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November 17, 2005 • Volume 52, Number 18

  • John Lanchester

    A Will of His Own e-edition

    Slow Man by J.M. Coetzee

  • David Cole

    What Bush Wants to Hear

    The Powers of War and Peace:The Constitution and Foreign Affairs After 9/11 by John Yoo

  • Cathleen Schine

    The Witches of Corinth e-edition

    Truth and Consequences by Alison Lurie

  • Pankaj Mishra

    The Misunderstood Muslims e-edition

    No God but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam by Reza Aslan

    Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism by Janet Afary and Kevin B. Anderson

  • Edmund S. Morgan

    The Unread Masterpiece e-edition

    Henry Adams and the Making of America by Garry Wills

  • Daniel Mendelsohn

    The Truman Show e-edition

    Capote a film directed by Bennett Miller, based on the biography by Gerald Clarke

  • Mark Ford

    The Man Who Came to Dinner e-edition

    Just the Thing: Selected Letters of James Schuyler, 1951–1991 edited by William Corbett

    Material Witness: The Selected Letters of Fairfield Porter edited by Ted Leigh, with an introduction by David Lehman and additional notes by Justin Spring

  • Robert Skidelsky

    The Chinese Shadow

    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

  • George M. Fredrickson

    Still Separate & Unequal e-edition

    When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America by Ira Katznelson

  • Larry McMurtry

    Angel in America e-edition

    Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling by Richard Lyman Bushman

    No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith by Fawn M. Brodie

    Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer

    Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism by Richard L. Bushman

    Reconsidering No Man Knows My History: Fawn M. Brodie and Joseph Smith in Retrospect edited by Newell G. Bringhurst

  • Fintan O’Toole

    The Saving Remnant e-edition

    A Bit on the Side by William Trevor

  • Peter Canby

    The Specter Haunting Alaska

    The End of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New World by Paul Roberts

    Where Mountains Are Nameless: Passion and Politics in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge by Jonathan Waterman

    Cumulative Environmental Effects of Oil and Gas Activities on Alaska’s North Slope by the National Research Council

    Impacts of a Warming Arctic by the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment

    Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska: Coastal Plain Resource Assessment Department of the Interior

    Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, 1002 Area, Petroleum Assessment, 1998, Including Economic Analysis United States Geological Survey

    National Energy Policy: Report of the National Energy Policy Development Group, May 2001 Superintendent of Documents

    Economics of Undiscovered Oil in the Federal Lands of the National Petroleum Reserve, Alaska by Emil D. Attanasi

LETTERS

Contributors

John Lanchester is the author of five books including, most recently, I.O.U.: Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay. In 2008 he received the E.M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
 (December 2011)

David Cole is Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center. He is the award-winning author of several books, including The Torture Memos: Rationalizing the Unthinkable (2009), Less Safe, Less Free: Why America Is Losing the War on Terror (with Jules Lobel, 2007) and Enemy Aliens: Double Standards and Constitutional Freedoms in the War on Terrorism (2003) He has been awarded an Open Society Foundation Fellowship for 2012–2013 to write his next book, on the role of civil society in enforcing constitutional rights.


Cathleen Schine is the author of several novels, including Rameau’s Niece, The Love Letter, She is Me, The New Yorkers, and The Three Weissmanns of Westport. Her latest novel, Fin & Lady, will be published in July 2013. She is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books.

Pankaj Mishra lives in London and India. He is the author of The Romantics, winner of the Los Angeles Times’s Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, and An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and The Guardian. Mishra’s recent books include Temptations of the West: How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet, and Beyond and From the Ruins of Empire: The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia.

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)

Daniel Mendelsohn’s reviews and essays on literary and cultural subjects appear frequently in The New York Review of Books and The New Yorker. He is the author, most recently, of the collection Waiting for the Barbarians: Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture, which was a finalist for the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award. His other books include two memoirs, a translation of the complete works of C.P. Cavafy, and a study of Greek tragedy, Gender and the City in Euripides’ Political Plays. He teaches at Bard College.

Mark Ford teaches in the English Department at University College London. His anthology London: A History in Verse was published last July.
 (June 2013)

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)

George M. Fredrickson is Edgar E. Robinson Professor of US History Emeritus at Stanford. His recent books include Racism: A Short History and Not Just Black and White, a collection co-edited with Nancy Foner.

Larry McMurtry lives in Archer City, Texas. His novels include The Last Picture Show, Terms of Endearment, Lonesome Dove (winner of the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction), Folly and Gloryand Rhino Ranch. His nonfiction works include a biography of Crazy Horse, Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen, Paradise, Sacagawea’s Nickname: Essays on the American West and, most recently, Custer.

Fintan O’Toole is Literary Editor of The Irish Times and Leonard L. Milberg Visiting Lecturer in Irish Letters at Prince­ton. His latest book is A History of Ireland in 100 Objects.
 (June 2013)

Peter Canby is the author of The Heart of the Sky: Travels Among the Maya. He is an editor and the head of the fact-checking department at The New Yorker. (November 2005)

Hilary Mantel is an English novelist, short story writer, and critic. Her novel, Wolf Hall, won the Man Booker Prize in 2009.

Jonathan Mirsky, a journalist and historian of China, is the former East Asia Editor of The Times of London.
 (May 2013)

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.

Tim Flannery is Panasonic Professor of Environmental Sustainability at Macquarie University in Sydney. His book Among the Islands: Adventures in the Pacific will be published this month. (November 2012)