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Jonathan D. Spence

The Other China

A Tragic Beginning: The Taiwan Uprising of February 28, 1947 by Lai Tse-han and Ramon H. Myers and Wei Wou

A Farewell: A Collection of Short Stories by Bo Yang, translated by Robert Reynolds

The Great Transition: Political and Social Change in the Republic of China by Hung-mao Tien

Governing the Market: Economic Theory and the Role of Government in East Asian Industrialization by Robert Wade

The Protestant Community on Modern Taiwan: Mission, Seminary, and Church by Murray A. Rubinstein

Taiwan: Beyond the Economic Miracle edited by Denis Fred Simon, edited by Michael Y.M. Kau
P. N. Furbank

Looking for Napoleon

The Death of Napoleon by Simon Leys, translated by Patricia Clancy. the author

The Strange Case of Mademoiselle P. by Brian O'Doherty

The Emperor’s Last Island: A Journey to St. Helena by Julia Blackburn

Napoleon: An Intimate Account of the Years of Supremacy produced and edited by Proctor Patterson Jones
Sean Wilentz

A Triumph of the Gilded Age

The Battle for Homestead, 1880–1892: Politics, Culture, and Steel by Paul Krause

‘The River Ran Red’: Homestead 1892 edited by David P. Demarest Jr.
Charles Rosen

The Mad Poets

The Letters and Prose Writings of William Cowper, Vol. 1, ‘Adelphi’ and Letters 1750–1781, edited by James King, edited by Charles Ryskamp

The Letters and Prose Writings of William Cowper, Vol. 2, Letters 1782–1786 edited by James King, edited by Charles Ryskamp

The Letters and Prose Writings of William Cowper, Vol. 3, Letters 1787–1791 edited by James King, edited by Charles Ryskamp

The Letters and Prose Writings of William Cowper, Vol. 4, Letters 1792–1799 edited by James King, edited by Charles Ryskamp

The Letters and Prose Writings of William Cowper, Vol. 5, Prose 1756–c. 1799 and Cumulative Index edited by James King, edited by Charles Ryskamp

William Cowper: Selected Letters edited by James King, edited by Charles Ryskamp

The Poetical Works of Christopher Smart, Vol. 1, Jubilate Agno edited by Karina Williamson

The Poetical Works of Christopher Smart, Vol. 2, Religious Poetry edited by Marcus Walsh, edited by Karina Williamson

The Poetical Works of Christopher Smart, Vol. 3, A Translation of the Psalms of David edited by Marcus Walsh

The Poetical Works of Christopher Smart, Vol. 4, Miscellaneous Poems, English and Latin edited by Karina Williamson
István Deák

Witnesses to Evil

In the Lion’s Den: The Life of Oswald Rufeisen by Nechama Tec

Perpetrators, Victims, Bystanders: The Jewish Catastrophe, 1933–1945 by Raul Hilberg

A Mosaic of Victims: Non-Jews Persecuted and Murdered by the Nazis edited by Michael Berenbaum

Out of the Inferno: Poles Remember the Holocaust edited by Richard C. Lukas
Robert Darnton

Reading a Riot

The Vanishing Children of Paris: Rumor and Politics before the French Revolution by Arlette Farge and Jacques Revel, translated by Claudia Miéville
Cass R. Sunstein

How Independent is the Court?

Grand Inquests: The Historic Impeachments of Justice Samuel Chase and President Andrew Johnson by William H. Rehnquist

The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring About Social Change? by Gerald N. Rosenberg
Robert Craft

Great Dane

Niels Lyhne by Jens Peter Jacobsen, translated by Tiina Nunnally, afterword by Eric O. Johannesson

Letters

Contributors

Julian Barnes’s most recent books are Keeping an Eye Open: Essays on Art and The Noise of Time, a novel.
 (April 2017)

Abraham Brumberg (1926–2008) was an essayist, editor and translator. His memoir, Journey Through Vanishing Worlds, was published by New Academia in 2007.

Robert Craft is a conductor and writer. Craft’s close working friendship with Igor Stravinsky is the subject of his memoir, An Improbable Life. In 2002 he was awarded the International Prix du Disque at the Cannes Music Festival.

Robert Darnton’s A Literary Tour de France: The World of Books on the Eve of the French Revolution was published in February. He is the Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and University Librarian Emeritus at Harvard. (June 2018)

István Deák is Seth Low Professor Emeritus at Columbia. He is the author, with Jan Gross and Tony Judt, of The Politics of Retribution in Europe: World War II and Its Aftermath.

James Fenton is a British poet and literary critic. From 1994 until 1999, he was Oxford Professor of Poetry; in 2015 he was awarded the PEN Pinter Prize. He is the author of School of Genius: A History of the Royal Academy of Arts and, most recently, Yellow Tulips: ­Poems, 1968–2011. (July 2018)

P. N. Furbank is the author of nine books, including biographies of Samuel Butler, Italo Svevo, and E.M. Forster.

Jasper Griffin is Emeritus Professor of Classical Literature and a Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. His books include Homer on Life and Death.

Bernard Lewis is Cleveland E. Dodge Professor of Near Eastern Studies Emeritus at Princeton. His most recent books are Music of a Distant Drum and What Went Wrong: Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response. (May 2002)

Charles Rosen was a pianist and music critic. In 2011 he was awarded a National Humanities Medal.

Sheila M. Rothman is Professor of Public Health at the Mailman School, Columbia University. Their books written together include The Willowbrook Wars: A Decade of Struggle for Social Justice (1984) and The Pursuit of Perfection: The Promise and Perils of Medical Enhancement (2003).

David J. Rothman is Bernard Schoenberg Professor of Social Medicine and History at the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons and president of the Institute on Medicine as a Professor.

Jonathan Spence is Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. Among his books are The Death of Woman Wang, Treason by the Book, The Question of Hu, and The Search for Modern China.

Cass Sunstein is the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard and the editor of Can It Happen Here?, a new volume of essays on authoritarianism in America. (June 2018)

Sean Wilentz is the George Henry Davis 1886 Professor of American History at Princeton and the author of The Politicians and the Egalitarians: The Hidden History of American Politics. 
(February 2018)

Garry Wills, whose most recent book is What the Qur’an Meant: And Why It Matters, is the 2018 commencement speaker at Zaytuna College, the first accredited Muslim campus in America. (June 2018)