Table of Contents

Volume 51, Number 7 · April 29, 2004

Thomas Powers, The Failure

Ronald Steel, George Kennan at 100

Adam Zagajewski, Our World (poem)

Christopher Benfey, Their Ignorance and Majesty

Blood Horses: Notes of a Sportswriter's Son by John Jeremiah Sullivan

Max Rodenbeck, Islam Confronts Its Demons

The Malady of Islam by Abdelwahab Meddeb, translated from the French by Pierre Joris and Ann Reid

Shaping the Current Islamic Reformation edited by B.A. Roberson

Following Muhammad: Rethinking Islam in the Contemporary World by Carl W. Ernst

Tolerance and Coercion in Islam: Interfaith Relations in the Muslim Tradition by Yohanan Friedmann

The Future of Political Islam by Graham E. Fuller

Islam Without Fear: Egypt and the New Islamists by Raymond William Baker

Islam and Democracy in the Middle East edited by Larry Diamond, Marc F. Plattner, and Daniel Brumberg

Progressive Muslims on Justice, Gender, and Pluralism edited by Omid Safi

Leaving Islam: Apostates Speak Out edited by Ibn Warraq

Larry McMurtry, The Two Lives of General Grant

Grant and Twain: The Story of a Friendship That Changed America by Mark Perry

Edward R.F. Sheehan, The Disintegration of Palestine

Neal Ascherson, Forbidden Knowledge

A Distant Shore by Caryl Phillips

Samantha Power, The Lesson of Hannah Arendt

Timothy Ferris, Stumbling into Space

Columbia Accident Investigation Board Report

Lost in Space: The Fall of NASA and the Dream of a New Space Age by Greg Klerkx

Adam Shatz, In Search of Hezbollah

Hizbollah: Rebel Without a Cause? by the International Crisis Group

My Life Is a Weapon: A Modern History of Suicide Bombing by Christoph Reuter, translated from the German by Helena Ragg-Kirkby

Hizbu'llah: Politics and Religion by Amal Saad-Ghorayeb

Should Hezbollah Be Next? by Daniel Byman

Hizballah of Lebanon: Extremist Ideals vs. Mundane Politics a paper by Augustus Richard Norton

Hezbollah: The Changing Face of Terrorism by Judith Palmer Harik

Hizballah: Terrorism, National Liberation, or Menace? a report by Sami G. Hajjar

Brad Leithauser, A Passionate Clamor

The Poetical Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins edited by Norman H. MacKenzie

The Journals and Papers of Gerard Manley Hopkins edited by Humphry House and Graham Storey

The Letters of Gerard Manley Hopkins to Robert Bridges edited with notes and an introduction by Claude Colleer Abbott

P.N. Furbank, Body and Soul

Flesh in the Age of Reason by Roy Porter, with a foreword by Simon Schama

Garry Wills, Did Tocqueville 'Get' America?

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Letters

Harry Lieber, Steven Weinberg, What Happened at Vienna
Father Owen Kearns, LC, Garry Wills, The Legion of Christ
Zbigniew Brzezinski, Brzezinski's Thesis
Helen Vendler, Roger Shattuck, Keats & Helen Keller

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Contributors

Neal Ascherson is the author of The Struggles for Poland, The Black Sea, and Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland. He is the editor of the journal Public Archaeology at University College London. (November 2008)

Christopher Benfey is Mellon Professor of English at Mount Holyoke. His latest book, American Audacity: Literary Essays North and South, has just been published. (December 2008)

Timothy Ferris, Emeritus Professor of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, is the author, most recently, of Seeing in the Dark. (March 2003)

P. N. Furbank is the author of Diderot and, with W.R. Owens, A Political Biography of Daniel Defoe. (December 2007)

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

Larry McMurtry is the author of twenty-four novels, including The Last Picture Show, Terms of Endearment, Lonesome Dove, winner of the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and, most recently, Folly and Glory. His nonfiction works include a biography of Crazy Horse, Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen, Paradise, and Sacagawea’s Nickname: Essays on the American West (published by New York Review Books). He lives in Archer City, Texas.

Samantha Power is the Anna Lindh Professor of the Practice of Global Leadership at Harvard’s Kennedy School. Her latest book, Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World, was published in February. (August 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), 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.

Max Rodenbeck is The Economist's Mideast Correspondent. He is based in Cairo. (January 2009)

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

Edward R. F. Sheehan is a former US diplomat in the Middle East, a novelist (Cardinal Galsworthy), and the author of The Arabs, the Israelis, and Kissinger. He is a former Fellow of Harvard's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. (April 2004)

Ronald Steel is Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California, a recent fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, and the author of biographies of Walter Lippmann and Robert Kennedy. (June 2006)

Garry Wills was born in Atlanta, Georgia. One of our most distinguished historians and critics, he is the author of numerous books, including Saint Augustine, Papal Sin, and the Pulitzer Prize–winning Lincoln at Gettysburg. He has won many other awards, among them two National Book Critics Circle Awards and the 1998 National Medal for the Humanities. He is currently Professor of History Emeritus at Northwestern University. A regular contributor to the New York Review of Books, he lives in Evanston, Illinois.

Adam Zagajewski's books include Another Beauty and Without End: New and Selected Poems. The poem in this issue is from his new book, Eternal Enemies, just published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. (April 2008)

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