New issue received from: THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS (vol. LVII, nº6. April 8-28, 2010)
Summary of this issue:
*Anthill by EO Wilson. Margaret Atwood
*The Money Fighting Health Care Reform. Michael Tomsky
*The Ask by Sam Lipsyte. jennifer schuessler
*Papi: Uno Scandalo Politico by Peter Gomez and Marco Travaglio. alexander stille
*Lucky Breaks. Tony Judt
*The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson by Jerome Charyn. Joyce Carol Oates
*Britain: The Disgrace of the Universities. Anthony T Grafton
*Cheever: a Live by Blake Bailey and three collections of writings by John Cheever. Edmund White
*Our New Tower in London. Martin Filler
*On Compromise and Rotten Commitments by Avishai Margalit. John Gray
*Point Omega by Don DeLillo. john banville
*Investigation into the Office of Legal Counsel's Memoranda Concerning Issues Relating to the Central Intelligence Agency's Use of ´Enhanced Interrogation Techniques´ on Suspected Terrorists to report by the Office of Professional Responsibility. David Cole
*Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland's Glory by Lisa Jardine. Jonathan Israel
*The Complete Lyrics of Johnny Mercer edited by Robert Kimball, Barry Day, Miles Kreuger and Eric Davis. Brad Leithhauser
*Freefall by Joseph E. Stiglitz; The Sellout by Charles Gasparino; Taking Stock by the Congressional Oversight Panel. jeff madrick
*Jean-Antoine Houdon: Die Sinnliche Skulptur (Sensuous Sculpture). Catalog of the exhibition edited by Maraike Bückling and Ghuilhem Scherf. Willibald Sauerlander
*Skylark by Dezso Kosztolanyi. Deborah Eisenberg
*The Library at Night by Alberto Manguel; A Reader on Reading by Alberto Manguel. John Gross
*The Making of African America: The Four Great Migrations by Ira Berlin. The History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter. Edmund S. Morgan and Marie Morgan
*True Friendship: Geoffrey Hill, Anthony Hecht, and Robert Lowell Under the Sign of Elliot and Pound by Christopher Ricks. adam kirsch
*Saint Louis by Jacques Le Goff. Eamon Duffy
*The Whole Difference: Selected Writings of Hugo von Hofmannsthal edited by JD McClatchy. charles rosen
*”Health Care: Who Knows Best?”: An Exchange with Matthew Pincus and Richard Ganz. Jerome Groopman
*Letters from: David Ball, Dan Smith, Tony Judt, Stuart H. Loory, Michael Scammell, Henry Hardy and Jason Epstein