Table of Contents

Volume 45, Number 2 · February 5, 1998

Geraldine Norman, Fakes?

Hilary Mantel, Not 'Everybody's Dear Jane'

Jane Austen: A Life by Claire Tomalin

Jane Austen: A Life by David Nokes

Witold Rybczynski, The Fifth City

A Prayer for the City by Buzz Bissinger

Jack F. Matlock, Russia's Leaking Nukes

One Point Safe: A True Story by Andrew Cockburn, by Leslie Cockburn

Avoiding Nuclear Anarchy: Containing the Threat of Loose Russian Nuclear Weapons and Fissile Material by Graham T. Allison, by Owen R. Coté Jr., by Richard A. Falkenrath, by Steven E. Miller

The Peacemaker a film directed by Mimi Leder

Joyce Carol Oates, Inside the Locked Room

A Certain Justice: An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery by P.D. James

Lester C. Thurow, Asia: The Collapse and the Cure

Peter Partner, The Dangers of Divinity

The Shape of the Holy: Early Islamic Jerusalem by Oleg Grabar

Bill McKibben, Call of the Wild

The Adirondacks: A History of America's First Wilderness by Paul Schneider

Contested Terrain: A New History of Nature and People in the Adirondacks by Philip G. Terrie

Jonathan Mirsky, The Mark of Cain

The Origins of the Cultural Revolution 3: The Coming of the Cataclysm 1961-1966 by Roderick MacFarquhar

Mao's Road to Power: Revolutionary Writings 1912-1949 Vol. IV: The Rise and Fall of the Chinese Soviet Republic 1931-1934 edited by Stuart R. Schram, by Nancy J. Hodes Associate Editor, by Stephen C. Averill Guest Associate Editor

Mark Danner, Bosnia: The Turning Point

Seasons in Hell: Understanding Bosnia's War by Ed Vulliamy

Blood and Vengeance: One Family's Story of the War in Bosnia by Chuck Sudetic

Survival in Sarajevo: How a Jewish Community Came to the Aid of Its City Distributed Art Publishers) by Edward Serotta

The Serbs: History, Myth and the Resurrection of Yugoslavia by Tim Judah

Late-Breaking Foreign Policy: The News Media's Influence on Peace Operations by Warren P. Stroebel

Yugoslavia: Death of a Nation by Laura Silber, by Allan Little

Triumph of the Lack of Will: International Diplomacy and the Yugoslav War by James Gow

Origins of a Catastrophe: Yugoslavia and its Destroyers—America's Last Ambassador Tells What Happened and Why by Warren Zimmerman

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Letters

Francoise Cachin, Gordon A. Craig, 'Spoils of War'

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Contributors

Mark Danner, longtime staff writer at The New Yorker and contributor to The New York Review of Books, is the author of three books: The Massacre at El Mozote: A Parable of the Cold War; The Road to Illegitimacy: One Reporter's Travels Through the 2000 Florida Recount; and Torture and Truth. Danner's work has been honored with many awards, including a National Magazine Award, three Overseas Press Awards, and an Emmy. In June 1999, he was named a MacArthur Fellow. He is Professor of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley and Henry R. Luce Professor of Human Rights and Journalism at Bard College. He divides his time between Berkeley and New York. His work is archived at markdanner.com.

Hilary Mantel is the author of nine novels, including Beyond Black. Her new novel, Wolf Hall, will be published in the US this month. (November 2009)

Jack F. Matlock Jr. was US Ambassador to the Soviet Union between 1987 and 1991 and is the author of Autopsy on an Empire. He is George F. Kennan Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. (February 2000)

Bill McKibben is scholar in residence at Middlebury College, and the author of The End of Nature and Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future.

Jonathan Mirsky is a historian and journalist specializing in Chinese affairs. In 2002 he was the first I.F. Stone Teaching Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, Journalism School.
 (August 2009)

Geraldine Norman was for many years Sale Room Correspondent of The Times of London. She is the author of The Sale of Works of Art, The Fake's Progress (with Tom Keating and Frank Norman), and, most recently, The Hermitage: The Biography of a Great Museum. (February 1998)

Joyce Carol Oates, the Roger S. Berlind Professor of Humanities at Princeton, is the author most recently of the novel Little Bird of Heaven and the story collection Dear Husband. (December 2009)

Peter Partner's books include Arab Voices and The Pope's Men: The Papal Service in the Renaissance. His new book, God of Battles: Holy Wars of Christianity and Islam, has been published in the United Kingdom. (February 1998)

Witold Rybczynski is the Meyerson Professor of Urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania, and is the architecture critic for Slate. His book on American building, Last Harvest, was published in 2007.

Lester Thurow is Professor of Economics and Management at MIT and the former Dean of the Sloan School of Management. He is the author of The Zero-Sum Society, Head to Head, and The Future of Capitalism. (February 1998)

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