New issue received from: THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS (vol. LVII, no. 12. July 15-August 18 2010)
Summary of this issue:
*Words. Tony Judt
*Hitch-22: A Memoir by Christopher Hitchens. Ian buruma
*Although of course you end up becoming yourself: a road trip with David Foster Wallace by David Lipsky. Wyatt Mason
*Eyeless in Gaza. David Shulman
*Poem. Charles Wright
*Courage and consequence: My life as a conservative in the fight by Karl Rove. david bromwich
*The collected stories by Deborah Eisenberg. Claire messud
*Letter to John Updike. nicholson baker
*'To the end of the land.' David Grossman
*Christen Købke: Danish master of light an exhibition at the National Gallery, London, and at the National Gallery Complex, Edinburgh; Catalog of the exhibition by David Jackson, with a contribution by Kapser Monrad. sanford schwartz
*Nothing to envy: Ordinary lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick; The hidden people of North Korea: Everyday life in the Hermit Kingdom by Ralph Hassig and Kongdan Oh; The cleanest race: How North Koreans see themselves-and why it matters by BB Myers. Christian Caryl
*Best european fiction 2010 edited and with an introduction by Aleksandar Hemon; why translation matters by Edith Grossman; The novel: An alternative history, Beginnings to 1600 by Steve Moore; Reality Hunger: A Manifesto by David Shields. Tim Parks
*Rewilding the World: Dispatches from the Conservation Revolution by Caroline Fraser. john terborgh
*Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey. michael wood
*The restored New Testament: A new translation with commentary, including the Gnostic Gospels Thomas, Mary, and Judas by Willis Barnstone. Frank Kermode
*Ether: Seven stories and a novella by Evgenia Citkowitz. Joyce carol oates
*Speak, Nabokov by Michael Maar. John Banville
*What Obama should have said to BP. William Pfaff
*The UK Election: A false dawn? Jonathan Rabban
*The CIA and Iraq-How the White House got its way: An exchange with Robert Jervis. Thomas Powers
*Letters from Jairam Ramesh, Orville Scheel, David Slawson, Hugh Eakin and Alisa Roth, and Peter Gates
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