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At Gull Pond

by Reuel K. Wilson

The New York Review of Books, November 20, 2008, pp. 8-11

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        You Can't Take It with You by Frank Kermode, pp. 38-40 - 1 Review
        Nothing to Be Frightened Of by Julian Barnes
      14. [+]
        Keeper of the Jewels by Robert Gottlieb, pp. 41-42 - 1 Review
        Balanchine Variations by Nancy Goldner
      15. [+]
        A Rescue of Religion by John Gray, pp. 43-45 - 1 Review
        Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing? by Leszek Kolakowski
      16. Obama & the Conquest of Denver by Michael Chabon, pp. 46-48
      17. Letters by David Harland, Samantha Power, and Steven Nadler, ..., pp. 49-52
      18. Cover drawings by Pancho, John Springs, and David Levine
    2. [+]
      October 23, 2008 Issue = 23 Articles
      1. [+]
        Royal Flush by Pico Iyer, pp. 4-7 - 2 Reviews
        The Commoner by John Burnham Schwartz
        The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
      2. A Wee Irish Suite by John Updike, pp. 8-9
      3. [+]
        He Foresaw the End of an Era by John Cassidy, pp. 10-17 - 1 Review
        The New Paradigm for Financial Markets by George Soros
      4. James Baldwin & Barrack Obama by Colm Toibin, pp. 18-23
      5. [+]
        The Patient Talks Back by Diane Johnson and John F. Murray, pp. 24-27 - 3 Reviews
        The Two Kinds of Decay by Sarah Manguso
        My Stroke of Insight by Jill Bolte Taylor
        The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead by David Shields
      6. [+]
        Back to Basics by Julian Bell, pp. 28-30 - 1 Review
        The Craftsman by Richard Sennett
      7. [+]
        Daring and Disturbing by Sanford Schwartz, pp. 31-33 - 3 Reviews
        Louise Bourgeois by Frances Morris
        Destruction of the Father/Reconstruction of the Father by Louise Bourgeois
        Louise Bourgeois: Aller-Retour by Gerald Matt, Peter Weisermair, and Louise Bourgeois, ...
      8. [+]
        Struggle for the Islands by Freeman Dyson, pp. 34-36 - 1 Review
        Galapagos: The Islands That Changed the World by Paul D. Stewart
      9. [+]
        They Soared Above the Din by James Oakes, pp. 37-40 - 2 Reviews
        Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates That Defined America by Allen C. Guelzo
        The Lincoln-Douglas Debates by Rodney O. Davis and Douglas L. Wilson
      10. [+]
        In Rough Country by Joyce Carol Oates, pp. 41-45 - 3 Reviews
        Fine Just the Way It Is by Annie Proulx
        Close Range by Annie Proulx
        Bad Dirt by Annie Proulx
      11. [+]
        The Most Evil Emperor by Max Hastings, pp. 46-49 - 2 Reviews
        Hitler's Empire by Mark Mazower
        Hitler, the Germans, and the Final Solution by Ian Kershaw
      12. [+]
        Laughable and Tragic by Anne Applebaum, pp. 50-51 - 1 Review
        The Red Prince by Timothy Snyder
      13. [+]
        The International Crooks Now in Power by Joshua Hammer, pp. 52-55 - 2 Reviews
        McMafia by Misha Glenny
        Merchant of Death by Douglas Farah and Stephen Braun
      14. [+]
        Our Nights Chez Rohmer by Geoffrey O'Brien, pp. 56-58 - 1 Review
        The Romance of Astrea and Celadon (2007 Film) by Eric Rohmer
      15. [+]
        What Happened to the American Empire? by Alan Ryan, pp. 59-63 - 5 Reviews
        On Empire: America, War, and Global Supremacy by Eric Hobsbawm
        Day of Empire by Amy Chua
        The Second World by Parag Khanna
        The Post-American World by Fareed Zakaria
        The Return of History and the End of Dreams by Robert Kagan
      16. [+]
        The Torch of Karl Kraus by Adam Kirsch, pp. 64-65 - 1 Review
        The Anti-Journalist by Paul Reitter
      17. [+]
        From a Mansion Near Tora Bora by Pankaj Mishra, pp. 66-68 - 1 Review
        The Wasted Vigil by Nadeem Aslam
      18. [+]
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        What Paul Meant by Garry Wills
