New issue received from: THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS (vol. LVII, no. 9. May 27-June 9, 2010)
Summary of this issue:
*Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State by Garry Wills; Why Intelligence Fails: Lessons from the Iranian Revolution and the Iraq War by Robert Jervis. Thomas Powers
*Caravaggio, an exhibition at the Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome; Catalog of the exhibition edited by Claudio Strinati. Ingrid D Rowland
*Kissing the Mask: Beauty, Understatement and Feminity in Japanese Noh Theater, with Some Thoughts on Muses (Especially Helga Testorf), Transgender Women, Kabuki Goddesses, Porn Queens, Poets, Housewives, Makeup Artists, Geishas, Valkyries and Venus Figurines by William T. Vollmann. Ian buruma
*The Heroes of Cuba. Nit Steinberg and Daniel Wilkinson
*Your Face Tomorrow, Volume 3: Poison, Shadow and Farewell by Javier Marías, translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa. Mark Ford
*No Enchanted Palace: The End of Empire and the Ideological Origins of the United Nations by Mark Mazower; UN Ideas That Changed the World by Ricahrd Jolly, Louis Emmerij, and Thomas G. Weiss. brian urquhart
*VoyageHome. Tony Judt
*Answered Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? By James Shapiro. Stanley Wells
*What Darwin Got Wrong by Jerry Fodor and Massimo Pitattelli-Palmarini. Richard Lewontin
*The Pope and the Hedgehog. Anthony Grafton
*Collected Stories by Raymond Carver, edited by William L. Stull and Maurreen P. Carroll; Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life by Carol Sklenicka. GilesHarvey
* “This is how we killed Monsignor Romero” an investigation by Carlos Dada for El Faro; Mgr. The Last Journey of Oscar Romero a film directed by Ana Carrigan and Juliet Weber. Alam Guillermoprieto
*Other Flowers: Uncollected Poems by James Schuyler, edited by James Meetze and Simon Pettet. Dan Chiasson
*Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis the Working Group I Contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; When the River Run Dry: Water—The Defining Crisis of The Twenty-first Century by Fred Pearce; Too Smart for Our Own Good: The Ecological Predicament of Humankind by Craig Dilworth and numerous other reports on climate change. Orville Schell
*Dear Husband, by Joyce Carol Oates; Little Bird of Heaven By Joyce Carol Oates. Caroline Fraser
*The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America is Tearing Us Apart by Bill Bishop; Comeback: Conservatism That Can Win Again by David Frum; Arguing with Idiots: How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government by Glenn Beck and Kevin Balfe; Why Trust Matters: Declining Political Trust and the Demise of American Liberalism by Marc J. Hetherington; Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement That Satter of the Party by Max Blumenthal. Mark Lilla
*Letters from Avner Inbar, Sharon Assaf, Michael Haas, David Cole, Ben Marcus, Dan Chiasson, and Arien Mack
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