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May 13, 2004 • Volume 51, Number 8

  • Ian Buruma

    Master of Fear e-edition

    Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Sebag Montefiore

  • Brian Urquhart

    A Matter of Truth

    Against All Enemies: Inside America’s War on Terror by Richard A. Clarke

    National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States Staff Statements Nos. 1-8 www.9-11commission.gov

  • Sue Halpern

    City Folks

    Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City’s Most Unwanted Inhabitants by Robert Sullivan

    Animals in Translation by Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson

  • Freeman Dyson

    The World on a String e-edition

    The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality by Brian Greene

  • David Gilmour

    Eastward Ho! e-edition

    The Man Who Would Be King: The First American in Afghanistan by Ben Macintyre

  • Luc Sante

    Disco Dreams e-edition

    Songbook by Nick Hornby

    Sonata for Jukebox: Pop Music, Memory, and the Imagined Life by Geoffrey O'Brien

  • Russell Baker

    In Bush’s Washington e-edition

  • Adam Shatz

    In Search of Hezbollah-II e-edition

    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: Mundane Politics vs. Extremist Ideals a paper byAugustus Richard Norton

    Hezbollah: The Changing Face of Terrorism by Judith Palmer Harik

    Hizballah: Terrorism, National Liberation, or Menace? a report by Sami G. Hajjar

  • David Herbert Donald

    Making It e-edition

    Vinnie Ream: An American Sculptor by Edward S. Cooper

  • Daniel Mendelsohn

    The Strange Music of Horace e-edition

    Horace, the Odes: New Translations by Contemporary Poets edited by J.D. McClatchy

  • Jonathan Mirsky

    The Party Isn’t Over e-edition

    Red Capitalists in China: The Party, Private Entrepreneurs, and Prospects for Political Change by Bruce J. Dickson

    Beyond Tiananmen: The Politics of US–China Relations, 1989–2000 by Robert L. Suettinger

  • Linda Colley

    Tough Guys e-edition

    From Chivalry to Terrorism: War and the Changing Nature of Masculinity by Leo Braudy

  • Peter W. Galbraith

    How to Get Out of Iraq e-edition

LETTERS

Contributors

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.

Sue Halpern is the editor of NYRB Lit and scholar-in-residence at Middlebury College. Her new book, A Dog Walks into a Nursing Home, will be published in May.
 (March 2013)

Brian Urquhart is a former Undersecretary-General of the United Nations. His books include Hammarskjöld, A Life in Peace and War, and Ralph Bunche: An American Life. His article in this issue draws on his essay in Tyringham Topics.
 (February 2013)

Freeman Dyson has spent most of his life as a professor of physics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, taking time off to advise the US government and write books for the general public. He was born in England and worked as a civilian scientist for the Royal Air Force during World War II. He came to Cornell University as a graduate student in 1947 and worked with Hans Bethe and Richard Feynman, producing a user-friendly way to calculate the behavior of atoms and radiation. He also worked on nuclear reactors, solid-state physics, ferromagnetism, astrophysics, and biology, looking for problems where elegant mathematics could be usefully applied.

Dyson’s books include Disturbing the Universe (1979), Weapons and Hope (1984), Infinite in All Directions (1988), Origins of Life (1986, second edition 1999), The Sun, the Genome and the Internet (1999), and A Many-Colored Glass: Reflections on the Place of Life in the Universe (2010). He is a fellow of the American Physical Society, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and a fellow of the Royal Society of London. In 2000 he was awarded the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion.

David Gilmour is the author of The Last Leopard: A Life of Giuseppe di Lampedusa, which was published in a revised and enlarged edition last year. He has written biographies of Rudyard Kipling and Lord Curzon. (June 2008)

Russell Baker is a former columnist and correspondent for The New York Times and The Baltimore Sun. His books include The Good Times, Growing Up, and Looking Back.

Luc Sante is the author of Low Life, Evidence, The Factory of Facts, Kill All Your Darlings, and Folk Photography. He has translated Félix Fénéon’s Novels in Three Lines and written the introduction to George Simenon’s The Man Who Watched Trains Go By (both available as NYRB Classics). He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and teaches writing and the history of photography at Bard College.

David Herbert Donald is the author, most recently, of We Are Lincoln Men: Abraham Lincoln and His Friends. (May 2004)

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.

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

Jonathan Mirsky is the former East Asia Editor of The Times of London. (June 2013)

Linda Colley is Shelby M.C. Davis 1958 Professor of History at Princeton. Her latest book is The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History. (July 2008)

Peter W. Galbraith, a former US Ambassador to Croatia, is Senior Diplomatic Fellow at the Center for Arms Control and a principal at the Windham Resources Group, which has worked in Iraq. His new book, Unintended Consequences: How War in Iraq Strengthened Americaå?s Enemies, has just been released. (October 2008)

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)