        The Political Theology of Paul by Jacob Taubes
        The Time That Remains by Giorgio Agamben
        Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism by Alain Badiou
        Being and Event by Alain Badiou
        The Century by Alain Badiou
        Polemics by Alain Badiou
        Une Querelle Avec Alain Badiou, Philosophe by Eric Marty
        On Belief by Slavoj Zizek
      19. Is This a 'Victory'? by Peter W. Galbraith, pp. 74-76
      20. [+]
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        The Lindisfarne Gospels by Michelle P. Brown
        Ritual and the Rood by Eamonn O. Carragain
        Word and Image by William J. Diebold
      21. Georgia, the US, and the Balance of Power by George Friedman and Daniel Fried, pp. 80-81
      22. Letters by Charles Ellwood Jones, Hugh Eakin, and Mark Harman, ..., pp. 82-84
      23. Cover photograph by Tui De Roy
    3. [+]
      November 6, 2008 Issue = 34 Articles
      1. A Fateful Election by Russell Baker, p. 4
      2. --- by David Bromwich, pp. 4-5
      3. --- by Mark Danner, pp. 6-7
      4. --- by Andrew Delbanco, pp. 8-9
      5. --- by Joan Didion, p. 10
      6. --- by Ronald Dworkin, p. 11
      7. --- by Frances FitzGerald, p. 12
      8. --- by Timothy Garton Ash, p. 12
      9. --- by Paul Krugman, p. 13
      10. --- by Joseph Lelyveld, p. 14
      11. --- by Darryl Pinckney, p. 14
      12. --- by Thomas Powers, p. 15
      13. --- by Michael Tomasky, p. 15
      14. --- by Garry Wills, p. 16
      15. [+]
        The Myths of Ted Hughes by Mark Ford, pp. 17-19 - 1 Review
        Letters of Ted Hughes by Christopher Reid and Ted Hughes
      16. Back Roads by Barry Goldensohn, p. 20
      17. Georgia: The Ignored History by Robert English, pp. 21-23
      18. [+]
        The Glories of Yiddish by Harold Bloom, pp. 24-26 - 1 Review
        History of the Yiddish Language by Max Weinreich and Paul Glasser
      19. McCain, Obama, and the National Health by Arnold Relman, p. 27
      20. [+]
        A Field Guide to the Birders by Robert O. Paxton, pp. 28-31 - 5 Reviews
        Of a Feather by Scott Weidensaul
        Flights Against the Sunset by Kenn Kaufman
        Birdwatcher: The Life of Roger Tory Peterson by Elizabeth J. Rosenthal
        The Life of the Skies by Jonathan Rosen
        The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw by Bruce Barcott
      21. [+]
        The Middle East: What to Do? by Brian Urquhart, pp. 32-34 - 1 Review
        A Path Out of the Desert by KennethM. Pollack
      22. [+]
        The Classicist's Eye by G.W. Bowersock, pp. 35-42 - 1 Review
        How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken by Daniel Mendelsohn
      23. [+]
        A Challenge to the Free Market by Benjamin M. Friedman, pp. 43-47 - 1 Review
        The Predator State by James Galbraith
      24. [+]
        Tempting Targets by Francis Wyndham, pp. 48-49 - 1 Review
        Mother's Milk by Edward St. Aubyn
      25. [+]
        Who Killed Anna Politkovskaya? by Amy Knight, pp. 50-52 - 1 Review
        Letter to Anna (2008 Film) by Eric Bergkraut
      26. [+]
        Green Fantasia by Bill McKibben, pp. 53-55 - 1 Review
        Hot, Flat, and Crowded by Thomas L. Friedman
      27. [+]
        Victims of Vermeermania by James Fenton, pp. 56-58 - 2 Reviews
        The Man Who Made Vermeers by Jonathan Lopez
        The Forger's Spell by Edward Dolnick
      28. [+]
        How Muslims Made Europe by Kwame Anthony Appiah, pp. 59-62 - 1 Review
        God's Crucible by David Levering Lewis
      29. [+]
        The Deceptive Director by Nathaniel Rich, pp. 63-65 - 3 Reviews
        Otto Preminger: The Man Who Would Be King by Foster Hirsch
        The World and Its Double by Chris Fujiwara
        Preminger: An Autobiography by Otto Preminger
      30. [+]
        In a London of Infinite Possibilities by Neal Ascherson, pp. 66-67 - 1 Review
        Something to Tell You by Hanif Kureishi
