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was an assistant secretary of state during the Clinton administration, and was world affairs commentator for Sky News for the last two years. Containment: Rebuilding a Strategy Against Global Terror By Ian Shapiro (Princeton University Press, 208 pp.,$24.95) READ MORE >>

Out of RangeBy Mark V. Tushnet(Oxford University Press, 156 pp., $19.95) READ MORE >>

Shouting silently in the operating theatre, I become multiple, as all pandemonium's angels arose from one idea. Later at Mount Pleasant, neither mountain nor, I hover over slicing letters, parcels tumbling between destinations. I discern my own estranged members, more than parings if less than limbs. A dungeon's devices are indistinguishable from early surgical tools. I am coming home, I am leaving for good with no expectation of rest. At last the day is sorted. Whether growths READ MORE >>

The Terror Presidency: Law and Judgment Inside the Bush AdministrationBy Jack L. Goldsmith(W.W. Norton, 256 pp., $25.95) READ MORE >>

For Prophet and Tsar: Islam and Empire in Russia and Central AsiaBy Robert D. Crews(Harvard University Press, 463 pp., $29.95)Russia's Islamic ThreatBy Gordon M. Hahn(Yale University Press, 349 pp., $35)I. READ MORE >>

is an assistant professor in the Interdisciplinary Program on Science Technology and Society at Bar Ilan University. He is the author of The Man Who Invented the Chromosome (Harvard University Press, 2004) and the co-editor of Rebels, Mavericks and Heretics in Biology (Yale University Press, 2008). The Altruism Equation: Seven Scientists Search for the Origin of GoodnessBy Lee Alan Dugatkin (Princeton University Press, 188 pp., $24.95) I. READ MORE >>

is a law professor at Georgetown University. He previously served as National Security Adviser at the U.S. Justice Department and successfully argued the Supreme Court case Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, which struck down the Guantanamo Bay military tribunals last year. The Terror Presidency: Law and Judgment Inside the Bush Administration By Jack L. Goldsmith(W.W. Norton, 256 pp., $25.95) READ MORE >>

Birdsong, antiphonal, shuttles the maples between Temple and Cliff Ave with gold. My splayed titian cocker glosses my fir floor. Smoke-dark, my cat droozling this page. Don't let me leave the earth too soon.I don't sleep at night. I am nothing, a mossy-lipped, granite, abandoned farm well full of iron-icy, deep, black well water. Where are the people, Melissa? I don't know. Oh, don't let me leave the earth too soon. By Melissa Green READ MORE >>

The Road By Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf, 241 pp., $24) READ MORE >>

The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil By Philip Zimbardo (Random House, 551 pp., $27.95) READ MORE >>