New issue received from: THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS (vol. LVII, nº3. February 25 – March 10, 2010)
Summary of this issue:
*The Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-shek and the Birth of Modern China by Hannah Pakulah. Jonathan Spencer
*The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal by Ben Mezrich. Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America by Julia Angwin. charles petersen
*Iran: The Deadly Game. Nazila Fathi
*Lit: A Memoir by Mary Karr. Francine Prose
*Three More Memoirs. Tony Judt
*The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom by Graham Farmelo. Freeman Dyson
*Poem. Mark Ford
*Port-au-Prince: The Moment. Misha Berlinski
*On Isaiah Berlin: Explorer. Nicholas Kristoff
*On Isaiah Berlin: Gossip. charles rosen
*A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon by Neil Sheehan. Steve Cole
*Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem. charles baxter
*The American Leonardo: A Tale of Obsession, Art and Money by John Brewer. walter kaiser
*My Life with the Taliban by Abdul Salam Zaeef, translated from the Pashto and edited by Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn. ahmed rashid
*Corporate Campaign Finance: The “Devastating” Decision. ronald dworkin
*The Google Books Settlement: An Exchange with Roy Blount Jr. and ten others. robert dartton
*The Warhol Foundation on Trial: An Exchange with Paul Alexander, Joel Wachs and Michael Findlay. Richard Dorment