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Elizabeth Drew

The Enforcer

Bush’s Brain: How Karl Rove Made George W. Bush Presidential by James Moore and Wayne Slater

Boy Genius: Karl Rove, the Brains Behind the Remarkable Political Triumph of George W. Bush by Lou Dubose, Jan Reid,and Carl M. Cannon
Tony Judt

Anti-Americans Abroad

L’Ennemi américain: Généalogie de l’antiaméricanisme français by Philippe Roger

11 septembre 2001: L’Effroyable Imposture (9/11: The Big Lie) by Thierry Meyssan

Pourquoi le monde déteste-t-il l’Amérique? (Why Do People Hate America?) by Ziauddin Sardar and Merryl Wyn Davies

Le Livre noir des États-Unis by Peter Scowen

Dangereuse Amérique: Chronique d’une guerre annoncée by Noël Mamère and Patrick Farbiaz

Après l’empire: Essai sur la décomposition du système américain by Emmanuel Todd

L’Obsession anti-américaine:Son fonctionnement, ses causes, ses inconséquences by Jean-François Revel
Robert Cottrell

L’Homme Nikita

Khrushchev: The Man and His Era by William Taubman

Conversations with Gorbachev: On Perestroika, the Prague Spring, and the Crossroads of Socialism by Mikhail Gorbachev and Zdenek Mlynár, translated from the Russian by George Shriver, with a foreword by Archie Brown

A Century of Violence in Soviet Russia by Alexander N. Yakovlev,translated from the Russian by Anthony Austin, with a foreword by Paul Hollander
Richard C. Lewontin

Science and Simplicity

Making Sense of Life: Explaining Biological Development with Models, Metaphors, and Machines by Evelyn Fox Keller

Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA by Brenda Maddox

Watson and DNA: Making a Scientific Revolution by Victor K. McElheny

DNA: The Secret of Life by James D. Watson, with Andrew Berry
Jasper Griffin

That Old Black Magic

Cicero on the Emotions: Tusculan Disputations 3 and 4 translated from the Latin and with commentary by Margaret Graver

Greek and Roman Necromancy by Daniel Ogden

Letters

Contributors

Ian Buruma is the author of numerous books, including Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo Van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance, Year Zero: A History of 1945, and, most recently, A Tokyo Romance.

Robert Cottrell is Editor of The Browser. He has served as Moscow bureau chief for both The Economist and the Financial Times. (December 2017)

Elizabeth Drew is the author of fourteen books, including Washington Journal: Reporting Watergate and Richard Nixon’s Downfall, which was expanded and reissued in 2014.

Jason Epstein, former Editorial Director at Random House, was a founder of The New York Review and of the Library of America. He is the author of Eating: A Memoir. (Dectember 2013)

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

Tim Judah is currently a Fellow at the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna. He has reported for The New York Review from, among other places, ­Afghanistan, Serbia, Uganda, and Armenia.
 (October 2018)

Tony Judt (1948–2010) was the founder and director of the Remarque Institute at NYU and the author of Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945, Ill Fares the Land, and The Burden of Responsibility: Blum, Camus, Aron, and the French Twentieth Century, among other books.

Richard C. Lewontin is Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Professor of Biology at Harvard University. He is the author of The Genetic Basis of Evolutionary Change and Biology as Ideology, and the co-author of The Dialectical Biologist (with Richard Levins) and Not in Our Genes (with Steven Rose and Leon Kamin).

Joyce Carol Oates’s most recent book is Hazards of Time Travel. She is currently a Visiting Professor in the English Department at the University of California at Berkeley. (May 2019)

H. Allen Orr is University Professor and Shirley Cox Kearns Professor of Biology at the University of Rochester. He is the author, with Jerry A. Coyne, of Speciation.
 (June 2016)

Tim Parks is the author of many novels, translations, and works of nonfiction, most recently Out of My Head: On the Trail of Consciousness and the novel In Extremis. (October 2019)

Cathleen Schine’s novel The Grammarians will be published in September. (April 2019)

Sanford Schwartz is the author of Christen Købke and ­William Nicholson. (December 2019)

Charles Simic has been Poet Laureate of the United States. Come Closer and Listen, his latest book of poems, will be out next year. (August 2018)

Michael Tomasky is a Special Correspondent for The Daily Beast, the Editor of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, and a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times. His book If We Can Keep It: How the Republic ­Collapsed, and How It Might Be Saved was published this year.
 (December 2019)