Table of Contents
Volume 56, Number 10 · June 11, 2009
Julian Barnes, Flights
My Father's Tears and Other Stories by John Updike
Endpoint and Other Poems by John Updike
The Maples Stories by John Updike
Ahmed Rashid, Pakistan on the Brink
Adam Kirsch, The Wittgenstein Illusion 
The House of Wittgenstein: A Family at War by Alexander Waugh
Colin Thubron, Madame Butterfly's Brothel
The East, the West, and Sex: A History of Erotic Encounters by Richard Bernstein
Martin Filler, The Late Show
Picasso: Mosqueteros an exhibition, curated by John Richardson, at the Gagosian Gallery, New York City, March 26–June 6, 2009
Helen Epstein, America's Prisons: Is There Hope?
Dreams from the Monster Factory: A Tale of Prison, Redemption and One Woman's Fight to Restore Justice to All by Sunny Schwartz, with David Boodell
Ian Buruma, Escape in Japan
Tokyo Sonata a film directed by Kurosawa Kiyoshi
Russell Baker, A Heroic Historian on Heroes
American Heroes: Profiles of Men and Women Who Shaped Early America by Edmund S. Morgan
Bill McKibben, Can Obama Change the Climate?
The Global Deal: Climate Change and the Creation of a New Era of Progress and Prosperity by Nicholas Stern
Peter Brown, A Surprise from Saint Augustine
Augustine and the Jews: A Christian Defense of Jews and Judaism by Paula Fredriksen
Palestine in Late Antiquity by Hagith Sivan
Colm Tóibín, The Admirable Mrs. James
Alice in Jamesland: The Story of Alice Howe Gibbens James by Susan E. Gunter
House of Wits: An Intimate Portrait of the James Family by Paul Fisher
Max Hastings, A Farewell to Arms
The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front, 1915–1919 by Mark Thompson
Garry Wills, Lincoln's Black History
Lincoln on Race and Slavery edited and with an introduction by Henry Louis Gates Jr., and coedited by Donald Yacovone
Jennifer Schuessler, The Embrace of Bling
How to Sell by Clancy Martin
Charles Baxter, Flowering Porter
Collected Stories and Other Writings by Katherine Anne Porter, edited by Darlene Harbour Unrue
Christopher Ricks, Keats's Afterlife
Posthumous Keats: A Personal Biography by Stanley Plumly
Jonathan Sumption, Who Was Deceiving Whom?
The Man Who Believed He Was King of France: A True Medieval Tale by Tommaso di Carpegna Falconieri, translated from the Italian by William McCuaig
Hussein Agha, Robert Malley, Obama and the Middle East
Stanley Wells, The Greatest Actress of Her Age
A Strange Eventful History: The Dramatic Lives of Two Remarkable Families by Michael Holroyd
Bill Bradley, Niall Ferguson, Paul Krugman, et al. The Crisis and How to Deal with It
Asa Kasher, Major General Amos Yadlin, Avishai Margalit, et al. 'Israel & the Rules of War': An Exchange
Letters
J. Michael Padgett, Who Should Own Antiquities?
Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, 'The Bob Marley Story'
Contributors
Hussein Agha is Senior Associate Member of St. Antony’s College, Oxford. He is the author, with A.S. Khalidi, of A Framework for a Palestinian National Security Doctrine. (December 2009)
Russell Baker is a former columnist and correspondent for The New York Times and The Baltimore Sun. His books include The Good Times, Growing Up, and Looking Back.
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.
Charles Baxter is Edelstein-Keller Professor in Creative Writing at the University of Minnesota. His most recent novel is The Soul Thief.
(June 2009)
Bill Bradley served as US Senator for New Jersey from 1979 to 1997. He is a managing director at the merchant bank Allen & Co. His most recent book is The New American Story. (June 2009)
Peter Brown is Philip and Beulah Rollins Professor of History at Princeton. The twentieth-anniversary edition of his book The Body and Society: Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity was published last year.
(June 2009)
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.
Helen Epstein is the author of The Invisible Cure: Why We Are Losing the Fight Against AIDS.
(June 2009)
Niall Ferguson is Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford. His most recent book is The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World. (June 2009)
Martin Filler was the longtime architecture critic of House & Garden until it ceased publication in 2007. He is the co-author, with Olivier Bossiere, of The Vitra Design Museum: Frank Gehry, Architect, and author of Makers of Modern Architecture, based on essays from the New York Review.
Max Hastings has been an editor of The Daily Telegraph and The Evening Standard. His new book, Winston's War: Churchill as Warlord, 1940–45, will be published in the spring. (August 2009)
Adam Kirsch is a senior editor at The New Republic and a contributing editor to Tablet. He is the author, most recently, of Benjamin Disraeli. (October 2009)
Paul Krugman is a columnist for The New York Times and Professor of Economics and International Affairs at Princeton. He was awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize in Economics. (June 2009)
Robert Malley was Special Assistant to President Clinton for Arab–Israeli Affairs and Director for Near East and South Asian Affairs on the National Security Council staff. He is currently Middle East and North Africa Program Director at the International Crisis Group. (December 2009)
Bill McKibben is scholar in residence at Middlebury College, and the author of The End of Nature and Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future.
Ahmed Rashid, a Pakistani journalist and writer, is the author of Taliban and, most recently, Descent into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia. He writes for The Washington Post, El Mundo, BBC Online, and other newspapers. (October 2009)
Christopher Ricks teaches at Boston University and is the Immediate Past President of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics. He wrote Keats and Embarrassment.
(June 2009)
Nouriel Roubini is Distinguished Professor of Economics at New York University's Stern School of Business and chairman of RGE Monitor, an economic consultancy firm. (June 2009)
Jennifer Schuessler is an editor at The New York Times Book Review. (June 2009)
George Soros, Chairman of Soros Fund Management LLC and the Open Society Institute, is the author, most recently, of The Crash of 2008 and What It Means. (June 2009)
Jonathan Sumption's history of the Hundred Years–? War, Divided Houses, will be published in September. (June 2009)
Colm Tóibín is the author of five novels, including The Story of the Night, The Blackwater Lightship, and The Heather Blazing. The Master, a novel based on the life of Henry James, was published in 2004 and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. It also won the Los Angeles Times Novel of the Year Award in 2005 and the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger in France. Among his nonfiction works are Bad Blood: A Walk Along the Irish Border, Homage to Barcelona, The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe, and, most recently, Love in a Dark Time. In 2004, his first play, Beauty in a Broken Place, was produced in Dublin where he lives.
Colin Thubron has written many books on his travels in Asia and is also a novelist. His latest book is Shadow of the Silk Road.
(June 2009)
Robin Wells is the coauthor, with Paul Krugman, of Economics, and a former Researcher in Economics at Princeton. (June 2009)
Stanley Wells, General Editor of the Oxford and Penguin editions of Shakespeare, is Chairman of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in Stratford-upon-Avon and editor of the recently published Shakespeare Found!: A Life Portrait at Last. (June 2009)
Garry Wills is Professor of History Emeritus at Northwestern. His most recent book, What Jesus Meant, was published in 2006.
