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March 7, 2013 • Volume 60, Number 4

  • Michael Lewis

    The Way They Live Now

    Capital by John Lanchester

  • Cass R. Sunstein

    It’s For Your Own Good!

    Against Autonomy: Justifying Coercive Paternalism by Sarah Conly

  • Michael Scammell

    The Russian Nobility Under the Red Terror e-edition

    Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy by Douglas Smith

  • Jeff Madrick

    Too Little, Too Late: Why? e-edition

    After the Music Stopped: The Financial Crisis, the Response, and the Work Ahead by Alan S. Blinder

    Bull by the Horns: Fighting to Save Main Street from Wall Street and Wall Street from Itself by Sheila Bair

    Bailout: An Inside Account of How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street by Neil Barofsky

  • Joyce Carol Oates

    In a Trance of Dread e-edition

    The Round House by Louise Erdrich

  • Christopher Benfey

    Terrorist or Martyr? e-edition

    The Tribunal: Responses to John Brown and the Harpers Ferry Raid edited by John Stauffer and Zoe Trodd

  • Michael Chabon

    The Film Worlds of Wes Anderson e-edition

  • Daniel J. Kevles

    Can They Patent Your Genes?

  • Helen Vendler

    They Shined Together e-edition

    Now All Roads Lead to France: A Life of Edward Thomas by Matthew Hollis

  • Walter Kaiser

    An Astonishing Record of a Vast Collection e-edition

    The Robert Lehman Collection Metropolitan Museum of Art/Princeton University Press;

    I. Italian Painting by John Pope-Hennessy, assisted by Laurence B. Kanter

    II. Fifteenth- to Eighteenth-Century Paintings by Charles Sterling, Maryan W. Ainsworth, Charles Talbot, Martha Wolff, Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann, Jonathan Brown, and John Hayes

    III. Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Painting by Richard R. Brettell, Paul Hayes Tucker, and Natalie H. Lee

    IV. Illuminations by Sandra Hindman, Mirella Levi d’Ancona, Pia Palladino, and Maria Francesca Saffiotti

    V. Italian Fifteenth- to Seventeenth-Century Drawings by Anna Forlani Tempesti

    VI. Italian Eighteenth-Century Drawings by James B. Shaw and George Knox

    VII. Fifteenth- to Eighteenth-Century European Drawings by Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann, Mary Taverner Holmes, Fritz Koreny, Donald Posner, and Duncan Robinson

    VIII. American Drawings and Watercolors by Carol Clark

    IX. Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century European Drawings by Richard R. Brettell, Françoise Forster-Hahn, Duncan Robinson, and Janis A. Tomlinson

    X. Italian Majolica by Jörg Rasmussen

    XI. Glass by Dwight P. Lanmon and David B. Whitehouse

    XII. European Sculpture and Metalwork by Frits Scholten

    XIII. Frames by Timothy Newbery

    XIV. European Textiles by Christa C. Mayer Thurman

    XV. Decorative Arts by Wolfram Koeppe, Clare Le Corbeiller, William Rieder, Charles Truman, Suzanne G. Valenstein, and Clare Vincent

  • Martin Filler

    Batman vs. Koolhaas e-edition

    Batman: Death by Design by Chip Kidd and Dave Taylor

  • Ian Frazier

    In the Beautiful, Threatened North

    Arctic Voices: Resistance at the Tipping Point by Subhankar Banerjee

  • Thomas Powers

    Warrior Petraeus

    All In: The Education of General David Petraeus by Paula Broadwell, with Vernon Loeb

    The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War by Fred Kaplan

    The Fourth Star: Four Generals and the Epic Struggle for the Future of the United States Army by David Cloud and Greg Jaffe

    The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today by Thomas E. Ricks

    Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam by Nick Turse

    Westmoreland: The General Who Lost Vietnam by Lewis Sorley

    The American Military and the Lessons of Vietnam: A Study of Military Influence and the Use of Force in the Post-Vietnam Era by David Howell Petraeus

    The Centurions by Jean Lartéguy, translated from the French by Xan Fielding

  • Isaiah Berlin on Machiavelli

LETTERS

Contributors

Michael Lewis is the author of Boomerang, Liar’s Poker, The New New Thing, Moneyball, Coach, The Blind Side, Home Game, and The Big Short, among other works.
 (March 2013)

Cass Sunstein is the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard and was the Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs from 2009 to 2012. His new book, Simpler: The Future of Government, was published in April. (May 2013)

Michael Scammell is the author of Solzhenitsyn: A Biography and Koestler: The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth-Century Skeptic.
He is Professor Emeritus of Writing and Translation at Columbia.
 (March 2013)

Jeff Madrick writes an economics column for Harper’s Magazine, is editor of Challenge Magazine, and is director of the Rediscovering Government Initiative at the Roo­sevelt Institute. His most recent book is Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America.

Joyce Carol Oates is Visiting Professor in the English Department at the University of California at Berkeley. Her new novel is Daddy Love.


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)

Michael Chabon is the author of several books, including The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Wonder Boys, The Amazing Adventures of Cavalier and Klay, The Yiddish Policeman’s Union, Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son and most recently, Telegraph Avenue. His essay in the March 7, 2013 issue will appear in different form in The Wes Anderson Collection, to be published by Abrams later this year.

Daniel J. Kevles is Stanley Woodward Professor of History at Yale. His recent works include The Baltimore Case and he is currently completing a history of intellectual property in plants, animals, and people.


Helen Vendler is the Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor in the Department of English at Harvard. Stone at Delphi: Seamus Heaney’s Poems with Classical References, Selected and Introduced by Helen Vendler has just appeared in a limited edition. (March 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)

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.


Ian Frazier is the author of ten books, including Great Plains, Family, On the Rez, and Travels in Siberia. 
(March 2013)

Thomas Powers is the author of The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA (1979), Heisenberg’s War: The Secret History of the German Bomb (1993), Intelligence Wars: American Secret History from Hitler to al-Qaeda (2002; revised and expanded edition, 2004), and The Confirmation (2000), a novel. He won a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1971 and has contributed to The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, Harper’s, The Nation, The Atlantic, and Rolling Stone. His latest book, The Killing of Crazy Horse, won the 2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History. He is currently writing a memoir of his father, who once told him that the last time he met Clare Boothe Luce was in the office of Allen Dulles.


John R. Searle is Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. His most recent book is Making the Social World.
 (January 2013)

Avishai Margalit is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the winner of the 2012 Philosophical Book Award (Hannover) for his most recent book, On Compromise and Rotten Compromises.