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Michael Tomasky
The ‘CEO of Self’
This is Herman Cain!: My Journey to the White House by Herman Cain
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Ingrid D. Rowland
The Crass, Beautiful Eternal City
Rome: A Cultural, Visual, and Personal History by Robert Hughes
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Edward Jay Epstein
What Really Happened to Strauss-Kahn?
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Charles Simic
Late-Night Whispers from Poland
Sobbing Superpower: Selected Poems by Tadeusz Różewicz, translated from the Polish by Joanna Trzeciak, with a foreword by Edward Hirsch
Here by Wisława Szymborska, translated from the Polish by Clare Cavanagh and Stanisław Barańczak
Unseen Hand by Adam Zagajewski, translated from the Polish by Clare Cavanagh
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Joseph Lelyveld
The Rocky Ascent of Condoleezza Rice
No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington by Condoleezza Rice
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Freeman Dyson
How to Dispel Your Illusions
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
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Martin Filler
London’s Apocalypse Then & Now
Frieze Art Fair an exhibition at Regent's Park, London, October 13–16, 2011
Pavilion of Art and Design London an exhibition at Berkeley Square, London, October 12–16, 2011
Postmodernism: Style and Subversion, 1970–1990 an exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, September 24, 2011–January 15, 2012
Gerhard Richter: Panorama an exhibition at Tate Modern, London, October 6, 2011–January 8, 2012, the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, February 12–May 13, 2012, and the Centre Pompidou, Paris, June 6–September 24, 2012
September: A History Painting by Gerhard Richter by Robert Storr
John Martin: Apocalypse an exhibition at Tate Britain, London, September 21, 2011–January 15, 2012
Rage a video game by Bethesda Softworks
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G.W. Bowersock
The Audacious Historian
An Honourable Englishman: The Life of Hugh Trevor-Roper by Adam Sisman
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Ian Johnson
China Gets Religion!
The Religious Question in Modern China by Vincent Goossaert and David A. Palmer
Religion in China: Survival and Revival under Communist Rule by Fenggang Yang
God Is Red: The Secret Story of How Christianity Survived and Flourished in Communist China by Liao Yiwu
Redeemed by Fire: The Rise of Popular Christianity in Modern China by Lian Xi
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Claire Messud
On a Mystery Voyage with Michael Ondaatje
The Cat’s Table by Michael Ondaatje
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Michael Wood
The Question of Shakespeare’s Prejudices
Shakespeare, Sex, and Love by Stanley Wells
Reading Shakespeare’s Sonnets: A New Commentary by Don Paterson
The Tainted Muse: Prejudice and Presumption in Shakespeare and His Time by Robert Brustein
Shakespeare’s Freedom by Stephen Greenblatt
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Lorrie Moore
Werner Herzog on Death Row
Into the Abyss: A Tale of Death, a Tale of Life a film directed by Werner Herzog
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John Golding
The Greatest French Artist of His Century
Watteau: The Drawings an exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, March 12–June 5, 2011
Watteau at the Wallace Collection an exhibition at the Wallace Collection, London, March 12–June 5, 2011
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Jean Daniel,
Antony ShugaarIslamism’s New Clothes
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David Cole
Keeping Watch on the Detectives
One Nation Under Surveillance: A New Social Contract to Defend Freedom Without Sacrificing Liberty by Simon Chesterman
Nothing to Hide: The False Tradeoff Between Privacy and Security by Daniel J. Solove
The Rights of the People: How Our Search for Safety Invades Our Liberties by David K. Shipler
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April Bernard
What I Hate About Writers’ Houses
Seeds: One Man’s Serendipitous Journey to Find the Trees That Inspired Famous American Writers from Faulkner to Kerouac, Welty to Wharton by Richard Horan
A Skeptic’s Guide to Writers’ Houses by Anne Trubek
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Michael Hofmann
Joseph Roth: Going Over the Edge
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Stefan Zweig,
Joseph RothLetters Between Stefan Zweig and Joseph Roth
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Kwame Anthony Appiah
Battling with Du Bois
Democracy’s Reconstruction: Thinking Politically with W.E.B. Du Bois by Lawrie Balfour
In the Shadow of Du Bois: Afro-Modern Political Thought in America by Robert Gooding-Williams
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Julian Bell
The Mysterious Women of Vermeer
Vermeer’s Women: Secrets and Silence an exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England, October 5, 2011–January 15, 2012
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Malise Ruthven
The Revolutionary Shias
Shi’ism: A Religion of Protest by Hamid Dabashi
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Tim Parks,
Per WästbergDo We Need the Nobel?: An Exchange
LETTERS
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Rita Dove,
Helen VendlerDefending an Anthology
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Jeffrey Laurenti,
David ColeTargeted Killings
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Olga B. Jonas,
Helen EpsteinThe World Bank and Money for Flu
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Walter Kaiser
A Revelation in Arezzo
Contributors
Edward Jay Epstein, an investigative journalist, is the author of thirteen books. His latest book, James Jesus Angleton: Was He Right?, was published in September. His Web site is edwardjayepstein.com.
Dyson’s books include Disturbing the Universe (1979), Weapons and Hope (1984), Infinite in All Directions (1988), Origins of Life (1986, second edition 1999), The Sun, the Genome and the Internet (1999), and A Many-Colored Glass: Reflections on the Place of Life in the Universe (2010). He is a fellow of the American Physical Society, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and a fellow of the Royal Society of London. In 2000 he was awarded the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion.
Claire Messud’s most recent novel is The Emperor’s Children. (December 2011)
Michael Wood teaches at Princeton and is the author, most recently, of Yeats and Violence. -
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.
Rita Dove’s most recent collection of poetry is Mother Love. (November 1997)


