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October 25, 2012 • Volume 59, Number 16

LETTERS

Contributors

William Styron (1925–2006) was the author of several novels, including Sophie’s Choice and The Confessions of Nat Turner.

Mark Ford teaches in the English Department at University College London. His anthology London: A History in Verse was published last July.
 (June 2013)

Steve Coll is President of the New America Foundation and a staff writer at The New Yorker. His most recent book is Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power.
 In July he will become Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. (February 2013)

Walter Kaiser was Director of Villa I Tatti, the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, in Florence from 1988 to 2002. He is Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English and Professor of Comparative Literature Emeritus at Harvard.
 
(March 2013)

Michael Greenberg is the author of Hurry Down Sunshine and Beg, Borrow, Steal: A Writer’s Life. From 2003 to 2009 he wrote the Freelance column in the TLS.
 (April 2013)

Alain Minc is President of AM Conseil. His most recent book is L’Âme des nations. (October 2012)

Antony Shugaar was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship for his translation of the Italian novella Sandokan by Nanni Balestrini. (December 2011)

Edward Mendelson is the Lionel Trilling Professor in the Humanities at Columbia and the literary executor of the estate of W.H. Auden.
 He is the author of Early Auden, Later Auden, and many essays on (and editions of) nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers, including George Meredith, Thomas Hardy, H.G. Wells, Arnold Bennett, Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett, and Thomas Pynchon.

Alexander Stille is San Paolo Professor of International Journalism at Columbia. His memoir, The Force of Things: A Marriage in War in Peace, will be published next February. (October 2012)

John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland in 1945. He is the author of many novels, including The Book of Evidence, The Untouchable, Eclipse, The Sea (winner of the Man Booker Prize), and Ancient Light. As Benjamin Black he has written six crime novels, including Vengeance.

Geoffrey O’Brien is Editor in Chief of the Library of America. His recent works include Early Autumn and The Fall of the House of Walworth. His new book Stolen Glimpses, Captive Shadows: Writing on Film 2002–2012 will be published in 2013.


Arnold Relman is Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is former Editor in Chief of The New England Journal of Medicine and the author of A Second Opinion: Rescuing America’s Health Care.
 (October 2012)

Jonathan Mirsky, a journalist and historian of China, is the former East Asia Editor of The Times of London.
 (May 2013)

Fintan O’Toole is Literary Editor of The Irish Times and Leonard L. Milberg Visiting Lecturer in Irish Letters at Prince­ton. His latest book is A History of Ireland in 100 Objects.
 (June 2013)

Roderick Macfarquhar is Leroy B. Williams Research Professor of History and Political Science at Harvard. His most recent book is the edited volume The Politics of China: Sixty Years of the People’s Republic of China. (April 2013)

Anne Applebaum is a columnist for The Washington Post and Slate. Her most recent book is Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944–1956.
 (June 2013)

Alan Ryan teaches at Princeton. His recent works include The Making of Modern Liberalism and On Politics: A History of Political Thought.

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.

Thomas Meaney is a doctoral candidate in history at Columbia. (October 2012)

Robert Pogue Harrison is Rosina Pierotti Professor in Italian Literature at Stanford. His latest book is Gardens: An Essay on the Human Condition.
 (April 2013)

Elisabeth Sifton is the author of The Serenity Prayer: Faith and Politics in Times of Peace and War, about the background to the famous prayer written by her father, Reinhold Niebuhr.

Fritz Stern is University Professor Emeritus and the former provost of Columbia University. His books include The Politics of Cultural Despair (1963), Gold and Iron: Bismarck, Bleichröder, and the Building of the German Empire (1977), and Five Germanys I Have Known (2006).

Robert Darnton is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and University Librarian at Harvard. His latest book is Poetry and the Police: Communication Networks in Eighteenth-Century Paris.


George Soros is Chairman of Soros Fund Management LLC and the Open Society Foundations. (September 2012)

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) He has been awarded an Open Society Foundation Fellowship for 2012–2013 to write his next book, on the role of civil society in enforcing constitutional rights.


Jeffrey Gettleman is East Africa bureau chief for The New York Times. He was awarded a Pulitzer Prize this year for international reporting from Somalia and Sudan. (August 2012)

Gordon Wood is the Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History Emeritus at Brown. His latest book is The Idea of America: Reflections on the Birth of the United States.