Table of Contents
Volume 56, Number 12 · July 16, 2009
David Bromwich, Advice to the Prince
Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy by Leslie H. Gelb
Barack Obama: "A New Beginning"
J.M. Coetzee, From 'Summertime': 'Undated Fragments'
Andrew Butterfield, Venice: The Masters in Boston
Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice an exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, March 15–August 16, 2009, and the Louvre, Paris, September 14, 2009–January 4, 2010
Timothy Snyder, Holocaust: The Ignored Reality
Michael Chabon, Manhood for Amateurs: The Wilderness of Childhood
Michael Greenberg, Looking for the Patriarch 
Gabriel García Márquez: A Life by Gerald Martin
Derek Walcott, XLIX (poem)
Isaiah Berlin, Shostakovich at Oxford
Tim Parks, In the Kangaroo's Pouch
Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi by Geoff Dyer
Paul Starr, Liberalism for Now
Is Democracy Possible Here? Principles for a New Political Debate by Ronald Dworkin
Anne Applebaum, A Mad, Bad, and Brutal Baron
The Bloody White Baron: The Extraordinary Story of the Russian Nobleman Who Became the Last Khan of Mongolia by James Palmer
Robert Skidelsky, The World Finance Crisis & the American Mission
Fixing Global Finance by Martin Wolf
Dan Chiasson, The Glee of Contempt
Poems, 1959–2009 by Frederick Seidel
Neal Ascherson, London: A Pilgrim's Progress
The Road Home by Rose Tremain
Blair Worden, Hobbes & the Halo of Power
Hobbes and Republican Liberty by Quentin Skinner
Claire Messud, Land Divers
John Dean, Harold Kalant, Norman Kalant, et al. Health Care, Elsewhere: An Exchange
Letters
Daniel Klenbort, Garry Wills, Lincoln, Jefferson, & Blacks
D. Fisher Sweetnam, Betting on the Weather
Monica Strauss, Alexander Waugh, et al. 'The House of Wittgenstein'
Contributors
Anne Applebaum is a columnist for The Washington Post. Her book Gulag: A History won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction. She lives in Poland. (July 2009)
Neal Ascherson is the author of The Struggles for Poland, The Black Sea, and Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland. He is the editor of the journal Public Archaeology at University College London.
(July 2009)
Isaiah Berlin was born in Riga in 1909. In 1916 his family moved to Petrograd, where he witnessed the Russian Revolution, and in 1921 he emigrated to England. He was educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and became a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, where he was later appointed Professor of Social and Political Theory. He served as the first president of Wolfson College, Oxford, and as president of the British Academy. He died in 1997. For more information, see the Isaiah Berlin Virtual Library.
David Bromwich is Sterling Professor of English at Yale. He is the author of Hazlitt: The Mind of a Critic and editor of a selection of Edmund Burke's speeches, On Empire, Liberty, and Reform. (July 2009)
Andrew Butterfield is is President of Andrew Butterfield Fine Arts. His books include The Sculptures of Andrea del Verrocchio. (July 2009)
Michael Chabon is the author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier
and Clay and the children's book, Summerland. He lives in Berkeley, California.
Dan Chiasson is the author of three books, most recently a work of literary criticism, One Kind of Everything. He teaches at Wellesley. (July 2009)
J. M. Coetzee, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 2003, is currently Visiting Professor of Humanities at the University of Adelaide. His new work of fiction, Summertime, from which the piece in this issue is drawn, will be published by Harvill Secker in October. (July 2009)
Michael Greenberg writes the Freelance column in the Times Literary Supplement. His memoir Hurry Down Sunshine was published last September. His new book, Beg, Borrow, Steal: A Writer’s Life, will be published in September.
(July 2009)
Claire Messud's most recent novel is The Emperor's Children. Her earlier novels include When the World Was Steady. (July 2009)
Tim Parks, a novelist, essayist, and translator, is Associate Professor of Literature and Translation at IULM University in Milan. His most recent novel is Dreams of Rivers and Seas.
Robert Skidelsky is Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at Warwick University, England. The single-volume abridgment of his three-volume biography of John Maynard Keynes was published in 2007 in the US. He is currently completing a short history of Britain in the twentieth century. www.skidelskyr.com. (January 2009)
Timothy Snyder is Professor of History at Yale. His most recent book is The Red Prince: The Secret Lives of a Habsburg Archduke. He is at work on Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin, which will be published in October 2010. This text is based on a lecture delivered on May 9, 2009, in Vilnius at the 22nd annual Eurozine conference. (July 2009)
Paul Starr is Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton and co-editor of The American Prospect. His most recent book, Freedom's Power: The History and Promise of Liberalism, was published in paperback last summer. (July 2009)
Derek Walcott won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1992. His most recent book is Selected Poems. (June 2009)
Blair Worden is Research Professor in History at Royal Holloway College, London. His The English Civil Wars 1640-1660 and the paperback of his Literature and Politics in Cromwellian England have appeared this year. (July 2009)
