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September 30, 2010 • Volume 57, Number 14

LETTERS

Contributors

Timothy Garton Ash is Professor of European Studies and Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St. Antony’s College, Oxford, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford. He is the author of many books, including The Magic Lantern, an eyewitness account of the velvet revolutions of 1989.

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.

Charles Baxter is the Edelstein-Keller Professor in Creative Writing at the University of Minnesota. His latest book, Gryphon: New and Selected Stories, will be released in paperback in February.
 (February 2012)

Willibald Sauerländer is a former director of the Central Institute for Art History in Munich. His book on Rubens’s altarpieces has been just published. (November 2011)

David Dollenmayer is Professor of German at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. (November 2011)

Michael Tomasky is Special Correspondent for Newsweek/The Daily Beast. He is also Editor of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas.
 (February 2012)

Paul Krugman is a columnist for The New York Times and Professor of Economics and International Affairs at Princeton. He was awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize in Economics. (July 2011)

Robin Wells is the coauthor, along with Paul Krugman, of Economics and has taught economics at Princeton, Stanford Business School, and MIT.
 (July 2011)

Nicholas Lemann is Dean and Henry R. Luce Professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. (March 2011)

Arnold Relman is Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and former Editor in Chief of The New England Journal of Medicine. His latest book is A Second Opinion: Rescuing America’s Health Care.
 (October 2011)

Garry Wills is Professor of History Emeritus at Northwestern. The article in the Review‘s November 24, 2011 issue is drawn from his new book, Verdi’s Shakespeare: Men of the Theater (Viking).

Russell Baker is a former columnist and correspondent for The New York Times and The Baltimore Sun. His books include The Good Times, Growing Up, and Looking Back.

Daniel Mendelsohn is the author of six books, including How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken, a collection of critical essays mostly from The New York Review of Books. He is the Charles Ranlett Flint Professor of Humanities at Bard.

Max Rodenbeck is The Economist‘s Mideast Correspondent. He lives in Cairo. (October 2011)

Cathleen Schine is the author of several novels, including Rameau’s Niece, The Love Letter, She is Me, The New Yorkers, and The Three Weissmanns of Westport. She is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books.

R. Scott Appleby is the John M. Regan Jr. Director of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at Notre Dame.

John T. McGreevy is the I.A. O’Shaughnessy Dean of the College of Arts and Letters at the University of Notre Dame.

Mary Beard is Professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge. She delivered a version of the essay in this issue as the Robert B. Silvers Lecture at the New York Public Library this autumn.
 
(January 2012)

Philippe Sands QC is Professor of Law at University College London. His most recent book is Torture Team. (September 2010)

David Thomson is the author of over twenty books, including The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, now in its fifth edition. (October 2011)

Roger Cohen is a columnist for The New York Times and the International Herald Tribune and author of Hearts Grown Brutal: Sagas of Sarajevo. (September 2010)

Marcia Angell is a Senior Lecturer in Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and former Editor in Chief of The New England Journal of Medicine. Her latest book is The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It. Part I of her article in this issue appeared in the June 23 issue with the title “The Epidemic of Mental Illness: Why?” 
(July 2011)

Ian Johnson writes from Beijing and Berlin on religion and society. His most recent book is A Mosque in Munich: Nazis, the CIA and the Rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in the West.

Anthony Grafton is Henry Putnam University Professor of History and the Humanities at Princeton University.

Jeffrey Hamburger is Kuno Francke Professor of German Art and Culture at Harvard University.

Timothy Snyder is Housum Professor of History at Yale. He helped the late Tony Judt compose Thinking the Twentieth Century, which has just been published. (February, 2012)

Steve Coll is President of the New America Foundation and a staff writer at The New Yorker. His book Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power will be published in May.
 (February 2012)

Stephen Greenblatt is John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard and general editor of The Norton Shakespeare. His book The Swerve: How the World Became Modern received the National Book Award for Nonfiction.
 (March 2012)

William Pfaff’s latest book, The Irony of Manifest Destiny, was published last year. He is a former board member of the Social Science Research Council.
 (November 2011)

Jonathan Raban’s books include Surveillance, My Holy War, Arabia, Old Glory, Hunting Mister Heartbreak, Bad Land, Passage to Juneau, and Waxwings. He is the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Heinemann Award of the Royal Society of Literature, the PEN/West Creative Nonfiction Award, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers’ Award, and the Governor’s Award of the State of Washington. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, The Guardian, and The Independent. He lives in Seattle.

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).

Janet Malcolm was born in Prague. She was educated at the High School of Music and Art, in New York, and at the University of Michigan. Along with In the Freud Archives, her books include Diana and Nikon: Essays on Photography, Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession, The Journalist and the Murderer, The Purloined Clinic: Selected Writings, The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, The Crime of Sheila McGough, and Reading Chekhov: A Critical Journey. She lives in New York.

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