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The iPad Revolution

by Sue Halpern

The New York Review of Books, June 10, 2010, pp. 22-27

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        Contested Will by James Shapiro
      9. [+]
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        What Darwin Got Wrong by Jerry Fodor and Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini
      10. The Pope and the Hedgehog by Anthony Grafton, p. 37
      11. [+]
        The Two Raymond Carvers by Giles Harvey, pp. 38-40 - 2 Reviews
        Raymond Carver: Collected Stories by William L. Stull, Maureen P. Carroll, and Raymond Carver, ...
        Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life by Carol Sklenicka
      12. Death Comes for the Archbishop by Alma Guillermoprieto, pp. 41-42
      13. [+]
        'A Hat off a Yacht...' by Dan Chiasson, pp. 43-45 - 1 Review
        Other Flowers by James Schuyler, James Meetze, and Simon Pettet
      14. [+]
        The Message from the Glaciers by Orville Schell, pp. 46-50 - 3 Reviews
        Climate Change 2007 by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, ...
        When the Rivers Run Dry by Fred Pearce
        Too Smart for Our Own Good by Craig Dilworth
      15. [+]
        'A Strange, Bloody, Broken Beauty' by Caroline Fraser, pp. 51-52 - 2 Reviews
        Dear Husband by Joyce Carol Oates
        Little Bird of Heaven by Joyce Carol Oates
      16. [+]
        The Tea Party Jacobins by Mark Lilla, pp. 53-56 - 5 Reviews
        The Big Sort by Bill Bishop
        Comeback: Conservatism That Can Win Again by David Frum
        Arguing with Idiots by Glenn Beck and Kevin Balfe
        Why Trust Matters by Marc J. Hetherington
        Republican Gomorrah by Max Blumenthal
      17. Letters by Avner Inbar, Assaf Sharon, Michael Haas, and David Cole, ..., pp. 57-60
    5. [+]
      June 10, 2010 Issue = 17 Articles
      1. [+]
        'What Price Glory?' by Freeman Dyson, pp. 8-15 - 1 Review
        Lake Views by Steven Weinberg
      2. The Failure of the American Jewish Establishment by Peter Beinart, pp. 16-21
      3. The iPad Revolution by Sue Halpern, pp. 22-27
      4. 'The Strange, the Crazed, the Queer' by Hilton Als, pp. 28-30
      5. [+]
        The Food Movement, Rising by Michael Pollan, pp. 31-33 - 5 Reviews
        Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal by Joel Salatin
        All You Can Eat by Joel Berg
        Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
        Terra Madre by Carlo Petrini
        The Taste for Civilization by Janet A. Flammang
      6. [+]
        Wake Up and Dream by Michael Dirda, pp. 34-36 - 1 Review
        Eight White Nights by Andre Aciman
      7. [+]
        At the Heart of the Crash by Jeff Madrick, pp. 37-39 - 1 Review
        The Big Short by Michael Lewis
      8. The Beauty of a Debacle by Geoffrey O'Brien, pp. 40-41
      9. [+]
        How to Understand the Dreyfus Affair by Robert Gildea, pp. 42-45 - 3 Reviews
        Why the Dreyfus Affair Matters by Louis Begley
        For the Soul of France by Frederick Brown
        Dreyfus by Ruth Harris
      10. [+]
        Who Was Charles Dickens? by Robert Gottlieb, pp. 46-48 - 6 Reviews
        Charles Dickens: His Tragedy and Triumph by Edgar Johnson
        Dickens and Women by Michael Slater
        Dickens: A Biography by Fred Kaplan
        Dickens by Peter Ackroyd
        The Invisible Woman by Claire Tomalin
        The Life of Charles Dickens by John Forster
      11. [+]
        A Supreme Difference by Anthony Lewis, pp. 49-51 - 2 Reviews
        American Original by Joan Biskupic
        John Paul Stevens: An Independent Life by Bill Barnhart and Gene Schlickman
      12. [+]
        Can We Judge General von Hammerstein? by Adam Kirsch, pp. 52-55 - 1 Review
        The Silences of Hammerstein by Hans Magnus Enzensberger
      13. [+]
        Not Rembrandt, But... by Benjamin Moser, pp. 56-58 - 1 Review
        Jan Lievens: A Dutch Master Rediscovered by Arthur K. Wheelock Jr.
