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August 19, 2010 • Volume 57, Number 13

LETTERS

Contributors

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. (April 2011)

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)

Ronald Dworkin is Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law and Philosophy at NYU and Jeremy Bentham Professor of Law and Philosophy at University College London. His books include Is Democracy Possible Here? (2006), Justice in Robes, Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality, and Freedom’s Law. He is the 2007 winner of the Ludvig Holberg International Memorial Prize for “his pioneering scholarly work” of “worldwide impact.”

Joost Hiltermann is the Middle East and North Africa Dep­uty Program Director at the International Crisis Group. (August 2011)

Frank Rich is a columnist for The New York Times. His books include Ghost Light, a memoir, and The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth in Bush’s America.

Tony Judt (1948–2010) was the founder and director of the Remarque Institute at NYU and the author of Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945, Ill Fares the Land, and The Burden of Responsibility: Blum, Camus, Aron, and the French Twentieth Century, among other books.

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. (March 2012)

Stephen Breyer is an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. (August 2010)

Diane Johnson’s most recent novel is Lulu in Marrakech. (March 2012)

Wisława Szymborska, who died on February 1, 2012, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1996. (March 2012)

Clare Cavanagh teaches Slavic and Comparative Literatures at Northwestern. Her most recent book, Lyric Poetry and Modern Politics: Russia, Poland, and the West, received the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism. (March 2012)

Stanisław Barańczak is a poet, translator, and literary critic. He won the 2007 Nike Award for the best work of Polish literature published in the previous year and the 2009 Silesius Poetry Award for lifetime achievement. He is a professor of Polish language and literature at Harvard University.

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)

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)

Sanford Schwartz is the author of Christen Købke and 
William Nicholson. (December 2011)

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

David Lodge is a novelist and critic and Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Birmingham, England. His novels include Changing Places, Small World, Nice Work, and Author, Author. His most recent works of criticism are Consciousness and the Novel and The Year of Henry James.

Jonathan Oberlander is Professor of Social Medicine and Health Policy and Management at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill. He is the author of The Political Life of Medicare.
 (August 2010)

Theodore R. Marmor is Professor Emeritus of Public Policy and Political Science at Yale. His most recent book is Fads, Fallacies and Foolishness in Medical Care Management and Policy. (August 2010)

Joseph Lelyveld is a former correspondent and editor of The New York Times. His latest book, Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India, was published in April.
 (December 2011)

Mark Ford’s third collection of poetry, Six Children, a volume of criticism, Mr. and Mrs. Stevens and Other Essays, and his translation of Raymond Roussel’s Nouvelles Impressions d’Afrique were recently published. (October 2011)

Martin Filler was the longtime architecture critic of House & Garden until it ceased publication in 2007. He is the co-author, with Olivier Bossiere, of The Vitra Design Museum: Frank Gehry, Architect, and author of Makers of Modern Architecture, based on essays from the New York Review.

Tim Parks, a novelist, essayist, and translator, is Associate Professor of Literature and Translation at IULM University in Milan. His latest book is Teach Us to Sit Still: A Skeptic’s Search for Health and Healing. A new novel, The Server, will be published in 2012.

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

Fulton Armstrong is a former National Intelligence Officer. Thomas Powers’s new book, The Killing of Crazy Horse, will be published in November.
 (August 2010)

Thomas Powers is the author of The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA (1979), Heisenberg’s War: The Secret History of the German Bomb (1993), Intelligence Wars: American Secret History from Hitler to al-Qaeda (2002; revised and expanded edition, 2004), and The Confirmation (2000), a novel. He won a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1971 and has contributed to The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, Harper’s, The Nation, The Atlantic, and Rolling Stone.

Daniel Wilkinson is Deputy Director for the Americas at Human Rights Watch. (June 2011)

Ruth Franklin is a senior editor at The New Republic. Her book A Thousand Darknesses: Lies and Truth in Holocaust Fiction will be published this fall.
 (August 2010)

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. He teaches writing at Princeton.

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).

Malise Ruthven is the author of Islam: A Very Short Introduction, Islam in the World: The Divine Supermarket (a study of Christian fundamentalism), A Fury for God: The Islamist Attack on America, A Satanic Affair: Salman Rushdie and the Wrath of Islam, and several other books. A selection of essays, Encounters with Islam, will be published in spring 2012.

Michael Pollan is the John S. and James L. Knight Professor of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma, In Defense of Food, and, most recently, Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual.
 (June 2010)

Mark Lilla is Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University. He is the author of G.B. Vico: The Making of an Anti-Modern (1993) and the editor of New French Thought: Political Philosophy (1991). His latest book is The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics, and the Modern West.