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Sanford Schwartz

A Track All His Own

Martìn Ramìrez Catalog of the exhibition by Brooke Davis Anderson, with essays by Vìctor M. Espinosa and Kristin E. Espinosa, Daniel Baumann, and Victor Zamudio-Taylor, a foreword by Maria Ann Conelli, and an introduction by Robert Storr.
Hayden Pelliccia

‘Let Virgil Be Virgil’

The Aeneid by Virgil, translated from the Latin by Robert Fagles, with anintroduction by Bernard Knox

Aeneid by Virgil, translated from the Latin by Stanley Lombardo, with anintroduction by W.R. Johnson
Jason DeParle

The American Prison Nightmare

Punishment and Inequality in America by Bruce Western

Confronting Confinement: A Report of the Commission on Safety and Abuse in America’s Prisons by John J. Gibbons and Nicholas de B. Katzenbach, co-chairs

Locked Out: Felon Disenfranchisement and American Democracy by Jeff Manza and Christopher Uggen
Taylor Branch

Justice for Warriors

The Bonus Army: An American Epic by Paul Dickson and Thomas B. Allen

Soldiers to Citizens: The G.I. Bill and the Making of the Greatest Generation by Suzanne Mettler

Over Here: How the G.I. Bill Transformed the American Dream by Edward Humes
Keith Thomas

A Highly Paradoxical Historian

Letters from Oxford: Hugh Trevor-Roper to Bernard Berenson edited by Richard Davenport-Hines

Europe’s Physician: The Various Life of Sir Theodore de Mayerne by Hugh Trevor-Roper
Avishai Margalit

The Lessons of Spinoza

The Courtier and the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza, and the Fate of God in the Modern World by Matthew Stewart

Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity by Rebecca Goldstein

Letters

Contributors

Taylor Branch is the author of America in the King Years, a narrative history of the modern Civil Rights era in three volumes: Parting the Waters, Pillar of Fire, and At Canaan’s Edge. (April 2007)

Jason DeParle, a reporter for The New York Times, is the author of A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves: One Family and Migration in the 21st Century.
 
(July 2020)

William Finnegan is a staff writer at The New Yorker. His most recent book, Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life, won the Pulitzer Prize for autobiography. (August 2018)

Stephen Greenblatt is the Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard. He is the author of The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve: The Story That Created Us and Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics, among other books. (June 2020)

John Gross (1935–2011) was an English editor and critic. From 1974 to 1981, he was editor of The Times Literary Supplement; he also served as senior book editor and critic at The New York Times. His memoir, A Double Thread, was published in 2001.

Richard Holmes is the author of Shelley, Footsteps, Coleridge, The Age of Wonder, Falling Upwards, and, most recently, This Long Pursuit.
 (June 2019)

Pico Iyer is a Distinguished Presidential Fellow at Chapman University. His books include The Art of Stillness and The Man Within My Head.
 (June 2017)

Daniel J. Kevles is Professor of History Emeritus at Yale, a visiting scholar at NYU Law School, and a sometime lecturer at the Columbia School of Journalism. His works include The Physicists, In the Name of Eugenics, and, most recently, Heirloom Fruits of America: Selections from the USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection.
 (July 2020)

Hilary Mantel is an English novelist, short story writer, and critic. Her novel, Wolf Hall, won the Man Booker Prize in 2009.

Avishai Margalit is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His most recent book is On Betrayal.
 (May 2019)

William H. McNeill is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Chicago. His most recent books are The Pursuit of Truth: A Historian’s Memoir and Summers Long Ago: On Grandfather’s Farm and in Grandmother’s Kitchen, published by the Berkshire Publishing Group. His most recent publication, as editor, is the second edition of the Encyclopedia of World History.

Pankaj Mishra lives in London and India. His books include From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia and Age of Anger: A History of the Present. (July 2019)

Hayden Pelliccia is a Professor of Classics at Cornell. (October 2017)

Jonathan Raban’s books include Surveillance, My Holy War, Arabia, Old Glory, Hunting Mister Heartbreak, Bad Land, Passage to Juneau, and Waxwings. His most recent book is Driving Home: An American Journey, published in 2011. He is the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Heinemann Award of the Royal Society of Literature, the PEN/West Creative Nonfiction Award, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers’ Award, and the Governor’s Award of the State of Washington. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, The Guardian, and The Independent. He lives in Seattle.

Sanford Schwartz is the author of Christen Købke and William Nicholson, and some of his reviews have been collected in The Art Presence and Artists & Writers. (May 2020)

George Soros is chairman of Soros Fund Management LLC and the Open Society Foundations. (November 2016)

Keith Thomas is an Honorary Fellow of All Souls ­College, Oxford. His latest book is In Pursuit of Civility: Manners and Civilization in Early Modern England. (January 2019)

Colm Tóibín is the Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia. His latest book is Mad, Bad, ­Dangerous to Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce.
 (June 2020)