George Soros
Ukraine & Europe: What Should Be Done?
Francine Prose
‘Satanic Seduction’—Online
Book of Numbers by Joshua Cohen
Jean Strouse
Sargent & His People
Sargent: Portraits of Artists and Friends an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, London, February 12–May 25, 2015; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, June 30–October 4, 2015
Jacob Weisberg
TV vs. the Internet: Who Will Win?
Television Is the New Television: The Unexpected Triumph of Old Media in the Digital Age by Michael Wolff
Over the Top: How the Internet Is (Slowly but Surely) Changing the Television Industry by Alan Wolk
Tim Flannery
The Amazing Inner Lives of Animals
Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel by Carl Safina
The Cultural Lives of Whales and Dolphins by Hal Whitehead and Luke Rendell
Joyce Carol Oates
Joan Didion: Risk & Triumph
The Last Love Song: A Biography of Joan Didion by Tracy Daugherty
William D. Nordhaus
The Pope & the Market
Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home an encyclical letter by Pope Francis
Gabriel Winslow-Yost
Video Games: The Secret Life
Gamelife: A Memoir by Michael W. Clune
God in the Machine: Video Games as Spiritual Pursuit by Liel Leibovitz
T.S. Eliot
‘The Return of Foxy Grandpa’
Timothy Noah
The Myths of Cesar Chavez
Cesar Chavez a film directed by Diego Luna
The Crusades of Cesar Chavez by Miriam Pawel
Guillaume Apollinaire,
Ron Padgett
Shadow (poem)
Christopher Benfey
The Wonder-Wounded Harold Bloom
The Daemon Knows: Literary Greatness and the American Sublime by Harold Bloom
Isaiah Berlin
The Unique Qualities of Joe Alsop
Christopher R. Browning
A New Vision of the Holocaust
Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning by Timothy Snyder
Ian Frazier
Who Can Find the True West?
The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey by Rinker Buck
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
What Philosophers Really Know
Philosophy of Language: The Classics Explained by Colin McGinn
Robyn Creswell
The First Great Arabic Novel
Leg Over Leg, or the Turtle in the Tree: Concerning the Fariyaq, What Manner of Creature Might He Be by Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, edited and translated from the Arabic by Humphrey Davies
Sue Halpern
In the Depths of the Net
The Dark Net: Inside The Digital Underworld by Jamie Bartlett
LETTERS
Sajay Samuel,
Andrew Delbanco
Outrageous Universities
Christopher Moore,
Joyce Carol Oates
Was Plato ‘Churlish’?
Arien Mack
Higher Education’s Future
Contributors
Guillaume Apollinaire (1880–1918) is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century. He was also a fiction writer, experimental playwright, pioneering art critic, and editor of erotica. He invented the word “surrealism.”
Christopher Benfey is Mellon Professor of English at Mount Holyoke. He is the author, most recently, of Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay.
(October 2015)
Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997) was a philosopher and historian of ideas who held the Chichele Professorship of Social and Political Theory at Oxford. The final volume of his correspondence, Affirming: Letters 1975–1997, in which the letter in the October 8, 2015 issue appears, will be published in December 2015.
Christopher R. Browning is Frank Porter Graham Professor of History Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the author, most recently, of Remembering Survival: Inside a Nazi Slave-Labor Camp. (October 2015)
Robyn Creswell is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Yale and the Poetry Editor of The Paris Review.
T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) was a poet, essayist, and playwright. His previously unpublished review that appears in the October 8, 2015 issue is drawn from The Complete Prose of T.S. Eliot: The Critical Edition, Volume 3: Literature, Politics, Belief, 1927–1929, published October 2015.
Tim Flannery’s new book, Atmosphere of Hope: Searching for Solutions to the Climate Crisis, will be published in October. (October 2015)
Ian Frazier is the author of ten books, including Great Plains, Family, On the Rez, and Travels in Siberia.
(October 2015)
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein is the author, most recently, of Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won’t Go Away. She is a recipient of this year’s National Humanities Medal and will be a Visiting Professor at New York University in 2016.
(October 2015)
Sue Halpern is a regular contributor to The New York Review and a Scholar-in-Residence at Middlebury. Her latest book is A Dog Walks into a Nursing Home.
(October 2015)
Timothy Noah is the Labor Policy Editor for Politico and the author of The Great Divergence: America’s Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do About It. (October 2015)
William D. Nordhaus is Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale. His most recent book is The Climate Casino. (October 2015)
Joyce Carol Oates’s memoir The Lost Landscape is published this October 2015.
Ron Padgett’s Collected Poems received the Los Angeles Times Prize for Best Book of Poetry in 2014. His translation of Apollinaire, Zone: Selected Poems, will be published in November 2015 by New York Review Books.
Francine Prose is a Distinguished Visiting Writer at Bard. Her latest novel is Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932.
George Soros is Chairman of Soros Fund Management LLC and the Open Society Foundations. (October 2015)
Jean Strouse, Director of the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York
Public Library and the author of Alice James, A Biography and Morgan: American Financier, is writing a book about John Singer Sargent’s twelve portraits of the Asher Wertheimer family.
Jacob Weisberg is Chairman of the Slate Group and the author of The Bush Tragedy, among other books. His biography of Ronald Reagan in the American Presidents Series will be published in January.
(October 2015)
Gabriel Winslow-Yost is Assistant Editor at The New York Review. (October 2015)
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