Book Reviews

David J. Garrow on the Freedom Riders

ON LATE STYLE:
Music and Literature Against the Grain.

By Edward  W. Said.
Pantheon. 208 pp. $25

PROGRAMMING THE UNIVERSE:
A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes On the Cosmos.

By Seth Lloyd.
Knopf. 221 pp. $25.95


Ann J. Loftin on Bernard Malamud

Ann Finkbeiner on an 18th-century eccentric

Sandra Scham on The Great Transformation

YOU MUST SET FORTH AT DAWN:
A Memoir.

By Wole Soyinka.
Random House.
528 pp. $26.95

WHO CONTROLS THE INTERNET?
Illusions of a
Borderless World.

By Jack Goldsmith
and Tim Wu.
Oxford Univ. Press.
272 pp. $28


WE ARE IRAN:
The Persian Blogs.

Edited and translated
by Nasrin Alavi.
Soft Skull Press.
336 pp. $15.95

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