Table of Contents

Volume 54, Number 10 · June 14, 2007

Michael Kimmelman, A Hero of Our Time

The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein by Martin Duberman

Jonathan Freedland, Bush's Amazing Achievement

Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson

Second Chance: Three Presidents and the Crisis of American Superpower by Zbigniew Brzezinski

Statecraft and How to Restore America's Standing in the World by Dennis Ross

John Leonard, Meshuga Alaska

The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon

Sarah Boxer, His Inner Cat

Krazy & Ignatz: The Complete Full-Page Comic Strips by George Herriman, edited and annotated by Bill Blackbeard, designed by Chris Ware

Masters of American Comics exhibition catalog edited by John Carlin, Paul Karasik, and Brian Walker

Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium edited by Jeet Heer and Kent Worcester

Krazy Kat: The Comic Art of George Herriman by Patrick McDonnell, Karen O'Connell, and Georgia Riley De Havenon

William Pfaff, In Sarkoland

Alan Hollinghurst, When in Rome

Satyr Square: A Year, a Life in Rome by Leonard Barkan

Robert Cottrell, Death Under the Tsar

A Russian Diary: A Journalist's Final Account of Life, Corruption, and Death in Putin's Russia by Anna Politkovskaya, translated from the Russian by Arch Tait, with a foreword by Scott Simon

Frank Kermode, The Sharpest Thorn

Orwell in Tribune: "As I Please" and Other Writings 1943–7 compiled and edited by Paul Anderson

Ian Buruma, Fascinating Narcissism

Leni: The Life and Work of Leni Riefenstahl by Steven Bach

Leni Riefenstahl: A Life by Jürgen Trimborn, translated from the German by Edna McCown

G.W. Bowersock, The Art of Risk

Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides translated from the Greek by Anne Carson

Darryl Pinckney, The Visible Man

Ralph Ellison: A Biography by Arnold Rampersad

John Carey, Love & Heresy in John Donne

John Donne: The Reformed Soul by John Stubbs

James Lardner, The Specter Haunting Your Office

The Disposable American: Layoffs and Their Consequences by Louis Uchitelle

The Great American Jobs Scam by Greg LeRoy

The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism by John C. Bogle

Michael Wood, The Power of the Prickly Pear

The Eagle's Throne by Carlos Fuentes, translated from the Spanish by Kristina Cordero

John Golding, In Braque's Studio

Georges Braque: A Life by Alex Danchev

Adam Hochschild, English Abolition: The Movie

Amazing Grace a film directed by Michael Apted

Lee Smolin, The Other Einstein

Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson

Einstein: A Biography by Jürgen Neffe, translated from the German by Shelley Frisch

'Subtle Is the Lord': The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein by Abraham Pais

The Private Lives of Albert Einstein by Roger Highfield andPaul Carter

Einstein in Love: A Scientific Romance by Dennis Overbye

Einstein's Clocks, Poincaré's Maps: Empires of Time by Peter Galison

Einstein on Politics edited by David Rowe and Robert Schulmann

Einstein on Race and Racism by Fred Jerome and Rodger Taylor

The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein by Albert Einstein

Yair Amikam, Richard Horton, The Palestinian Medical Crisis: An Exchange

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Letters

Clancy Sigal, Blind Rage
Peter J. Conradi, Jonathan Raban, Iris Murdoch's Holy Fool
Linda Selman, Edmund White, Bunner & the Sisters
Robert Middleton, Was He Swiss?
James A. Heffernan, How to Hear Bernhardt

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Contributors

G.W. Bowersock is Professor Emeritus of Ancient History at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Among his recent books are Mosaics as History: The Near East from Late Antiquity to Islam and From Gibbon to Auden: Essays on the Classical Tradition.
 (September 2009)

Sarah Boxer is the author of Ultimate Blogs: Masterworks from the Wild Web, an anthology to be published this month. (February 2008)

Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard. He received the 2008 Erasmus Prize. His novel The China Lover was published in September 2008.

John Carey is Arts Emeritus Merton Professor of English at Oxford University. He has appeared as a host and commentator on numerous television and radio programs in England and is the former chief book reviewer for The Sunday Times. Among his books are The Intellectuals and the Masses, What Good Are the Arts?, Pure Pleasure: A Guide to the Twenieth Century's Most Enjoyable Books, and a biography of William Golding. He has chaired the Booker Prize committee twice and in 2005 was the chair of the first international Booker Prize committee.

Robert Cottrell has served as a Moscow bureau chief for both The Economist and the Financial Times. (June 2007)

Jonathan Freedland is an editorial-page columnist for The Guardian. In 2008, he was awarded the David Watt Prize for Journalism.
 (May 2009)

John Golding is a painter and writer. His most recent book, Paths to the Absolute, was awarded the Mitchell Prize for the History of Art. (February 2008)

Adam Hochschild's most recent book, Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves, was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2005. He teaches at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley. (August 2009)

Alan Hollinghurst was born in 1954 in Gloucestershire, England, and attended Magdalen College, Oxford. He is the author of the novels The Swimming-Pool Library, The Folding Star (shortlisted for the Booker Prize), The Spell, The Line of Beauty, as well as of a translation of the play Bajazet by Racine. A former staff member at The Times Literary Supplement, Hollinghurst is a frequent contributor to that and other publications, including The Guardian. Hollinghurst's fourth novel, The Line of Beauty, won the Man Booker Prize in 2004. He lives in London.

Frank Kermode lives in Cambridge, England. His latest book, ConcerningE.M. Forster, will be published in December.
 (October 2009)

Michael Kimmelman is chief art critic of The New York Times. He is based in Berlin, writing the Abroad column for the Times on culture and society across Europe. (November 2009)

James Lardner is a senior fellow at Demos, a center for public policy based in New York City. He is the co-editor of Inequality Matters: The Growing Economic Divide in America and Its Poisonous Consequences and co-editor of Inequality.org. (June 2007)

John Leonard writes on books every month for Harper's and on television every week for New York magazine. (June 2007)

William Pfaff is an American author and syndicated columnist in Paris. His most recent book is The Bullet's Song. (December 2007)

Darryl Pinckney is the author of a novel, High Cotton, and Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature.

Lee Smolin is a theoretical physicist and a member of the faculty at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario. He is the author of The Life of the Cosmos, Three Roads to Quantum Gravity, and The Trouble with Physics. (June 2007)

Michael Wood is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge. (September 2009)

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