      14. [+]
        Mac Bundy Said He Was 'All Wrong' by William Pfaff, pp. 59-64 - 1 Review
        Lessons in Disaster by Gordon M. Goldstein
      15. [+]
        Was Washington 'Mad for Glory'? by Gordon S. Wood, pp. 65-67 - 2 Reviews
        An Artist in Treason by Andro Linklater
        The Ascent of George Washington by John E. Ferling
      16. Reading Mandelstam on Stalin by Jose Manuel Prieto, pp. 68-71
      17. Letters by Reverend John B. Giuliani and Gianfranco Pasquino, ..., pp. 72-76
    6. [+]
      June 24, 2010 Issue = 19 Articles
      1. Happy Birthday, Frederic Chopin! by Charles Rosen, pp. 4-7
      2. [+]
        Deuce! by Michael Kimmelman, pp. 8-11 - 2 Reviews
        Open: An Autobiography by Andre Agassi
        A Terrible Splendor by Marshall Jon Fisher
      3. 'The Time We Have Is Growing Short' by Paul Volcker, pp. 12-15
      4. [+]
        More Lad Than Bad by Edmund White, pp. 16-17 - 1 Review
        The Pregnant Widow by Martin Amis
      5. [+]
        'The Real Critter' by Christopher Benfey, pp. 18-21 - 3 Reviews
        On Whitman by C.K. Williams
        Three American Poets by William C. Spengemann
        Song of Myself and Other Poems by Walt Whitman and Robert Hass
      6. [+]
        Vietnam Now by Jonathan Mirsky, pp. 22-23 - 1 Review
        Vietnam: Rising Dragon by Bill Hayton
      7. [+]
        The Powerhouse of the New by Martin Filler, pp. 24-27 - 8 Reviews
        Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity by Barry Bergdoll, Leah Dickerman, and Benjamin Buchloh, ...
        Gunta Stolzl: Bauhaus Master by Gunta Stolzl
        Bauhaus Women: Art, Handicraft, Design by Ulrike Muller
        The Bauhaus Group by Nicholas Fox Weber
        Bauhaus Conflicts 1919-2009 by Philipp Oswalt
        Kandinsky by Vivian Endicott Barnett and Christian Derouet, ...
        Laszlo Moholy-Nagy by Ingrid Preiffer, Max Hollein, and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, ...
        Laszlo Moholy-Nagy: The Photograms by Renate Heyne, Floris M. Neususs, and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, ...
      8. [+]
        The Mission of Father Maciel by Alma Guillermoprieto, pp. 28-29 - 2 Reviews
        La Iglesia del Silencio by Fernando M. Gonzalez
        Vows of Silence by Jason Berry and Gerald Renner
      9. [+]
        The Other Side of Science by Jenny Uglow, pp. 30-34 - 1 Review
        Never Pure by Steven Shapin
      10. [+]
        Climate: What You Need to Know by Nicholas Stern, pp. 35-37 - 1 Review
        Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet by Bill McKibben
      11. [+]
        'A Jewel of a Thousand Facets' by Anthony Grafton, pp. 38-40 - 2 Reviews
        The Book That Changed Europe by Lynn Hunt, Margaret C. Jacob, and Wijnand Mijnhardt, ...
        Bernard Picart and the First Global Vision of Religion by Lynn Hunt, Margaret C. Jacob, and Wijnand Mijnhardt, ...
