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Contents

May 28, 2009 • Volume 56, Number 9

  • Claire Messud

    Aiming to Please e-edition

    Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín

  • Sue Halpern

    Making It

    The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder

    Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell

    Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else by Geoff Colvin

  • Richard Holmes

    The Great de Staël

    Madame de Staël: The First Modern Woman by Francine du Plessix Gray

    Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame de Staël by J. Christopher Herold

    Germaine de Staël & Benjamin Constant: A Dual Biography by Renee Winegarten

    Madame de Staël: The Dangerous Exile by Angelica Goodden

    Corinne, or Italy by Madame de Staël, translated from the French by Sylvia Raphael

  • Geoffrey Wheatcroft

    An Honor For Tony Judt

  • Andrew O’Hagan

    The Weather Makers e-edition

    A Most Wanted Man by John le Carré

  • Richard C. Lewontin

    Why Darwin?

    Darwin’s Origin of Species: A Biography by Janet Browne

    The Annotated Origin: A Facsimile of the First Edition of On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin, annotated by James T. Costa

    Why Evolution Is True by Jerry A. Coyne

    It Takes a Genome: How a Clash Between Our Genes and Modern Life Is Making Us Sick by Greg Gibson

  • Deborah Eisenberg

    The World We Live In

    Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower

  • Jonathan Freedland

    A Black and Disgraceful Site

    Island of Shame: The Secret History of the US Military Base on Diego Garcia by David Vine

  • Richard Dorment

    Primitive in Dresden e-edition

    Brücke: The Birth of Expressionism in Dresden and Berlin, 1905–1913 an exhibition at the Neue Galerie, New York City, February 26–June 29, 2009

  • Jonathan D. Spence

    The Mystery of Zhou Enlai e-edition

    Zhou Enlai: The Last Perfect Revolutionary: A Biography by Gao Wenqian, translated from the Chinese by Peter Rand and Lawrence R. Sullivan

  • John Banville

    ‘The Invader Wore Slippers’ e-edition

    Prague in Danger: The Years of German Occupation, 1939–45: Memories and History, Terror and Resistance, Theater and Jazz, Film and Poetry, Politics and War by Peter Demetz

  • Daniel Howe

    Goodbye to the ‘Age of Jackson’? e-edition

    American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham

    Andrew Jackson by Robert V. Remini

    Waking Giant: America in the Age of Jackson by David S. Reynolds

    Throes of Democracy: The American Civil War Era, 1829–1877 by Walter A. McDougall

  • Gershom Gorenberg

    The War to Begin All Wars

    1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War by Benny Morris

    Making Israel edited by Benny Morris

    A History of Palestine: From the Ottoman Conquest to the Founding of the State of Israel by Gudrun Krämer, translated from the German by Graham Harman and Gudrun Krämer

  • Benjamin M. Friedman

    The Failure of the Economy & the Economists

    Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism by George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller

    The Subprime Solution: How Today’s Global Financial Crisis Happened, and What to Do About It by Robert J. Shiller

LETTERS

Contributors

Claire Messud’s most recent novel is The Emperor’s Children. (December 2011)

Sue Halpern is a scholar in residence at Middlebury. Her most recent book is Can’t Remember What I Forgot: Your Memory, Your Mind, Your Future.
 (January 2012)

Richard Holmes is the author of Shelley: The Pursuit (published by NYRB Classics), which won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1974; Coleridge: Early Visions, winner of the 1989 Whitbread Book of the Year award; Dr Johnson & Mr Savage, which won the 1993 James Tait Black Prize; and Coleridge: Darker Reflections, which won the 1990 Duff Cooper Prize and Heinemann Award. His other works include Footsteps (1985) and Sidetracks (2000). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 1992. He is also a professor of biographical studies at the University of East Anglia. He lives in London and Norwich with the novelist Rose Tremain.

Jonathan Freedland is an editorial-page columnist for The Guardian. He is a past winner of the David Watt Prize for Journalism. (February 2012)

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)

Andrew O’Hagan was awarded the E.M. Forster Prize by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His latest novel, The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog, and of His Friend Marilyn Monroe, is now out in paperback. (September 2011)

Richard C. Lewontin is Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Professor of Biology at Harvard University. He is the author of The Genetic Basis of Evolutionary Change and Biology as Ideology, and the co-author of The Dialectical Biologist (with Richard Levins) and Not in Our Genes (with Steven Rose and Leon Kamin).

Deborah Eisenberg is the author of four collections of short stories and a play. She is the winner of the 2000 Rea Award for the Short Story, a Whiting Writers’ Award, a Lannan Foundation Fellowship, and five O. Henry Awards. She lives in New York City.

Richard Dorment is the art critic of the Daily Telegraph. Among the exhibitions he has organized is “James McNeill Whistler,” seen at the Tate Gallery, London, the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
(February 2012)

Jonathan Spence is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. Among his books are The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci, The Death of Woman Wang, and Return to Dragon Mountain. (December 2011)

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.


Daniel Howe is Rhodes Professor of American History Emeritus at Oxford and Professor of History Emeritus at UCLA. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for History in 2008 for his book What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815–1848.
 (May 2009)

Gershom Gorenberg is a senior correspondent for The American Prospect. He is the author, most recently, of The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements, 1967-1977. His blog can be found at SouthJerusalem.com.
 (May 2009)

Benjamin M. Friedman is the William Joseph Maier Professor of Political Economy at Harvard. His most recent book is The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth. (June 2011)

Elizabeth Drew, who lives in Washington, is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books. She is the author of fourteen books, including one of the first books on the role of money in modern US politics, from 1983.


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)

Jeremy Bernstein’s books include Plutonium: A History of the World’s Most Dangerous Element and Nuclear Weapons: What You Need to Know, which was published in paperback in February. (May 2010)