Contents
4 Fintan O’Toole The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel by Kati Marton
10 Colin Grant Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth by Wole Soyinka
14 Linda Greenhouse Final Report by the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court
of the United States
18 Colin B. Bailey The Letters of Edgar Degas bilingual edition edited and annotated by Theodore Reff
22 Howard W. French Slave Empire: How Slavery Built Modern Britain by Padraic X. Scanlan
Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain by Sathnam Sanghera
25 Ingrid D. Rowland Pollak’s Arm by Hans von Trotha, translated from the German by Elisabeth Lauffer
27 Fred Kaplan Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post– Cold War Stalemate
by M. E. Sarotte
29 Ange Mlinko Late Fragments: Flares, My Heart Laid Bare, Prose Poems, Belgium Disrobed
by Charles Baudelaire, translated from the French and edited by Richard Sieburth
The Flowers of Evil (Les Fleurs du mal) by Charles Baudelaire, translated from
the French by Aaron Poochigian, with an introduction by Dana Gioia
The Salon of 1846 by Charles Baudelaire, translated from the French
by Jonathan Mayne, with an introduction by Michael Fried
32 Ariel Dorfman Dangerous Ideas: A Brief History of Censorship in the West, from the Ancients
to Fake News by Eric Berkowitz
34 Suzanne Buffam Two Poems
35 Clair Wills The Letters of John McGahern edited by Frank Shovlin
38 Elvia Wilk Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley: Blood Moon an exhibition
at the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia
Catalog of the exhibition edited by Karen Patterson
40 Geoffrey Wheatcroft George V: Never a Dull Moment by Jane Ridley
41 Yuri Andrukhovych Poem
43 Wendy Doniger The RƗmƗya۬a of VƗlmƯki: The Complete English Translation revised and edited
by Robert P. Goldman and Sally J. Sutherland Goldman
49 Emily Raboteau Urban Legends: The South Bronx in Representation and Ruin by Peter L’Official
52 Tim Judah Holding On in Irpin
53 Letters from David Eltis, Jorge Felipe-Gonzalez, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Sean Wilentz,
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