Volume 56, Number 20 (2009-12-17)

Cathleen Schine

Growing Up Female

When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present

by Gail Collins

John Lanchester

Flashes of Flora

The Original of Laura (Dying Is Fun)

by Vladimir Nabokov, edited by Dmitri Nabokov

Jerome Groopman

Occupied Paris: The Sweet and the Cruel

The Journal of Hélène Berr

translated from the French and with an introduction and an essay by David Bellos, and an afterword by Mariette Job

Journal, 1940–1950

by Philippe Jullian

Résistance: Memoirs of Occupied France

by Agnès Humbert, translated from the French and with notes by Barbara Mellor, and an afterword by Julien Blanc

Jean Cocteau

by Claude Arnaud

1940–1945 Années érotiques: De la Grande Prostituée à la revanche des mâles

by Patrick Buisson

Les Parisiens sous l'Occupation: Photographies en couleurs d'André Zucca

by Jean Baronnet, with a preface by Jean-Pierre Azéma

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David Shulman

Israel Without Illusions

“No one who regularly visits the Palestinian territories controlled by Israel has to speculate about whether or not Israel is engaged in the routine abuse of human rights.”

Christopher Benfey

The Escape of the Collyers

Homer & Langley

by E.L. Doctorow

John Richardson

an exhibition at Tate Britain, London, September 11, 2008–January 4, 2009, the Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, February 3–April 19, 2009, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, May 20–August 16, 2009

Christopher Ricks