Volume 55, Number 14 (2008-09-25)

Andrew Butterfield

The Genius of George Inness

Like Breath on Glass: Whistler, Inness, and the Artof Painting Softly

an exhibition at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute,Williamstown, Massachusetts,June 22–October 19, 2008.

George Inness: A Catalogue Raisonné

by Michael Quick

George Inness: Writings and Reflections onArt and Philosophy

edited by Adrienne Baxter Bell

George Inness and the Science of Landscape

by Rachael Ziady DeLue

Andrew Hacker

Obama: The Price of Being Black

Restoring the Right to Vote

by Erika Wood

Crawford v. Marion County [Indiana] Election Board

US Supreme Court, April 28, 2008

Florida State Conference of the NAACP v. Browning

US Court of Appeals, 11th Circuit, April 3, 2008

Tim Parks

‘The Knife by the Handle at Last’

Alfred and Emily by Doris Lessing

by Doris Lessing

Apples and Oranges: My Brother and Me, Lost and Found

by Marie Brenner

House Rules

by Rachel Sontag

Thrumpton Hall: A Memoir of Life in My Father’s House

by Miranda Seymour

The Sum of Our Days

by Isabel Allende, translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden

George Friedman

Georgia and the Balance of Power

Edward Mendelson

‘What We Love, Not Are’

Selected Poems

by Frank O’Hara, edited by Mark Ford

George Soros

The ‘Mash of Myriad Sounds’

The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century

by Alex Ross

Anthony Lewis

Official American Sadism

Guantanamo: Beyond the Law

a series of five articles by Tom Lasseter

The Challenge: Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and the Fight over Presidential Power

by Jonathan Mahler

Broken Laws, Broken Lives: Medical Evidence of Torture by US Personnel and Its Impact

a report by Physicians for Human Rights, with a preface byMajor General Antonio M. Taguba

Adam Michnik

A Summer of Madness

Hurry Down Sunshine

by Michael Greenberg

Wisdom, Madness and Folly: The Philosophy of a Lunatic

by John Custance

Manic-Depressive Illness: Bipolar Disorders and Recurrent Depression

by Frederick K. Goodwin and Kay Redfield Jamison

An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

by Kay Redfield Jamison

Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament

by Kay Redfield Jamison

The Seduction of Madness: Revolutionary Insightsinto the World of Psychosis and a Compassionate Approach to Recovery at Home

by Edward M. Podvoll

Lectures on Clinical Psychiatry

by Emil Kraepelin

Manic-Depressive Insanity and Paranoia

by Emil Kraepelin

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Joyce Carol Oates

The Woman in White

A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandalin the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade

by Christopher Benfey

White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson

by Brenda Wineapple

Jeff Madrick

“The nation’s businesses have illegally, callously, and systematically abused their workers in a time of increased global competition and technological change, while government protection of workers’ rights has significantly weakened.”

The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker

by Steven Greenhouse

Jonathan Raban