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May 29, 2008 • Volume 55, Number 9

  • Geoffrey Wheatcroft

    Churchill and His Myths

    Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: The Dire Warning by John Lukacs

    Troublesome Young Men: The Rebels Who Brought Churchill to Power and Helped Save England by Lynne Olson

    Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization by Nicholson Baker

    Churchill, Hitler, and “The Unnecessary War”: How Britain Lost the Empire and the West Lost the World by Patrick J. Buchanan.

  • Frank Rich

    How to Cover an Election e-edition

  • Joseph Lelyveld

    Looking for Naipaul e-edition

    A Writer’s People: Ways of Looking and Feeling by V.S. Naipaul

  • Robin Robertson

    Through the Tweed (poem) e-edition

  • Thomas Powers

    Iraq: Will We Ever Get Out?

    The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict by Joseph E. Stiglitz and Linda J. Bilmes

    Rumsfeld: His Rise, Fall, and Catastrophic Legacy by Andrew Cockburn

    Still Broken: A Recruit’s Inside Account of Intelligence Failures, from Baghdad to the Pentagon by A.J. Rossmiller

    The Soviet-Afghan War: How a Superpower Fought and Lost by the Russian General Staff, translated from the Russian and edited by Lester W. Grau and Michael A. Gress

    The Bear Went Over the Mountain: Soviet Combat Tactics in Afghanistan translated from the Russian and edited by Lester W. Grau

    The Other Side of the Mountain: Mujahideen Tactics in the Soviet-Afghan War by Ali Ahmad Jalali and Lester W. Grau

    The Fateful Pebble: Afghanistan’s Role in the Fall of the Soviet Empire by Anthony Arnold

    Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 by Steve Coll

    The Nuclear Sphinx of Tehran: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the State of Iran by Yossi Melman and Meir Javedanfar

    The Persian Puzzle: The Conflict Between Iran and America by Kenneth M. Pollack

  • Eamon Duffy

    ‘The First Great Pandemic in History’ e-edition

    Plague and the End of Antiquity: The Pandemic of 541–750 edited by Lester K. Little

  • Brad Leithauser

    Old Globe (poem) e-edition

  • Joyce Carol Oates

    The Mystery of the Ring e-edition

    Boxing: A Cultural History by Kasia Boddy

  • Larry McMurtry

    The Conquering Indians e-edition

    The Comanche Empire by Pekka Hämäläinen

  • Ingrid D. Rowland

    Women Artists Win!

    Bathers, Bodies, Beauty: The Visceral Eye by Linda Nochlin

    WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution an exhibition at the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, February 17–May 12, 2008

  • Francine Prose

    Giddy & Malevolent e-edition

    Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky: A London Trilogy by Patrick Hamilton, with an introduction by Susanna Moore

    The Slaves of Solitude by Patrick Hamilton, with an introduction by David Lodge

    Hangover Square: A Story of Darkest Earl’s Court by Patrick Hamilton

  • Malise Ruthven

    The Rise of the Muslim Terrorists e-edition

    Leaderless Jihad: Terror Networks in the Twenty-first Century by Marc Sageman

    The Talibanization of Southeast Asia: Losing the War on Terror to Islamist Extremists by Bilveer Singh

    Al Qaeda in Its Own Words edited by Gilles Kepel and Jean-Pierre Milelli, translated from the Arabic by Pascale Ghazaleh

    The Sayyid Qutb Reader: Selected Writings on Politics, Religion, and Society edited by Albert J. Bergesen

    Jihad and Jew-Hatred: Islamism, Nazism and the Roots of 9/11 by Matthias Küntzel, translated from the German by Colin Meade

    Architect of Global Jihad: The Life of al-Qaida Strategist Abu Mus’ab al-Suri by Brynjar Lia

    The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State by Noah Feldman

    Islam and the Secular State: Negotiating the Future of Shari’a by Abdullahi Ahmed an-Na'im

    How We Missed the Story: Osama bin Laden, the Taliban, and the Hijacking of Afghanistan by Roy Gutman

  • Al Alvarez

    On the Edge e-edition

    A Treatise of Civil Power by Geoffrey Hill

  • Jeremy Waldron

    Free Speech & the Menace of Hysteria e-edition

    Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment by Anthony Lewis

  • Robert Barnett

    Thunder from Tibet e-edition

    The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama by Pico Iyer

  • Herbert Schreier,
    Joaquim Pijoan,
    Jay Neugeboren

    ‘The Enemy of the Mind’: An Exchange

LETTERS

Contributors

Robert Barnett is Director of the Modern Tibetan Studies Program at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia and the author most recently of–ÊLhasa: Streets with Memories and co-editor with Ronald Schwartz of Tibetan Modernities: Notes from the Field on Cultural and Social Change. (May 2008)

Geoffrey Wheatcroft is the author of The Controversy of Zion, The Strange Death of Tory England, and Yo, Blair!
 (April 2013)

Frank Rich is writer-at-large for New York magazine. His books include Ghost Light, a memoir, and The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth in Bush’s America.

Joseph Lelyveld is a former correspondent and Editor of The New York Times. His latest book is Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India.

 (June 2013)

Robin Robertson is from the northeast coast of Scotland. His fifth collection of poetry will be published next year. (June 2012)

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.


Eamon Duffy is Professor of the History of Christianity at the University of Cambridge. His latest book is Saints, Sacrilege and Sedition: Religion and Conflict in the Tudor Reformations.
 (June 2013)

Brad Leithauser is a novelist, poet, and essayist. He lives in Massachusetts.

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.


Larry McMurtry lives in Archer City, Texas. His novels include The Last Picture Show, Terms of Endearment, Lonesome Dove (winner of the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction), Folly and Gloryand Rhino Ranch. His nonfiction works include a biography of Crazy Horse, Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen, Paradise, Sacagawea’s Nickname: Essays on the American West and, most recently, Custer.

Ingrid D. Rowland is a professor, based in Rome, at the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture. A frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, she is the author of The Culture of the High Renaissance: Ancients and Moderns in Sixteenth-Century Rome and The Scarith of Scornello: A Tale of Renaissance Forgery. She has also published a translation of Vitruvius’ Ten Books of Architecture and a history of Villa Taverna, the US ambassador’s residence in Rome.

Francine Prose is a Distinguished Visiting Writer at Bard. Her novel, The Blue Angel, was nominated for the National Book Award. Her most recent novel is My New American Life.

Malise Ruthven is the author of Islam: A Very Short Introduction, Islam in the World: The Divine Supermarket (a study of Christian fundamentalism), A Fury for God: The Islamist Attack on America, A Satanic Affair: Salman Rushdie and the Wrath of Islam, and several other books. His latest book is Encounters with Islam: On Religion, Politics and Modernity.

Al Alvarez is the author of Risky Business, a selection of essays, many of which first appeared in The New York Review of Books.

Jeremy Waldron is University Professor at the NYU School of Law and Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at All Souls College, Oxford. His most recent book is The Harm in Hate Speech.
 (February 2013)

Jay Neugeboren’s books include Imagining Robert, Sama?s Legacy, The Stolen Jew, and Big Man. His most recent novel, 1940, was published last year. (December 2009)

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.