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February 9, 2012 • Volume 59, Number 2

  • Paul Wilson

    Václav Havel (1936–2011)

  • Max Frankel

    The Elections: A Modest Proposal e-edition

  • Charles Hope

    The Wrong Leonardo?

    Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan an exhibition at the National Gallery, London, November 9, 2011–February 5, 2012

  • David Bromwich

    The Republican Nightmare

    To Save America: Stopping Obama’s Secular-Socialist Machine by Newt Gingrich with Joe DeSantis

  • Luc Sante

    The Mother Courage of Rock

    Patti Smith: Camera Solo an exhibition at the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, October 21, 2011–February 19, 2012

    Woolgathering by Patti Smith

    Auguries of Innocence by Patti Smith

    Just Kids by Patti Smith

    Patti Smith 1969–1976 photographs by Judy Linn, with an afterword by Patti Smith

    Love Goes to Buildings on Fire: Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever by Will Hermes

  • Andrew Delbanco

    ‘The Central Event of Our Past’: Still Murky e-edition

    American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era by David W. Blight

  • Charles Rosen

    Elliott Carter’s Music of Time e-edition

  • Charles Baxter

    A Different Kind of Delirium

    The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories by Don DeLillo

  • Steve Coll

    Our Secret American Security State e-edition

    Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State by Dana Priest and William M. Arkin

    Intelligence and US Foreign Policy: Iraq, 9/11, and Misguided Reform by Paul R. Pillar

    Counterstrike: The Untold Story of America’s Secret Campaign Against Al Qaeda by Eric Schmitt and Thom Shanker

  • Robin Robertson

    The Dead Sound (poem) e-edition

  • Alma Guillermoprieto

    Merce Cunningham & the Impossible e-edition

  • Anatol Lieven

    Afghanistan: The Best Way to Peace

    Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan, 1979–89 by Rodric Braithwaite

    A Long Goodbye: The Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan by Artemy M. Kalinovsky

    Killing the Cranes: A Reporter’s Journey Through Three Decades of War in Afghanistan by Edward Girardet

    Ghosts of Afghanistan: Hard Truths and Foreign Myths by Jonathan Steele

    The Wars of Afghanistan: Messianic Terrorism, Tribal Conflicts, and the Failures of Great Powers by Peter Tomsen

    Afghanistan and Pakistan: Conflict, Extremism, and Resistance to Modernity by Riaz Mohammad Khan

    Report on Progress Toward Security and Stability in Afghanistan US Department of Defense

    Decoding the New Taliban: Insights from the Afghan Field edited by Antonio Giustozzi

    An Enemy We Created: The Myth of the Taliban/Al Qaeda Merger in Afghanistan, 1970–2010 by Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn

  • Tim Flannery

    On the Minds of the Whales e-edition

    The Sounding of the Whale: Science and Cetaceans in the Twentieth Century by D. Graham Burnett

    The Dolphin in the Mirror: Exploring Dolphin Minds and Saving Dolphin Lives by Diana Reiss

  • Max Hastings

    The Most Terrible of Hitler’s Creatures e-edition

    Heinrich Himmler by Peter Longerich, translated from the German by Jeremy Noakes and Lesley Sharpe

    Hitler’s Hangman: The Life of Heydrich by Robert Gerw

  • Robert Pogue Harrison

    The Book From Which Our Literature Springs e-edition

    Pen of Iron: American Prose and the King James Bible by Robert Alter

    The Wisdom Books: Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes translated from the Hebrew and with commentary by Robert Alter

    The Rise and Fall of the Bible: The Unexpected History of an Accidental Book by Timothy Beal

    The Shadow of a Great Rock: A Literary Appreciation of the King James Bible by Harold Bloom

    Bible: The Story of the King James Version, 1611–2011 by Gordon Campbell

    The Apocryphal Gospels: Texts and Translations edited by Bart D. Ehrman and Zlatko Pleše

    On Eagles’ Wings: The King James Bible Turns 400 edited by Liana Lupas

    Manifold Greatness: The Making of the King James Bible edited by Helen Moore and Julian Reid

    Majestie: The King Behind the King James Bible by David Teems

  • Michael Greenberg

    What Future for Occupy Wall Street?

