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Volume 52, Number 20 · December 15, 2005

Joseph Lelyveld, The Strange Case of Chaplain Yee

For God and Country: Faith and Patriotism Under Fire by James Yee with Aimee Molloy

Robin Robertson, Trumpeter Swan (poem)

Christopher de Bellaigue, The Persian Difference

Forgotten Empire: The World of Ancient Persia Catalog of the exhibition edited by John Curtis and Nigel Tallis

Anne Barton, The Romantic Survivor

Fiery Heart: The First Life of Leigh Hunt by Nicholas Roe

The Wit in the Dungeon: The Remarkable Life of Leigh Hunt—Poet, Revolutionary, and the Last of the Romantics by Anthony Holden

The Rebellion of the Beasts, or, The Ass Is Dead! Long Live the Ass!!! by Leigh Hunt, with an introduction by Douglas A. Anderson

Lord Byron's Life in Italy (Vie de Lord Byron en Italie) by Teresa Guiccioli, translated from the French by Michael Rees and edited by Peter Cochran

Martin Filler, The Bird Man

Santiago Calatrava: Sculpture into Architecture

Santiago Calatrava: Clay and Paint, Ceramics and Watercolors

Santiago Calatrava: The Complete Works by Alexander Tzonis

Santiago Calatrava: The Bridges by Alexander Tzonis and Rebeca Caso Donadei

Santiago Calatrava: Milwaukee Art Museum, Quadracci Pavilion by Cheryl Kent

Santiago Calatrava: The Athens Olympics by Alexander Tzonis and Rebeca Caso Donadei

Michael Massing, The Press: The Enemy Within

James M. McPherson, The Bloody Partnership

Nothing but Victory: The Army of the Tennessee, 1861–1865 by Steven E. Woodworth

Grant and Sherman: The Friendship That Won the Civil War by Charles Bracelen Flood

Anthony Grafton, Prague: The Glorious Moment

Prague: The Crown of Bohemia, 1347–1437 Catalog of the exhibitionedited by Barbara Drake Boehm and Jirí Fajt

Daniel Mendelsohn, The Last Minstrel

Redemption: The Life of Henry Roth by Steven G. Kellman

Ingrid D. Rowland, The Floor of Floors

Memento Mori: A Companion to the Most Beautiful Floor in the World by Dane Munro, with photographs by Maurizio Urso

Michael Wood, Parables of a Violent World

Europe Central by William T. Vollmann

Expelled from Eden: A William T. Vollmann Reader edited by Larry McCaffery and Michael Hemmingson

P.N. Furbank, Cultivating Voltaire's Garden

Voltaire in Exile: The Last Years, 1753–78 by Ian Davidson

Candide, or, Optimism by Voltaire,translated by Peter Constantine, with an introduction by Diane Johnson

Candide, or Optimism by Voltaire,translated by Burton Raffel

Geoffrey O'Brien, 'Will You Love Me Tomorrow'

Always Magic in the Air: The Bomp and Brilliance of the Brill Building Era by Ken Emerson

André Aciman, Far from Proust's Way

In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower by Marcel Proust, translated from the French by James Grieve

Christopher Jencks, What Happened to Welfare?

American Dream: Three Women, Ten Kids, and a Nation's Drive to End Welfare by Jason DeParle

William Pfaff, The French Riots: Will They Change Anything?

Marion Bunch, Mark Ottenweller, Helen Epstein, 'The Lost Children of AIDS': An Exchange

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Letters

Robert J. Richards, Richard C. Lewontin, Darwin & Progress
Garry Wills, Edmund S. Morgan, Henry Adams's Theme
Bill Troutman, Freeman Dyson, Norbert Wiener at MIT
English PEN, The Case of Orhan Pamuk

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Contributors

André Aciman teaches Comparative Literature at the City University Graduate Center. He is the author of False Papers and the memoir Out of Egypt. His new novel will be published in 2007.

Anne Barton is a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. She is the author of Essays, Mainly Shakespearean. (March 2007)

Martin Filler is the architecture critic of House & Garden and a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and The New Republic. He is the co-author, with Olivier Bossiere, of The Vitra Design Museum: Frank Gehry, Architect.

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

Anthony Grafton teaches the history of Renaissance Europe at Princeton University. His books include Joseph Scaliger, Cardano's Cosmos, and Bring Out Your Dead.

Christopher Jencks is the Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy at Harvard. He is working on a book about the social and political consequences of growing inequality. (September 2007)

Joseph Lelyveld is a former correspondent and editor of The New York Times. He is the author of Omaha Blues: A Memory Loop. (November 2008)

Michael Massing, a contributing editor of the Columbia Journalism Review, writes frequently on the press and foreign affairs.

James M. McPherson is George Henry Davis '86 Professor of American History Emeritus at Princeton. His most recent book is Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief. (December 2008)

Daniel Mendelsohn, a frequent contributor to The New York Review, is the author, most recently, of How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken, a collection of essays mostly from these pages. His translations, with commentary, of Constantine Cavafy's Collected Poems and Unfinished Poems will be published this spring. (January 2009)

Geoffrey O'Brien is Editor in Chief of the Library of America. He is the author, most recently, of Sonata for Jukebox: An Autobiography of My Ears and Red Sky Café. (October 2008)

William Pfaff is an American author and syndicated columnist in Paris. His most recent book is The Bullet’s Song. (December 2007)

Robin Robertson's Swithering won the 2006 Forward Prize. His translation of Medea will be published in September. (May 2008)

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.

Michael Wood is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge. (April 2008)

Christopher de Bellaigue was born in London in 1971 and has worked as a journalist in the Middle East and South Asia since 1994. His first book, In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs: A Memoir of Iran, was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize. He lives in Tehran with his wife and two children.

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