Review of War surgery in Afghanistan and Iraq: a series of cases, 2003-2007, ed. by Shawn Christian Nessen, Dave Edmond Lounsbury, and Stephen P. Hetz; Generation kill, written and produced by David Simon and Ed Burns, based on the book by Evan Wright; Baghdad ER, a film directed by John Alpert and Matthew O'Neill; Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery, a film directed by John Alpert and Matthew O'Neill; and The forever war, by Dexter Filkins.
Review of David Rieff's Swimming in a sea of death: a son's memoir. Rieff is the son of writer Susan Sontag.
Reviews of Steven Rose's The richness of life: the essential Stephen Jay Gould and Stephen Jay Gould's Punctuated equilibrium.
Review of Steven Pinker's The stuff of thought: language as a window into human nature.
A review of Helen Epstein's book, "The invisible cure: Africa, the West, and the fight against AIDS."
A review of Philip Kitcher's book, Living with Darwinism: evolution, design, and the future of faith.

