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December 1, 2005 • Volume 52, Number 19

  • Frederick C. Crews

    Melville the Great e-edition

    Melville: His World and Work by Andrew Delbanco

  • Charles Simic

    The Lights Are on Everywhere (poem) e-edition

  • John Updike

    Determined Spirit

    Vincent Van Gogh: The Drawings Catalog of the exhibition by Colta Ives, Susan Alyson Stein, Sjraar van Heughten, and Marije Vellekoop

  • William Dalrymple

    Inside the Madrasas e-edition

    Islamic Education and Conflict: Understanding the Madrassahs of Pakistan by Saleem H. Ali

    Globalized Islam: The Search for a New Ummah by Olivier Roy

    The War for Muslim Minds: Islam and the West by Gilles Kepel, translated from the French by Pascale Ghazaleh

    Understanding Terror Networks by Marc Sageman

    Landscapes of the Jihad: Militancy, Morality and Modernity by Faisal Devji

    Bastions of the Believers: Madrasas and Islamic Education in India by Yoginder Sikand

  • Richard Dorment

    What Art Does e-edition

    The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa by Michael Kimmelman

  • Michael Massing

    The End of News?

  • Tim Parks

    The Horrors of War e-edition

    Kaputt by Curzio Malaparte, translated from the Italian by Cesare Foligno, with an afterword by Dan Hofstadter

  • Robert Skidelsky

    The Chinese Shadow: II e-edition

    Three Billion New Capitalists: The Great Shift of Wealth and Power to the East by Clyde Prestowitz

    China, Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World by Ted C. Fishman

    China’s Urban Transition by John Friedmann

    Made in China: Women Factory Workers in a Global Workplace by Pun Ngai

    The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenge to China’s Future by Elizabeth C. Economy

  • Frank Kermode

    Arguing with God e-edition

    Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine by Harold Bloom

    The Life of David by Robert Pinsky

  • William H. McNeill

    New World Symphony e-edition

    1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann

  • Caroline Moorehead

    The Warrior Children e-edition

    Children at War by P.W. Singer

    They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky: The True Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan by Alephonsion Deng, Benson Deng, and Benjamin Ajak

    The Lost Boys of Sudan: An American Story of the Refugee Experience by Mark Bixler

  • Sherwin B. Nuland

    Top Doc e-edition

    Harvey Cushing: A Life in Surgery by Michael Bliss

  • Michael Tomasky

    The Boss e-edition

    Boss Tweed: The Rise and Fall of the Corrupt Pol Who Conceived the Soul of Modern New York by Kenneth D. Ackerman

  • Fiona MacCarthy

    The First Feminist e-edition

    Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft by Lyndall Gordon

  • John Brewer

    The Irish Indian Chief e-edition

    White Savage: William Johnson and the Invention of America by Fintan O'Toole

  • André Aciman

    Proust’s Way? e-edition

    Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust, translated from the French by Lydia Davis

LETTERS

Contributors

Frederick C. Crews is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays.

Charles Simic is a poet, essayist, and translator. He has published some twenty collections of poetry, six books of essays, a memoir, and numerous translations. He is the recipient of many awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Griffin Prize, and a MacArthur Fellowship. Simic’s recent works include Voice at 3 a.m., a selection of later and new poems; Master of Disguises, new poems; and Confessions of a Poet Laureate, a collection of short essays that was published by New York Review Books as an e-book original. In 2007 Simic was appointed the fifteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. His New and Selected Poems: 1962–2012 was published in March 2013.

John Updike (1932–2009) was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania. In 1954 he began to publish in The New Yorker, where he continued to contribute short stories, poems, and criticism until his death. His major work was the set of four novels chronicling the life of Harry “Rabbit: Angstrom, he two of which, Rabbit is Richand Rabbit at Rest, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His last books were the novel The Widows of Eastwick and Due Considerations, a collection of his essays and criticism.

William Dalrymple was the curator of “Princes and Painters in Mughal Delhi 1707–1857,” an exhibition for the Asia Society in New York in 2012. His new book, Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839–42, is published this month. (June 2013)

Richard Dorment is the art critic of the Daily Telegraph. Among the exhibitions he has organized is “James McNeill Whistler,” seen at the Tate Gallery, London, the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 
(June 2013)

Michael Massing, a contributing editor of the Columbia Journalism Review, writes frequently on the press and foreign affairs.

Tim Parks, a novelist, essayist, and translator, is Associate Professor of Literature and Translation at IULM University in Milan. His books include Teach Us to Sit Still: A Skeptic’s Search for Health and Healing and The Server.

Robert Skidelsky is Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at Warwick University, England. His latest book is Keynes: The Return of the Master. Felix Martin, an economist at Thames River Capital LLP, worked at the World Bank for two stretches between 1998 and 2008. He was formerly an executive board member and analyst at the European Stability Initiative.
 www.skidelskyr.com. (April 2011)

Frank Kermode (1919–2010) was a British critic and literary theorist. Born on the Isle of Man, he taught at University College London, Cambridge, Columbia and Harvard. Adapted from a series of lectures given at Bryn Mawr College, Kermode’s Sense of An Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction remains one of the most influential works of twentieth-century literary criticism.

William H. McNeill is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Chicago. His most recent books are The Pursuit of Truth: A Historian’s Memoir and Summers Long Ago: On Grandfather’s Farm and in Grandmother’s Kitchen, published by the Berkshire Publishing Group. His most recent publication, as editor, is the second edition of the Encyclopedia of World History.

Caroline Moorehead’s new book, A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France, will be published in November. (October 2011)

Sherwin B. Nuland is Clinical Professor of Surgery and a Fellow of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale. He is the author of How We Die, which won the National Book Award in 1994, and Lost in America. (December 2005)

Michael Tomasky is Special Correspondent for Newsweek/
The Daily Beast and Editor of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas.
 (April 2013)

Fiona Maccarthy is the author of biographies of Eric Gill, William Morris, and Lord Byron. Her most recent book, The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination, was published last year. (April 2013)

John Brewerteaches in the Humanities and Social Sciences Division at the California Institute of Technology. His most recent book is A Sentimental Murder: Love and Madness in the Eighteenth Century. (June 2008)

André Aciman is the author of the novels Eight White Nights and Call Me by Your Name, the nonfiction works Out of Egypt and False Papers, and is the editor of The Proust Project. He teaches comparative literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

Joyce Carol Oates is Visiting Professor in the English Department at the University of California at Berkeley. Her new novel is Daddy Love.


Paul Auster is the author of ten novels, most recently The Book of Illusions. He lives with his wife and daughter in Brooklyn, NY.

Noam Chomsky is an Institute Professor and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Linguistics at MIT.

Adam Shatz is the literary editor of The Nation. (September 2005)

Edmund S. Morgan is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. His most recent book is The Genuine Article: A Historian Looks at Early America. (June 2011)

Guy Lawson is a writer-at-large for GQ whose work has also appeared in Harper’s, The New York Times Magazine, and the London Observer. (May 2005)

Tony Judt (1948–2010) was the founder and director of the Remarque Institute at NYU and the author of Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945, Ill Fares the Land, and The Burden of Responsibility: Blum, Camus, Aron, and the French Twentieth Century, among other books.

Charles Glass, former ABC News chief Middle East correspondent, is the author of Americans in Paris: Life and Death Under Nazi Occupation and Tribes with Flags: Adventure and Kidnap in Greater Syria.
 (December 2012)