      12. [+]
        Strange Love in the North by Tim Parks, pp. 41-43 - 4 Reviews
        Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
        To Siberia by Per Petterson
        Wonder by Hugo Claus
        The Twin by Gerbrand Bakker
      13. [+]
        Jews, Poles & Nazis: The Terrible History by Timothy Snyder, pp. 44-46 - 1 Review
        Remembering Survival by Christopher R. Browning
      14. [+]
        Lords of 'Pride and Plunder' by Robert J. Bartlett, pp. 47-49 - 1 Review
        The Crisis of the Twelfth Century by Thomas N. Bisson
      15. [+]
        Getting the World into Poems by Charles Simic, pp. 50-54 - 3 Reviews
        Ninety-Fifth Street by John Koethe
        Versed by Rae Armantrout
        Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty by Tony Hoagland
      16. [+]
        The Most Dynamic Ruler by R.J.W. Evans, pp. 55-56 - 1 Review
        Joseph II, Vol. II by Derek Beales
      17. Right and Wrong New Labour by John Cassidy, pp. 57-60
      18. 'The Failure of the American Jewish Establishment': An Exchange by Peter Beinart and Abraham H. Foxman, p. 61
      19. Letters by Ken Ohashi, Helen Epstein, and Thomas M. Stephens, ..., pp. 61-64
  3. [+]
    Issues of Jul.-Sep. 2010 = 3 Issues, 76 Articles
    1. [+]
      July 15, 2010 Issue = 21 Articles
      1. Words by Tony Judt, pp. 4-5
      2. [+]
        The Believer by Ian Buruma, pp. 6-11 - 1 Review
        Hitch-22 by Christopher Hitchens
      3. [+]
        Smarter than You Think by Wyatt Mason, pp. 12-15 - 1 Review
        Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself by David Lipsky
      4. Eyeless in Gaza by David Shulman, p. 16
      5. Crystal Declension by Charles Wright, p. 17
      6. [+]
        The Curveball of Karl Rove by David Bromwich, pp. 18-20 - 1 Review
        Courage and Consequence by Karl Rove
      7. [+]
        Life Exactly as It Is Lived by Claire Messud, pp. 21-22 - 1 Review
        The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg by Deborah Eisenberg
      8. Letter to John Updike by Nicholson Baker, p. 23
      9. 'To the End of the Land' by David Grossman, pp. 24-26
      10. [+]
        The Light on the Castle by Sanford Schwartz, pp. 27-28 - 1 Review
        Christen Kobke: Danish Master of Light by David Jackson, Kasper Monrad, and Christen Kobke, ...
      11. [+]
        North Korea: The Crisis of Faith by Christian Caryl, pp. 29-31 - 3 Reviews
        Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick
        The Hidden People of North Korea by Ralph Hassig and Kongdan Oh
        The Cleanest Race by B.R. Myers
      12. [+]
        America First? by Tim Parks, pp. 32-34 - 4 Reviews
        Best European Fiction 2010 by Aleksandar Hemon
        Why Translation Matters by Edith Grossman
        The Novel: An Alternative History by Steven Moore
        Reality Hunger: A Manifesto by David Shields
      13. [+]
        Why We Must Bring Back the Wolf by John Terborgh, pp. 35-37 - 1 Review
        Rewilding the World by Caroline Fraser
      14. [+]
        The Victorious Servant by Michael Wood, pp. 38-39 - 1 Review
        Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey
      15. [+]
        A Bold New Bible by Frank Kermode, pp. 40-42 - 1 Review
        The Restored New Testament by Willis Barnstone
      16. [+]
        Unsparing Visions by Joyce Carol Oates, pp. 43-45 - 1 Review
        Ether by Evgenia Citkowitz
      17. [+]
        The Still Mysterious Enchanter by John Banville, pp. 46-49 - 1 Review
        Speak, Nabokov by Michael Maar
      18. What Obama Should Have Said to BP by William Pfaff, p. 50
      19. Britain: A False Dawn? by Jonathan Raban, pp. 51-55
      20. The CIA & Iraq---How the White House Got Its Way: An Exchange by Thomas Powers and Robert Jervis, p. 56
