Table of Contents
Volume 56, Number 16 · October 22, 2009
Michael Tomasky, Something New on the Mall
Hilary Mantel, Dreams & Duels of England 
The Ends of Life: Roads to Fulfilment in Early Modern England by Keith Thomas
Richard Dorment, What Is an Andy Warhol?
Andy Warhol by Arthur C. Danto
Pop: The Genius of Andy Warhol by Tony Scherman and David Dalton
I Sold Andy Warhol (Too Soon) by Richard Polsky
Joe Simon-Whelan et al. v. the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., et al.
Steven Weinberg, The Missions of Astronomy
Charles Simic, The High-Wire Artist
The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker
Adam Kirsch, He Kept Marx Going
Marx's General: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels by Tristram Hunt
Daniel Mendelsohn, A Wild Night in the Park
The Bacchae by Euripides, directed by JoAnne Akalaitis
Jonathan D. Spence, The Enigma of Chiang Kai-shek
The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China by Jay Taylor
Lawrence Weschler, David Hockney's iPhone Passion
Julian Bell, The Elegant Optimist
Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love by Sheila Rowbotham
Karl Kirchwey, U.S. Route 20 (poem)
Claire Messud, Come Rain, Come Shine
Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall by Kazuo Ishiguro
Anthony Lewis, Go Directly to Jail
Ordinary Injustice: How America Holds Court by Amy Bach
Steven Mithen, Freedom Through Cooking
Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human by Richard Wrangham
Finding Our Tongues: Mothers, Infants, and the Origins of Language by Dean Falk
Joshua Hammer, Dictator Mugabe Makes a Comeback
Norman Rush, Fever Dreams of Your FBI
Blood's a Rover by James Ellroy
Geoffrey Wheatcroft, Digging for Moles
Treachery: Betrayals, Blunders, and Cover-ups: Six Decades of Espionage Against America and Great Britain by Chapman Pincher
Robert Gottlieb, Who Was the Most Famous of All?
Joseph Jefferson: Dean of the American Theatre by Arthur W. Bloom
The Man Who Was Rip Van Winkle: Joseph Jefferson and Nineteenth-Century American Theatre by Benjamin McArthur
The Autobiography of Joseph Jefferson by Joseph Jefferson
Frank Kermode, The Dear, Dear Friend
The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth: A Life by Frances Wilson
The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals by Dorothy Wordsworth, edited and with an introduction and notes by Pamela Woof
J. Hoberman, Orphan of History
Unforgiving Years by Victor Serge, translated from the French and with an introduction by Richard Greeman
Elizabeth Drew, Health Care: Can Obama Swing It?
Letters
Michael Corner, Freeman Dyson, The Mysterious Genome
Vanessa Redgrave, Julian Schnabel, et al. Let Israeli Films be Shown
Dr. Helen Dampier, Charles Glass, et al. Queries
Virgil Stucker, 'The Lost Virtues of the Asylum'
Craig Barnes, The Women of Minos
Contributors
Julian Bell is a painter and writer living in Lewes, England. He is the author of What Is Painting? and Mirror of the World: A New History of Art.
(October 2009)
Richard Dorment is the art critic of the Daily Telegraph. (October 2009)
Elizabeth Drew, who lives in Washington, is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books. She is the author of twelve books.
Robert Gottlieb has been Editor in Chief of Simon and Schuster, Knopf, and The New Yorker. He is the author of a biography of George Balanchine, the editor of the anthologies Reading Dance and Reading Jazz, and the dance critic of The New York Observer.
(December 2009)
Joshua Hammer is a former Newsweek bureau chief and correspondent at large in Africa and the Middle East. His next book, the story of a colonial-era uprising in German Southwest Africa, will be published in 2010.
(October 2009)
J. Hoberman is the senior film critic of TheVillage Voice. His books include The Magic Hour: Film at Fin de Siècle and The Dream Life: Movies, Media, and the Mythology of the Sixties.
(October 2009)
Frank Kermode lives in Cambridge, England. His latest book, ConcerningE.M. Forster, will be published in December.
(October 2009)
Karl Kirchwey is Director of Creative Writing at Bryn Mawr. His sixth book of poems and his translation of Paul Verlaine’s Poems Under Saturn are both forthcoming in the spring of 2011.
(October 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)
Anthony Lewis, a former columnist for The New York Times, has twice won the Pulitzer Prize. His book Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment was published last year.
Hilary Mantel is the author of nine novels, including Beyond Black. Her new novel, Wolf Hall, will be published in the US this month. (November 2009)
Daniel Mendelsohn, a frequent contributor to The New York Review, is the Charles Ranlett Flint Professor of Humanities at Bard. His translations, with commentary, of the Collected Poems and Unfinished Poems of Constantine Cavafy were published earlier this year; a collection of his essays mostly from these pages, How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken, was just published in paperback.
(October 2009)
Claire Messud's most recent novel is The Emperor’s Children. Her earlier novels include When the World Was Steady.
(December 2009)
Steven Mithen is Professor of Early Prehistory at the University of Reading. His books include The Singing Neanderthals and The Prehistory of the Mind: The Cognitive Origins of Art, Religion and Science.
(October 2009)
Norman Rush was raised in Oakland, California, and graduated from Swarthmore College in 1956. He has been an antiquarian book dealer, a college instructor, and, with his wife Elsa, he lived and worked in Africa from 1978 to 1983. They now reside in Rockland County, New York. His stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and Best American Short Stories. Whites, a collection of stories, was published in 1986, and his first novel, Mating, the recipient of the National Book Award, was published in 1991. Mortals is his second novel.
Charles Simic is a poet, essayist and translator. He has published twenty collections of his own poetry, five books of essays, a memoir, and numerous of books of translations. He has received many literary awards for his poems and his translations, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Griffin Prize and the MacArthur Fellowship. Voice at 3 A.M., his selected later and new poems, was published in 2003 and a new book of poems My Noiseless Entourage came out in the spring of 2005.
Jonathan Spence is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. His latest book is Return to Dragon Mountain: Memories of a Late Ming Man. (December 2009)
Michael Tomasky is editor of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas and American editor-at-large for The Guardian.
(December 2009)
Steven Weinberg holds the Josey Regental Chair in Science at the University of Texas at Austin. He has been awarded the Nobel Prize in physics and the National Medal of Science.
Lawrence Weschler is the Director of the New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University. Earlier this year he published True to Life: Twenty-five Years of Conversations with David Hockney and an expanded edition of Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: Over Thirty Years of Conversationswith Robert Irwin. (October 2009)
Geoffrey Wheatcroft’s books include The Controversy of Zion, which won a National Jewish Book Award in 1996, The Strange Death of Tory England, and Yo, Blair! He is writing a book on Winston Churchill’s reputation and legacy. (October 2009)
