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The New York Review of Books, October 22, 2009, pp. 44-47

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        Designing the High Line by James Corner and Ricardo Scofidio
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        When Science & Poetry Were Friends by Freeman Dyson, pp. 15-17 - 1 Review
        The Age of Wonder by Richard Holmes
      6. Rape of the Congo by Adam Hochschild, pp. 18-20
      7. [+]
        Godfather of the Modern? by Robert Herbert, pp. 21-23 - 3 Reviews
        Cezanne and Beyond by Joseph J. Rishel and Katherine Sachs
        Cezanne und Die Moderne by Gottfried Boehm
        Cezanne and the Dawn of Modern Art by Felix A. Baumann, Walter Feilchenfeldt, and Hubertus Gassner, ...
      8. [+]
        From 'Summertime': Notebooks 1972-1975 by J.M. Coetzee, pp. 24-25 - 1 Review
        Summertime by J.M. Coetzee
      9. Pure Gold by Joan Acocella, pp. 26-28
      10. [+]
        The News About the Internet by Michael Massing, pp. 29-31 - 2 Reviews
        Bloggers on the Bus by Eric Boehlert
        And Then There's This by Bill Wasik
      11. 'Love Is Like Park Avenue' by John Ashbery, p. 32
      12. [+]
        New York: The Prophet by Jason Epstein, pp. 33-35 - 2 Reviews
        Wrestling with Moses by Anthony Flint
        Genius of Common Sense by Glenna Lang and Marjory Wunsch
      13. [+]
        I Am Not Steve Martin by Elaine Blair, pp. 36-37 - 1 Review
        Out of My Skin by John Haskell
      14. [+]
        A Question of Coexistence by J.H. Elliott, pp. 38-43 - 2 Reviews
        The Arts of Intimacy by Jerrilynn D. Dodds, Maria Rosa Menocal, and Abigail Krasner Balbale, ...
        All Can Be Saved by Stuart B. Schwartz
      15. [+]
        Blundering in the Mideast with Prince Bandar by Brian Urquhart, pp. 44-47 - 2 Reviews
        A World of Trouble by Patrick Tyler
        Sowing Crisis by Rashid Khalidi
      16. [+]
        Messing About with 'The Wind in the Willows' by Michael Dirda, pp. 48-50 - 1 Review
        The Wind in the Willows: An Annotated Edition by Kenneth Grahame and Seth Lerer
      17. [+]
        Bad Bargains for Russian Music by Michael Kimmelman, pp. 51-52 - 3 Reviews
        The People's Artist by Simon Morrison
        The Danger of Music and Other Anti-Utopian Essays by Richard Taruskin
        On Russian Music by Richard Taruskin
      18. [+]
        A Very Chilly Victory by Max Hastings, pp. 53-57 - 1 Review
        Masters and Commanders by Andrew Roberts
      19. [+]
        Knossos: Fakes, Facts, and Mystery by Mary Beard, pp. 58-60 - 1 Review
        Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism by Cathy Gere
      20. The Toad by Charles Simic, p. 61
      21. [+]
        Oblomov in Dublin by Fintan O'Toole, pp. 62-68 - 1 Review
        The Complete Novels by Flann O'Brien
      22. [+]
        Health Reform: The Fateful Moment by Theodore R. Marmor and Jonathan Oberlander, pp. 69-73 - 1 Review
        Critical by Tom Daschle, Scott S. Greenberger, and Jeanne M. Lambrew, ...
