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October 11, 2007 • Volume 54, Number 15

  • François Hauter

    Chinese Shadows e-edition

  • Peter W. Galbraith

    The Victor? e-edition

    Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the United States by Trita Parsi

  • Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

    The Turning Point e-edition

  • James M. McPherson

    The Fight for Slavery in California e-edition

    The California Gold Rush and the Coming of the Civil War by Leonard L. Richards

  • Caroline Moorehead

    Women and Children for Sale

    Selling Olga: Stories of Human Trafficking and Resistance by Louisa Waugh

    “Human Trafficking: Submission to the Joint Committee on Human Rights” a report by Amnesty International UK

    Trafficking in Human Beings in South Eastern Europe a report by Barbara Limanowska

    “Used, Abused, Arrested and Deported: Extending Immigration Benefits to Protect the Victims of Trafficking and to Secure the Prosecution of Traffickers” by Dina Francesca Haynes

    The Politics of Prostitution: Women’s Movements, Democratic States and the Globalisation of Sex Commerce edited by Joyce Outshoorn

    Gender, Trafficking, and Slavery edited by Rachel Masika

    Journeys of Jeopardy: A Review of Research on Trafficking in Women and Children in Europe by Elizabeth Kelly

    Making Harm Visible: Global Sexual Exploitation of Women and Girls edited by Donna M. Hughes and Claire Roche

  • Julian Bell

    The Golden Age at Its Best e-edition

    Dutch Portraits: The Age of Rembrandt and Frans Hals Catalog of the exhibition by Rudi Ekkart and Quentin Buvelot

    The Rembrandt Book by Gary Schwartz

    Rembrandt’s Nose: Of Flesh and Spirit in the Master’s Portraits by Michael Taylor

  • Sarah Kerr

    In the Terror House of Mirrors e-edition

    The Unknown Terrorist by Richard Flanagan

    The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid

  • Brian Urquhart

    Are Diplomats Necessary? e-edition

    Independent Diplomat: Dispatches from an Unaccountable Elite by Carne Ross

  • Helen Vendler

    From the Homicidal to the Ecstatic e-edition

    God’s Silence by Franz Wright

    Earlier Poems by Franz Wright

  • Andrew Hacker

    They’d Much Rather Be Rich e-edition

    The Challenge of Affluence: Self-Control and Well-Being in the United States and Britain Since 1950 by Avner Offer

    Century of Difference: How America Changed in the Last One Hundred Years by Claude S. Fischer and Michael Hout

    In Pursuit of Knowledge: Scholars, Status, and Academic Culture by Deborah L. Rhode

    The Williams Directory, 2006–2007

    Standard and Poor’s 500 CEO Profiles

  • Robin Robertson

    My Girls (poem)

  • Ingrid D. Rowland

    Rome: The Marvels and the Menace

    Rome from the Ground Up by James H.S. McGregor

    The Seven Hills of Rome: A Geological Tour of the Eternal City by Grant Heiken, Renato Funiciello, and Donatella De Rita

    The Secrets of Rome: Love and Death in the Eternal City by Corrado Augias, translated from the Italian by A. Lawrence Jenkens

    The Colosseum by Keith Hopkins and Mary Beard

  • Bill McKibben

    Can Anyone Stop It? e-edition

    Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming by Bjørn Lomborg

    Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility by Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger

    What We Know About Climate Change by Kerry Emanuel

    Climate Change: What It Means for Us, Our Children, and Our Grandchildren edited by Joseph F.C. DiMento and Pamela Doughman

  • Eva Hoffman

    Warsaw Underground e-edition

    Nine by Andrzej Stasiuk,translated from the Polish by Bill Johnston

  • Edmund White

    Sons and Brothers e-edition

    The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1855–1872 edited by Pierre A. Walker and Greg W. Zacharias, with an introduction by Alfred Habegger

    William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism by Robert D. Richardson

    Letters of Marcel Proust translated from the French by Mina Curtiss, with an introduction by Adam Gopnik

    Henry James at Work by Theodora Bosanquet, edited and with notes by Lyall H. Powers

    Henry James Goes to Paris by Peter Brooks

  • Gitta Honegger,
    Tim Parks

    ‘How to Read Elfriede Jelinek’: An Exchange

LETTERS

Contributors

François Hauter is a longtime foreign correspondent for Le Figaro and the author of Rouge Glacé, a novel set in China. (October 2007)

Peter W. Galbraith, a former US Ambassador to Croatia, is Senior Diplomatic Fellow at the Center for Arms Control and a principal at the Windham Resources Group, which has worked in Iraq. His new book, Unintended Consequences: How War in Iraq Strengthened Americaå?s Enemies, has just been released. (October 2008)

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. (1917–2007) was an American historian and social critic. He served as adviser to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. His Journals: 1952– 2000 were published in 2007.

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.

Caroline Moorehead’s new book, A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France, will be published in November. (October 2011)

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)

Sarah Kerr, a longtime contributor to The New York Review, lives near Washington, D.C. (December 2008)

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)

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)

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

Robin Robertson is from the northeast coast of Scotland. His fifth collection of poetry will be published next year. (June 2012)

Ingrid D. Rowland is a professor, based in Rome, at the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture. A frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, she is the author of The Culture of the High Renaissance: Ancients and Moderns in Sixteenth-Century Rome and The Scarith of Scornello: A Tale of Renaissance Forgery. She has also published a translation of Vitruvius’ Ten Books of Architecture and a history of Villa Taverna, the US ambassador’s residence in Rome.

Bill McKibben is Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College, and the author of The End of Nature, Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future, Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet and of the forthcoming Oil and Honey: The Education of an Unlikely Activist.. He is also the founder of 350.org, the global climate campaign that has been actively involved in the fight against natural gas fracking.

Edmund White has written biographies of Jean Genet, Marcel Proust, and Arthur Rimbaud. He has also written several novels; the most recent is Jack Holmes and His Friend: A Novel. He teaches creative writing at Princeton.

Tim Parks, a novelist, essayist, and translator, is Associate Professor of Literature and Translation at IULM University in Milan. His books include Teach Us to Sit Still: A Skeptic’s Search for Health and Healing and The Server.

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.

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.

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)

Gordon Wood is the Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History Emeritus at Brown. His latest book is The Idea of America: Reflections on the Birth of the United States.

Eva Hoffman’s books include Shtetl: The Life and Death of a Small Town and the World of Polish Jews, Exit into History, and The Secret, a novel. (October 2007)