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December 23, 2010 • Volume 57, Number 20

LETTERS

Contributors

Elizabeth Drew, who lives in Washington, is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books. She is the author of twelve books.

John Paul Stevens served as an Associate Supreme Court Justice from 1975 to 2010. (December 2010)

Andrew Butterfield is President of Andrew Butterfield Fine Arts. His book Body and Soul: Masterpieces of Italian Renaissance and Baroque Sculpture was published in October.
 (December 2010)

Robert Darnton is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor at Harvard and director of the Harvard University Library. 
His new book, Poetry and the Police: Communication Networks in Eighteenth-Century Paris, was published in November. (December 2010)

Geoffrey Wheatcroft’s books include The Controversy of Zion, which won a National Jewish Book Award in 1996, The Strange Death of Tory England, and Yo, Blair! He is writing a book on Winston Churchill’s reputation and legacy. (December 2010)

Christian Caryl is the Washington Chief Editor for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. He is a Contributing Editor at Foreign Policy and a Senior Fellow of the Center for International Studies at MIT. (January 2011)

Howard W. French is an associate professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and was for many years a New York Times correspondent. His most recent book is A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa. (December 2010)

Sarah Boxer is the author of In the Floyd Archives: A Psycho-Bestiary and the editor of Ultimate Blogs: Masterworks from the Wild Web. (December 2010)

Thomas Nagel is University Professor in the Department of Philosophy and the School of Law at NYU. His most recent book is Secular Philosophy and the Religious Temperament: Essays 2002–2008.
 (February 2011)

Joyce Carol Oates, Roger S. Berlind Professor of Humanities and the Arts at Princeton, is the author of the recent novella A Fair Maiden and In Rough Country: Essays and Reviews, which includes reviews previously published in these pages. Her new book is Sourland: Stories. (December 2010)

Luc Sante is the author of Low Life, Evidence, The Factory of Facts, Kill All Your Darlings, and Folk Photography. He has translated Félix Fénéon’s Novels in Three Lines and written the introduction to George Simenon’s The Man Who Watched Trains Go By (both available as NYRB Classics). He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and teaches writing and the history of photography at Bard College.

Joseph Lelyveld is a former correspondent and editor of The New York Times. His new book, Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India, will be published in March. (January 2011)

Tony Judt (1948–2010) was the founder and director of the Remarque Institute at NYU and the author of Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945, Ill Fares the Land, and The Burden of Responsibility: Blum, Camus, Aron, and the French Twentieth Century, among other books.

Eamon Duffy is Professor of the History of Christianity at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Magdalene College. His latest book is Fires of Faith: Catholic England under Mary Tudor. (December 2010)

Charles Rosen’s recording of Schumann’s Davidsbündler­tänze Op. 6 has been rereleased on a record entitled The Romantic Generation. (December 2010)

Jeff Madrick is editor of Challenge Magazine and Senior Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute and the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis at the New School. His new book, Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present, will be published in the spring. (December 2010)

Pico Iyer is the author, most recently, of The Open Road, about globalism and the Fourteenth Dalai Lama. (December 2010)

Joseph J. Ellis is the Ford Foundation Professor of History at Mount Holyoke. His most recent book, First Family: Abigail and John Adams, was published in October. (December 2010)

Helen Vendler’s most recent book, Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries, was published in September. (December 2010)

Eliot Weinberger’s most recent book is the essay collection Oranges & Peanuts for Sale.

Ingrid D. Rowland is a professor, based in Rome, at the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture. A frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, she is the author of The Culture of the High Renaissance: Ancients and Moderns in Sixteenth-Century Rome and The Scarith of Scornello: A Tale of Renaissance Forgery. She has published a translation of Vitruvius’ Ten Books of Architecture. Her latest books are a biography of Giordano Bruno and a translation of Bruno’s dialogue On the Heroic Frenzies.

Anthony Grafton is Henry Putnam University Professor of History and the Humanities at Princeton University.

Dan Chiasson’s latest book of poetry, Where’s the Moon, There’s the Moon, was published in February. He teaches at Wellesley.
 (January 2011)

Anne Applebaum is a columnist for The Washington Post. Her book Gulag: A History won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction. (November 2010)

Willibald Sauerländer is a former director of the Central Institute for Art History in Munich. His book on Rubens’s altarpieces will be published in 2011. David Dollenmayer is Professor of German at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. (February 2011)