  • Daniela Bleichmar

    Latin America: The Battleground of Art e-edition

    Contested Visions in the Spanish Colonial World an exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, November 6, 2011–January 29, 2012, and the Museo Nacional de Historia, Mexico City, July 6–October 7, 2012

    Contested Visions in the Spanish Colonial World edited by Ilona Katzew

  • Simon Leys

    He Told the Truth About China’s Tyranny

    No Enemies, No Hatred: Selected Essays and Poems by Liu Xiaobo, edited by Perry Link, Tienchi Martin-Liao, and Liu Xia, and with a foreword by Václav Havel

LETTERS

Contributors

Paul Wilson is a writer based in Toronto and the translator of several books, plays, and essays by Václav Havel. (February 2012)

Andrew Delbanco is Mendelson Family Chair of American Studies at Columbia. His new books, College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be and The Abolitionist Imagination, will be published in April.
 (February 2012)

Max Frankel is a former correspondent and editor of The New York Times. His most recent book is High Noon in the Cold War: Kennedy, Khrushchev and the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Charles Hope was Director of the Warburg Institute, London, from 2001 to 2010. He is the author of Titian.
 (February 2012)

David Bromwich is Sterling Professor of English at Yale. He is the editor of a selection of Edmund Burke’s speeches, On Empire, Liberty, and Reform, and the author of Hazlitt: The Mind of a Critic.
 (February 2012)

Luc Sante is the author of Low Life, Evidence, The Factory of Facts, Kill All Your Darlings, and Folk Photography. He has translated Félix Fénéon’s Novels in Three Lines and written the introduction to George Simenon’s The Man Who Watched Trains Go By (both available as NYRB Classics). He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and teaches writing and the history of photography at Bard College.

Charles Rosen’s recording The Romantic Generation, which contains a performance of Franz Liszt’s Reminiscences of Don Juan, was recently reissued. (February 2012)

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)

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)

Simon Leys is the author of Chinese Shadows. Among his latest works are The Wreck of the Batavia, With Stendhal, and The Hall of Uselessness.
 (February 2012)

Robin Robertson’s fourth collection of poetry, The Wrecking Light, was published last year, along with his selection of English ­versions of poems by Tomas Tranströmer, The Deleted World.
 (February 2012)

Alma Guillermoprieto is the author of Dancing with Cuba, a memoir of her experience teaching Cunningham and Graham technique in Havana’s national schools of art.
 (February 2012)

Anatol Lieven is a professor in the War Studies Department of King’s College London and a fellow of the New America Foundation. His latest book, Pakistan: A Hard Country, was published last year.
 (February 2012)

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)

Max Hastings has been the editor of The Daily Telegraph and The Evening Standard. His most recent book, Inferno: The World at War, 1939–1945, was published in November.
 (February 2012)

Robert Pogue Harrison is Rosina Pierotti Professor in Italian Literature at Stanford. His latest book is Gardens: An Essay on the Human Condition.
 (February 2012)

Michael Greenberg’s most recent book is Beg, Borrow, Steal: A Writer’s Life. (February 2012)

Daniela Bleichmar is Assistant Professor of Art History and History at the University of Southern California. Her book Visible Empire: Colonial Botany and Visual Culture in the Hispanic Enlightenment will be published in March.
 (February 2012)

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.

Robert W. Gordon is Professor of Law at Stanford and the Chancellor Kent Professor Emeritus of Law and Legal History at Yale Law School.
 (December 2011)

John Terborgh is Research Professor in the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences at Duke and Director of its Center for Tropical Conservation. His latest book is Trophic Cascades: Predators, Prey, and the Changing Dynamics of Nature. (October 2011)