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October 21, 2004 • Volume 51, Number 16

  • Stanley Hoffmann

    Out of Iraq e-edition

  • Kofi Annan

    An Illegal War e-edition

  • Ian Buruma

    The Destruction of Germany e-edition

    Der Brand: Deutschland im Bombenkrieg 1940–1945(The Fire: Germany in the Bombing War, 1940–1945) by Jörg Friedrich

    Brandstätten: Der Anblick des Bombenkriegs(Scenes of Fire: A View of the Bombing War) by Jörg Friedrich

  • Anthony Hecht

    Aubade (poem) e-edition

  • Darryl Pinckney

    Gone with the Wind e-edition

    The Known World by Edward P. Jones

  • Jasper Griffin

    The Myth of the Olympics

    The Ancient Olympics: A History by Nigel Spivey

    Games and Sanctuaries in Ancient Greece: Olympia, Delphi, Isthmia, Nemea, Athens by Panos Valavanis

    Wrestling with the Ancients: Modern Greek Identity and the Olympics by Alexander Kitroeff

    Olympics in Athens, 1896: The Invention of the Modern Olympic Games by Michael Llewellyn Smith

    Ancient Greek Athletics by Stephen G. Miller

  • Max Rodenbeck

    Unloved in Arabia e-edition

    House of Bush, House of Saud: The Secret Relationship Between the World’s Two Most Powerful Dynasties by Craig Unger

    Saudi Arabia and the Politics of Dissent by Mamoun Fandy

    Hatred’s Kingdom: How Saudi Arabia Supports the New Global Terrorism by Dore Gold

    Inside the Mirage: America’s Fragile Partnership with Saudi Arabia by Thomas Lippman

    Sleeping with the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude by Robert Baer

    The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Understanding Saudi Arabia by Colin Wells

    Can Saudi Arabia Reform Itself? a report by the International Crisis Group

  • Diane Johnson

    Stiff Upper Lip e-edition

    The Lemon Table by Julian Barnes

  • Benjamin M. Friedman

    Bush & Kerry: A Big Divide e-edition

  • Witold Rybczynski

    The Triumph of a Distinguished Failure e-edition

    The Architecture of Humanism: A Study in the History of Taste by Geoffrey Scott

  • Adrian Lyttelton

    What Was Fascism? e-edition

    The Anatomy of Fascism by Robert O. Paxton

  • Neal Ascherson

    Africa: The Hard Truth e-edition

    A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa by Howard W. French

  • Stephen Greenblatt

    The Death of Hamnet and the Making of Hamlet

  • George M. Fredrickson

    Is There Hope for the South? e-edition

    Where We Stand: Voices of Southern Dissent edited by Anthony Dunbar

  • Alan Ryan

    Time Out? e-edition

    Deliberation Day by Bruce Ackerman and James S. Fishkin

  • Lorin Stein

    Loves of the Lambs e-edition

    Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb, with a foreword by Phillip Lopate

    A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb by Sarah Burton

    The Devil Kissed Her: The Story of Mary Lamb by Kathy Watson

  • Mark Lilla

    Leo Strauss: The European e-edition

    Gesammelte Schriften, Vol. 1: Die Religionskritik Spinozas und zugehörige Schriften by Leo Strauss,edited by Heinrich Meier

    Gesammelte Schriften, ol. 2: Philosophie und Gesetz— Frühe Schriften by Leo Strauss,edited by Heinrich Meier

    Gesammelte Schriften, Vol. 3: Hobbes’ politische Wissenschaft und zugehörige Schriften—Briefe by Leo Strauss, edited by Heinrich Meier

    Leo Strauss: The Early Writings (1921–1932) translated from the Germanand edited by Michael Zank

    Tussen Athene en Jeruzalem: Filosofie, profetie en politiek in het werk van Leo Strauss by David Janssens

    Die Denkbewegung von Leo Strauss: Die Geschichte der Philosophie und die Intentionen des Philosophen by Heinrich Meier

    Das theologisch-politische Problem: Zum Thema von Leo Strauss by Heinrich Meier

    Leo Strauss: Une biographie intellectuelle by Daniel Tanguay

  • William H. McNeill

    Bigger and Better? e-edition

    The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700–2100:Europe, America, and the Third World by Robert William Fogel

  • Joan Didion

    Politics in the ‘New Normal’ America

LETTERS

Contributors

Stanley Hoffmann is Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor at Harvard. His most recent books are Chaos and Violence: What Globalization, Failed States, and Terrorism Mean for US Foreign Policy and Rousseau and Freedom, coedited with Christie McDonald.


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.

Kofi Annan was until recently the Secretary-General of the United Nations. (February 2007)

Darryl Pinckney is the author of a novel, High Cotton, and, in the Alain Locke Lecture Series, Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature.

Anthony Hecht’sCollected Later Poems and Melodies Unheard: Essays on the Mysteries of Poetry were published in 2003. He died on October 20. (December 2004)

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

Max Rodenbeck is The Economist’s Mideast Correspondent. He lives in Cairo. (May 2013)

Diane Johnson is a novelist and critic. Her books include Lulu in Marrakechand Le Divorce. Her new book, Flyover Lives, will be published in January 2014.

Benjamin M. Friedman is the William Joseph Maier Professor of Political Economy at Harvard. His most recent book is The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth.
 (October 2012)

Witold Rybczynski is the Meyerson Professor of Urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania, and is the architecture critic for Slate. His book on American building, Last Harvest, was published in 2007.

Neal Ascherson is the author of The Struggles for Poland, The Black Sea, and Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland. He is an Honorary Professor at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London.


George M. Fredrickson is Edgar E. Robinson Professor of US History Emeritus at Stanford. His recent books include Racism: A Short History and Not Just Black and White, a collection co-edited with Nancy Foner.

Alan Ryan teaches at Princeton. His recent works include The Making of Modern Liberalism and On Politics: A History of Political Thought.

Stephen Greenblatt is John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard. His latest book, The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, received the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction.

Adrian Lyttelton is Professor of History at the Johns Hopkins University Center in Bologna and the author of The Seizure of Power: Fascism in Italy 1919–1929. (March 2006)

Mark Lilla is Professor of the Humanities at Columbia and author of The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics. His article in the April 25, 2013 issue will appear as the introduction to Against the Current by Isaiah Berlin, to be published in a new edition by Prince­ton University Press in May 2013.

William H. McNeill is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Chicago. His most recent books are The Pursuit of Truth: A Historian’s Memoir and Summers Long Ago: On Grandfather’s Farm and in Grandmother’s Kitchen, published by the Berkshire Publishing Group. His most recent publication, as editor, is the second edition of the Encyclopedia of World History.

Joan Didion is the author of The Year of Magical Thinking and We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction.

Lorin Stein is Editor of The Paris Review. (December 2011)

Fintan O’Toole is Literary Editor of The Irish Times and Leonard L. Milberg Visiting Lecturer in Irish Letters at Prince­ton. His latest book is A History of Ireland in 100 Objects.
 (June 2013)

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.