The New York Review of Books, Volume 61, Number 19 (4 December 2014)

David Bromwich
The Question of Edward Snowden
Citizenfour a film directed by Laura Poitras
Alan Hollinghurst
The Victory of Penelope Fitzgerald
The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald
Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald, with an introduction by Alan Hollinghurst
Human Voices by Penelope Fitzgerald
At Freddie’s by Penelope Fitzgerald, with an introduction by Simon Callow
Innocence by Penelope Fitzgerald, with an introduction by Julian Barnes
The Beginning of Spring by Penelope Fitzgerald
The Gate of Angels by Penelope Fitzgerald
The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald, with an introduction by Candia McWilliam
Edward Burne-Jones by Penelope Fitzgerald, with an introduction by Frances Spalding
Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life by Hermione Lee
The Golden Child by Penelope Fitzgerald
The Knox Brothers by Penelope Fitzgerald, with an introduction by Richard Holmes
Charlotte Mew and Her Friends by Penelope Fitzgerald, with an introduction by Michèle Roberts
Elizabeth Kolbert
Can Climate Change Cure Capitalism?
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate by Naomi Klein
Zoë Heller
The Hard Work of Marriage
Gone Girl a film directed by David Fincher
Kevin Young
Ode to the Harlem Globetrotters (poem)
Cass R. Sunstein
Who Knows If You’re Happy?
Happiness by Design: Change What You Do, Not How You Think by Paul Dolan, with a foreword by Daniel Kahneman
Subjective Well-Being: Measuring Happiness, Suffering, and Other Dimensions of Experience a report by the National Research Council, edited by Arthur A. Stone and Christopher Mackie
Julian Bell
Taking a Wrench to Reality
Cubism: The Leonard A. Lauder Collection an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, October 20, 2014–February 16, 2015
Michael Tomasky
How to Become Eminent in Washington
Worthy Fights: A Memoir of Leadership in War and Peace by Leon Panetta, with Jim Newton
Jonathan Zimmerman
Why Is American Teaching So Bad?
The Teacher Wars: A History of America’s Most Embattled Profession by Dana Goldstein
Building a Better Teacher: How Teaching Works (and How to Teach It to Everyone) by Elizabeth Green
Getting Schooled: The Reeducation of an American Teacher by Garret Keizer
Christian Caryl
The Small Sects Under Fire
Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms: Journeys into the Disappearing Religions of the Middle East by Gerard Russell, with a foreword by Rory Stewart
Martin Filler
The Charms of Edwin Lutyens
Cemeteries of the Great War by Sir Edwin Lutyens by Jeroen Geurst
The Architecture of Diplomacy: The British Ambassador’s Residence in Washington by Anthony Seldon and Daniel Collings
David Cole
The Disgrace of Our Criminal Justice
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
The Growth of Incarceration in the United States: Exploring Causes and Consequences edited by Jeremy Travis, Bruce Western, and Steve Redburn
Mass Incarceration on Trial: A Remarkable Court Decision and the Future of Prisons in America by Jonathan Simon
Charles Simic
A Masterful Storyteller Between Worlds
The Book of My Lives by Aleksandar Hemon
Xan Smiley
Kim Philby: Still an Enigma
A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal by Ben Macintyre
Wendy Doniger
War and Peace in the Bhagavad Gita
The Bhagavad Gita: A Biography by Richard H. Davis
James Walton
Star Fiction
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
Ian Johnson
China’s Brave Underground Journal
Remembrance an unofficial journal published in Tiantongyuan, China
Roger Cohen
When Israelis and Arabs for Once Agreed
Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David by Lawrence Wright
Francine Prose
The Luck of Women in Love
The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters
Helen Epstein
Colossal Corruption in Africa
Zambia: The First 50 Years: Reflections of an Eyewitness by Andrew Sardanis
Africa: Another Side of the Coin: Northern Rhodesia’s Final Years and Zambia’s Nationhood by Andrew Sardanis
The 1980 Coup: Tribulations of the One-Party State in Zambia by Goodwin Yoram Mumba
Rethinking African Politics: A History of Opposition in Zambia by Miles Larmer
The Musakanya Papers: The Autobiographical Writings of Valentine Musakanya edited by Miles Larmer
Tiny Rowland: A Rebel Tycoon by Tom Bower

LETTERS:
Theodore L. Eliot Jr.,
Rory Stewart
Don’t Abandon Afghanistan!
Mary Ellen Levin,
Michael Greenberg
Crime, Schools, and Abortion
Bruce Heinly,
Peter E. Gordon
Heidegger & the Gas Chambers
Jeremy Bernstein,
Priyamvada Natarajan
When Einstein Was Wrong

Contributors:
Julian Bell is a painter and writer living in Lewes, England. His Van Gogh: A Power Seething will be published in early 2015. (December 2014)

David Bromwich is Sterling Professor of English at Yale. His two new books, The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke: From the Sublime and Beautiful to American Independence and Moral Imagination, a collection of his essays, were published earlier this year.
 (December 2014)

Christian Caryl is a Senior Fellow at the Legatum Institute and the editor of Foreign Policy’s Democracy Lab website. His latest book is Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century.

