New issue received from: THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS (vol. LVIII, no. 12. July 14-August 17)
Summary of this issue:
*Always Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag by Sigrid Núñez. Cathleen Schine
*Obama: His Words and His Deeds. david bromwich
*The Book of Mormon a musical by Robert Lopez, Trey Parker, and Matt Stone, directed by Trey Parker and Casey Nicholaw. james fenton
*Three Poems (poem). Sarah Plimpton
*Manet: Inventeur du Moderne [Manet: The Man Who Invented Modernity] an exhibition at the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, April 5–July 3, 2011. Julian Bell
*The Emperor's New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth by Irving Kirsch.Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America by Robert Whittaker.Unhinged: The Trouble with Psychiatry—A Doctor's. Revelations About a Profession in Crisis by Daniel Carlat.Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Text Revision (DSM-IV-TR) by American Psychiatric Association. Marcia Angel
*Sectarian tensions and violence after Mubarak. Yasmine El Rashidi
*OpenCity by Teju Cole. Claire Messud
*Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present by Jeff Madrick. Paul KrugmanRobin Wells
*The Tree of Life a film directed by Terrence Malick. Geoffrey O'Brien
*Encounter by Milan Kundera, translated from the French by Linda Asher. Adam Thirlwell
*recalculating. Deborah Eisenberg
*Goldstone and Gaza: An Exchange. Stuart Robinowitz
David Shulman
LETTERS
*Bernard Hirschel, Daniel Lew, Stephan Harbarth, Robert Berg, Willibald Sauerländer, David Shields, Eliot Weinberger, Eleanor Cook, Dan Chiasson, Benjamin Taylor, Edward Mendelson
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