New issue received from: THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS (vol. LIX, no. 2. February 9-22, 2012)

Summary of this issue:

*Vaclav Havel (1936-2011). Paul Wilson

*The elections: a modest proposal. Max Frankel

*Leonardo da Vinci: painter at the court of Milan an exhibition at the National Gallery, London. Catalog of the exhibition by Luke Syson with Larry Keith and others. charles hope

*To save America: stopping Obama's secular-socialist machine by Newt Gingrich with Joe DeSantis. David Bromwich

*Patti Smith: camera solo an exhibition at the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut. Catalog of the exhibition edited by Susan Lubowski Talbott. Patti Smith 1969-1976 photographs by Judy Linn, with an afterword by Patti Smith. Love goes to buildings on Fire: five years in New York that changed music forever by Will Hermes. Luc Santac

*American oracle: the civil war in the civil rights was by David W. Blight. Andrew Delbanco

*Elliott Carter's music of time. charles rosen

*The Angel Esmeralda: nine stories by Don DeLillo. charles baxter

*Top secret America: the rise of the new American security state by Dana Priest and William M. Arkin. Intelligence and US Foreign policy: Iraq, 9/11, and misguided reform by Paul R. Pillar. Counterstrike: the untold story of America's secret campaign against Al Qaeda by Erik Schmitt and Thom Sanker. Steve Cole

*Poem. robin robertson

*Merce Cunningham & the Impossible. Alma Guillermoprieto

*Ghosts of Afghanistan: hard truths and foreign myths by Jonathan Steele. The wars of Afghanistan: messianic terrorism, tribal conflicts and the failures of great powers by Peter Tomsen. Anatol Lieven

*The sounding of the whale: science and cetaceans in the twentieth century by D. Graham Burnett. The dolphin in the mirror: exploring dolphin minds and saving dolphin lives by Diana Reiss. Tim Flannery

*Heinrich Himmler: a life by Peter Longerich. Hitler's Hangman: the life of Heydrich by Robert Gerwart. Max Hastings

*Pen of iron: American prose and the King James Bible by Robert Alter. The shadow of a great rock: a literary appreciation of the King James Bible by Harold Bloom and seven other books on the King James Bible. Robert Pogue-Harrison

*What future for occupying Wall Street? Michael Greenberg

*Contested visions in the Spanish colonial world an exhibition at the Los Angeles county Museum of Art. Contested vision in the Spanish Colonial world edited by Ilona Katzew. Daniela Bleichmar

*No enemies, no hatred: selected essays and poems by Liu Xiaobo, edited by Pery Kink, Tienchi Martin-Liao, and Liu Xia, with a foreword by Václav Havel. simon leys

*Letters from Simon Leys, Dirk Vandewalle, Tim Parks, Michael Haas, Robert W. Gordon, John Foot, Roy Morrison and John Terborgh.

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