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March 29, 2007 • Volume 54, Number 5

  • Julian Barnes

    The Odd Couple e-edition

    That Sweet Enemy: The French and the British from the Sun King to the Present by Robert and Isabelle Tombs

  • Václav Havel,
    Paul Wilson

    The Freedom Tower e-edition

  • Eamon Duffy

    Early Christian Impresarios e-edition

    Christianity and the Transformation of the Book: Origen, Eusebius, and the Library of Caesarea by Anthony Grafton and Megan Williams

    The Monk and the Book: Jerome and the Making of Christian Scholarship by Megan Hale Williams

  • Joseph Lelyveld

    Jimmy Carter and Apartheid e-edition

    Palestine Peace Not Apartheid by Jimmy Carter

    Prisoners: A Muslim and a Jew Across the Middle East Divide by Jeffrey Goldberg

  • James M. McPherson

    What Did He Really Think About Race?

    The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics by James Oakes

  • Helen Vendler

    The Democratic Eye e-edition

    A Worldly Country: New Poems by John Ashbery

  • Stephen Kinzer

    Big Gamble in Rwanda e-edition

    Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda by Roméo Dallaire, with a foreword by Samantha Power

    The Rwanda Crisis: History of a Genocide by Gérard Prunier

    Imagined Olympians: Body Culture and Colonial Representation in Rwanda by John Bale

    Silent Accomplice: The Untold Story of France’s Role in Rwandan Genocide by Andrew Wallis

    An Ordinary Man: An Autobiography by Paul Rusesabagina with Tom Zoellner

  • Anne Barton

    ‘Words, Words, Words’ e-edition

    The Shakespeare Wars: Clashing Scholars, Public Fiascoes, Palace Coups by Ron Rosenbaum

  • Christopher Benfey

    Three Ways of Looking at Thomas Eakins e-edition

    Eakins Revealed: The Secret Life of an American Artist by Henry Adams

    The Revenge of Thomas Eakins by Sidney D. Kirkpatrick

    Portrait: The Life of Thomas Eakins by William S. McFeely

  • Brian Urquhart

    Disaster: From Suez to Iraq e-edition

    Ends of British Imperialism: The Scramble for Empire, Suez and Decolonization by Wm. Roger Louis

    The International Struggle over Iraq: Politics in the UN Security Council, 1980–2005 by David M. Malone

  • Diane Johnson

    The Triumph of Turgenev e-edition

    Twilight of Love: Travels with Turgenev by Robert Dessaix

  • Darryl Pinckney

    Black Wisdom e-edition

    All Aunt Hagar’s Children by Edward P. Jones

  • Andrew Delbanco

    Scandals of Higher Education

    Equity and Excellence in American Higher Education by William G. Bowen, Martin A. Kurzweil, and Eugene M. Tobin, in collaboration with Susanne C. Pichler

    The Price of Admission: How America’s Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges—and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates by Daniel Golden

    The Trouble with Diversity: How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality by Walter Benn Michaels

    Excellence Without a Soul: How a Great University Forgot Education by Harry R. Lewis

    Our Underachieving Colleges: A Candid Look at How Much Students Learn and Why They Should Be Learning More by Derek Bok

    Powers of the Mind: The Reinvention of Liberal Learning in America by Donald N. Levine

  • Richard Stern,
    John Friedmann,
    John Banville

    Translating Rilke: An Exchange

LETTERS

Contributors

Václav Havel (1936–2011) was the last president of Czechoslovakia and the first president of the Czech Republic. Havel was one of the six signers of the statement “Tibet: The Peace of the Graveyard.”

Paul Wilson is a writer based in Toronto. He has translated major works by Josef Škvorecký, Ivan Klíma, Bohumil Hrabal, and Václav Havel. (May 2013)

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.

Eamon Duffy is Professor of the History of Christianity at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Magdalene College. His latest book, Sacrilege and Sedition: Religion and Conflict in the Tudor Reformations, was published in May.
 (June 2012)

James McPherson is George Henry Davis ’86 Professor of American History Emeritus at Princeton. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1989 for Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. His most recent book is War on the Waters: The Union and Confederates Navies, 1861-1865.

Helen Vendler is the Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor in the Department of English at Harvard. Stone at Delphi: Seamus Heaney’s Poems with Classical References, Selected and Introduced by Helen Vendler has just appeared in a limited edition. (March 2013)

Stephen Kinzer, a former New York Times bureau chief in Istanbul, teaches international relations at Boston University. He is writing a book about John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles. (August 2011)

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

Christopher Benfey is Mellon Professor of English at Mount Holyoke. His latest book, Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay, is now out in paperback.
 (March 2013)

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)

Diane Johnson is a novelist and critic. Her books include Lulu in Marrakechand Le Divorce. Her new book, Flyover Lives, will be published in January 2014.

Darryl Pinckney is the author of a novel, High Cotton, and, in the Alain Locke Lecture Series, Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature.

Andrew Delbanco is Mendelson Family Chair of American Studies at Columbia. His new books, College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be and The Abolitionist Imagination, will be published in April.
 (February 2012)

John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland in 1945. He is the author of many novels, including The Book of Evidence, The Untouchable, Eclipse, The Sea (winner of the Man Booker Prize), and Ancient Light. As Benjamin Black he has written six crime novels, including Vengeance.

Paul Krugman is a columnist for The New York Times and Professor of Economics and International Affairs at Princeton. He was awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize in Economics. (June 2013)

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas’s most recent books are The Hidden Life of Dogs, Certain Poor Shepherds, and The Tribe of Tiger: Cats and Their Culture.

Melvin Konner is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Anthropology at Emory. His most recent book, The Evolution of Childhood: Relationships, Emotion, Mind, was published in paperback in November. (December 2011)

Joseph Lelyveld is a former correspondent and Editor of The New York Times. His latest book is Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India.

 (June 2013)