New issue received from: THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS (vol. LVII, nº2. February 11 –24, 2010)
Summary of this issue:
*On David Levine (1926-2009). Gary Wills
*Stripping Bare the Body: Politics Violence War by Mark Danner. charles simic
*Poem. Edward Hirsch
*Koestler: The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth-Century Skeptic by Michael Scammell. Anne Applebaum
*Health Care: Who Knows “Best”? Jerome Groopman
*Chess Metaphors: Artificial Intelligence and the Human Mind by Diego Rasskin-Gutman, translated from the Spanish by Deborah Klosky. Gary Kasparov
*Poem. robin robertson
*Luc Tuymans an exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Sanford Schwartz
*Summertime: Fiction by JM Coetzee. Tim Parks
*Bez Putina: Policheskie Dialogi s Yevgeniem Kiselevym by Mikhail Kasyanov. Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War by Stephen F. Cohen. Amy Knight
*Spring, Heat, Rains: A South Indian Diary by David Shulman. Anita Desai
*Louis D. Brandeis: A Life by Melvin I. Urofsky. anthony lewis
*The Assistant by Robert Walser, translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky. Christian Caryl
*The Sun a film directed by Alexander Sokurov. Daniel Mendelson
*Three Memoirs. Tony Judt
*"Nazis, Soviets, Poles, Jews": An Exchange. Richard J. Evans and Timothy Snyder
*Letters from Jerome Slater, David Bromwich, ED Hirsch Jr., Tony Judt, Daniel Whitman, Raymond Baker and Barbara B. Bergmann
