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May 25, 2006 • Volume 53, Number 9

  • Orhan Pamuk,
    Maureen Freely

    Freedom to Write

  • Sanford Schwartz

    Sickert’s Theater e-edition

    Degas, Sickert and Toulouse-Lautrec: London and Paris, 1870–1910 Catalog of the exhibition by Anna Gruetzner Robins and Richard Thomson

    Walter Sickert: A Life by Matthew Sturgis

  • Julian Barnes

    Flaubert, C’est Moi e-edition

    Flaubert: A Biography by Frederick Brown

    Bouvard and Pécuchet by Gustave Flaubert, translated from the French by Mark Polizzotti, with a preface by Raymond Queneau

  • Andrew Hacker

    The Rich and Everyone Else

    Class Matters by correspondents of The New York Times, with an introduction by Bill Keller

    Inequality Matters: The Growing Economic Divide in America and Its Poisonous Consequences edited by James Lardner and David A. Smith

    The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton by Jerome Karabel

    Forbes 400: The Richest People in America 2005 Edition

    Individual Income Tax Returns Internal Revenue Service

  • Charles Rosen

    Mozart at 250 e-edition

    Mozart by Julian Rushton

    Mozart and His Operas by David Cairns

    The Faber Pocket Guide to Mozart by Nicholas Kenyon

    The Cambridge Mozart Encyclopedia edited by Cliff Eisen and Simon P. Keefe

  • John Updike

    Lucian Freud (poem)

  • Alexander Stille

    The Berlusconi Show e-edition

  • Daniel Mendelsohn

    The Spanish Tragedy e-edition

    Sepharad by Antonio Muñoz Molina, translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden

  • George M. Fredrickson

    They’ll Take Their Stand e-edition

    Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World by David Brion Davis

    The Mind of the Master Class: History and Faith in the Southern Slaveholders’ Worldview by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Eugene D. Genovese

  • Christian Caryl

    Rumors of a Coup e-edition

    The Successor by Ismail Kadare, translated from the French of Tedi Papavrami by David Bellos

    Spring Flowers, Spring Frost translated from the French of Jusuf Vrioni by David Bellos

    The Pyramid translated from the French of Jusuf Vrioni by David Bellos, in consultation with the author

    The Three-Arched Bridge translated from the Albanian by John Hodgson

    The Palace of Dreams translated from the French of Jusuf Vrioni by Barbara Bray

    The Concert translated from the French of Jusuf Vrioni by Barbara Bray

    Elegy for Kosovo translated from the Albanian by Peter Constantine

  • Jeremy Bernstein

    The Secrets of the Bomb e-edition

    Spying on the Bomb: American Nuclear Intelligence from Nazi Germany to Iran and North Korea by Jeffrey T. Richelson

  • Thomas Nagel

    Progressive but Not Liberal e-edition

    Public Philosophy: Essays on Morality in Politics by Michael J. Sandel

  • Hugh Eakin

    Notes from Underground e-edition

    The Medici Conspiracy: The Illicit Journey of Looted Antiquities, from Italy’s Tomb Raiders to the World’s Greatest Museums by Peter Watson and Cecilia Todeschini

LETTERS

Contributors

Hugh Eakin is a senior editor of The New York Review and edits the NYRblog. (January 2013)

Sanford Schwartz’s reviews have been collected in The Art Presence and Artists and Writers. (May 2013)

Charles Rosen is a pianist and music critic. In 2011 he was awarded a National Humanities Medal.

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.

Alexander Stille is San Paolo Professor of International Journalism at Columbia. His memoir, The Force of Things: A Marriage in War in Peace, will be published next February. (October 2012)

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.

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.

Christian Caryl is a Senior Fellow at the Legatum Institute and the Editor of Foreign Policy’s Democracy Lab website.
 His book Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century was published in April 2013.

Thomas Nagel is University Professor in the Department of Philosophy and the School of Law at NYU. His latest book, Mind and Cosmos, was published in September. (December 2012)

Jason Epstein launched the trade paperback format in the US in 1952 as a young editor at Doubleday. In 1963 he was a founder of The New York Review and in 1979 cofounder with the late Edmund Wilson of the Library of America. In 2007 he cofounded On Demand Books. Among his many awards are the National Book Award Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the Lifetime Achievement Award of the National Book Critics Circle, and the Curtis Benjamin Award given by the American Association of Publishers for enriching the world of books.
 (February 2011)

Jeremy Bernstein’s books include Plutonium: A History of the World’s Most Dangerous Element and Nuclear Weapons: What You Need to Know, which was published in paperback in February. (May 2010)

Orhan Pamuk is the author, most recently, of The Museum of Innocence. He was awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Julian Barnes has written eleven novels, three books of short stories, and four collections of essays. His latest novel, The Sense of an Ending, won the 2011 Man Booker Prize.

Andrew Hacker teaches political science at Queens College. He is currently working on a book on mathematics with Claudia Dreifus.
 (January 2013)