      23. 'Israel: Civilians & Combatants': An Exchange by Shlomo Avineri, Zeev Sternhell, and Avishai Margalit, ..., p. 74
      24. Letters by Zhang Zuhua, Doug Ireland, Malise Ruthven, and Mahmood Mamdani, ..., p. 75
      25. 'Holocaust: The Ignored Reality': An Exchange by Timothy Snyder, pp. 76-80
    3. [+]
      September 24, 2009 Issue = 24 Articles
      1. Leszek Kolakowski (1927-2009) by Tony Judt, pp. 6-9
      2. [+]
        Men and Boys by G.W. Bowersock, pp. 10-15 - 2 Reviews
        The Greeks and Greek Love by James Davidson
        Images of Ancient Greek Pederasty by Andrew Lear and Eva Cantarella
      3. [+]
        Conservatives: The Tanenhaus Taxonomy by Garry Wills, pp. 16-17 - 1 Review
        The Death of Conservatism by Sam Tanenhaus
      4. Tinsel by Robin Robertson, pp. 18-19
      5. [+]
        The Complicit General by Philippe Sands, pp. 20-25 - 1 Review
        Eyes on the Horizon by Richard B. Myers
      6. [+]
        Mysteries of Ensor by Sanford Schwartz, pp. 26-30 - 2 Reviews
        James Ensor by Anna Swinbourne
        Between Street and Mirror by James Ensor and Catherine de Zegher
      7. A New Horizon for the News by Michael Massing, pp. 31-34
      8. [+]
        The Brazilian Sphinx by Lorrie Moore, pp. 35-36 - 9 Reviews
        Why This World by Benjamin Moser
        Near to the Wild Heart by Clarice Lispector
        Selected Cronicas by Clarice Lispector
        Family Ties by Clarice Lispector
        The Apple in the Dark by Clarice Lispector
        Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector
        The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector
        Closer to the Wild Heart by Claudia Pazos Alonso and Claire Williams
        Reading with Clarice Lispector by Helene Cixous and Verena Andermatt Conley
      9. Justice Sotomayor: The Unjust Hearings by Ronald Dworkin, pp. 37-40
      10. [+]
        Pilgrim to Eros by Harold Bloom, pp. 41-43 - 1 Review
        Byron in Love by Edna O'Brien
      11. [+]
        Kagame's Hidden War in the Congo by Howard W. French, pp. 44-49 - 3 Reviews
        Africa's World War by Gerard Prunier
        The Dynamics of Violence in Central Africa by Rene Lemarchand
        The Congo Wars by Thomas Turner
      12. The Lost Virtues of the Asylum by Oliver Sacks, pp. 50-52
      13. Acropolis by Martin Filler, pp. 53-55
      14. The Glimmerglass 'Traviata' by Geoffrey O'Brien, p. 56
      15. The Golden Frogs of Panama by Mark Strand, p. 57
      16. [+]
        Lincoln Off His Pedestal by James M. McPherson, pp. 58-60 - 4 Reviews
        A. Lincoln: A Biography by Ronald C. White, Jr.
        Abraham Lincoln: A Life by Michael Burlingame
        Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer by Fred Kaplan
        Mrs. Lincoln: A Life by Catherine Clinton
      17. [+]
        Israel: The Writers' Writer by Avishai Margalit, pp. 61-63 - 3 Reviews
        Midnight Convoy and Other Stories by S. Yizhar
        Preliminaries by S. Yizhar
        Khirbet Khizeh by S. Yizhar
      18. [+]
        Disaster Watch by Joel E. Cohen, pp. 64-69 - 1 Review
        Global Catastrophes and Trends by Vaclav Smil
      19. [+]
        What Happened at Gordita Beach? by Michael Wood, pp. 70-71 - 1 Review
        Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon
      20. [+]
        The Pride of Empire by Roderick MacFarquhar, pp. 72-78 - 1 Review
        The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781-1997 by Piers Brendon
      21. [+]
        The True Story of Izzy by Jonathan Mirsky, pp. 79-83 - 1 Review
        American Radical by D.D. Guttenplan
      22. [+]
        A Hero of the Gothic by Fiona Maccarthy, pp. 84-87 - 1 Review
        God's Architect by Rosemary Hill