      21. Letters by Jairam Ramesh, Orville Schell, and David Slawson, ..., pp. 57-60
    2. [+]
      August 19, 2010 Issue = 29 Articles
      1. Meritocrats by Tony Judt, pp. 4-7
      2. [+]
        'Why Has He Fallen Short?' by Frank Rich, pp. 8-13 - 1 Review
        The Promise by Jonathan Alter
      3. [+]
        'A Rapturous Spooky Dream' by Julian Bell, pp. 14-17 - 1 Review
        Richard Hamilton by Hal Foster, Alex Bacon, and Richard Hamilton
      4. On Handguns and the Law by Stephen Breyer, pp. 18-21
      5. [+]
        The Marrying Kind by Diane Johnson, pp. 22-26 - 5 Reviews
        Marriage and Other Acts of Charity by Kate Braestrup
        The Marriage-Go-Round by Andrew J. Cherlin
        Why Him? Why Her? by Helen Fisher
        Committed by Elizabeth Gilbert
        Marry Him by Lori Gottlieb
      6. Vermeer by Wislawa Szymborska, p. 27
      7. The Euro & the Crisis by George Soros, pp. 28-29
      8. [+]
        Strangely Sinister in Saratoga by Christopher Benfey, pp. 30-32 - 1 Review
        The Fall of the House of Walworth by Geoffrey O'Brien
      9. Brotherhood by Sue Halpern, pp. 33-34
      10. The Temptation of Elena Kagan by Ronald Dworkin, pp. 35-38
      11. [+]
        Bitter Truths by Sanford Schwartz, pp. 39-40 - 1 Review
        Otto Dix by Olaf Peters
      12. [+]
        How Great Was Churchill? by Brian Urquhart, pp. 41-43 - 1 Review
        Winston's War by Max Hastings
      13. The Shame of the World Cup by Tim Parks, pp. 44-49
      14. [+]
        Good-bye to Dubai by Joshua Hammer, pp. 50-52 - 3 Reviews
        Dubai: Gilded Cage by Syed Ali
        Dubai: The Vulnerability of Success by Christopher M. Davidson
        City of Gold by Jim Krane
      15. The CIA and WMDs: The Damning Evidence by Fulton Armstrong and Thomas Powers, p. 53
      16. [+]
        The Short Happy Life of Ilya Ilyich Oblomov by Elaine Blair, pp. 54-55 - 1 Review
        Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov and Marian Schwartz
      17. Iraq: The Impasse by Joost Hiltermann, pp. 56-58
      18. [+]
        The Prime of Muriel Spark by David Lodge, pp. 59-60 - 1 Review
        Muriel Spark: The Biography by Martin Stannard
      19. The Health Bill Explained at Last by Jonathan Oberlander and Theodore Marmor, pp. 61-63
      20. [+]
        South Africa: The Truth Teller by Joseph Lelyveld, p. 64 - 1 Review
        Kith, Kin and Khaya by David Goldblatt
      21. [+]
        Hide and Be Found by Mark Ford, pp. 65-66 - 2 Reviews
        Rain by Don Paterson
        Where's the Moon, There's the Moon by Dan Chiasson
      22. [+]
        The Most Happy Couple by Martin Filler, pp. 67-71 - 2 Reviews
        Victoria and Albert by Jonathan Marsden
        The Young Victoria (2009 Film) by Jean-Marc Vallee
      23. The New Challenge to Repressive Cuba by Daniel Wilkinson, pp. 72-74
      24. [+]
        The Beauty of Hermetic, Corrupt World by Ruth Franklin, pp. 75-77 - 1 Review
        The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
      25. [+]
        The Beats: Pictures of a Legend by Edmund White, pp. 78-79 - 1 Review
        Best Memories: The Photography of Allen Ginsberg by Sarah Greenough and Allen Ginsberg
      26. The Roberts Court vs. Free Speech by David Cole, pp. 80-83
      27. [+]
        Righteous & Wrong by Malise Ruthven, pp. 84-87 - 5 Reviews
        The Flight of the Intellectuals by Paul Berman
        Nomad: From Islam to America by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
        Terror and Liberalism by Paul Berman
        Taming the Gods by Ian Buruma
        Facts Are Subversive by Timothy Garton Ash
      28. 'The Food Movement, Rising' by Michael Pollan, p. 88
      29. 'The Tea Party Jacobins': An Exchange by Mark Lilla, pp. 89-92
    3. [+]
      September 30, 2010 Issue = 26 Articles
      1. Tony Judt (1948-2010) by Timothy Garton Ash, pp. 6-7
