Volume 56, Number 19 (2009-12-03)

Joyce Carol Oates

‘Who Do You Think You Are?’

Alice Munro’s voice can seem deceptively direct, but it expresses an elliptical and poetic sort of vernacular realism in which the ceaselessly analytic voice appears to be utterly natural, as if it were the reader’s own.

Too Much Happiness: Stories

by Alice Munro

Timothy Snyder

Nazis, Soviets, Poles, Jews

The Third Reich at War

by Richard J. Evans

The Holocaust in the Soviet Union

by Yitzhak Arad

Brad Leithauser

Voices in the Heartland

A Gate at the Stairs

by Lorrie Moore

Pankaj Mishra

The Palestinian Poet Who Came Back

My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet's Life in the Palestinian Century

by Adina Hoffman

Walter Kaiser

Saving the Magic City

Florence 1900: The Quest for Arcadia

by Bernd Roeck, translated from the German by Stewart Spencer

Raymond Baker,
Eva Joly

Illicit Money: Can It Be Stopped?

Keith Thomas

Fighting over History

What Was History?: The Art of History in Early Modern Europe

by Anthony Grafton

Edward Witten

The New J-Lobby for Peace

Letters

Howard W. French,
Noam Schimmel

The Debate over Rwanda

Michael Shae