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May 11, 2006 • Volume 53, Number 8

  • Russell Baker

    Talking It Up e-edition

    Conversation: A History of a Declining Art by Stephen Miller

  • Alan Ryan

    Founding Mother e-edition

    Citizen: Jane Addams and the Struggle for Democracy by Louise W. Knight

  • Israel Rosenfield,
    Edward Ziff

    Evolving Evolution

    From DNA to Diversity: Molecular Genetics and the Evolution of Animal Design by Sean B. Carroll, Jennifer K. Grenier, and Scott D. Weatherbee

    Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo and the Making of the Animal Kingdom by Sean B. Carroll

    The Plausibility of Life:Resolving Darwin’s Dilemma by Marc W. Kirschner and John C. Gerhart

  • John Brewer

    City Lights e-edition

    Building Jerusalem:The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City by Tristram Hunt

  • Anne Barton

    The One and Only

    A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599 by James Shapiro

    Secret Shakespeare: Studies in Theatre, Religion and Resistance by Richard Wilson

    Shadowplay: The Hidden Beliefs and Coded Politics of William Shakespeare by Clare Asquith

    Shakespeare: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd

    That Man Shakespeare: Icon of Modern Culture by David Ellis

  • Brian Urquhart

    The Outlaw World e-edition

    Lawless World: America and the Making and Breaking of Global Rules from FDR’s Atlantic Charter to George W. Bush’s Illegal War by Philippe Sands

    Lawless World: The Whistle-Blowing Account of How Our Leaders Are Taking the Law into Their Own Hands by Philippe Sands

    War Law: Understanding International Law and Armed Conflict by Michael Byers

    Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq by Stephen Kinzer

  • David Lodge

    History Boy e-edition

    Untold Stories by Alan Bennett

  • Claire Messud

    The Way We Lived Then e-edition

    The Last of Her Kind by Sigrid Nunez

  • James Fenton

    In Samuel Palmer’s Garden e-edition

    Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881: Vision and Landscape Catalog of the exhibition by William Vaughan, Elizabeth E. Barker, and Colin Harrison

  • Jonathan Mirsky

    China: The Shame of the Villages e-edition

    Revolution, Resistance, and Reform in Village China by Edward Friedman, Paul G. Pickowicz, and Mark Selden

    From Comrade to Citizen: The Struggle for Political Rights in China by Merle Goldman

  • William Pfaff

    France: The Children’s Hour e-edition

LETTERS

Contributors

Alan Ryan teaches at Princeton. His recent works include The Making of Modern Liberalism and On Politics: A History of Political Thought.

Russell Baker is a former columnist and correspondent for The New York Times and The Baltimore Sun. His books include The Good Times, Growing Up, and Looking Back.

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)

Anne Barton is a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. She is the author of Essays, Mainly Shakespearean.

David Lodge is a novelist and critic and Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Birmingham, England. His novels include Changing Places, Small World, Nice Work, Author, Author and A Man of Parts. His most recent works of criticism are Consciousness and the Novel and The Year of Henry James.

Claire Messud’s books include When the World Was Steady and The Emperor’s Children. Her novel The Woman Upstairs will be published in April 2013. (February 2013)

James Fenton is a British poet and literary critic. From 1994 until 1999, Fenton was Oxford Professor of Poetry; in 2007 he was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry.

Jonathan Mirsky is the former East Asia Editor of The Times of London. (June 2013)

William Pfaff’s latest book is The Irony of Manifest Destiny: The Tragedy of America’s Foreign Policy.
 (June 2013)

Adrian Lyttelton is Professor of History at the Johns Hopkins University Center in Bologna and the author of The Seizure of Power: Fascism in Italy 1919–1929. (March 2006)

Gordon Wood is the Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History Emeritus at Brown. His latest book is The Idea of America: Reflections on the Birth of the United States.

Ronald Dworkin (1931–2013) was Professor of Philosophy and Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law at NYU. His books include Is Democracy Possible Here?, Justice in Robes, Freedom’s Law, and Justice for Hedgehogs. He was the 2007 winner of the Ludvig Holberg International Memorial Prize for “his pioneering scholarly work” of “worldwide impact” and he was recently awarded the Balzan Prize for his “fundamental contributions to Jurisprudence.”


Israel Rosenfield and Edward B. Ziff’s most recent book is DNA: A Graphic Guide to the Molecule That Shook the World. They are completing a book about the brain. Rosenfield is also completing a graphic novel illustrated by Fiammetta Ghedini. (June 2012)

Edward Ziff and Israel Rosenfield’s most recent book is DNA: A Graphic Guide to the Molecule That Shook the World. They are completing a book about the brain. (June 2012)

Brian Urquhart is a former Undersecretary-General of the United Nations. His books include Hammarskjöld, A Life in Peace and War, and Ralph Bunche: An American Life. His article in this issue draws on his essay in Tyringham Topics.
 (February 2013)