      2. Captive Minds by Tony Judt, pp. 8-11
      3. [+]
        'His Glory and His Curse' by Charles Baxter, pp. 12-17 - 1 Review
        Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
      4. The Painter's Painter: Velazquez After 350 Years by Willibald Sauerlander, pp. 18-21
      5. [+]
        The Specter Haunting the Senate by Michael Tomasky, pp. 22-27 - 2 Reviews
        Politics or Principle? by Sarah A. Binder and Steven S. Smith
        Filibustering by Gregory Koger
      6. Bernard Knox (1914-2010) by Garry Wills, pp. 28-29
      7. [+]
        Decline But Not Fall by Russell Baker, pp. 30-34 - 1 Review
        Morning Miracle by Dave Kindred
      8. [+]
        Boys Will Be Boys by Daniel Mendelsohn, pp. 35-38 - 1 Review
        City Boy by Edmund White
      9. [+]
        Yemen, al-Qaeda, and the US by Max Rodenbeck, pp. 39-41 - 1 Review
        Yemen by Victoria Clark
      10. [+]
        The Ideal Friend by Cathleen Schine, pp. 42-44 - 2 Reviews
        My Dog Tulip by J.R. Ackerley
        My Dog Tulip (2010 Film) by Paul Fierlinger and Sandra Fierlinger
      11. [+]
        Health Care: The Disquieting Truth by Arnold Relman, pp. 45-47 - 1 Review
        Tracking Medicine by John E. Wennberg
      12. Catholics, Muslims, and the Mosque by R. Scott Appleby and John T. McGreevy, p. 48
      13. [+]
        Charm City, USA by Nicholas Lemann, pp. 49-51 - 1 Review
        Treme by David Simon and Eric Overmyer
      14. [+]
        Which Thucydides Can You Trust? by Mary Beard, pp. 52-54 - 2 Reviews
        Thucydides: The Reinvention of History by Donald Kagan
        A Commentary on Thucydides, Vol. III by Simon Hornblower
      15. A Very British Deceit by Philippe Sands, pp. 55-56
      16. [+]
        The Slump Goes On: Why? by Paul Krugman and Robin Wells, pp. 57-60 - 3 Reviews
        Fault Lines by Raghuram G. Rajan
        Crisis Economics by Nouriel Roubini and Stephen Mihm
        The Holy Grail of Macroeconomics by Richard C. Koo
      17. [+]
        The Greatest Show in Town by David Thomson, pp. 61-62 - 1 Review
        Empire of Dreams by Scott Eyman
      18. [+]
        Revealing 'Turkey's Hidden Past' by Roger Cohen, pp. 63-65 - 1 Review
        Rebel Land by Christopher de Bellaigue
      19. [+]
        FDA: This Agency Can Be Dangerous by Marcia Angell, pp. 66-68 - 1 Review
        Reputation and Power by Daniel Carpenter
      20. [+]
        The Party: Impenetrable, All Powerful by Ian Johnson, pp. 69-71 - 5 Reviews
        The Party by Richard McGregor
        China's Communist Party by David Shambaugh
        China Watcher by Richard Baum
        China in the 21st Century by Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom
        China's New Rulers by Andrew J. Nathan and Bruce Gilley
      21. Save the Warburg Library! by Anthony Grafton and Jeffrey Hamburger, pp. 72-75
      22. [+]
        What We Need to Know About the Holocaust by Timothy Snyder, pp. 76-81 - 7 Reviews
        The Death of the Shtetl by Yehuda Bauer
        Historians of the Jews and the Holocaust by David Engel
        The Warsaw Ghetto by Barbara Engelking and Jacek Leociak
        The Years of Extermination by Saul Friedlander
        Worse Than War by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
        The Destruction of the European Jews by Raul Hilberg
        Je Suis le Dernier Juif by Chil Rajchman
      23. [+]
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        Shadow War by Arif Jamal
        The Limits of Influence by Howard B. Schaffer
      24. Shakespeare & Shylock by Stephen Greenblatt, pp. 85-91
      25. Would JFK Have Left Vietnam?: An Exchange by Kai Bird and William Pfaff, pp. 92-93
      26. Letters by Clancy Sigal, Jonathan Raban, Sam Abrams, and Tony Judt, ..., pp. 94-100
  4. [+]
