New issue received from: THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS (vol. LVIII, no. 10. June 9-22 2011)
Summary of this issue:
*The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson, translated from the Swedish by Reg Keeland. The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson, translated from the Swedish by Reg Keeland.The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson, translated from the Swedish by Reg Keeland. Tim Parks
*Cave of Forgotten Dreams a film directed by Werner Herzog. Julian Bell
*The Other Side of the Mirror: An American Travels Through Syria by Brooke Allen. Malise Ruthven
*Franklin and Eleanor: An Extraordinary Marriage Hazel Rowley Eleanor Roosevelt: Transformative First Lady by Maurine H. Beasley. Russell Baker
*Rooms with a View: The Open Window in the 19th Century an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, Sanford Schwartz
*The Best of Busters twelve feature-length and twelve short films by Buster Keaton,A Hard Act to Follow a documentary directed by Kevin Brownlow and David Gill (1987)Buster Keaton: Interviews Edited by Kevin W. SweeneyThe Fall of Buster Keaton: His Films for MGM, Educational Pictures, and Columbia by James L. NeibaurLost Keaton: Sixteen Comedy Shorts, 1934–37 Kino, DVD, $34.95I have General a film directed by Buster Keaton and Clyde Bruckman (1926) Steamboat Bill Jr. a film directed by Charles F. Reisner (1928) Sherlock, Jr./Threeges films directed by Buster Keaton and Eddie Cline (1924/1923) Our Hospitality a film directed by Buster Keaton and Jack Blystone (1923) The Short Films Collection, 1920–1923 nineteen films directed by Buster Keaton and others. Jana Prikryl
*On 'The Phantom Tollbooth'. Michael Chabon
*The Uses of Error by Frank KermodeBury Place Papers: Essays from the London Review of Books by Frank Kermode The Genesis of ecrecy: On the Interpretation of Narrative by Frank Kermode Shakespeare's Language by Frank Kermode. charles rosen
*Press by Julian Barnes. Alison Lury
*Monsters of the Gévaudan: The Making of a Beast by Jay M. Smith. Robert Darnton
*Heavenly Questions by Gjertrud Schnackenberg Ghost in a Red Hat by Rosanna Warren. Dan Chiasson
*Jerusalem by Jez Butterworth. james fenton
*The Crimean War: A History by Orlando Figes The Crimean War in the British Imagination by Stefanie Markovits. Max Hastings
*Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain by Antonio Damasio. John R Searle
*Afghanistan: Crossroads of the Ancient World an exhibition at the British Museum, London. Christopher de Bellaigue
*What Is Left the Daughter by Howard Norman? Martin Greenberg. Paula Fox
*Through the History of the Cold War: The Correspondence of George F. Kennan and John Lukacs Edited by John Lukacs George F. Kennan and the Origins of Containment, 1944–1946: The Kennan–Lukacs Correspondence with an introduction by John Lukacs. William Pfaff
*Before the Revolution: America's Ancient Pasts by Daniel K. Richter. J.H.Elliot
*The Word Exchange: Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation Edited by Greg Delanty and Michael Matto. Christopher Ricks
*In China by Henry Kissinger. Jonathan D Spence
*'What Andy Warhol Did': An Exchange. Rev Wolf,
Richard Dorment
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