New issue received from: THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS (vol. LVII, no. 10. June 10-23 2010)
Summary of this issue:
*Lake Views: This World and the Universe by Steven Weinberg. Freeman dyson
*The Failure of the American Jewish Establishment. peter beinart
*The iPad Revolution. sue halpern
*A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, directed by Liv Ullmann and performed by the Sidney Theater Company at the Brooklyn Academy of Music; The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, directed by Gordon Edelstein at the Roundabout Theater Company, New York City. hilton als
*Everything I Want to Do is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front by Joel Salatin; All You Can Eat: How Hungry is America? by Joel Berg; Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer; Terra Madre: Forging a New Global Network of Sustainable Food Communities by Carlo Petrini; The Taste for Civilization: Food, Politics, and Civil Society by Janet A. Flammang. Michael Pollan
*Eight White Nights by André Aciman. michael dirda
*The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine byMichael Lewis. jeff madrick
*creditors by August Strindberg, a production by the Donmar Warehouse, London, directed by Alan Rickman at the Brooklyn Academic of Music. Geoffrey O'Brian
*Why the Dreyfus Affair Matters by Louis Begley; For the Soul of France: Culture Wars in the Age of Dreyfus by Frederick Brown; Dreyfus: Politics, Emotion, and the Scandal of the Century by Ruth Harris. robert gildea
*Charles Dickens by Michael Slater and six other books about Charles Dickens. Robert Gottlieb
*American Original: The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia by Joan Biskupic; John Paul Stevens: An Independent Life by Bill Barnhart and Gene Schlickman. anthony lewis
*The Silence of Hammerstein: A German Story by Hans Magnus Enzesnsberger, translated from the German by Martin Chalmers. adam kirsch
*Jan Lievens: A Dutch Master Rediscovered an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, the Milwaukee Art Museum, and the Rembrandthuis, Amsterdam; Catalog of the exhibition edited by Arthur K. Wheelock Jr. benjamin moser
*Lessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam by Gordon M. Goldstein. william paff
*An Artist in Treason: The Extraordinary Double Life of General James Wilkinson by Andro Linklater; The Ascent of George Washington: The Hidden Political Genius of an American Icon by John Ferling. Gordon S Wood
*Reading Mandelstam on Stalin. Jose Manuel Prieto
*Letters from: Reverend John B. Giuliani, Gianfranco Pasquino, Alexander Stille, Donald Levine, and Paul Woodman
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