Table of Contents

Volume 53, Number 9 · May 25, 2006

Orhan Pamuk, Freedom to Write

Sanford Schwartz, Sickert's Theater

Degas, Sickert and Toulouse-Lautrec: London and Paris, 1870–1910 Catalog of the exhibition by Anna Gruetzner Robins and Richard Thomson

Walter Sickert: A Life by Matthew Sturgis

Julian Barnes, Flaubert, C'est Moi

Flaubert: A Biography by Frederick Brown

Bouvard and Pécuchet by Gustave Flaubert, translated from the French by Mark Polizzotti, with a preface by Raymond Queneau

Andrew Hacker, The Rich and Everyone Else

Class Matters by correspondents of The New York Times, with an introduction by Bill Keller

Individual Income Tax Returns

Forbes 400: The Richest People in America

Inequality Matters: The Growing Economic Divide in America and Its Poisonous Consequences edited by James Lardner and David A. Smith

The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton by Jerome Karabel

Charles Rosen, Mozart at 250

Mozart by Julian Rushton

The Faber Pocket Guide to Mozart by Nicholas Kenyon

The Cambridge Mozart Encyclopedia edited by Cliff Eisen and Simon P. Keefe

Mozart and His Operas by David Cairns

John Updike, Lucian Freud (poem)

Alexander Stille, The Berlusconi Show

Daniel Mendelsohn, The Spanish Tragedy

Sepharad by Antonio Muñoz Molina, translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden

George M. Fredrickson, They'll Take Their Stand

Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World by David Brion Davis

The Mind of the Master Class: History and Faith in the Southern Slaveholders' Worldview by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Eugene D. Genovese

Christian Caryl, Rumors of a Coup

The Successor by Ismail Kadare, translated from the French of Tedi Papavrami by David Bellos

The Pyramid translated from the French of Jusuf Vrioni by David Bellos, in consultation with the author

The Three-Arched Bridge translated from the Albanian by John Hodgson

The Palace of Dreams translated from the French of Jusuf Vrioni by Barbara Bray

Elegy for Kosovo translated from the Albanian by Peter Constantine

The Concert translated from the French of Jusuf Vrioni by Barbara Bray

Spring Flowers, Spring Frost translated from the French of Jusuf Vrioni by David Bellos

Jeremy Bernstein, The Secrets of the Bomb

Spying on the Bomb: American Nuclear Intelligence from Nazi Germany to Iran and North Korea by Jeffrey T. Richelson

Thomas Nagel, Progressive but Not Liberal

Public Philosophy: Essays on Morality in Politics by Michael J. Sandel

Hugh Eakin, Notes from Underground

The Medici Conspiracy: The Illicit Journey of Looted Antiquities, from Italy's Tomb Raiders to the World's Greatest Museums by Peter Watson and Cecilia Todeschini

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Letters

Jason Epstein, Jane Jacobs, 1916–2006
Tom Shippey, 'The Wrong Sow'
Paul J. Weithman, Christian Allegory

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Contributors

Julian Barnes has written nine novels, a book of short stories, and two collections of essays. His most recent book is Something to Declare: Essays on France.

Jeremy Bernstein is a physicist who worked at Los Alamos. His forthcoming book is about the element plutonium. (May 2006)

Christian Caryl is the Tokyo Bureau Chief of Newsweek. He has reported from thirty-seven countries, including Russia, Afghanistan, North Korea, and Iraq. (August 2008)

Hugh Eakin is on the editorial staff of The New York Review. (August 2008)

George M. Fredrickson is Edgar E. Robinson Professor of US History Emeritus at Stanford. His most recent books are Racism: A Short History and Not Just Black and White, a collection co-edited with Nancy Foner. (August 2006)

Andrew Hacker teaches political science at Queens College. He is currently writing a book on higher education in collaboration with Claudia Dreifus. (October 2007)

Daniel Mendelsohn, is the author of The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Prix Médicis Étranger in France. A collection of his essays, How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken, mostly from these pages, will be published in August. He teaches at Bard. (June 2008)

Thomas Nagel is University Professor at New York University. His most recent book is Concealment and Exposure and Other Essays. (May 2006)

Orhan Pamuk is the author, most recently, of Istanbul: Memories of a City, as well as several novels, including Snow and My Name Is Red. A new translation of his The Black Book will be published this summer. (May 2006)

Charles Rosen's most recent book is Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist. (February 2008)

Sanford Schwartz's essays and reviews have been collected in The Art Presence and Artists and Writers. (July 2008)

Alexander Stille is the author of Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic and The Future of the Past. His most recent book is The Sack of Rome: Money + Media + Celebrity = Power = Silvio Berlusconi. (April 2008)

John Updike was born in 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania. In 1954 he began to publish in The New Yorker, where he continues to contribute short stories, poems, and criticism. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, among other awards. His most recent books are the novel Terrorist and Due Considerations, a collection of his essays and criticism.

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