      23. [+]
        Why Should You Believe It? by John R. Searle, pp. 88-92 - 1 Review
        Fear of Knowledge by Paul A. Boghossian
      24. Letters by Bill Keller, Michael Massing, Juan Cole, and Shmuel Galai, ..., pp. 93-96
  4. [+]
    Issues of Oct.-Dec. 2009 = 6 Issues, 125 Articles
    1. [+]
      October 8, 2009 Issue = 16 Articles
      1. Entangled Giant by Garry Wills, pp. 4-5
      2. [+]
        The Powers of Dr. Johnson by Andrew O'Hagan, pp. 6-9 - 4 Reviews
        Samuel Johnson: A Biography by Peter Martin
        Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings by Peter Martin and Samuel Johnson
        Samuel Johnson: The Struggle by Jeffrey Meyers
        Samuel Johnson: A Life by David Nokes
      3. One Last Kick for Dick by Frederick Seidel, p. 10
      4. [+]
        The Witchcraft of Shirley Jackson by Joyce Carol Oates, pp. 11-13 - 1 Review
        We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
      5. The Torture Memos: The Case Against the Lawyers by David Cole, pp. 14-16
      6. [+]
        Pixar Genius by Christian Caryl, pp. 17-19 - 4 Reviews
        Wall-E (2008 Film) by Andrew Stanton
        The Pixar Touch by David A. Price
        To Infinity and Beyond! by Karen Paik
        The Art of Pixar Short Films by Amid Amidi
      7. Deception Over Lockerbie? by Malise Ruthven, pp. 20-21
      8. [+]
        Why Art? by Julian Bell, pp. 22-24 - 2 Reviews
        Art Without Borders by Ben-Ami Scharfstein
        The Art Instinct by Denis Dutton
      9. [+]
        The Double Life & Its Dangers by Margaret Atwood, pp. 25-27 - 1 Review
        The Confessions of Edward Day by Valerie Martin
      10. [+]
        The Anarchy of Success by William Easterly, pp. 28-30 - 2 Reviews
        The Drunkard's Walk by Leonard Mlodinow
        Bad Samaritans by Ha-Joon Chang
      11. [+]
        The Price of Paradise by Joshua Hammer, pp. 31-33 - 1 Review
        Fordlandia by Greg Grandin
      12. [+]
        Blood on the Border by Madison Smartt Bell, pp. 34-36 - 1 Review
        Imperial by William T. Vollmann
      13. [+]
        Mary McCarthy's Room by Christopher Benfey, pp. 37-38 - 1 Review
        A Jury of Her Peers by Elaine Showalter
      14. [+]
        Right and Wrong: Psychologists vs. Philosophers by Jeremy Waldron, pp. 39-41 - 1 Review
        Experiments in Ethics by Kwame Anthony Appiah
      15. [+]
        The Afghanistan Impasse by Ahmed Rashid, pp. 42-44 - 2 Reviews
        To Live or to Perish Forever by Nicholas Schmidle
        Seeds of Terror by Gretchen Peters
      16. Letters by Ionel Vasilescu, Theodore R. Marmor, and Jonathan Oberlander, ..., pp. 45-48
    2. [+]
      October 22, 2009 Issue = 23 Articles
      1. Something New on the Mall by Michael Tomasky, pp. 4-7
      2. [+]
        Dreams & Duels of England by Hilary Mantel, pp. 8-13 - 1 Review
        The Ends of Life by Keith Thomas
      3. [+]
        What Is an Andy Warhol? by Richard Dorment, pp. 14-18 - 3 Reviews
        Andy Warhol by Arthur C. Danto
        Pop: The Genius of Andy Warhol by Tony Scherman and David Dalton
        I Sold Andy Warhol by Richard Polsky
      4. The Missions of Astronomy by Steven Weinberg, pp. 19-21
      5. [+]
        The High-Wire Artist by Charles Simic, pp. 22-24 - 1 Review
        The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker
      6. [+]
        He Kept Marx Going by Adam Kirsch, pp. 25-27 - 1 Review
        Marx's General by Tristram Hunt
      7. A Wild Night in the Park by Daniel Mendelsohn, pp. 28-31
      8. [+]
        The Enigma of Chiang Kai-shek by Jonathan Spence, pp. 32-34 - 1 Review
        The Generalissimo by Jay Taylor
      9. David Hockney's iPhone Passion by Lawrence Weschler, p. 35
      10. [+]