      31. Hugo Chavez Versus Human Rights by Jose Miguel Vivanco and Daniel Wilkinson, p. 68
      32. [+]
        China's Golden Age by Eliot Weinberger, pp. 69-72 - 2 Reviews
        China at the Court of the Emperors by Sabrina Rastelli
        Poems of the Late T'ang by A.C. Graham
      33. Letters by David J.R. Frakt, Anthony Lewis, and Julian Barnes, ..., pp. 73-76
      34. Cover drawing by Pancho
    4. [+]
      November 20, 2008 Issue = 26 Articles
      1. At Gull Pond by Reuel K. Wilson, pp. 8-11
      2. Obama & Sweet Potato Pie by Mark Danner, pp. 12-21
      3. [+]
        The Lessons of the Master by Ian Buruma, pp. 22-27 - 1 Review
        The World Is What It Is by Patrick French
      4. The Monkey by Vladislav Hodasevich, p. 28
      5. [+]
        The Co-President at Work by David Bromwich, pp. 29-33 - 8 Reviews
        The Dark Side by Jane Mayer
        Angler by Barton Gellman
        The Way of the World by Ron Suskind
        Takeover by Charlie Savage
        What Happened by Scott McClellan
        The Bush Tragedy by Jacob Weisberg
        Cheney by Stephen F. Hayes
        The War Within by Bob Woodward
      6. [+]
        Irene Nemirovsky: The Dogs & the Wolves by J.M. Coetzee, pp. 34-37 - 1 Review
        David Golder, The Ball, Snow in Autumn, The Courilof Affair by Irene Nemirovsky
      7. [+]
        Vietnam: Dead Souls by Jonathan Mirsky, pp. 38-40 - 2 Reviews
        Ghosts of War in Vietnam by Heonik Kwon
        The Boat by Nam Le
      8. Science: The Coming Century by Martin Rees, pp. 41-43
      9. Episode by John Ashbery, p. 44
      10. [+]
        Witnesses to a Mystery by Claire Messud, pp. 45-46 - 1 Review
        Home by Marilynne Robinson
      11. [+]
        Fishing in the Dead Sea by Colin Thubron, pp. 47-51 - 3 Reviews
        Lion of Jordan by Avi Shlaim
        King Hussein of Jordan: A Political Life by Nigel Ashton
        The Arab Center by Marwan Muasher
      12. [+]
        How They Blew Up the L.A. Times by Russell Baker, pp. 52-54 - 1 Review
        American Lightning by Howard Blum
      13. Constantine Cavafy: 'As Good as Great Poetry Gets' by Daniel Mendelsohn, pp. 55-58
      14. Myres: Alexandria in 340 AD by Constantine Cavafy, p. 59
      15. [+]
        Wright in Love by Martin Filler, pp. 60-63 - 8 Reviews
        Frank Lloyd Wright in New York by Jane King Hession and Debrra Pickrel
        Frank Lloyd Wright: Essential Texts by Robert Twombly and Frank Lloyd Wright
        The Fellowship by Roger Friedland and Harold Zellman
        Frank Lloyd Wright: The Heroic Years: 1920-1932 by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer
        Modern Architecture by Frank Lloyd Wright
        A Photographer's Journey with Frank Lloyd Wright, Alexander Calder, and Louise Nevelson by Pedro E. Guerrero
        Death in a Prairie House by William R. Drennan
        Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
      16. [+]
        Darwin and the Meaning of Flowers by Oliver Sacks, pp. 64-67 - 1 Review
        Darwin's Garden: An Evolutionary Adventure by David Kohn
      17. [+]
        What is Scotland by Andrew O'Hagan, pp. 68-71 - 3 Reviews
        The Invention of Scotland by Hugh Trevor-Roper
        Scotland: The Autobiography by Rosemary Goring
        The Oxford Companion to Scottish History by Michael Lynch
      18. [+]
        The Friendship of Cal and Elizabeth by Helen Vendler, pp. 72-75 - 1 Review
        Words in Air by Thomas Travisano, Saskia Hamilton, and Elizabeth Bishop, ...
      19. [+]
        'But They Burned Giordano Bruno!' by Anthony Grafton, pp. 76-78 - 1 Review
        Giordano Bruno: Philosopher/Heretic by Ingrid D. Rowland
      20. [+]
        Trapped in the New 'You're on Your Own' World by Robert Solow, pp. 79-81 - 1 Review
        High Wire by Peter Gosselin
      21. [+]
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        The Complete Works of W. H. Auden by Edward Mendelson and W.H. Auden
        Randall Jarrell on W.H. Auden by Stephen Burt, Hannah Brooks-Motl, and Randall Jarrell, ...
