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Julian Barnes
Flights
My Father’s Tears and Other Stories by John Updike
Endpoint and Other Poems by John Updike
The Maples Stories by John Updike
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Ahmed Rashid
Pakistan on the Brink
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Adam Kirsch
The Wittgenstein Illusion
The House of Wittgenstein: A Family at War by Alexander Waugh
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Colin Thubron
Madame Butterfly’s Brothel
The East, the West, and Sex: A History of Erotic Encounters by Richard Bernstein
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Martin Filler
The Late Show
Picasso: Mosqueteros an exhibition, curated by John Richardson, at the Gagosian Gallery, New York City, March 26–June 6, 2009
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Helen Epstein
America’s Prisons: Is There Hope?
Dreams from the Monster Factory: A Tale of Prison, Redemption and One Woman’s Fight to Restore Justice to All by Sunny Schwartz, with David Boodell
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Ian Buruma
Escape in Japan
Tokyo Sonata a film directed by Kurosawa Kiyoshi
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Russell Baker
A Heroic Historian on Heroes
American Heroes: Profiles of Men and Women Who Shaped Early America by Edmund S. Morgan
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Bill McKibben
Can Obama Change the Climate?
The Global Deal: Climate Change and the Creation of a New Era of Progress and Prosperity by Nicholas Stern
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Peter Brown
A Surprise from Saint Augustine
Augustine and the Jews: A Christian Defense of Jews and Judaism by Paula Fredriksen
Palestine in Late Antiquity by Hagith Sivan
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Colm Tóibín
The Admirable Mrs. James
Alice in Jamesland: The Story of Alice Howe Gibbens James by Susan E. Gunter
House of Wits: An Intimate Portrait of the James Family by Paul Fisher
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Max Hastings
A Farewell to Arms
The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front, 1915–1919 by Mark Thompson
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Garry Wills
Lincoln’s Black History
Lincoln on Race and Slavery edited and with an introduction by Henry Louis Gates Jr., and coedited by Donald Yacovone
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Jennifer Schuessler
The Embrace of Bling
How to Sell by Clancy Martin
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Charles Baxter
Flowering Porter
Collected Stories and Other Writings by Katherine Anne Porter, edited by Darlene Harbour Unrue
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Christopher Ricks
Keats’s Afterlife
Posthumous Keats: A Personal Biography by Stanley Plumly
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Jonathan Sumption
Who Was Deceiving Whom?
The Man Who Believed He Was King of France: A True Medieval Tale by Tommaso di Carpegna Falconieri, translated from the Italian by William McCuaig
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Robert Malley,
Hussein AghaObama and the Middle East
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Stanley Wells
The Greatest Actress of Her Age
A Strange Eventful History: The Dramatic Lives of Two Remarkable Families by Michael Holroyd
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George Soros,
Niall Ferguson,
Paul Krugman, et al.The Crisis and How to Deal with It
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Asa Kasher,
Major General Amos Yadlin,
Avishai Margalit, et al.‘Israel & the Rules of War’: An Exchange
LETTERS
Contributors
Bill McKibben is scholar in residence at Middlebury College, and the author of The End of Nature, Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future and Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet. He is also the founder of 350.org, the global climate campaign that has been actively involved in the fight against natural gas fracking.


