Table of Contents
Volume 45, Number 15 · October 8, 1998
Tim Judah, Impasse in Kosovo 
Anita Desai, The Crack In the China
Death in Summer by William Trevor
Leon Levy, Jeff Madrick, Wall Street Blues
John Bayley, To the Pith of London's Heart
The Giant, O'Brien by Hilary Mantel
Brad Leithauser, Cat and Mustang: a Still Life (poem)
Kathleen M. Sullivan, Behind the Crimson Curtain
Closed Chambers: The First Eyewitness Account of the Epic Struggles Inside the Supreme Court by Edward Lazarus
Clifford Paul Fetters, While You Were Out (poem)
Liu Binyan, Perry Link, A Great Leap Backward?
Zhongguo de xianjing [China's Pitfall] by He Qinglian
Aileen Kelly, The Sphinx of Russia
Echoes of a Native Land: Two Centuries of a Russian Village by Serge Schmemann
Joel E. Cohen, How Many People Can the Earth Support?
Benjamin M. Friedman, The New Demon
The Great Betrayal: How American Sovereignty and Social Justice Are Being Sacrificed to the Gods of the Global Economy by Patrick J. Buchanan
The Commanding Heights: The Battle Between Government and the Marketplace That Is Remaking the Modern World by Daniel Yergin, by Joseph Stanislaw
Helen Vendler, Staring Through the Stitches
Poems New and Collected, 1957-1997 by Wislawa Szymborska, translated by Stanislaw Baranczak, by Clare Cavanagh
New Collected Poems by Tomas Tranströmer, translated by Robin Fulton
Tomas Transtroemer, November (poem)
Edmund S. Morgan, The Reluctant Republicans
The Brave Bostonians: Hutchinson, Quincy, Franklin, and the Coming of the American Revolution by Philip McFarland
Robert Craft, Stravinsky & Balanchine
Jasper Griffin, Chopping Off the Golden Bough
Magic in the Ancient World by Fritz Graf, translated by Franklin Philip
The Great God Pan: The Survival of an Image by John Boardman
Steven Weinberg, The Revolution That Didn't Happen
Garry Wills, Bill & the Emperor
Thomas L. Dumm, Budd Hopkins, David M. Jacobs, et al. 'When Words Collide': An Exchange
Letters
William Bundy, 'A Tangled Web'
Meyer Friedman, Richard G. Wilkinson, et al. Death on the Social Ladder
Peter D. Lax, Anneli Lax, et al. Irrational Numbers
Contributors
John Bayley has written two books about his wife, the novelist Iris Murdoch, Elegy for Iris and Iris and Her Friends. (July 2004)
Liu Binyan, one of China's leading writers, is currently a Director of the Princeton China Initiative in Princeton, New Jersey. His most recent book in English is A Higher Kind of Loyalty: A Memoir. (October 1998)
Joel E. Cohen, Professor of Populations at Rockefeller and Columbia Universities in New York City, is the author of How Many People Can the Earth Support? (March 1999)
Robert Craft was awarded the International Prix du Disque at the Cannes Music Festival for 2002.(May 2002)
Anita Desai's most recent novel is The Zigzag Way. (July 2007)
Clifford Paul Fetters is a poet living in Seattle. (October 1998)
Benjamin M. Friedman is the William Joseph Maier Professor of Political Economy at Harvard. His most recent book is The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth. (March 2008)
Jasper Griffin is Emeritus Professor of Classical Literature and a Fellow of Balliol College. His books include Homer on Life and Death. (June 2008)
Tim Judah is the author of Kosovo: War and Revenge and The Serbs: History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia. He has reported on the Balkans, Afghanistan, Kurdistan, Iraq, and Sudan for The New York Review. (October 2006)
Aileen Kelly, a fellow of King’s College, Cambridge, is the author of Toward Another Shore: Russian Thinkers Between Necessity and Chance and, most recently, Views from the Other Shore: Essays on Herzen, Chekhov, and Bakhtin. (April 2007)
Brad Leithauser is a novelist, poet, and essayist. He lives in
Massachusetts.
Leon Levy is currently the chairman of the board of trustees of the New York—based Oppenheimer Funds. He is president of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and vice-chairman of the Jerome Levy Institute for Economic Research at Bard College. (December 1998)
Perry Link is Professor of East Asian Studies at Princeton. He is working on a book on rhythm, metaphor, and politics in contemporary Chinese language. (April 2008)
Jeff Madrick is editor of Challenge Magazine, Visiting Professor at Cooper Union, and Director of Policy Research at the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis at the New School. (March 2008)
Edmund S. Morgan is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. His most recent book, The Genuine Article: A Historian Looks at Early America, was published in 2004. (June 2008)
Kathleen M. Sullivan was until recently the Dean of Stanford Law School, where she has returned to the faculty as the Stanley Morrison Professor of Law. (September 2004)
Tomas Transtromer is Sweden's leading contemporary poet. (October 1998)
Helen Vendler is the author, most recently, of Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form. She is preparing for publication her recent Mellon Lectures, entitled Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill. (June 2008)
Steven Weinberg holds the Josey Regental Chair in Science at the University of Texas at Austin. He has been awarded the Nobel Prize in physics and the National Medal of Science. His most recent book is Facing Up: Science and Its Cultural Adversaries. (April 2004)
Garry Wills was born in Atlanta, Georgia. One of our most distinguished
historians and critics, he is the author of numerous books, including Saint Augustine, Papal
Sin, and the Pulitzer Prize–winning Lincoln at Gettysburg. He has won many other awards,
among them two National Book Critics Circle Awards and the 1998 National Medal for the Humanities.
He is currently Professor of History Emeritus at Northwestern University. A regular contributor
to the New York Review of Books, he lives in Evanston, Illinois.
