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September 22, 2005 • Volume 52, Number 14

  • Jonathan Raban

    September 11: The View from the West e-edition

  • John Banville

    The Furies e-edition

    Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel

  • W.S. Merwin

    Traces (poem) e-edition

  • Richard Dorment

    On Hanging e-edition

    Art and the Power of Placement by Victoria Newhouse

  • J. M. Coetzee

    Love and Walt Whitman e-edition

    Memoranda During the War by Walt Whitman, edited by Peter Coviello

    Leaves of Grass: The First (1855) Edition by Walt Whitman, edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom

    Leaves of Grass: 150th Anniversary Edition by Walt Whitman, edited and with an afterword by David S. Reynolds

    Walt Whitman by David S. Reynolds

    To Walt Whitman, America by Kenneth M. Price

    Transatlantic Connections: Whitman US, Whitman UK by M. Wynn Thomas

  • Christian Caryl

    Why They Do It e-edition

    Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism by Robert A. Pape

    Making Sense of Suicide Missions edited by Diego Gambetta

    Suicide Bombers: Allah’s New Martyrs by Farhad Khosrokhavar,translated from the Frenchby David Macey

    Perfect Soldiers: The Hijackers—Who They Were, Why They Did It by Terry McDermott

    The Road to Martyrs’ Square:A Journey into the Worldof the Suicide Bomber by Anne Marie Oliver and Paul F. Steinberg

    Suicide Terrorism by Ami Pedahzur

    Dying to Kill: The Allure of Suicide Terror by Mia Bloom

  • Orlando Figes

    The Divine Terrorist e-edition

    Ivan the Terrible: First Tsar of Russia by Isabel de Madariaga

  • William H. McNeill

    Ah, Wilderness! e-edition

    Wandering Home: A Long Walk Across America’s Most Hopeful Landscape: Vermont’s Champlain Valley and New York’s Adirondacks by Bill McKibben

    Confluence: A River, the Environment, Politics, and the Fate of All Humanity by Nathaniel Tripp, with a foreword by Howard Dean

  • Edmund S. Morgan

    The Other Founders e-edition

    The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America by Gary B. Nash

  • Shaul Bakhash

    Letter from Evin Prison e-edition

  • Anita Desai

    A Shadow World e-edition

    Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

  • Adam Shatz

    The Jewish Question e-edition

    The Jewish Prison: A Rebellious Meditation on the State of Judaism by Jean Daniel, translated from the French by Charlotte Mandell

  • Michael Chabon

    After Strange Gods e-edition

  • Scott Staton

    A Lost Pop Symphony

    Smile an album by Brian Wilson

  • Joyce Carol Oates

    Domestic Gothic e-edition

  • Christopher Benfey

    American Jeremiad e-edition

    The American Classics: A Personal Essay by Denis Donoghue.

  • Keith Gessen

    Horror Tour e-edition

    Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

    Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer

  • Thomas Powers

    An American Tragedy

    American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin

    The Ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Birth of the Modern Arms Race by Priscilla J. McMillan

    Oppenheimer: Portrait of an Enigma by Jeremy Bernstein

    J. Robert Oppenheimer and the American Century by David C. Cassidy

LETTERS

Contributors

Jonathan Raban’s books include Surveillance, My Holy War, Arabia, Old Glory, Hunting Mister Heartbreak, Bad Land, Passage to Juneau, and Waxwings. He is the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Heinemann Award of the Royal Society of Literature, the PEN/West Creative Nonfiction Award, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers’ Award, and the Governor’s Award of the State of Washington. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, The Guardian, and The Independent. He lives in Seattle.

John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland in 1945. He is the author of many novels, including The Book of Evidence, The Untouchable, Eclipse, The Sea (winner of the Man Booker Prize), and Ancient Light. As Benjamin Black he has written six crime novels, including Vengeance.

W.S. Merwin was born in New York City in 1927 and grew up in Union City, New Jersey, and in Scranton, Pennsylvania. From 1949 to 1951 he worked as a tutor in France, Portugal, and Majorca. He has since lived in many parts of the world, most recently on Maui in the Hawaiian Islands. He is the author of many books of poems, prose, and translations and has received both the Pulitzer and the Bollingen Prizes for poetry, among numerous other awards.

Richard Dorment is the art critic of the Daily Telegraph. Among the exhibitions he has organized is “James McNeill Whistler,” seen at the Tate Gallery, London, the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 
(June 2013)

J. M. Coetzee, the 2003 Nobel Laureate in Literature, is an Honorary Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Adelaide.

Orlando Figes is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the author, among other books, of The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin’s Russia, A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution: 1891–1924, and Natasha’s Dance: A Cultural History of Russia. His latest book is The Crimean War: A History. (January 2012)

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.

Edmund S. Morgan is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. His most recent book is The Genuine Article: A Historian Looks at Early America. (June 2011)

Anita Desai’s The Artist of Disappearance, a collection of three novellas, will be published this year. (April 2011)

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

Christian Caryl is a Senior Fellow at the Legatum Institute and the Editor of Foreign Policy’s Democracy Lab website.
 His book Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century was published in April 2013.

Shaul Bakhash is Robinson Professor of History at George Mason University and the author of The Reign of the Ayatollahs: Iran and the Islamic Revolution. (September 2005)

Michael Chabon is the author of several books, including The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Wonder Boys, The Amazing Adventures of Cavalier and Klay, The Yiddish Policeman’s Union, Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son and most recently, Telegraph Avenue. His essay in the March 7, 2013 issue will appear in different form in The Wes Anderson Collection, to be published by Abrams later this year.

Joyce Carol Oates is the author most recently of the novel The Accursed. She is Roger S. Berlind Professor in the Arts and the Humanities at Princeton.


Keith Gessen is a founding editor of N+1 and the author of All the Sad Young Literary Men. Among his translations from the Russian are Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich and, with Anna Summers, There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby: Scary Fairy Tales by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya.

Scott Staton is on the editorial staff of The New York Review. (September 2005)

Christopher Benfey is Mellon Professor of English at Mount Holyoke. His latest book, Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay, is now out in paperback.
 (March 2013)

Thomas Powers is the author of The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA (1979), Heisenberg’s War: The Secret History of the German Bomb (1993), Intelligence Wars: American Secret History from Hitler to al-Qaeda (2002; revised and expanded edition, 2004), and The Confirmation (2000), a novel. He won a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1971 and has contributed to The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, Harper’s, The Nation, The Atlantic, and Rolling Stone. His latest book, The Killing of Crazy Horse, won the 2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History. He is currently writing a memoir of his father, who once told him that the last time he met Clare Boothe Luce was in the office of Allen Dulles.


Louis Begley’s books include Why the Dreyfus Affair Matters and the novel Wartime Lies. His tenth novel, Memories of a Marriage, will be published this summer.


P. N. Furbank is the author of nine books, including biographies of Samuel Butler, Italo Svevo, and E.M. Forster.

Roger Shattuck (1923–2005) was an American writer and scholar of French culture. He taught at Harvard, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Virginia, and Boston University, where he was named University Professor. His books includeForbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography.