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October 5, 2006 • Volume 53, Number 15

  • Charles Simic

    Back to the Beginning e-edition

    The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million by Daniel Mendelsohn

  • John Updike

    The Artful Clarks e-edition

    The Clark Brothers Collect: Impressionist and Early Modern Paintings Catalog of the exhibition by Michael Conforti, James A. Ganz, Neil Harris, Sarah Lees, Gilbert T. Vincent, and others.

  • Robert Skidelsky

    Drawing a Dog in Iraq e-edition

    The Prince of the Marshes and Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq by Rory Stewart

  • Sue Halpern

    Thanks for the Memory e-edition

    In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind by Eric R. Kandel

    Another Day in the Frontal Lobe: A Brain Surgeon Exposes Life on the Inside by Katrina Firlik

  • John Gray

    The Moving Target e-edition

    The Age of Fallibility: The Consequences of the War on Terror by George Soros

  • Jonathan Raban

    The Prisoners Speak

    The Road to Guantánamo a film directed by Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross

    Enemy Combatant: My Imprisonment at Guantánamo, Bagram, and Kandahar by Moazzam Begg with Victoria Brittain

    Guantánamo and the Abuse of Presidential Power by Joseph Margulies

  • Joyce Carol Oates

    Men Without Qualities e-edition

    The Emperor’s Children by Claire Messud

    When the World Was Steady by Claire Messud

    The Last Life by Claire Messud

    The Hunters by Claire Messud

  • Timothy Garton Ash

    Islam in Europe e-edition

    Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo Van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance by Ian Buruma

    The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  • Charles Rosen

    Opera: Follow the Music e-edition

    Divas and Scholars: Performing Italian Opera by Philip Gossett

  • Mark Ford

    Our Man in the Underworld e-edition

    My Life in CIA: A Chronicle of 1973 by Harry Mathews

    Oulipo Compendium edited by Harry Mathews and Alastair Brotchie

  • Nicholas D. Kristof

    Aid: Can It Work?

    The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good by William Easterly

    The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time by Jeffrey D. Sachs

    Millions Saved: Proven Successes in Global Health by Ruth Levine and the What Works Working Group, with Molly Kinder

    The Trouble with Africa: Why Foreign Aid Isn’t Working by Robert Calderisi

    Africa’s Stalled Development: International Causes and Cures by David K. Leonard and Scott Straus

  • Anthony Grafton

    Rediscovering a Lost Continent e-edition

    Italy Illuminated by Flavio Biondo, edited and translated by Jeffrey White

    Invectives by Francesco Petrarca, edited and translated by David Marsh

    Humanist Educational Treatises edited and translated by Craig W. Kallendorf

    Biographical Writings by Giannozzo Manetti, edited and translated by Stefano U. Baldassarri and Rolf Bagemihl

    Commentaries by Pius II, edited by Margaret Meserve and Marcello Simonetta

    Later Travels by Cyriac of Ancona, edited and translated by Edward W. Bodnar with Clive Foss

    History of the Florentine People by Leonardo Bruni, edited and translated by James Hankins

    Platonic Theology by Marsilio Ficino, edited by James Hankins with William Bowen and translated by Michael J. B. Allen with John Warden

    On Discovery by Polydore Vergil, edited and translated by Brian P. Copenhaver

    Humanist Comedies edited and translated by Gary R. Grund

    Short Epics by Maffeo Vegio, edited and translated by Michael C. J. Putnam with James Hankins

    Silvae by Angelo Poliziano, edited and translated by Charles Fantazzi

    Letters by Angelo Poliziano, edited and translated by Shane Butler

  • Joan Didion

    Cheney: The Fatal Touch e-edition

    A Very Thin Line: The Iran-Contra Affairs by Theodore Draper

    Against All Enemies: Inside America’s War on Terror by Richard A. Clarke

    Burn Before Reading: Presidents, CIA Directors, and Secret Intelligence by Admiral Stansfield Turner

    Disarming Iraq by Hans Blix

    The Halliburton Agenda: The Politics of Oil and Money by Dan Briody

    My Year in Iraq: The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope by L. Paul Bremer III, with Malcolm McConnell

    Now It’s My Turn: A Daughter’s Chronicle of Political Life by Mary Cheney

    The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America’s Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11 by Ron Suskind

    Plan of Attack by Bob Woodward

    The Rise and Rise of Richard B. Cheney: Unlocking the Mysteries of the Most Powerful Vice President in American History by John Nichols

    Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush’s War Cabinet by James Mann

    Report of the Congressional Committees Investigating the Iran-Contra Affair, with Supplemental, Minority, and Additional Views

    31 Days: The Crisis That Gave Us the Government We Have Today by Barry Werth

    Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib, and the War on Terror by Mark Danner

    Worse Than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush by John W. Dean

    Years of Renewal by Henry Kissinger

  • Michael J Sandel,
    Thomas Nagel

    The Case for Liberalism: An Exchange

LETTERS

Contributors

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.

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)

Sue Halpern is the editor of NYRB Lit and scholar-in-residence at Middlebury College. Her new book, A Dog Walks into a Nursing Home, will be published in May.
 (March 2013)

John Gray is Emeritus Professor of European Thought at the London School of Economics. Among his recent books are Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals, False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism, Heresies: Against Progress and Other Illusions, and The Immortalization Commission: Science and the Strange Quest to Cheat Death. His latest book, The Silence of Animals: On Progress and Other Modern Myths, will be published in June 2013.

Jonathan Raban’s books include Surveillance, My Holy War, Arabia, Old Glory, Hunting Mister Heartbreak, Bad Land, Passage to Juneau, and Waxwings. He is the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Heinemann Award of the Royal Society of Literature, the PEN/West Creative Nonfiction Award, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers’ Award, and the Governor’s Award of the State of Washington. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, The Guardian, and The Independent. He lives in Seattle.

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


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

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

Nicholas D. Kristof is a columnist for The New York Times and the coauthor, with his wife, Sheryl WuDunn, of Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, forthcoming in September.

Joan Didion is the author of The Year of Magical Thinking and We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction.

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)

Hans Koning, born Hans Koningsberger in Amsterdam, came to this country in 1951 and established himself as an American writer in 1958 with his first novel, The Affair. Among his other novels are A Walk with Love and Death, The Petersburg Cannes Express, The Kleber Flight, and, most recently, Zeeland, or Elective Concurrences.

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)

Amos Elon (1926–2009) was an Israeli journalist. His final book was The Pity of It All: A Portrait of Jews In Germany 1743 – 1933.

Ahmed Rashid is the author of Pakistan on the Brink: The Future of America, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. (September 2012)

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.

Timothy Garton Ash is Professor of European Studies and Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St. Antony’s College, Oxford, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford. He is the author of many books, including The Magic Lantern, an eyewitness account of the velvet revolutions of 1989. His most recent book is Facts Are Subversive: Political Writing from a Decade Without a Name. He is currently leading an Oxford University 
research project for the discussion of global free speech norms (www.freespeechdebate.com) and working on a book about free speech.

Anthony Grafton is Henry Putnam University Professor of History and the Humanities at Princeton University. His most recent book is The Culture of Correction in Renaissance Europe.