        The Elegant Optimist by Julian Bell, pp. 36-37 - 1 Review
        Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love by Sheila Rowbotham
      11. U.S. Route 20 by Karl Kirchwey, p. 38
      12. [+]
        Come Rain, Come Shine by Claire Messud, pp. 39-41 - 1 Review
        Nocturnes by Kazuo Ishiguro
      13. [+]
        Go Directly to Jail by Anthony Lewis, pp. 42-43 - 1 Review
        Ordinary Injustice by Amy Bach
      14. [+]
        Freedom Through Cooking by Steven Mithen, pp. 44-47 - 2 Reviews
        Catching Fire by Richard Wrangham
        Finding Our Tongues by Dean Falk
      15. Dictator Mugabe Makes a Comeback by Joshua Hammer, pp. 48-49
      16. [+]
        Fever Dreams of Your FBI by Norman Rush, pp. 50-52 - 1 Review
        Blood's a Rover by James Ellroy
      17. [+]
        Digging for Moles by Geoffrey Wheatcroft, pp. 53-56 - 1 Review
        Treachery: Betrayals, Blunders, and Cover-Ups by Chapman Pincher
      18. [+]
        Who Was the Most Famous of All? by Robert Gottlieb, pp. 57-59 - 3 Reviews
        Joseph Jefferson: Dean of the American Theatre by Arthur W. Bloom
        The Man Who Was Rip Van Winkle by Benjamin McArthur
        The Autobiography of Joseph Jefferson by Joseph Jefferson
      19. [+]
        The Dear, Dear Friend by Frank Kermode, pp. 60-63 - 2 Reviews
        The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth by Frances Wilson
        The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals by Dorothy Wordsworth
      20. [+]
        Orphan of History by J. Hoberman, pp. 64-66 - 1 Review
        Unforgiving Years by Victor Serge
      21. Health Care: Can Obama Swing It? by Elizabeth Drew, pp. 67-71
      22. Shut Up in China by Bei Ling, p. 72
      23. Letters by Vanessa Redgrave, Julian Schnabel, and Martin Sherman, ..., pp. 73-76
    3. [+]
      November 5, 2009 Issue = 20 Articles
      1. [+]
        1989! by Timothy Garton Ash, pp. 4-9 - 9 Reviews
        1989: The Struggle to Create Post-Cold War Europe~~Nineteen Eighty-Nine: The Struggle to Create Post-Cold War Europe by Mary Elise Sarotte
        Uncivil Society by Stephen Kotkin and Jan T. Gross
        Der Vorhang Geht Auf by Gyorgy Dalos
        The Year That Changed the World by Michael Meyer
        Histoire Secrete de la Chute du Mur de Berlin by Michel Meyer
        Revolution 1989 by Victor Sebestyen
        The Fall of the Berlin Wall by Jeffrey A. Engel
        There Is No Freedom Without Bread! by Constantine Pleshakov
        Tear Down This Wall by Romesh Ratnesar
      2. [+]
        The Way Forward by Diane Johnson, pp. 10-13 - 1 Review
        The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
      3. Iran: The Revenge by Anonymous, pp. 14-16
      4. [+]
        The Most Imposing Cantaloupe by Sanford Schwartz, pp. 17-18 - 1 Review
        Luis Melendez: Master of the Spanish Still Life by Gretchen A. Hirschauer and Catherine A. Metzger, ...
      5. [+]
        The Confessions of Bill by David Bromwich, pp. 19-21 - 1 Review
        The Clinton Tapes by Taylor Branch
      6. [+]
        How It Must Have Been by Stephen Greenblatt, pp. 22-25 - 1 Review
        Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
      7. [+]
        Diagnosis: What Doctors Are Missing by Jerome Groopman, pp. 26-28 - 2 Reviews
        Carrying the Heart by F. Gonzalez-Crussi
        The Deadly Dinner Party by Jonathan A. Edlow, M.D.
      8. [+]
        Who's in Big Brother's Database? by James Bamford, pp. 29-31 - 1 Review
        The Secret Sentry by Matthew M. Aid
      9. [+]
        There Once Was an Artist Called Lear... by Brad Leithauser, pp. 32-34 - 5 Reviews
        Edward Lear in Albania by Bejtullah Destani, Robert Elsie, and Edward Lear, ...
        Edward Lear: The Life of a Wanderer by Vivien Noakes
        The Complete Verse and Other Nonsense by Edward Lear and Vivien Noakes
        Nonsense Botany and Nonsense Alphabets by Edward Lear
        Nonsense Songs and Stories by Edward Lear
      10. [+]
        Which Way for Hamas? by Nicolas Pelham and Max Rodenbeck, pp. 35-37 - 3 Reviews
        Inside Hamas by Zaki Chehab
        Hamas in Politics by Jeroen Gunning
        Kill Khalid by Paul McGeough
      11. The Bad Lion by Toni Bentley, p. 38
      12. [+]
        A Very Different Pakistan by Caleb Crain, pp. 39-40 - 1 Review
        In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin
      13. [+]
        The Charms of Byzantium by Joseph Connors, pp. 41-43 - 2 Reviews
        Byzantium Rediscovered by J.B. Bullen
        Hagia Sophia, 1850-1950 by Robert S. Nelson
      14. [+]
        A Great Conservationist, by Jingo by Robert P. Harrison, pp. 44-46 - 2 Reviews
        The Wilderness Warrior by Douglas Brinkley
        The Big Burn by Timothy Egan
      15. [+]
        'The Master Poet of Democracy' by John Carey, pp. 47-49 - 1 Review
        The Bard by Robert Crawford
      16. [+]
        In the Face of Catastrophe: A Surprise by Bill McKibben, pp. 50-51 - 1 Review
        A Paradise Built in Hell by Rebecca Solnit
      17. [+]
        From Amerigo Vespucci to Darryl Zanuch by Larry McMurtry, pp. 52-53 - 1 Review
        A New Literary History of America by Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors
      18. [+]
        They Didn't Regulate Enough and Still Don't by Jeff Madrick, pp. 54-56 - 3 Reviews
        In Fed We Trust by David Wessel
        House of Cards by William D. Cohan
        A Colossal Failure of Common Sense by Lawrence G. McDonald and Patrick Robinson
      19. What Future for the News?---An Exchange by Michael Massing, p. 57
      20. Letters by Jonathan Cole, Morris Dickstein, and Steven Weinberg, ..., pp. 58-60
    4. [+]
      November 19, 2009 Issue = 21 Articles
      1. [+]
        Ted by Russell Baker, pp. 6-9 - 1 Review
        True Compass by Edward M. Kennedy
      2. Two Poems by Derek Walcott, pp. 10-11
      3. [+]
        American Pastoral by Jonathan Raban, pp. 12-17 - 2 Reviews
        Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits by Linda Gordon
        Daring to Look by Anne Whiston Spirn
      4. Iraq on the Edge by Joost R. Hiltermann, pp. 18-20
      5. The Mighty Penn by Martin Filler, p. 21
      6. [+]
        At the Bad New Ballparks by Michael Kimmelman, pp. 22-23 - 1 Review
        The Last Days of Shea by Dana Brand
      7. [+]
        Heroes from Hungary by Istvan Deak, pp. 24-26 - 2 Reviews
        Double Exile by Tibor Frank
        Enemies of the People by Kati Marton
      8. [+]
        Dreams of Better Schools by Andrew Delbanco, pp. 27-29 - 2 Reviews
        The Making of Americans by E.D. Hirsch, Jr.
        Why School? by Mike Rose
      9. [+]
        Napoleon's Eye by Peter Brooks, pp. 30-32 - 2 Reviews
        No Tomorrow by Vivant Denon
        Inventing the Louvre by Andrew McClellan
      10. [+]
        Breaking a Conspiracy of Silence by Sue Halpern, pp. 33-37 - 2 Reviews
        Half the Sky by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
        Creating a World Without Poverty by Muhammad Yunus and Karl Weber
      11. [+]
        Secret Love in the Lost City by Pico Iyer, pp. 38-40 - 1 Review
        The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk
      12. [+]
        Can Our Shameful Prisons Be Reformed? by David Cole, pp. 41-43 - 3 Reviews
        Race, Incarceration, and American Values by Glenn C. Loury, Pamela S. Karlan, and Tommie Shelby, ...
