New issue received from: THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS (vol. LVI, nº19. December 3 –16, 2009)
Summary of this issue:
*The Humbling by Philip Roth. elaine blair
*A One-Term President?: The Choice. Gary Wills
*Who Are the Blue Dogs? Michael Tomsky
*Eccentric Visions: The Worlds of Luo Ping (1733-1799) an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Jonathan Spencer
*Poem. Paul Muldon
*Velvet Revolution: The Prospects. Timothy Garton Ash
*The Book of Genesis illustrated by R. Crumb. Harold Bloom
*My Prison, My Home: One Woman's Story of Captivity in Iran by Haleh Esfandiari. Claire Messud
*With Berlusconi in the Soup. Ingrid D Rowland
*Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression by Morris Dickstein. Robert Gottlieb
*First We Read, Then We Write: Emerson on the Creative Process by Robert D. Richardson. john banville
*Israel & Palestine: Can They Start Over?. robert malley
*Too Much Happiness: Stories by Alice Munro. Joyce Carol Oates
*Paradise Found: Nature in America at the Time of Discovery by Steve Nicholls. john terborgh
*A Meaningful Life by LJ Davis. Paula Fox
*The Third Reich at War by Richard J. Evans, The Holocaust in the Soviet Union by Yitzhak Arad. Timothy Snyder
*A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore. Brad Leithhauser
*My Happiness Bears No Relation to Hapiness: A Poet´s Life in the Palestinian Century by Andina Hoffman. pankaj misra
*Florence 1900: The Quest for Arcadia by Bernd Roeck. walter kaiser
Illicit Money: Can It Be Stopped? Raymond Baker and Eva Joly
*What Was History?: The Art of History in Early Modern Europe by Anthony Grafton. Keith Thomas
*The New J-Lobby for Peace. edward witten
*Letters from: Noam Schimmel, Howard French, and Michael Shae