What's life really like for a prisoner at Gitmo? Mark Danner will talk about Guantanamo

Diary by Mahamadu Uld-Sahi, which he reviews on our cover this week.

You know, he recounts the treatment he was given, the various tortures that were applied

to him. And in some detail, he tells us the falsehoods that he created.

This is OCD, and can it sufferers do anything about it? Our guest, David Adam, knows something

about this personally and will join us to talk about his new book, The Man Who Couldn't

Stop.

A thousand hours and hours of somebody's day, just constantly whirling around in this cycle

of intrusive thought and then having to respond to that somehow.

Alexander Alter will be here with notes from the publishing world, and Greg Cole's has

bestseller news.

This is Inside the New York Times Book Review. I'm Pamela Paul.

Mark Danner joins us now. He reviews on the cover this week an important and very unusual

book, Guantanamo Diary by Mahamadu Uld-Sahi.

Mark, thanks so much for joining us.

It's a pleasure to be here, Pamela.

Give us a little background about this book and how it came into being.

Well, this book written in Kathy by a man who was seized by forces of the United States

in 2002. He was arrested in Mauritania, which is his home. He was extraordinarily rendered

to Jordan from Terrigation. Then he was shipped to Bogrum Air Base in Afghanistan from

Maurit, Terrigation. Then he was flown to Guantanamo Bay Prison, where he remains to

this day. He's been in prison for about 13 years. At a certain point in 2005, he was

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