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Volume 56, Number 17 · November 5, 2009

Timothy Garton Ash, 1989!

1989: The Struggle to Create Post–Cold War Europe by Mary Elise Sarotte

Uncivil Society: 1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment by Stephen Kotkin, with a contribution by Jan T. Gross

Der Vorhang Geht Auf: Das Ende der Diktaturen in Osteuropa by György Dalos

Histoire secrète de la chute du mur de Berlin by Michel Meyer

The Fall of the Berlin Wall: The Revolutionary Legacy of 1989 edited by Jeffrey A. Engel

Tear Down This Wall: A City, a President, and the Speech That Ended the Cold War by Romesh Ratnesar

There Is No Freedom Without Bread! 1989 and the Civil War That Brought Down Communism by Constantine Pleshakov

Revolution 1989: The Fall of the Soviet Empire by Victor Sebestyen

The Year That Changed the World: The Untold Story Behind the Fall of the Berlin Wall by Michael Meyer

Diane Johnson, The Way Forward

The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood

Anonymous, Iran: The Revenge

Sanford Schwartz, The Most Imposing Cantaloupe

Luis Meléndez: Master of the Spanish Still Life an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., May 17–August 23, 2009; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, September 23, 2009–January 3, 2010; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, January 31–May 9, 2010

David Bromwich, The Confessions of Bill

The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President by Taylor Branch

Stephen Greenblatt, How It Must Have Been

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

Jerome E. Groopman, Diagnosis: What Doctors Are Missing

Carrying the Heart: Exploring the Worlds Within Us by F. González-Crussi

The Deadly Dinner Party and Other Medical Detective Stories by Jonathan A. Edlow, M.D.

James Bamford, Who's in Big Brother's Database?

The Secret Sentry: The Untold History of the National Security Agency by Matthew M. Aid

Brad Leithauser, There Once Was an Artist Called Lear...

Edward Lear in Albania: Journals of a Landscape Painter in the Balkans by Edward Lear, edited by Bejtullah Destani and Robert Elsie, with a preface by Vivien Noakes

Nonsense Botany and Nonsense Alphabets by Edward Lear

Nonsense Songs and Stories by Edward Lear

The Complete Verse and Other Nonsense by Edward Lear, edited by Vivien Noakes

Edward Lear: The Life of a Wanderer by Vivien Noakes

Nicolas Pelham, Max Rodenbeck, Which Way for Hamas?

Inside Hamas: The Untold Story of the Militant Islamic Movement by Zaki Chehab

Hamas in Politics: Democracy, Religion, Violence by Jeroen Gunning

Kill Khalid: The Failed Mossad Assassination of Khalid Mishal and the Rise of Hamas by Paul McGeough

Toni Bentley, The Bad Lion

Caleb Crain, A Very Different Pakistan

In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin

Joseph Connors, The Charms of Byzantium

Byzantium Rediscovered by J.B. Bullen

Hagia Sophia, 1850–1950: Holy Wisdom Modern Monument by Robert S. Nelson

Robert Pogue Harrison, A Great Conservationist, by Jingo

The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America by Douglas Brinkley

The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America by Timothy Egan

John Carey, 'The Master Poet of Democracy'

The Bard: Robert Burns, A Biography by Robert Crawford

Bill McKibben, In the Face of Catastrophe: A Surprise

A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster by Rebecca Solnit

Larry McMurtry, From Amerigo Vespucci to Darryl Zanuck

A New Literary History of America edited by Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors

Jeff Madrick, They Didn't Regulate Enough and Still Don't

Financial Regulatory Reform: A New Foundation: Rebuilding Supervision and Regulation

In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke's War on the Great Panic by David Wessel

House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street by William D. Cohan

A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers by Lawrence G. McDonald with Patrick Robinson

William F. Baker, Kate Merkel-Hess, Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, et al. What Future for the News?—An Exchange

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Letters

Jonathan Cole and nine others, Open Letter to Rivka Carmi, President, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Morris Dickstein, Mark Danner & the Irving Howe Memorial Lecture
Steven Weinberg, '...side by side with Zeus himself...'

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Contributors

James Bamford writes frequently on intelligence and his books include three on the National Security Agency. His most recent book, The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America, won the 2009 book award from Investigative Reporters and Editors. (November 2009)

Toni Bentley danced with the New York City Ballet for ten years and is the author of five books, including Winter Season: A Dancer’s Journal, Sisters of Salome, and The Surrender: An Erotic Memoir. She is the recipient of a 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship and is currently working on a book about Balanchine’s ballet Serenade. (November 2009)

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. (November 2009)

John Carey is a British literary critic and Professor Emeritus of English Literature at the University of Oxford.

Joseph Connors, the Director of the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Villa I Tatti, Florence, writes on Italian Renaissance and Baroque architecture. He was formerly Director of the American Academy in Rome and professor of art history at Columbia.

Caleb Crain is the author of American Sympathy: Men, Friendship, and Literature in the New Nation. (November 2009)

Timothy Garton Ash is Professor of European Studies and Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St. Antony's College, Oxford, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford. His books include Facts Are Subversive: Political Writing from a Decade Without a Name and (as editor with Adam Roberts) Civil Resistance and Power Politics: The Experience of Non-Violent Action from Gandhi to the Present.
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Stephen Greenblatt is John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard. He is the general editor of The Norton Shakespeare and the author of Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare. (November 2009)

Jerome Groopman holds the Dina and Raphael Recanati Chair of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and is Chief of Experimental Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. A staff writer for The New Yorker, his latest book is How Doctors Think. (November 2009)

Robert Pogue Harrison is Rosina Pierotti Professor in Italian Literature at Stanford. His latest book is Gardens: An Essay on the Human Condition. (November 2009)

Diane Johnson’s most recent novel is Lulu in Marrakech. (November 2009)

Brad Leithauser is a novelist, poet, and essayist. He lives in Massachusetts.

Jeff Madrick is editor of Challenge Magazine, Visiting Professor at Cooper Union, and Senior Fellow at the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis at the New School. His latest book, The Case for Big Government, was a 2009 PEN Galbraith Award Finalist. (November 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.

Larry McMurtry is the author of twenty-four novels, including The Last Picture Show, Terms of Endearment, Lonesome Dove, winner of the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and, most recently, Folly and Glory. His nonfiction works include a biography of Crazy Horse, Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen, Paradise, and Sacagawea's Nickname: Essays on the American West (published by New York Review Books). He lives in Archer City, Texas.

Nicolas Pelham is a senior consultant, based in Jerusalem, for the International Crisis Group. He is the author of A New Muslim Order: The Shia and the Middle East Sectarian Crisis. (November 2009)

Max Rodenbeck is The Economist’s Mideast Correspondent. He lives in Cairo. (November 2009)

Sanford Schwartz is the author of Christen Købke and William Nicholson. (November 2009)

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