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Andrew Butterfield

The Genius of George Inness

Like Breath on Glass: Whistler, Inness, and the Artof Painting Softly an exhibition at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute,Williamstown, Massachusetts,June 22–October 19, 2008.

George Inness: A Catalogue Raisonné by Michael Quick

George Inness: Writings and Reflections onArt and Philosophy edited by Adrienne Baxter Bell

George Inness and the Science of Landscape by Rachael Ziady DeLue
Andrew Hacker

Obama: The Price of Being Black

Restoring the Right to Vote by Erika Wood

Crawford v. Marion County [Indiana] Election Board US Supreme Court, April 28, 2008

Florida State Conference of the NAACP v. Browning US Court of Appeals, 11th Circuit, April 3, 2008
Tim Parks

‘The Knife by the Handle at Last’

Alfred and Emily by Doris Lessing by Doris Lessing

Apples and Oranges: My Brother and Me, Lost and Found by Marie Brenner

House Rules by Rachel Sontag

Thrumpton Hall: A Memoir of Life in My Father’s House by Miranda Seymour

The Sum of Our Days by Isabel Allende, translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden
Anthony Lewis

Official American Sadism

Guantanamo: Beyond the Law a series of five articles by Tom Lasseter

The Challenge: Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and the Fight over Presidential Power by Jonathan Mahler

Broken Laws, Broken Lives: Medical Evidence of Torture by US Personnel and Its Impact a report by Physicians for Human Rights, with a preface byMajor General Antonio M. Taguba
Oliver Sacks

A Summer of Madness

Hurry Down Sunshine by Michael Greenberg

Wisdom, Madness and Folly: The Philosophy of a Lunatic by John Custance

Manic-Depressive Illness: Bipolar Disorders and Recurrent Depression by Frederick K. Goodwin and Kay Redfield Jamison

An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness by Kay Redfield Jamison

Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament by Kay Redfield Jamison

The Seduction of Madness: Revolutionary Insightsinto the World of Psychosis and a Compassionate Approach to Recovery at Home by Edward M. Podvoll

Lectures on Clinical Psychiatry by Emil Kraepelin

Manic-Depressive Insanity and Paranoia by Emil Kraepelin
Joyce Carol Oates

The Woman in White

A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandalin the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade by Christopher Benfey

White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson by Brenda Wineapple
Michael Tomasky

Night Comes to the Appalachians

Coal River by Michael Shnayerson

The Scotia Widows:Inside Their LawsuitAgainst Big Daddy Coal by Gerald M. Stern

Monongah: The Tragic Story of the Worst Industrial Accident in US History by Davitt McAteer

Letters

Contributors

G.W. Bowersock is Professor Emeritus of Ancient History at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. His next book, The ­Crucible of Islam, will be published in the spring.
 (November 2016)

Andrew Butterfield is President of Andrew Butterfield Fine Arts. He is the author of The Sculptures of Andrea del Verrocchio, among other books. (May 2016)

Mahmoud Darwish, a widely admired Palestinian poet, was the author of more than thirty books of poetry and prose. He died in August, at age sixty-seven. (September 2008)

Freeman Dyson is Professor of Physics Emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. His most recent book is Dreams of Earth and Sky, a collection of his writing in these pages. (October 2016)

George Friedman is Founder and CEO of Stratfor, a private intelligence company publishing geopolitical and security analysis at www.stratfor.com. He is author of America’s Secret War. His new book, The Next Hundred Years, will be published in January 2009. (September 2008)

Andrew Hacker teaches political science and mathematics at Queens College. His new book, The Math Myth and Other STEM ­Delusions, will appear next March.
 (July 2015)

Alan Hollinghurst was born in 1954 in Gloucestershire, England, and attended Magdalen College, Oxford. He is the author of the novels The Swimming-Pool Library, The Folding Star (shortlisted for the Booker Prize), The Spell, The Line of Beauty, as well as of a translation of the play Bajazet by Racine. A former staff member at The Times Literary Supplement, Hollinghurst is a frequent contributor to that and other publications, including The Guardian. Hollinghurst’s fourth novel, The Line of Beauty, won the Man Booker Prize in 2004. His most recent novel is The Stranger’s Child and he has written the introduction to a new edition of ­Penelope Fitzgerald’s Offshore. He lives in London.

Pico Iyer is a Distinguished Presidential Fellow at Chapman University. He is the author of several books, including Video Night in Kathmandu, The Lady and the Monk, and The Global Soul. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and other publications and his most recent book is The Man Within My Head.

Fady Joudah is a Palestinian-American poet and doctor who lives in Houston. (September 2008)

Michael Kimmelman is a longtime critic for The New York Times. A version of his essay in this issue will appear in the collection City Squares: Eighteen Writers on the Spirit and Significance of Squares Around the World, edited by Catie Marron and published in April by Harper.
 (April 2016)

Anthony Lewis, a former columnist for The New York Times, has twice won the Pulitzer Prize. His latest book is Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment.

Jeff Madrick is the Director of the Bernard L. Schwartz Rediscovering Government Initiative at the Century Foundation and Editor of Challenge Magazine. He teaches at Lang College, the New School. His book Seven Bad Ideas: How Mainstream Economists Damaged America and the World was published last year.


 (May 2016)

Edward Mendelson is Lionel Trilling Professor in the Humanities at Columbia and a Contributing Editor at PC Magazine. His latest book is Moral Agents: Eight Twentieth-Century American Writers. (June 2016)

Adam Michnik is Editor in Chief of the Warsaw daily newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza. His newest book is The Trouble With History: Morality, Revolution, and Counterrevolution.

William D. Nordhaus is Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale. He has written extensively on economic growth, including studies of the economic impacts of lighting, computation, and improved health. (August 2016)

Joyce Carol Oates is the author, most recently, of Soul at the White Heat: Inspiration, Obsession, and the Writing Life, much of which originally appeared in these pages. She is Distinguished Writer in Residence in the Graduate Program at New York University. (October 2016)

Tim Parks is Associate Professor of Literature and Translation at IULM University in Milan. He is the author of many novels, translations, and works of nonfiction. A version of his essay in this issue will appear in Drawn from Life: Selected Essays of Michel de Montaigne, which will be published by Notting Hill Editions in November.
 (November 2016)

Jonathan Raban’s books include Surveillance, My Holy War, Arabia, Old Glory, Hunting Mister Heartbreak, Bad Land, Passage to Juneau, and Waxwings. His most recent book is Driving Home: An American Journey, published in 2011. 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.

Oliver Sacks (1933–2015) was a physician and the author of over ten books, the most recent of which is On the Move: A Life.

George Soros is chairman of Soros Fund Management LLC and the Open Society Foundations. (November 2016)

Michael Tomasky is a Special Correspondent for The Daily Beast and the Editor of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas.
 (October 2016)

Steven Weinberg teaches at the University of Texas at Austin. He has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics and the National Medal of Science. His latest book for general readers is Lake Views: This World and the Universe.