    Issues of Oct.-Dec. 2010 = 5 Issues, 111 Articles
    1. [+]
      October 14, 2010 Issue = 27 Articles
      1. On Tony Judt by Timothy Snyder, pp. 6-7
      2. [+]
        The Divine Sarah by Graham Robb, pp. 8-11 - 1 Review
        Sarah by Robert Gottlieb
      3. Vespers At Pacifico's by Nick Laird, pp. 12-13
      4. [+]
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        The Holy Grail of Macroeconomics by Richard C. Koo
        Fault Lines by Raghuram G. Rajan
        Crisis Economics by Nouriel Roubini and Stephen Mihm
      5. [+]
        E.M. Forster: The Story of Affection by Andrew O'Hagan, pp. 18-22 - 2 Reviews
        A Great Unrecorded History by Wendy Moffat
        Concerning E. M. Forster by Frank Kermode
      6. [+]
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        The Wire by Tiffany Potter and C.W. Marshall
        The Wire: Truth Be Told by Rafael Alvarez
      7. [+]
        Flaubert, Imperfect by Jonathan Raban, pp. 26-28 - 1 Review
        Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert and Lydia Davis
      8. [+]
        What Are Schools For? by Jonathan Zimmerman, pp. 29-31 - 1 Review
        In Brown's Wake by Martha Minow
      9. [+]
        Is Goodness in Your Genes? by H. Allen Orr, pp. 32-34 - 1 Review
        The Price of Altruism by Oren Harman
      10. [+]
        The Pirates Are Winning! by Jeffrey Gettleman, pp. 35-37 - 2 Reviews
        Somalia: The New Barbary? by Martin N. Murphy
        Warriors by Gerald Hanley
      11. [+]
        The Fierce Emotions of Siena by Andrew Butterfield, pp. 38-39 - 1 Review
        Sassetta by Machtelt Israels
      12. Iraq: The Ignored Victims by Cardinal Theodore Edgar McCarrick, p. 40
      13. [+]
        The Hard Truth About the Foreign Legion by Max Hastings, pp. 41-43 - 2 Reviews
        Our Friends Beneath the Sands by Martin Windrow
        Voices of the Foreign Legion by Adrian D. Gilbert
      14. [+]
        Paying the Right Kind of Attention by Diane Johnson, pp. 44-45 - 1 Review
        The Same River Twice by Ted Mooney
      15. [+]
        Ecstatic About Pearl Harbor by Ian Buruma, pp. 46-47 - 1 Review
        So Lovely a Country Will Never Perish by Donald Keene
      16. [+]
        What to Do About Guantanamo? by David Cole, pp. 48-50 - 2 Reviews
        The Guantanamo Lawyers by Mark P. Denbeaux and Jonathan Hafetz
        Because It Is Wrong by Charles Fried and Gregory Fried
      17. [+]
        The Question of Pearl Buck by Jonathan Spence, pp. 51-52 - 1 Review
        Pearl Buck in China by Hilary Spurling
      18. [+]
        Germany: The Poet After the Fall by Adam Kirsch, pp. 53-57 - 3 Reviews
        The Bars of Atlantis by Durs Grunbein
        Descartes' Devil by Durs Grunbein
        Ashes for Breakfast by Durs Grunbein
      19. [+]
        A New Theory of Justice by Samuel Freeman, pp. 58-61 - 1 Review
        The Idea of Justice by Amartya Sen
      20. [+]
        The Unfolding Elegy by Dan Chiasson, pp. 62-65 - 1 Review
        Nox by Anne Carson
      21. [+]
        Searching for a Lost World by Walter Kaiser, pp. 66-68 - 1 Review
        The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal
      22. [+]
        High and Low on Crack by Darryl Pinckney, pp. 69-70 - 1 Review
        Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man by Bill Clegg
      23. [+]
        The Primordial Struggle by Ingrid D. Rowland, pp. 71-72 - 1 Review
        A Time for Everything by Karl Knausgaard
      24. [+]
        A Hero of the China Underground by Howard W. French, pp. 73-74 - 1 Review
        The Corpse Walker by Liao Yiwu
      25. Our Man in Palestine by Nathan Thrall, pp. 75-79
      26. General von Hammerstein & Hitler: An Exchange by Adam Kirsch, Gottfried Paasche, and Robert Grudin, ..., p. 80
      27. Letters by James Shapiro, Stephen Greenblatt, and Ingrid D. Rowland, ..., pp. 81-84
