive Muslims on Justice, Gender, and Pluralism edited by Omid Safi
Leaving Islam: Apostates Speak Out edited by Ibn Warraq
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Larry McMurtry
The Two Lives of General Grant
Grant and Twain: The Story of a Friendship That Changed America by Mark Perry
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Edward R.F. Sheehan
The Disintegration of Palestine
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Neal Ascherson
Forbidden Knowledge
A Distant Shore by Caryl Phillips
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Samantha Power
The Lesson of Hannah Arendt
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Timothy Ferris
Stumbling into Space
Columbia Accident Investigation Board Report www.caib.us/news/report
Lost in Space: The Fall of NASA and the Dream of a New Space Age by Greg Klerkx
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Adam Shatz
In Search of Hezbollah
Hizbollah: Rebel Without a Cause? by the International Crisis Group
My Life Is a Weapon: A Modern History of Suicide Bombing by Christoph Reuter, translated from the German by Helena Ragg-Kirkby
Hizbu’llah: Politics and Religion by Amal Saad-Ghorayeb
Should Hezbollah Be Next? by Daniel Byman
Hizballah of Lebanon: Extremist Ideals vs. Mundane Politics a paper by Augustus Richard Norton
Hezbollah: The Changing Face of Terrorism by Judith Palmer Harik
Hizballah: Terrorism, National Liberation, or Menace? a report by Sami G. Hajjar
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Brad Leithauser
A Passionate Clamor
The Poetical Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins edited by Norman H. MacKenzie
The Journals and Papers of Gerard Manley Hopkins edited by Humphry House and Graham Storey
The Letters of Gerard Manley Hopkins to Robert Bridges edited with notes and an introduction by Claude Colleer Abbott
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P. N. Furbank
Body and Soul
Flesh in the Age of Reason by Roy Porter, with a foreword by Simon Schama
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Garry Wills
Did Tocqueville ‘Get’ America?
LETTERS
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Harry Lieber,
Steven WeinbergWhat Happened at Vienna
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Father Owen Kearns, LC,
Garry WillsThe Legion of Christ
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Zbigniew Brzezinski
Brzezinski’s Thesis
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Helen Vendler,
Roger ShattuckKeats & Helen Keller
Contributors
Max Rodenbeck is The Economist’s Mideast Correspondent. He lives in Cairo. (May 2013)
Adam Shatz is the literary editor of The Nation. (September 2005)