      22. [+]
        The Prime of James Wood by John Banville, pp. 85-88 - 1 Review
        How Fiction Works by James Wood
      23. [+]
        Two Paths for the Novel by Zadie Smith, pp. 89-94 - 2 Reviews
        Netherland by Joseph O'Neill
        Remainder by Tom McCarthy
      24. 'Without God': An Exchange by Steven Weinberg, Bob Lockner, Norman Bodine, and David S. Cunningham, ..., pp. 95-97
      25. Letters by Judith Herrin, Dan Kurzman, Istvan Deak, and Rose Styron, ..., pp. 98-100
      26. Cover drawing by Pancho
    5. [+]
      December 4, 2008 Issue = 20 Articles
      1. 'The Time Has Come to Say These Things' by Ehud Olmert, pp. 6-9
      2. [+]
        Just Remember This by Michael Greenberg, pp. 10-13 - 1 Review
        Can't Remember What I Forgot by Sue Halpern
      3. The Execution of Saint-Just At Thermidor by Glyn Maxwell, p. 14
      4. [+]
        A Larger War on Terror? by David Cole, pp. 15-18 - 1 Review
        Terror and Consent by Philip Bobbitt
      5. [+]
        Desire in Berlin by Ian Buruma, pp. 19-21 - 1 Review
        Kirchner and the Berlin Street by Deborah Wye
      6. [+]
        Iraq: Before & After, and Now by Joshua Hammer, pp. 22-25 - 2 Reviews
        Waiting for an Ordinary Day by Farnaz Fassihi
        The Strongest Tribe by Bing West
      7. Frozen Scandal by Mark Danner, pp. 26-27
      8. [+]
        What Disraeli Can Teach Us by Geoffrey Wheatcroft, pp. 28-30 - 1 Review
        Benjamin Disraeli by Adam Kirsch
      9. [+]
        The Message of the Schoolroom by Alison Lurie, pp. 31-35 - 2 Reviews
        School by Catherine Burke and Ian Grosvenor
        Small Wonder by Jonathan Zimmerman
      10. [+]
        Spellbound by Michael Dirda, pp. 36-38 - 18 Reviews
        Man in the Dark by Paul Auster
        Travels in the Scriptorium by Paul Auster
        The Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster
        Oracle Night by Paul Auster
        The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster
        The Red Notebook by Paul Auster
        I Thought My Father Was God by Paul Auster
        Hand to Mouth by Paul Auster
        Timbuktu by Paul Auster
        Mr. Vertigo by Paul Auster
        Leviathan by Paul Auster
        The Art of Hunger by Paul Auster
        The Music of Chance by Paul Auster
        Moon Palace by Paul Auster
        In the Country of Last Things by Paul Auster
        The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
        The Invention of Solitude by Paul Auster
        Squeeze Play by Paul Benjamin
      11. [+]
        The Spider Man and Other Stories by Tim Flannery, pp. 39-40 - 1 Review
        Dry Storeroom No. 1 by Richard Fortey
      12. [+]
        Waking Up to a Nightmare by Francine Prose, pp. 41-42 - 1 Review
        Lulu in Marrakech by Diane Johnson
      13. Luminous Memoir of a Lost World by John Banville, pp. 43-44
      14. [+]
        The Historian Who Saw Through America by James M. McPherson, pp. 45-47 - 2 Reviews
        Diverse Nations by George M. Fredrickson
        Big Enough to Be Inconsistent by George M. Fredrickson
      15. [+]
        The Storm Over Robert Frost by Christopher Benfrey, pp. 48-50 - 3 Reviews
        The Collected Prose of Robert Frost by Mark Richardson and Robert Frost
        Fall of Frost by Brian Hall
        Robert Frost: The Poet as Philosopher by Peter J. Stanlis
      16. [+]
        Foreign Aid Goes Military! by William Easterly, pp. 51-54 - 1 Review
        The Bottom Billion by Paul Collier
      17. [+]
        In Search of the Outrageous Past by Elaine Blair, pp. 55-58 - 1 Review
        The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon
      18. [+]
        Italy Against Itself by Alexander Stille, pp. 59-62 - 3 Reviews
        La Deriva: Perche L'Italia Rischia il Naufragio by Gian Antonio Stella and Sergio Rizzo
        La Panra e la Speranza by Giulio Tremonti
        Se li Conosci li Eviti by Peter Gomez and Marco Travaglio
      19. The Crisis & What to Do About It by George Soros, pp. 63-64
      20. Letters by Teresa Ghilarducci, Robert M. Solow, and Russell Todres, ..., pp. 65-68
    6. [+]
      December 18, 2008 Issue = 23 Articles
      1. What to Do by Paul Krugman, pp. 8-9
      2. Driving Westward To San Diego by Barry Goldensohn, pp. 10-11
      3. [+]
        The Triumph of Roberto Bolano by Sarah Kerr, pp. 12-17 - 2 Reviews
        2666~~Twenty-Six Sixty-Six by Roberto Bolano
        The Romantic Dogs by Roberto Bolano
      4. Obama: In the Irony-Free Zone by Joan Didion and Darryl Pinckney, pp. 18-19
      5. [+]
        Mysteries of Siena by Ingrid Rowland, pp. 20-25 - 1 Review
        Renaissance Siena by Luke Syson, Alessandro Angelini, and Philippa Jackson, ...
