MZIN NEWS: THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS — NOVEMBER / DECEMBER 2015 (US)

President Barack Obama,
Marilynne Robinson
President Obama & Marilynne Robinson: A Conversation—II
Svetlana Alexievich,
Jamey Gambrell
The Man Who Flew Like a Bird
Colm Tóibín
Late Francis Bacon: Spirit & Substance
Robert Darnton
A Very Different Paris
The Other Paris by Luc Sante
Julian Lucas
Ambush, Night & Day
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
Stacy Schiff
‘His Joy, His Life’
Letters to Véra by Vladimir Nabokov, edited and translated from the Russian by Olga Voronina and Brian Boyd
Nabokov in America: On the Road to Lolita by Robert Roper
Fintan O’Toole
Behind ‘King Lear’: The History Revealed
The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606 by James Shapiro
Jana Prikryl
Thirty Thousand Islands (poem)
Michael Ignatieff
Messianic America: Can He Explain it?
American Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers by Perry Anderson
Worldmaking: The Art and Science of American Diplomacy by David Milne
Julian Barnes
Even Worse Than We Thought
The Crime and the Silence: Confronting the Massacre of Jews in Wartime Jedwabne by Anna Bikont, translated from the Polish by Alissa Valles
Peter Brown
Empress Theodora, Who Transformed the World
Theodora: Actress, Empress, Saint by David Potter
Jed S. Rakoff
The Cure for Corporate Wrongdoing: Class Actions vs. Individual Prosecutions
Entrepreneurial Litigation: Its Rise, Fall, and Future by John C. Coffee Jr.
David S. Reynolds
The Commander of Civil War History
Embattled Rebel: Jefferson Davis as Commander in Chief by James M. McPherson
The War That Forged a Nation: Why the Civil War Still Matters by James M. McPherson
Steven Mithen
On Ancestor Apes in Europe
The Real Planet of the Apes: A New Story of Human Origins by David R. Begun
Garry Wills
When Priests Marry
Keeping the Vow: The Untold Story of Married Catholic Priests by D. Paul Sullins
Marcia Angell
Medical Research: The Dangers to the Human Subjects
The Nuremberg Code issued by the Nuremberg tribunal in 1947
The Declaration of Helsinki issued by the World Medical Association in 1964 and revised most recently in 2013
The Ethics Police? The Struggle to Make Human Research Safe by Robert L. Klitzman
Leo Carey
The Weird Art of the Ordinary
All Days Are Night by Peter Stamm, translated from the German by Michael Hofmann
Benjamin M. Friedman
The Joys of Innovation: For Profit Only
Mass Flourishing: How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change by Edmund Phelps
Henri Cole
Blizzard (poem)
Perry Link
China: Novelists Against the State
Death Fugue by Sheng Keyi, translated from the Chinese by Shelly Bryant
A Map of Betrayal by Ha Jin
Kinder Than Solitude by Yiyun Li
The Dog: Stories by Jack Livings
Amy Knight
Stalin: His Daughter & His Crimes
Stalin’s Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva by Rosemary Sullivan
Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator by Oleg V. Khlevniuk, translated from the Russian by Nora Seligman Favorov
Anthony Grafton
A Hero of the European Mind
Peiresc’s Mediterranean World by Peter N. Miller
Charles Simic
Bernie & Hillary & the Future
The Rev. William J. Teska,
Harvey Cox,
Rebecca Stein,
William D. Nordhaus
‘The Pope & the Market’: An Exchange
LETTERS

Joshua Oppenheimer
When Killers Played Victims
Geoffrey Baker,
Nicholas Kenyon
El Sistema’s Enemy
Martin Oppenheimer
People for Hitler
Sudhir Hazareesingh,
Mark Lilla
France: The Myths
Jamyang Norbu
Deng: Even More Brutal
Gerard Koeppel
The Vision of Central Park
George Szpiro,
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
Square Roots
Contributors
Svetlana Alexievich is the recipient of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature. Her latest book, Second Hand Time, will be published in English next year. (November 2015)

Marcia Angell is a member of the faculty of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and former Editor-in-Chief of The New England Journal of Medicine.
 
