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June 24, 2010 • Volume 57, Number 11

  • Charles Rosen

    Happy Birthday, Frédéric Chopin! e-edition

  • Michael Kimmelman

    Deuce!

    Open: An Autobiography by Andre Agassi

    A Terrible Splendor: Three Extraordinary Men, a World Poised for War, and the Greatest Tennis Match Ever Played by Marshall Jon Fisher

  • Paul Volcker

    ‘The Time We Have Is Growing Short’ e-edition

  • Edmund White

    More Lad Than Bad e-edition

    The Pregnant Widow by Martin Amis

  • Christopher Benfey

    ‘The Real Critter’ e-edition

    On Whitman by C.K. Williams

    Three American Poets: Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Herman Melville by William C. Spengemann

    Song of Myself and Other Poems by Walt Whitman, selected and introduced by Robert Hass

  • Jonathan Mirsky

    Vietnam Now e-edition

    Vietnam: Rising Dragon by Bill Hayton

  • Martin Filler

    The Powerhouse of the New

    Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops for Modernity an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, November 8, 2009–January 25, 2010

    Bauhaus: A Conceptual Model an exhibition at the Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, July 22–October 4, 2009

    Art to Hear: Bauhaus: A Conceptual Model audio CD guide to the exhibition and booklet produced by tonwelt professional media GmbH and directed by Klaus Kowatsch

    Gunta Stölzl: Bauhaus Master foreword by Monika Stadler, text by Gunta Stölzl

    Bauhaus Women: Art, Handicraft, Design by Ulrike Müller

    The Bauhaus Group: Six Masters of Modernism by Nicholas Fox Weber

    Bauhaus Conflicts, 1919–2009: Controversies and Counterparts edited by Philipp Oswalt

    Kandinsky an exhibition at the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau, Munich, October 25, 2008–March 8, 2009; the Georges Pompidou Center, Paris, April 8–August 10, 2009; and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, September 18, 2009–

    László Moholy-Nagy: Retrospective an exhibition at the Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, October 8, 2009–February 7, 2010

    Moholy: An Education of the Senses an exhibition at the Loyola University Museum of Art, Chicago, February 11–May 9, 2010

    Moholy-Nagy: The Photograms edited by Renate Heyne and Floris M. Neusüss, with Hattula Moholy-Nagy

  • Alma Guillermoprieto

    The Mission of Father Maciel e-edition

    La Iglesia del silencio by Fernando M. González

    Vows of Silence: The Abuse of Power in the Papacy of John Paul II by Jason Berry and Gerald Renner

    Money Paved the Way for Maciel’s Influence by Jason Berry

    Maciel despojó a 900 mujeres by Eugenia Jiménez

  • Jenny Uglow

    The Other Side of Science e-edition

    Never Pure: Historical Studies of Science as if It Was Produced by People with Bodies, Situated in Time, Space, Culture, and Society, and Struggling for Credibility and Authority by Steven Shapin

  • Nicholas Stern

    Climate: What You Need to Know e-edition

    Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet by Bill McKibben

  • Anthony Grafton

    ‘A Jewel of a Thousand Facets’ e-edition

    The Book That Changed Europe: Picart and Bernard’s Religious Ceremonies of the World by Lynn Hunt, Margaret C. Jacob, and Wijnand Mijnhardt

    Bernard Picart and the First Global Vision of Religion edited by Lynn Hunt, Margaret Jacob, and Wijnand Mijnhardt

  • Tim Parks

    Strange Love in the North e-edition

    Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson, translated from the Norwegian by Anne Born

    To Siberia by Per Petterson, translated from the Norwegian by Anne Born

    Wonder by Hugo Claus, translated from the Dutch by Michael Henry Heim

    The Twin by Gerbrand Bakker, translated from the Dutch by David Colmer

  • Timothy Snyder

    Jews, Poles & Nazis: The Terrible History

    Remembering Survival: Inside a Nazi Slave-Labor Camp by Christopher R. Browning

    Z˙ydzi w powstan´czej Warszawie [Jews in Insurrectionary Warsaw, 1944] by Barbara Engelking and Dariusz Libionka

  • Robert Bartlett

    Lords of ‘Pride and Plunder’ e-edition

    The Crisis of the Twelfth Century: Power, Lordship, and the Origins of European Government by Thomas N. Bisson

