Table of Contents
Volume 52, Number 8 · May 12, 2005
Hilary Mantel, The Right to Life 
The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions by Sister Helen Prejean
Ingrid D. Rowland, The Battle of Light with Darkness
Caravaggio: The Final Years Catalog of the exhibition edited by Nicola Spinosa
Caravaggio: L'ultimo tempo 1606–1610
James M. McPherson, Days of Wrath
John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights by David S. Reynolds
John Brown: The Legend Revisited by Merrill D. Peterson
Terrible Swift Sword: The Legacy of John Brown edited by Peggy A. Russo and Paul Finkelman
H. Allen Orr, Vive la Différence!
Adam's Curse: A Future Without Men by Bryan Sykes
Y: The Descent of Men by Steve Jones
The X in Sex: How the X Chromosome Controls Our Lives By David Bainbridge
Thomas Powers, Black Arts
Chatter: Dispatches from the Secret World of Global Eavesdropping by Patrick Radden Keefe
Blind Spot: The Secret History of American Counterterrorism by Timothy Naftali
The Reader of Gentlemen's Mail: Herbert O. Yardley and the Birth of American Codebreaking by David Kahn
Christian Caryl, The Schizophrenic Sufi
Snow by Orhan Pamuk
Benjamin DeMott, Jocks and the Academy
Reclaiming the Game: College Sports and Educational Values by William G. Bowen and Sarah A. Levin
John Updike, The Blessings of the Sun
Ian Buruma, The Indiscreet Charm of Tyranny
Charles Simic, Rx for American Poets
A New Theory for American Poetry: Democracy, the Environment, and the Future of Imagination by Angus Fletcher
Sanford Schwartz, The Energizer
Dali Catalog of the exhibition by Dawn Ades and Michael Taylor
Gabriele Annan, Sonata for Three Hands
The Kreutzer Sonata by Margriet de Moor, translated from the Dutch by Susan Massotty
Thomas Frank, What's the Matter with Liberals?
Lou Boccardi, Dick Thornburgh, James C. Goodale, 'The Flawed Report on Dan Rather': An Exchange
Letters
Zeev Sternhell, Adrian Lyttelton, 'The Anatomy of Fascism'
Contributors
Gabriele Annan is a book and film critic living in London. (March 2006)
Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard. He received this year’s Shorenstein Award for writing about Asia. His novel The China Lover will be published this fall. (June 2008)
Christian Caryl is the Tokyo Bureau Chief of Newsweek. He has reported from thirty-seven countries, including Russia, Afghanistan, North Korea, and Iraq. (August 2008)
Benjamin Demott is Mellon Professor of Humanities Emeritus at Amherst. His most recent book is Junk Politics: The Trashing of the American Mind. (May 2005)
Thomas Frank is editor of The Baffler magazine and author of One Market Under God and The Conquest of Cool. His essay in this issue is based on the afterword to the paperback edition of his most recent book, What's the Matter with Kansas? , which will be published in May. (May 2005)
Hilary Mantel is the author of nine novels, including Beyond Black. The excerpt in this issue is drawn from her new novel, Wolf Hall, which will be published by Henry Holt/John Macrae Books in 2009. (August 2008)
James M. McPherson is George Henry Davis ’86 Professor of American History Emeritus at Princeton. His most recent book is This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War, a collection of essays. (April 2008)
H. Allen Orr is the Shirley Cox Kearns Professor of Biology at the University of Rochester. He is the author, with Jerry A. Coyne, of Speciation. (March 2008)
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), 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.
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 published a translation of Vitruvius' Ten Books of Architecture. Her latest books are a biography of Giordano Bruno and a translation of Bruno's dialogue On the Heroic Frenzies.
Sanford Schwartz's essays and reviews have been collected in The Art Presence and Artists and Writers. (July 2008)
Charles Simic is a poet, essayist and translator. He has published twenty collections of his own poetry, five books of essays, a memoir, and numerous of books of translations. He has received many literary awards for his poems and his translations, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Griffin Prize and the MacArthur Fellowship. Voice at 3 A.M., his selected later and new poems, was published in 2003 and a new book of poems My Noiseless Entourage came out in the spring of 2005.
John Updike was born in 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania. In 1954 he began to publish in The New Yorker, where he continues to contribute short stories, poems, and criticism. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, among other awards. His most recent books are the novel Terrorist and Due Considerations, a collection of his essays and criticism.
