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December 4, 2008 • Volume 55, Number 19

LETTERS

Contributors

George Soros is Chairman of Soros Fund Management LLC and the Open Society Foundations. The article in this issue is based on a talk he gave at the 2012 Davos World Economic Forum Annual Meeting.
 (February 2012)

Ehud Olmert, Prime Minister of Israel, resigned in September. Nachum Barnea and Shimon Shiffer are political columnists for the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth. Avi Steinberg is a writer living in Philadelphia. (December 2008)

Joshua Hammer is a former Newsweek bureau chief and 
correspondent-at-large in Africa and the Middle East.
 (January 2012)

Michael Greenberg’s most recent book is Beg, Borrow, Steal: A Writer’s Life. (February 2012)

Glyn Maxwell is the author of numerous plays and nine books of poetry. His most recent collection, Hide Now, was published in September and has been shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. (December 2008)

David Cole is Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center. He is the award-winning author of several books, including The Torture Memos: Rationalizing the Unthinkable (2009), Less Safe, Less Free: Why America Is Losing the War on Terror (with Jules Lobel, 2007) and Enemy Aliens: Double Standards and Constitutional Freedoms in the War on Terrorism (2003).

Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard and a Cullman Fellow at the New York Public Library. His latest book is Taming the Gods: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents.


Mark Danner is the author, most recently, of Stripping Bare the Body: Politics Violence War. He is Chancellor’s Professor of English, Journalism and Politics at the University of California at Berkeley and James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs, Politics and the Humanities at Bard College and is currently teaching at Al Quds University in East Jerusalem. Parts of his essay in the Review‘s October 13, 2011 issue were drawn from his Tanner Lectures on Human Value at Stanford University, which will be published next year as Torture and the Forever War. His work can be found at markdanner.com.

Geoffrey Wheatcroft’s books include The Controversy of Zion, which won a National Jewish Book Award in 1996, The Strange Death of Tory England, and Yo, Blair! (June 2011)

Alison Lurie is a former Professor of English at Cornell. Her most recent novel is Truth and Consequences.

Michael Dirda, a weekly book columnist for The Washington Post, received the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for criticism. He is the author of the memoir An Open Book and of four collections of essays: Readings, Bound to Please, Book by Book, and Classics for Pleasure. His latest book, On Conan Doyle, is part of Princeton’s “Writers on Writers” series. Dirda graduated with Highest Honors in English from Oberlin College and earned a Ph.D. in comparative literature (medieval studies and European romanticism) from Cornell University. He is a contributor to The New York Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, the online Barnes & Noble Review, and several other periodicals, as well as a frequent lecturer and an occasional college teacher. (February 2012)

Tim Flannery is Panasonic Professor of Environmental Sustainability at Macquarie University in Sydney. His latest book is Here on Earth: A Natural History of the Planet.
 (February 2012)

Francine Prose is the author of three collections of stories and ten novels. Her most recent novel, The Blue Angel, was nominated for the National Book Award.

John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He is the author of many novels, including The Book of Evidence, The Untouchable, and Eclipse. Banville’s novel The Sea was awarded the 2005 Man Booker Prize. A Death in Summer, a novel written under the pseudonym Benjamin Black, was published in July 2011.


James M. McPherson was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1989 for Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. Among his other books are For Cause and Comrades, Drawn with the Sword, What They Fought For, Gettysburg, and Fields of Fury. A professor at Princeton University, he lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

Christopher Benfey is Mellon Professor of English at Mount Holyoke. His next book, to be published in the spring, is a family memoir called Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay.
 
(January 2012)

William Easterly is Professor of Economics at New York University, Co-Director of NYU’s Development Research Institute, and Co-Editor of the Journal of Development Economics. His latest book is The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good. (November 2010)

Elaine Blair is a regular contributor to The New York Review. (March 2012)

Alexander Stille is San Paolo Professor of International Journalism at Columbia. His most recent book is The Sack of Rome: Money + Media + Celebrity = Power = Silvio Berlusconi. (April 2010)

Robert M. Solow, Institute Professor Emeritus of Economics at MIT, won the 1987 Nobel Prize in economics. His most recent book is Work and Welfare. (May 2009)

Daniel J. Kevles is Stanley Woodward Professor of History at Yale University. His most recent book is The Baltimore Case.