Contents

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. 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. Parts of his essay in the Review‘s October 13, 2011 issue were drawn from his Tanner Lectures on Human Value at Stanford University, which will be published next year as Torture and the Forever War. His 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. Her most recent novel is Truth and Consequences.

Garry Wills is Professor of History Emeritus at Northwestern. The article in the Review‘s November 24, 2011 issue is drawn from his new book, Verdi’s Shakespeare: Men of the Theater (Viking).

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 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.

Andrew Hacker teaches at Queens College. His books include Money: Who Has How Much and Why, Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal, and, most recently, Higher Education, written with Claudia Dreifus. (February 2012)

Ian Hacking holds the chair of Philosophy and History of Scientific Concepts at the Collège de France. His most recent book is Historical Ontology. (April 2005)

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

Daniel Mendelsohn is the author of six books, including How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken, a collection of critical essays mostly from The New York Review of Books. He is the Charles Ranlett Flint Professor of Humanities at Bard.

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 is Emeritus Professor of English at Rutgers and a former editor of Raritan. His most recent book is Over Here: Criticizing America, 1968–1989. (June 2004)

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.
 (November 2011)