    2. [+]
      October 28, 2010 Issue = 20 Articles
      1. Can We Create a National Digital Library? by Robert Darnton, pp. 4-5
      2. The Elections: How Bad for Democrats? by Michael Tomasky, pp. 6-11
      3. [+]
        It's All in the Head by Willibald Sauerlander, p. 12 - 1 Review
        Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, 1736-1783 by Maria Potzl-Malikova and Guilhem Scherf
      4. [+]
        On the Moral Brink by J.M. Coetzee, pp. 13-15 - 1 Review
        Nemesis by Philip Roth
      5. [+]
        A Very Superior 'Chinaman' by Richard Bernstein, pp. 16-17 - 1 Review
        Charlie Chan by Yunte Huang
      6. [+]
        The War with the Taliban by Christopher de Bellaigue, pp. 18-20 - 1 Review
        Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History by Thomas Barfield
      7. [+]
        Save a Penguin If You Can by Tim Flannery, pp. 21-22 - 1 Review
        The Great Penguin Rescue by Dyan deNapoli
      8. [+]
        The Strange Success of Jimmy Carter by Garry Wills, pp. 23-24 - 1 Review
        White House Diary by Jimmy Carter
      9. [+]
        Emerson: The Good Hours by Robert Pogue Harrison, pp. 25-27 - 2 Reviews
        Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Journals, 1820-1842 by Lawrence Rosenwald and Ralph Waldo Emerson
        Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Journals, 1841-1877 by Lawrence Rosenwald and Ralph Waldo Emerson
      10. [+]
        The Grandest Duke by Geoffrey O'Brien, pp. 28-29 - 1 Review
        Duke Ellington's America by Harvey G. Cohen
      11. Middle Age by Samuel Menashe, p. 30
      12. [+]
        The Alliance that Dared Not Speak Its Name by Joseph Lelyveld, pp. 31-33 - 1 Review
        The Unspoken Alliance by Sasha Polakow-Suransky
      13. [+]
        In Darkest Belarus by Timothy Snyder, pp. 34-36 - 1 Review
        Paranoia by Viktor Martinovich
      14. [+]
        The War We Lost---and Won by Gordon S. Wood, pp. 37-40 - 1 Review
        The Civil War of 1812 by Alan Taylor
      15. [+]
        Sex, Farce & Futility by Joyce Carol Oates, pp. 41-42 - 1 Review
        The Escape by Adam Thirlwell
      16. [+]
        Living in India's Spirit World by David Shulman, pp. 43-44 - 1 Review
        Nine Lives by William Dalrymple
      17. [+]
        Revisiting Isaac Bashevis Singer by Harold Bloom, p. 45 - 1 Review
        The Magician of Lublin by Isaac Bashevis Singer, Elaine Gottlieb, and Joseph Singer, ...
      18. [+]
        The Murderers of Mexico by Alma Guillermoprieto, pp. 46-48 - 4 Reviews
        Atentamente, el Chapo by Hector de Mauleon
        La Ruta de Sangre de Beltran Leyva by Hector de Mauleon
        Drug War Zone by Howard Campbell
        Mafia and Co. by Juan Carlos Garzon
      19. How Dangerous is the FDA?: An Exchange by Marcia Angell and Daniel Carpenter, p. 49
      20. Letters by Robert Gottlieb, Edward C. Nowacki, and Jean Libby, ..., pp. 50-52
    3. [+]
      November 11, 2010 Issue = 19 Articles
      1. [+]
        A Genius for Contempt by Russell Baker, pp. 4-6 - 1 Review
        Prejudices: The Complete Series by H.L. Mencken
      2. A Hero of Our Time by Jonathan Mirsky, p. 7
      3. [+]
        The Worst of the Madness by Anne Applebaum, pp. 8-13 - 2 Reviews
        Bloodlands by Timothy Snyder
        Stalin's Genocides by Norman M. Naimark
      4. [+]
        'A Tremendous Painter' by Sanford Schwartz, pp. 14-15 - 2 Reviews
        German Impressionist Landscape Painting by Gotz Czymmek and Helga Kessler Aurisch
        Lovis Corinth by Agnes Husslein-Arco and Stephan Koja
      5. The Real Danger to the Economy by George Soros, p. 16
      6. [+]
        Naipaul's Mysterious Africa by Norman Rush, pp. 17-19 - 1 Review
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