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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 member of the editorial staff of The New York Review and edits the NYRblog. (October 2011)

Sanford Schwartz is the author of Christen Købke and 
William Nicholson. (December 2011)

Charles Rosen’s recording The Romantic Generation, which contains a performance of Franz Liszt’s Reminiscences of Don Juan, was recently reissued. (February 2012)

John Updike was born in 1932 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 in 2009. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, among other awards. 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 most recent book is The Sack of Rome: Money + Media + Celebrity = Power = Silvio Berlusconi. (April 2010)

Daniel Mendelsohn is the author of six books, including How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken, a collection of critical essays mostly from The New York Review of Books. He is the Charles Ranlett Flint Professor of Humanities at Bard.

George M. Fredrickson is Edgar E. Robinson Professor of US History Emeritus at Stanford. His most recent books are Racism: A Short History and Not Just Black and White, a collection co-edited with Nancy Foner. (August 2006)

Christian Caryl is a Senior Fellow at the Legatum Institute and a Contributing Editor at Foreign Policy magazine

Thomas Nagel is University Professor in the Department of Philosophy and the School of Law at NYU. His new book, Mind and Cosmos, will be published next year.
 (November 2011)

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 at Queens College. His books include Money: Who Has How Much and Why, Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal, and, most recently, Higher Education, written with Claudia Dreifus. (February 2012)