(December 2015)

Julian Barnes’s collection of art criticism Keeping an Eye Open is published November 2015. His new novel, The Noise of Time, will come out in 2016.

Peter Brown is Philip and Beulah Rollins Professor of History Emeritus at Princeton. His latest book is The Ransom of the Soul: 
Afterlife and Wealth in Early Western Christianity.
 (November 2015)

Leo Carey is a Senior Editor at The New Yorker. (December 2015)

Henri Cole’s most recent collection of poems, Nothing to Declare, was published earlier this year. (November 2015)

Robert Darnton is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and University Librarian Emeritus at Harvard. His latest book is 
Censors at Work: How States Shaped Literature.


Benjamin M. Friedman is the William Joseph Maier Professor of Political Economy at Harvard. His books include The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth and Day of Reckoning: The Consequences of American Economic Policy Under Reagan and After.

 (November 2015)

Jamey Gambrell is a writer on Russian art and culture. She has translated works by Marina Tsvetaeva and Tatyana Tolstaya, in addition to Vladimir Sorokin’s three-volume Ice Trilogy and his Day of the ­Oprichnik. Her translation of Sorokin’s novel The Blizzard will be published in December 2015.


Anthony Grafton is Henry Putnam University Professor of History and the Humanities at Princeton University. His most recent book is The Culture of Correction in Renaissance Europe.


Michael Ignatieff is the Edward R. Murrow Professor of Practice at the Harvard Kennedy School and the author of Fire and Ashes: Success and Failure in Politics.
 (December 2015)

Amy Knight is a former Woodrow Wilson fellow. Her books include Who Killed Kirov: The Kremlin’s Greatest Mystery, Spies Without Cloaks: The KGB’s Successors, and How the Cold War Began: The Igor Gouzenko Affair and the Hunt for Soviet Spies.

Perry Link is Chancellorial Chair for Teaching Across Disciplines at the University of California at Riverside. He translated China’s Charter 08 manifesto into English and recently co-edited No Enemies, No Hatred, a collection of essays and poems by Liu Xiaobo. His latest book is An Anatomy of Chinese: Rhythm, Metaphor, Politics and his translation of the autobiography of the Chinese dissident astrophysicist Fang Lizhi, The Most Wanted Man in China: My Journey from Science to Exile, will be published in 2016.

Julian Lucas is an Associate Editor at Cabinet. He was President of The Harvard Advocate in 2014.
 (November 2015)

Steven Mithen is Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Early Prehistory at the University of Reading. His books include The Prehistory of the Mind, After the Ice: A Global Human History, The Singing Neanderthals, and, most recently, Thirst: Water and Power in the Ancient World.
 (November 2015)

William D. Nordhaus is Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale. His most recent book is The Climate Casino. (October 2015)

Fintan O’Toole is Literary Editor of The Irish Times and Leonard L. Milberg Visiting Lecturer in Irish Letters at Princeton. His latest book is A History of Ireland in 100 Objects.
 (December 2015)

Barack Obama is the President of the United States.

Jana Prikryl’s first book of poems, The After Party, will be published in 2016. She is a Senior Editor at The New York Review.
 (November 2015)

Jed S. Rakoff is a United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York. (December 2015)

David S. Reynolds is a Distinguished Professor at the CUNY Graduate Center. His most recent books are Mightier Than the Sword: Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the Battle for America and Lincoln’s Selected Writings: 
A Norton Critical Edition.
 (November 2015)

Marilynne Robinson’s collection of essays The Givenness of Things is published this month.
 (November 2015)

Stacy Schiff is the author of Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) and Cleopatra: A Life, among other books. Her The Witches: Salem, 1692 will be published this month.
 (November 2015)

Charles Simic is a poet, essayist, and translator. He is the recipient of many awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Griffin Prize, and a MacArthur Fellowship. In 2007 Simic was appointed the fifteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. The Lunatic, his new ­volume of poetry, and The Life of Images, a book of his selected prose, were published in April.

Colm Tóibín is Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia. His latest book is On Elizabeth Bishop.

Garry Wills is Professor of History Emeritus at Northwestern. He is the author, most recently, of The Future of the Catholic Church with 
Pope Francis.



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