        Let's Get Free by Paul Butler
        Releasing Prisoners, Redeeming Communities by Anthony Thompson
      13. [+]
        How England Became Modern: A Revolutionary View by Bernard Bailyn, pp. 44-47 - 1 Review
        1688: The First Modern Revolution~~Sixteen Eighty-Eight: The First Modern Revolution by Steve Pincus
      14. [+]
        The Empire of Sister Ping by Richard Bernstein, pp. 48-50 - 1 Review
        The Snakehead by Patrick Radden Keefe
      15. [+]
        A Passion for Hindu Myths by David Shulman, pp. 51-53 - 1 Review
        The Hindus by Wendy Doniger
      16. [+]
        The Subtle Touch by David Lodge, pp. 54-55 - 1 Review
        Love and Summer by William Trevor
      17. [+]
        A Great Jump to Disaster? by Tim Flannery, pp. 56-58 - 3 Reviews
        The Vanishing Face of Gaia by James Lovelock
        James Lovelock: In Search of Gaia by John Gribbin and Mary Gribbin
        The Medea Hypothesis by Peter Ward
      18. The Tragedy of Leonard Peltier vs. the US by Peter Matthiessen, pp. 59-60
      19. [+]
        The Invented World of Wallace Stevens by Dan Chiasson, pp. 61-63 - 1 Review
        Wallace Stevens: Selected Poems by John N. Serio and Wallace Stevens
      20. 'What Is an Andy Warhol?': An Exchange by Richard Dorment, p. 64
      21. Letters by Burt Neuborne, David Cole, Ha-Joon Chang, and James Rossant, ..., pp. 65-68
    5. [+]
      December 3, 2009 Issue = 23 Articles
      1. [+]
        Axler's Theater by Elaine Blair, pp. 6-7 - 1 Review
        The Humbling by Philip Roth
      2. A One-Term President?: The Choice by Garry Wills, pp. 8-9
      3. Who Are the Blue Dogs? by Michael Tomasky, pp. 10-13
      4. [+]
        Spectors of a Chinese Master by Jonathan Spence, pp. 14-17 - 1 Review
        Eccentric Visions by Kim Karlsson, Alfreda Murck, and Michele Matteini, ...
      5. A Second Hummingbird by Paul Muldoon, pp. 18-19
      6. Velvet Revolution: The Prospects by Timothy Garton Ash, pp. 20-23
      7. [+]
        Yahweh Meets R. Crumb by Harold Bloom, pp. 24-25 - 1 Review
        The Book of Genesis by R. Crumb
      8. [+]
        In Evin Prison by Claire Messud, pp. 26-28 - 1 Review
        My Prison, My Home by Haleh Esfandiari
      9. With Berlusconi in the Soup by Ingrid D. Rowland, p. 29
      10. [+]
        Nearly Anything Goes by Robert Gottlieb, pp. 30-32 - 1 Review
        Dancing in the Dark by Morris Dickstein
      11. [+]
        Emerson: 'A Few Inches from Calamity' by John Banville, pp. 33-37 - 1 Review
        First We Read, Then We Write by Robert D. Richardson
      12. Israel & Palestine: Can They Start Over? by Hussein Agha and Robert Malley, pp. 38-41
      13. [+]
        "What Do You Think You Are?' by Joyce Carol Oates, pp. 42-44 - 1 Review
        Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro
      14. [+]
        The World Is in Overshoot by John Terborgh, pp. 45-47 - 1 Review
        Paradise Found by Steve Nicholls
      15. [+]
        Light on the Dark Side by Paula Fox, pp. 48-50 - 1 Review
        A Meaningful Life by L.J. Davis
      16. [+]
        Nazis, Soviets, Poles, Jews by Timothy Snyder, pp. 51-53 - 2 Reviews
        The Third Reich at War by Richard J. Evans
        The Holocaust in the Soviet Union by Yitzhak Arad
      17. [+]
        Voices in the Heartland by Brad Leithauser, pp. 54-55 - 1 Review
        A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
      18. [+]
        The Palestinian Poet Who Came Back by Pankaj Mishra, pp. 56-58 - 1 Review
        My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness by Adina Hoffman
      19. [+]