      6. Obama: In the Divided Heartland by Michael Massing, pp. 26-31
      7. Among Noble Monks by Meyer Schapiro, pp. 32-35
      8. [+]
        Becoming Susan Sontag by Deborah Eisenberg, pp. 36-43 - 1 Review
        Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963 by Susan Sontag and David Rieff
      9. [+]
        How Historic a Victory? by Michael Tomasky, pp. 44-47 - 2 Reviews
        Unequal Democracy by Larry M. Bartels
        Red, Blue, and Purple America by Ruy Teixeira
      10. [+]
        Cruising with Caesar by Mary Beard, pp. 48-52 - 3 Reviews
        Caesar: A Life in Western Culture by Maria Wyke
        Julius Caesar by Philip Freeman
        Caesar's Calendar by Denis Feeney
      11. He Interviewed the Nation by Garry Wills, pp. 53-55
      12. [+]
        An Asian Star Is Born by Christian Caryl, pp. 56-59 - 1 Review
        The China Lover by Ian Buruma
      13. [+]
        The War We Don't Want to See by Sue Halpern, pp. 60-62 - 5 Reviews
        War Surgery in Afghanistan and Iraq by Shawn Christian Nessen and Dave Edmond Lounsbury, ...
        Generation Kill (2008 Film) by David Simon and Ed Burns
        Baghdad ER - An HBO Documentary Film (2006 Film) by Jon Alpert and Matthew O'Neill
        Section 60 (2008 Film) by Jon Alpert and Matthew O'Neill
        The Forever War by Dexter Filkins
      14. [+]
        A Lost World on the Map by Alma Guillermoprieto, pp. 63-65 - 1 Review
        Cave, City, and Eagle's Nest by David Carrasco and Scott Sessions
      15. [+]
        The Prodigious Pessimist by Jonathan Raban, pp. 66-68 - 1 Review
        The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal by Jay Parini and Gore Vidal
      16. My Turkish Library by Orhan Pamuk, pp. 69-72
      17. [+]
        Seduced by Trains by Ian Jack, pp. 73-76 - 1 Review
        Ghost Train to the Eastern Star by Paul Theroux
      18. [+]
        'If Shakespeare Had Been Able to Google...' by James Gleick, pp. 77-79 - 3 Reviews
        Alphabet Juice by Roy Blount Jr.
        Reading the OED by Ammon Shea
        The First English Dictionary, 1604 by Robert Cawdrey
      19. [+]
        The Unknown Women of India by Maya Jasanoff, pp. 80-82 - 2 Reviews
        Women of the Raj by Margaret MacMillan
        Sex and the Family in Colonial India by Durba Ghosh
      20. [+]
        'Everything Is a Mystery' by Charles Simic, pp. 83-85 - 2 Reviews
        How to Be Perfect by Ron Padgett
        Messenger by Ellen Voigt
      21. [+]
        Do Schools Have to Be Boring? by Alison Lurie, pp. 86-91 - 7 Reviews
        School by Catherine Burke and Ian Grosvenor
        The Open Classroom by Herbert R. Kohl
        Social Design by Robert Sommer
        Big Box Reuse by Julia Christensen
        Small Wonder by Jonathan Zimmerman
        Children's Spaces by Mark Dudek
        Nanny State by David Harsanyi
      22. The Truth About the Election by Elizabeth Drew, pp. 92-97
      23. Letters by John E. Merriam, Colin Wells, Hugh McManus, and Paul R. Goldin, ..., pp. 98-100
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  Issues of 2009 = 17 Issues, 324 Articles
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Issues of the 2010s = 1 Year, 19 Issues, 402 Articles
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  Issues of 2010 = 19 Issues, 402 Articles