New York Review Books

The Supreme Court Phalanx The Court's New Right-Wing Bloc By Ronald Dworkin Ronald Dworkin analyzes the partisan decisions of the current Supreme Court and argues that Justices Roberts, Alito, Scalia, and Thomas have created a conservative alliance bent on rewriting constitutional law, leaving past decisions on issues such as abortion, affirmative action, and campaign financing vulnerable to reversal.	The Summer Book By Tove Jansson Introduction by Kathryn Davis Translated from the Swedish by Thomas Teal A grandmother and her granddaughter live out a summer of play, talk, love, and exploration on a tiny island in the Gulf of Finland (also the setting for some of the author's Moomintroll tales). "A marvelous, beautiful, wise novel, which is also very funny." —Philip Pullman

The Consequences to Come American Power After Bush Edited by Robert B. Silvers This collection of essays from The New York Review of Books looks back at the legacy of Bush, Cheney, and Rove, and ahead to the challenges and opportunities that will face America during the next administration. Contributors include Mark Danner, Joan Didion, Jonathan Freedland, Peter Galbraith, Joseph Lelyveld, Jonathan Raban, Frank Rich, Arthur Schlesinger Jr, and Michael Tomasky.	Afloat By Guy De Maupassant Translated and with an introduction by Douglas Parmée Maupassant merges fact and fiction, dream and documentation in this seemingly simple logbook of a sailing cruise along the French Mediterranean coast. "[Afloat] has spontaneity, gaiety and freshness."—Daily Telegraph (UK)

Opera and the Morbidity of Music By Joseph Kerman Joseph Kerman examines the ongoing vitality of the classical music tradition, and argues that the recent upsurge of interest in opera is proof of an extremely invigorating and healthy art form.	The Family Mashber By Der Nister Introduction by David Malouf Translated by Leonard Wolf The story of three brothers—a businessman, a mystic, and a savant—that is a brilliantly innovative fusion of modernist art and traditional storytelling. "The restitution of this Yiddish masterwork—as life-saturated as the other great Russian novels—is an augmentation of world literature." —Cynthia Ozick

The Widow By Georges Simenon Introduction by Paul Theroux Translated from the French by John Petrie Two outcasts, a widow and a recently released murderer, become involved in a love triangle with the girl next door. Published in the same year and often compared to The Stranger, The Widow is one of Simenon's most powerful and disturbing romans durs.	The Post-Office Girl By Stefan Zweig Translated from the German by Joel Rotenberg Zweig's posthumously discovered novel, about the rise and fall of a provincial Austrian girl invited to the Swiss Alps by her wealthy American aunt, is available in English for the first time.

Belchamber By Howard Sturgis Introduction by Edmund White Afterword by E.M. Forster Howard Sturgis was close friends with Henry James and Edith Wharton. "More Jamesian than the Master in hinting at melodrama yet keeping it at arm's length, Sturgis is an absolute modern in stirring up tensions on behalf of one of the quietest heroes in British fiction." —The New Republic	A Journey Round My Skull By Frigyes Karinthy Introduction by Oliver Sacks Translated from the Hungarian by Vernon Duckworth Barker "Karinthy's book is, to my mind, a masterpiece... the first autobiographical description of a journey inside the brain, [it] remains one of the very best." —from the introduction by Oliver Sacks

Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky By Patrick Hamilton Introduction by Susanna Moore A London La Ronde: Ella harbors a secret love for Bob, Bob is infatuated with prostitute Jenny, and the odious Mr. Eccles has designs on Ella. Hamilton's psychologically astute novel gives us three stories of thwarted passion.	Foxie Written and illustrated by Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire Based on the Chekhov short story "Kashtanka," this beautiful and touching picture book about a little singing dog is "one of the best of the excellent books by Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire." —The New York Times