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June 24, 2004 • Volume 51, Number 11

  • Michael Massing

    Unfit to Print?

  • Garry Wills

    Lessons of a Master e-edition

    The Genuine Article: A Historian Looks at Early America by Edmund S. Morgan

  • Alison Lurie

    The Good Bad Boy e-edition

  • Mike Wallace

    Babylon on the Subway e-edition

    The Devil’s Playground: A Century of Pleasure and Profit in Times Square by James Traub

    Ghosts of 42nd Street: A History of America’s Most Infamous Block by Anthony Bianco

  • Charles Simic

    Adam’s Umbrella e-edition

    How to Quiet a Vampire by Borislav Pekiå«c, translated from the Serbian by Stephen M. Dickey and Bogdan Rakic

  • Andrew Hacker

    Patriot Games e-edition

    Who Are We?: The Challenges to America’s National Identity by Samuel P. Huntington

    Reason: Why Liberals Will Win the Battle for America by Robert B. Reich

    On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense by David Brooks

    The Two Americas: Our Current Political Deadlock and How to Break It by Stanley B. Greenberg

    The Working Poor: Invisible in America by David K. Shipler

  • Ian Hacking

    Minding the Brain

    Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain by Antonio Damasio

  • Caroline Fraser

    Heart of Darkness e-edition

    The Faith of a Writer: Life, Craft, Art by Joyce Carol Oates

    Rape: A Love Story by Joyce Carol Oates

    I’ll Take You There by Joyce Carol Oates

    The Tattooed Girl by Joyce Carol Oates

    I Am No One You Know by Joyce Carol Oates

  • Joseph Kerman

    That Old Labyrinth Song e-edition

    The Maze and the Warrior: Symbols in Architecture, Theology, and Music by Craig Wright

  • Daniel Mendelsohn

    A Little Iliad e-edition

    Troy a film directed by Wolfgang Petersen

  • Christopher de Bellaigue

    Stalled in Iran e-edition

  • Thomas R. Edwards

    The Awful Truth e-edition

    Nothing Lost by John Gregory Dunne

  • Nicholas D. Kristof

    A Little Leap Forward e-edition

    China’s Democratic Future: How It Will Happen and Where It Will Lead by Bruce Gilley

  • Robert Darnton

    It Happened One Night e-edition

    A Sentimental Murder: Love and Madness in the Eighteenth Century by John Brewer

    The Return of Martin Guerre by Natalie Zemon Davis

    The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II by Iris Chang

    The Nanjing Massacre: A Japanese Journalist Confronts Japan’s National Shame by Katsuichi Honda, edited by Frank Gibney

    Nanking: Anatomy of an Atrocity by Masahiro Yamamoto

    The Nanjing Massacre in History and Historiography edited by Joshua A. Fogel

    Martyred Village: Commemorating the 1944 Massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane by Sarah Farmer

    The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brassillach by Alice Kaplan

    Bloody Saturday in the Soviet Union: Novocherkassk, 1962 by Samuel H. Baron

    An Absolute Massacre: The New Orleans Race Riot of July 30, 1866 by James G. Hollandsworth Jr

    An Ordinary Atrocity: Sharpeville and Its Massacre by Philip Frankel

    Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland by Jan T. Gross

    Testing the New Deal: The General Textile Strike of 1934in the American South by Janet Irons

    Contesting the New South Order: The 1914–1915 Strike at Atlanta’s Fulton Mills by Clifford M. Kuhn

    The Meetinghouse Tragedy: An Episode in the Life of a New England Town by Charles E. Clark

    The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction by Linda Gordon

    A Poisoned Chalice by Jeffrey Freedman

    The Rule of Justice: The People of Chicago versus Zephyr Davis by Elizabeth Dale

    The Politics of Court Scandal in Early Modern England: News, Culture and the Overbury Affair, 1603–1660 by Alastair Bellany

    The Perreaus and Mrs. Rudd: Forgery and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century London by Donna T. Andrew and Randall McGowen

    Walk Towards the Gallows: The Tragedy of Hilda Blake, Hanged 1899 by Reinhold Kramer and Tom Mitchell

    Trials of Intimacy: Love and Loss in the Beecher-Tilton Scandal by Richard Wightman Fox

  • Mark Danner

    The Logic of Torture

Contributors

Christopher de Bellaigue was born in London in 1971 and has worked as a journalist in the Middle East and South Asia since 1994. His first book, In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs: A Memoir of Iran, was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature’s Ondaatje Prize. His latest book is Patriot of Persia: Muhammad Mossadegh and a Tragic Anglo-American Coup. He lives in Tehran with his wife and two children.

Mark Danner is the author, most recently, of Stripping Bare the Body: Politics Violence War. He is Chancellor’s Professor of English, Journalism and Politics at the University of California at Berkeley and James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs, Politics and the Humanities at Bard College and is currently teaching at Al Quds University in East Jerusalem. His book Torture and the Forever War will be published in the spring of 2013. His writing and other work can be found at markdanner.com.

Michael Massing, a contributing editor of the Columbia Journalism Review, writes frequently on the press and foreign affairs.

Alison Lurie is a former Professor of English at Cornell. She is the author of two collections of essays on children’s literature, Don’t Tell the Grownups and Boys and Girls Forever, and the editor of The Oxford Book of Fairy Tales. Her most recent novel is Truth and Consequences.


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.

Mike Wallace is coauthor of Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898, author of A New Deal for New York, Distinguished Professor at John Jay College (CUNY), and Director of the Gotham Center for New York City History. He is working on Gotham II. (February 2005)

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.

Andrew Hacker teaches political science at Queens College. He is currently working on a book on mathematics with Claudia Dreifus.
 (January 2013)

Ian Hacking teaches philosophy at the University of Toronto. From 2000 to 2006 Hacking held the chair of Philosophy and History of Scientific Concepts at the Collège de France. His most recent book is Historical Ontology.

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

Daniel Mendelsohn’s reviews and essays on literary and cultural subjects appear frequently in The New York Review of Books and The New Yorker. He is the author, most recently, of the collection Waiting for the Barbarians: Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture, which was a finalist for the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award. His other books include two memoirs, a translation of the complete works of C.P. Cavafy, and a study of Greek tragedy, Gender and the City in Euripides’ Political Plays. He teaches at Bard College.

Joseph Kerman is emeritus professor of music at the University of California, Berkeley. He began writing music criticism for The Hudson Review in the 1950s, and is a longtime contributor to The New York Review of Books and many other journals. His books include Opera as Drama (1956; new and revised edition 1988), The Beethoven Quartets (1967), Contemplating Music (1986), Concerto Conversations (1999), and The Art of Fugue (2005).

Thomas R. Edwards (1928–2005) was Professor of English at Rutgers and editor of Raritan. His last book was Over Here: Criticizing America.

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.

Robert Darnton is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and University Librarian at Harvard. His latest book is Poetry and the Police: Communication Networks in Eighteenth-Century Paris.