Robert B. Silvers is editor of The New York Review of Books. Prior to joining the Review, Mr. Silvers was, from 1959 to 1963, associate editor of Harper's magazine, editor of the book Writing in America and translator of La Gangrene. Before that, Mr. Silvers lived in Paris for six years (1952 to 1958), where he served with the U.S. Army at SHAPE Headquarters and attended the Sorbonne and Ecole des Sciences Politiques. He joined the editorial board of The Paris Review in 1954 and became Paris editor in 1956. He also worked as press secretary to Governor Chester Bowles in 1950. Mr. Silvers, who graduated from the University of Chicago in 1947, was born in Mineola, New York. »

Striking Terror

America's New War

Edited by Robert B. Silvers
Edited by Barbara Epstein

Immediately following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, The New York Review of Books began publishing articles by some of our most distinguished writers on America's new war against terror. This collection of pieces from the Review includes contributions from Stanley Hoffman, Tony Judt, and Philip Wilcox on how America should respond to the terrorist attacks and on the policies America could pursue to diminish the appeal of terrorism in the third world; Timothy Garton Ash on European reactions to the war; Tim Judah's reports from the Northern Alliance's front lines and its march into Kabul; Christopher de Bellaigue's report from Karachi on the politics of Pakistan's support of the US against the Taliban; Pankaj Mishra's wide-ranging account of developments in Afghanistan over the last several years; Orhan Pamuk's perspective on the war from Istanbul; Matthew Meselson's evaluation of the threat of bioterror and how it can be combatted; and Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon's argument that there was convincing intelligence that the Sudanese factory destroyed by the US in 1998 was, in spite of widespread doubts at the time, very likely involved in producing chemical weapons for al-Qaeda.

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For a great series of articles attempting to provide some perspective on the pressing questions of the day — like why do Osama Bin Laden and his cronies hate us so much? — turn to The New York Review of Books.
— New York Post

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