  • Charles Simic

    Getting the World into Poems e-edition

    Ninety-Fifth Street by John Koethe

    Versed by Rae Armantrout

    Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty by Tony Hoagland

  • R.J.W. Evans

    The Most Dynamic Ruler e-edition

    Joseph II: Volume II, Against the World, 1780–1790 by Derek Beales

  • John Cassidy

    Right and Wrong New Labour e-edition

  • Abraham H. Foxman,
    Peter Beinart

    ‘The Failure of the American Jewish Establishment’: An Exchange

LETTERS

Contributors

Anthony Grafton is Henry Putnam University Professor of History and the Humanities at Princeton University. His most recent book is The Culture of Correction in Renaissance Europe.


Helen Epstein is an independent consultant and writer specializing in public health in developing countries, and an adjunct assistant professor at the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs. She has advised numerous organizations, including the United States Agency for International Development, the World Bank, Human Rights Watch, and UNICEF. She writes frequently for various publications, including The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine, and Granta, and is the author of The Invisible Cure: Why We Are Losing the Fight Against AIDS in Africa.

Jonathan Mirsky is the former East Asia Editor of The Times of London. (June 2013)

Charles Rosen is a pianist and music critic. In 2011 he was awarded a National Humanities Medal.

Michael Kimmelman is chief architecture critic of The New York Times, a 2012 Poynter Fellow in Journalism at Yale, and a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics.
 (April 2012)

Paul Volcker was the Chairman of the Federal Reserve under Presidents Carter and Reagan from 1979 to 1987, and the Chairman of the Economic Recovery Advisory Board under President Obama during 2009 and 2010. (December 2012)

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: A Novel. He teaches creative writing at Princeton.

Christopher Benfey is Mellon Professor of English at Mount Holyoke. His latest book, Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay, is now out in paperback.
 (March 2013)

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, which is based on essays from The New York Review. A second volume of his writings on architecture is forthcoming from New York Review Books.


Alma Guillermoprieto often writes on Latin America in these pages. She lives in Mexico City. (November 2012)

Jenny Uglow’s most recent book, The Pinecone: The Story of Sarah Losh, was published in January. (June 2013)

Nicholas Stern is Chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and I.G.Patel Professor of Economics and Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is the author, most recently, of The Global Deal.
 (June 2010)

Tim Parks, a novelist, essayist, and translator, is Associate Professor of Literature and Translation at IULM University in Milan. His books include Teach Us to Sit Still: A Skeptic’s Search for Health and Healing and The Server.

Timothy Snyder is Housum Professor of History at Yale. His books include Thinking the Twentieth Century, a book of conversations with Tony Judt, and Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin, both of which were recently published in paperback.
 (March 2013)

Robert Bartlett is Wardlaw Professor of Mediaeval History at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. He is the author of The Making of Europe, The Hanged Man, and The Natural and the Supernatural in the Middle Ages. (June 2010)

Charles Simic is a poet, essayist, and translator. He has published some twenty collections of poetry, six books of essays, a memoir, and numerous translations. He is the recipient of many awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Griffin Prize, and a MacArthur Fellowship. Simic’s recent works include Voice at 3 a.m., a selection of later and new poems; Master of Disguises, new poems; and Confessions of a Poet Laureate, a collection of short essays that was published by New York Review Books as an e-book original. In 2007 Simic was appointed the fifteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. His New and Selected Poems: 1962–2012 was published in March 2013.

R. J. W. Evans is a Fellow of Oriel College and Regius Professor of History Emeritus at Oxford. His books include Austria, Hungary and the Habsburgs: Central Europe, c. 1683–1867. (July 2012)

Peter Beinart is Associate Professor of Journalism and Political Science at the City University of New York, a Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation, and Senior Political Writer for The Daily Beast. His new book, The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris, will be published in June.
 (June 2010)

E. D. Hirsch Jr. is the founder and chairman of the Core Knowledge Foundation and professor emeritus of education and humanities at the University of Virginia. He is the author, most recently, of The Making of Americans: Democracy and Our Schools. (May 2010)

John Cassidy is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author, most recently, of How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities. The article in this issue is drawn from the afterword to the paperback edition, which has just been published. (December 2010)