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May 10, 2007 • Volume 54, Number 8

  • Julian Bell

    The Cunning of Francis Bacon e-edition

    Francis Bacon in the 1950s catalog of the exhibition by Michael Peppiatt

    Francis Bacon’s Studio by Margarita Cappock

    Francis Bacon: Commitment and Conflict by Wieland Schmied

    Interviews with Francis Bacon by David Sylvester

    Francis Bacon: The Violence of the Real catalog of the 2006 Düsseldorf exhibition edited by Armin Zweite, with Maria Müller

    In Camera: Francis Bacon: Photography, Film and the Practice of Painting by Martin Harrison

    Francis Bacon: Anatomy of an Enigma by Michael Peppiatt

  • Robert Gottlieb

    The Drama of Sarah Bernhardt e-edition

    Sarah Bernhardt by Henry Gidel

    Sarah Bernhardt: The Art of High Drama by Carol Ockman and Kenneth E. Silver

    Sarah Bernhardt’s First American Theatrical Tour, 1880–1881 by Patricia Marks

    My Double Life: The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt translated from the French by Victoria Tietze Larson

    Being Divine: A Biography of Sarah Bernhardt by Ruth Brandon

    The Divine Sarah: A Life of Sarah Bernhardt by Arthur Gold and Robert Fizdale

    Dear Sarah Bernhardt by Françoise Sagan, translated from the French by Sabine Destrée

    Sarah Bernhardt by Philippe Jullian

    Sarah Bernhardt and Her World by Joanna Richardson

    Sarah Bernhardt: The Art Within the Legend by Gerda Taranow

    Madame Sarah by Cornelia Otis Skinner

    The Idol of Paris by Sarah Bernhardt

    Les Mémoires de Sarah Barnum by Marie Colombier, with a preface by Paul Bonnetain

  • Jeremy Waldron

    Temperamental Justice e-edition

    The Supreme Court: The Personalities and Rivalries that Defined America by Jeffrey Rosen

    Supreme Conflict: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Control of the United States Supreme Court by Jan Crawford Greenburg

  • Václav Havel,
    Paul Wilson

    Václav vs. Václav e-edition

  • David Kaiser,
    Jason DeParle

    A Letter on Rape in Prisons

  • Fintan O’Toole

    Howling from the Sidelines e-edition

    John Osborne: The Many Lives of the Angry Young Man by John Heilpern

  • John Gray

    Are We Born Moral? e-edition

    Moral Minds: How Nature Designed Our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong by Marc D. Hauser

    Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved by Frans de Waal, edited by Stephen Macedo and Josiah Ober

  • Hermione Lee

    Storms Over the Novel e-edition

    The Curtain: An Essay in Seven Parts by Milan Kundera, translated from the French by Linda Asher

    Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel by Jane Smiley

    The Things That Matter: What Seven Classic Novels Have to Say About the Stages of Life by Edward Mendelson

    How Novels Work by John Mullan

    How to Read a Novel: A User’s Guide by John Sutherland

    The Novel, Volume 1: History, Geography and Culture edited by Franco Moretti

    The Novel, Volume 2: Forms and Themes edited by Franco Moretti

    Nation & Novel: The English Novel from Its Origins to the Present Day by Patrick Parrinder

  • Witold Rybczynski

    Genius in Concrete e-edition

    Ove Arup: Masterbuilder of the Twentieth Century by Peter Jones

  • Michael Oren

    The Mass Murder They Still Deny e-edition

    A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility by Taner Akçam, translated from the Turkish by Paul Bessemer

  • Orlando Figes

    Prokofiev Makes His Moves e-edition

    Sergey Prokofiev: Diaries, 1907–1914: Prodigious Youth translated from the Russian and annotated by Anthony Phillips, with a preface by Sviatoslav Prokofiev

    Sergey Prokofiev: Dnevnik [Diaries] 1907–1933 edited by Sviatoslav Prokofiev

  • Robert Malley,
    Hussein Agha

    The Road from Mecca

  • Freeman Dyson

    The Dream of Scientific Brotherhood e-edition

    The Fellowship: Gilbert, Bacon, Harvey, Wren, Newton, and the Story of a Scientific Revolution by John Gribbin

  • Elizabeth Drew

    The War in Washington

LETTERS

Contributors

Julian Bell is a painter and writer living in Lewes, England. He is the author of What Is Painting? and Mirror of the World: A New History of Art. (June 2013)

Robert Gottlieb is the author of biographies of George Balanchine, Sarah Bernhardt, and Dickens’s children, and the editor of the anthologies Reading Dance and Reading Jazz. (June 2013)

Jeremy Waldron is University Professor at the NYU School of Law and Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at All Souls College, Oxford. His most recent book is The Harm in Hate Speech.
 (February 2013)

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)

David Kaiser is Chair of the Board of Just Detention International, a health and human rights organization. (October 2012)

Jason DeParle, a reporter for The New York Times, is the author of American Dream: Three Women, Ten Kids, and a Nation’s Drive to End Welfare. (April 2007)

Fintan O’Toole is Literary Editor of The Irish Times and Leonard L. Milberg Visiting Lecturer in Irish Letters at Prince­ton. His latest book is A History of Ireland in 100 Objects.
 (June 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.

Hermione Lee is President of Wolfson College, Oxford, and the author of biographies of Willa Cather, Virginia Woolf, and Edith Wharton. Her biography of Penelope Fitzgerald will be published later this year. (July 2013)

Witold Rybczynski is the Meyerson Professor of Urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania, and is the architecture critic for Slate. His book on American building, Last Harvest, was published in 2007.

Michael Oren is the author of Power, Faith and Fantasy: The United States in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present. He is a senior fellow at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem. (May 2007)

Robert Malley is Middle East and North Africa Program Director at the International Crisis Group. He is writing here in his personal capacity. (November 2012)

Hussein Agha is Senior Associate Member of St. Antony’s College, Oxford, and coauthor of A Framework for a Palestinian National Security Doctrine. (November 2012)

Freeman Dyson has spent most of his life as a professor of physics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, taking time off to advise the US government and write books for the general public. He was born in England and worked as a civilian scientist for the Royal Air Force during World War II. He came to Cornell University as a graduate student in 1947 and worked with Hans Bethe and Richard Feynman, producing a user-friendly way to calculate the behavior of atoms and radiation. He also worked on nuclear reactors, solid-state physics, ferromagnetism, astrophysics, and biology, looking for problems where elegant mathematics could be usefully applied.

Dyson’s books include Disturbing the Universe (1979), Weapons and Hope (1984), Infinite in All Directions (1988), Origins of Life (1986, second edition 1999), The Sun, the Genome and the Internet (1999), and A Many-Colored Glass: Reflections on the Place of Life in the Universe (2010). He is a fellow of the American Physical Society, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and a fellow of the Royal Society of London. In 2000 he was awarded the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion.

Elizabeth Drew is a regular contributor to The New York Review and the former Washington correspondent of The Atlantic and The New Yorker. She is the author of fourteen books.
 (March 2013)

George Soros is Chairman of Soros Fund Management LLC and the Open Society Foundations. (September 2012)

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

Orlando Figes is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the author, among other books, of The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin’s Russia, A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution: 1891–1924, and Natasha’s Dance: A Cultural History of Russia. His latest book is The Crimean War: A History. (January 2012)