        Saving the Magic City by Walter Kaiser, pp. 59-60 - 1 Review
        Florence 1900 by Bernd Roeck
      20. Illicit Money: Can It Be Stopped? by Raymond Baker and Eva Joly, pp. 61-64
      21. [+]
        Fighting over History by Keith Thomas, pp. 65-68 - 1 Review
        What Was History? by Anthony Grafton
      22. The New J-Lobby for Peace by Edward Witten, p. 69
      23. Letters by Noam Schimmel, Howard French, and Michael Shae, pp. 70-72
    6. [+]
      December 17, 2009 Issue = 22 Articles
      1. [+]
        Growing Up Female by Cathleen Schine, pp. 8-15 - 1 Review
        When Everything Changed by Gail Collins
      2. [+]
        Flashes of Flora by John Lanchester, pp. 16-21 - 1 Review
        The Original of Laura by Vladimir Nabokov and Dmitri Nabokov
      3. Dilemmas for Doctors by Dr. Jerome Groopman, pp. 22-25
      4. [+]
        Occupied Paris: The Sweet and the Cruel by Ian Buruma, pp. 26-31 - 7 Reviews
        The Journal of Helene Berr by David Bellos and Helene Berr
        Journal, 1940-1950 by Philippe Jullian
        Resistance: Memoirs of Occupied France by Agnes Humbert
        Jean Cocteau by Claude Arnaud
        Collaboration and Resistance by Olivier Corpet and Claire Paulhan
        1940-1945 Annees Erotiques~~Nineteen Forty to Nineteen Forty-Five Annees Erotiques by Patrick Buisson
        Les Parisiens Sous L'Occupation by Jean Baronnet
      5. Israel Without Illusions by David Shulman, pp. 32-33
      6. [+]
        The Escape of the Collyers by Christopher Benfey, pp. 34-37 - 1 Review
        Homer and Langley by E.L. Doctorow
      7. [+]
        Bacon Agonistes by John Richardson, pp. 38-45 - 1 Review
        Francis Bacon: A Centenary Exhibition by Matthew Gale and Chris Stephens
      8. [+]
        Undermining Keats by Christopher Ricks, pp. 46-49 - 1 Review
        Bright Star (2009 Film) by Jane Campion
      9. [+]
        A Contest in the Cold by Brian Urquhart, pp. 50-57 - 1 Review
        The Hawk and the Dove by Nicholas Thompson
      10. [+]
        Shakespeare in No Man's Land by Stephen Greenblatt, pp. 58-61 - 1 Review
        Soul of the Age by Jonathan Bate
      11. [+]
        The Big Muslim Problem! by Malise Ruthven, pp. 62-65 - 2 Reviews
        Reflections on the Revolution in Europe by Christopher Caldwell
        What I Believe by Tariq Ramadan
      12. [+]
        Dark Comedies of the City by Jay Neugeboren, pp. 66-67 - 1 Review
        Beg Borrow, Steal by Michael Greenberg
      13. Microcosmos by Wislawa Szymborska, p. 68
      14. [+]
        The Passions of Palladio by Ingrid D. Rowland, pp. 69-71 - 1 Review
        The Hand of Palladio by Paolo Portoghesi and Lorenzo Capellini
      15. [+]
        The Universal Attractions of Slavery by David Brion Davis, pp. 72-74 - 1 Review
        Abolition by Seymour Drescher
      16. [+]
        Resurrecting John Donne by Mark Ford, pp. 75-77 - 1 Review
        John Donne, Body and Soul by Ramie Targoff
      17. [+]
        Love in a Moment of Hope by Neal Ascherson, pp. 78-81 - 1 Review
        The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt
      18. Google and the New Digital Future by Robert Darnton, pp. 82-85
      19. What Is Living and What Is Dead in Social Democracy? by Tony Judt, pp. 86-97
      20. What Is a Warhol?: An Exchange by Richard Dorment, p. 98
      21. 'Fear of Knowledge': An Exchange by John R. Searle, p. 99
      22. 'The True Story of Izzy': An Exchange by Jonathan Mirsky and D.D. Guttenplan, pp. 100-104
[+]
Issues of the 2010s = 1 Year, 19 Issues, 402 Articles
1. [+]
  Issues of 2010 = 19 Issues, 402 Articles