Roger Cohen is a columnist for The New York Times. His family memoir, The Girl from Human Street: Ghosts of Memory in a Jewish Family, will be published in January 2015.
 (December 2014)

David Cole is the Honorable George J. Mitchell Professor in Law and Public Policy at Georgetown University Law Center. He is the author of several books, including The Torture Memos: Rationalizing the Unthinkable (2009), Less Safe, Less Free: Why America Is Losing the War on Terror (with Jules Lobel, 2007) and Enemy Aliens: Double Standards and Constitutional Freedoms in the War on Terrorism (2003).

Wendy Doniger is Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Chicago and the author of The Hindus: An ­Alternative History, On Hinduism, and, most recently, the volume on Hinduism in The Norton Anthology of World Religions.

Helen Epstein is a writer specializing in public health and an adjunct professor at Bard College. She has advised numerous organizations, including the United States Agency for International Development, the World Bank, Human Rights Watch, and UNICEF. She is the author of The Invisible Cure: Why We Are Losing the Fight Against AIDS in Africa and has contributed articles to many publications, including The New York Review of Books and The New York Times Magazine. Research for her article in the December 18, 2014 issue was supported by a grant from the Investigative Fund at 
the Nation Institute.

Martin Filler’s latest book, Makers of Modern Architecture, Volume II, has been long-listed for the 2014 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. Filler was born in 1948 and received degrees in art history from Columbia University. He has been a contributor to The New York Review of Books since 1985 and his writing on modern architecture has been published in more than thirty journals, magazines, and newspapers in the US, Europe, and Japan. His first collection of New York Review essays, Makers of Modern Architecture, was published in 2007. Filler is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He and his wife, the architectural historian Rosemarie Haag Bletter, live in New York and Southampton.

Zoë Heller is the author of Everything You Know, Notes on a Scandal, and The Believers. (December 2014)

Alan Hollinghurst was born in 1954 in Gloucestershire, England, and attended Magdalen College, Oxford. He is the author of the novels The Swimming-Pool Library, The Folding Star (shortlisted for the Booker Prize), The Spell, The Line of Beauty, as well as of a translation of the play Bajazet by Racine. A former staff member at The Times Literary Supplement, Hollinghurst is a frequent contributor to that and other publications, including The Guardian. Hollinghurst’s fourth novel, The Line of Beauty, won the Man Booker Prize in 2004. His most recent novel is The Stranger’s Child and he has written the introduction to a new edition of ­Penelope Fitzgerald’s Offshore. He lives in London.

Ian Johnson is a correspondent for The New York Times in ­Beijing. He is writing a book on China’s beliefs and values. (December 2014)

Elizabeth Kolbert is a staff writer for The New Yorker. 
Her new book, The Sixth Extinction, was published earlier this year. (December 2014)

Francine Prose is a Distinguished Visiting Writer 
at Bard. Her new novel is Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932.

Charles Simic is a poet, essayist, and translator. He has published some twenty collections of poetry, six books of essays, a memoir, and numerous translations. He is the recipient of many awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Griffin Prize, and a MacArthur Fellowship. Simic’s recent works include Voice at 3 a.m., a selection of later and new poems; Master of Disguises, new poems; and Confessions of a Poet Laureate, a collection of short essays that was published by New York Review Books as an e-book original. In 2007 Simic was appointed the fifteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. His New and Selected Poems: 1962–2012 was published in March 2013.

Xan Smiley, a former correspondent in Moscow and Washington, has been the Political Editor, the Europe Editor, and until 
recently the Middle East and Africa Editor of The Economist.
 (December 2014)

Cass Sunstein is the Robert Walmsley University ­Professor at Harvard. His new book, Wiser (with Reid Hastie), will be published in January 2015.
 (December 2014)

Michael Tomasky is a Special Correspondent for The Daily Beast and Editor of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas.

 (December 2014)

James Walton is a writer and broadcaster. He is the editor of The Faber Book of Smoking and the author of the literary quiz book Who Killed Iago?
 (December 2014)

Kevin Young’s most recent collection of poems is Book of Hours. He is the Atticus Haygood Professor of Creative ­Writing and English and Curator of Literary Collections and of the ­Raymond Danowski Poetry Library at Emory. (December 2014)

Jonathan Zimmerman is Professor of Education and 
History at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at NYU. His new book, Too Hot to ­Handle: A Global History of Sex Education, will be ­published in February 2015. (December 2014)