Table of Contents

Volume 46, Number 8 · May 6, 1999

Robert Skidelsky, Giant

Morgan: American Financier by Jean Strouse

Mark Danner, Endgame in Kosovo

Tim Parks, Gods & Monsters

The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salman Rushdie

Robert M. Solow, On Golden Pond

Gray Dawn: How the Coming Age Wave Will Transform America—and the World by Peter G. Peterson

William Pfaff, Land War in Kosovo?

Noel Annan, Cat & Pig

Winston and Clementine: The Personal Letters of the Churchills edited by Mary Soames

Brian Urquhart, How Not to Fight a Dictator

Out of the Ashes: The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein by Andrew Cockburn, by Patrick Cockburn

Endgame: Solving the Iraq Problem—Once and for All by Scott Ritter

Garry Wills, Augustine's Magical Decade

Jorge Luis Borges, Of Heaven and Hell (poem)

Alison Gopnik, Small Wonders

The Disciplined Mind: What All Students Should Understand by Howard Gardner

George M. Fredrickson, The Strange Death of Segregation

Making Race and Nation: A Comparison of the United States, South Africa, and Brazil by Anthony W. Marx

Loosing the Bonds: The United States and South Africa in the Apartheid Years by Robert Kinloch Massie

Robert Craft, Only Collect

The Prince's Tale and Other Uncollected Writings by E.M. Forster, edited by P.N. Furbank

Jasper Griffin, Plato's Grand Design

The Art of Living: Socratic Reflections from Plato to Foucault by Alexander Nehamas

Plato and the Socratic Dialogue: The Philosophical Use of a Literary Form by Charles H. Kahn

Geoffrey O'Brien, Burt Bacharach Comes Back

The Look of Love: The Burt Bacharach Collection compilation produced by Patrick Milligan

Great Jewish Music: Burt Bacharach executive producer, John Zorn

Antoine Compagnon, Jean-Yves Tadie, Roger Shattuck, 'The Threat to Proust': An Exchange

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Letters

Belinda Cooper, Brian Southam, et al. 'LTI' Endures

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Contributors

Noel Annan is the author of Leslie Stephen and Our Age, among other books. (October 1999)

Robert Craft was awarded the International Prix du Disque at the Cannes Music Festival for 2002.(May 2002)

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.

George M. Fredrickson is Edgar E. Robinson Professor of US History Emeritus at Stanford. His most recent books are Racism: A Short History and Not Just Black and White, a collection co-edited with Nancy Foner. (August 2006)

Alison Gopnik is Professor of Psychology at the University of California at Berkeley and the author, with Andrew Meltzoff, of Words, Thoughts, and Theories. Her new book, written with Andrew Meltzoff and Patricia Kuhl, is The Scientist in the Crib: Minds, Brains and How Children Learn, which will be published in September. (May 1999)

Jasper Griffin is Emeritus Professor of Classical Literature and a Fellow of Balliol College. His books include Homer on Life and Death. (June 2008)

Geoffrey O'Brien is Editor in Chief of the Library of America. He is the author, most recently, of Sonata for Jukebox: An Autobiography of My Ears and Red Sky Café. (October 2008)

Tim Parks, a novelist, essayist, and translator, is Associate Professor of English Literature at IULM University in Milan. His most recent novel is Cleaver. (September 2008)

William Pfaff is an American author and syndicated columnist in Paris. His most recent book is The Bullet’s Song. (December 2007)

Robert Skidelsky is Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at Warwick University, England. The single-volume abridgment of his three-volume biography of John Maynard Keynes was published last year in the US. He is currently completing a short history of Britain in the twentieth century. www.skidelskyr.com. (April 2008)

Robert M. Solow, Institute Professor Emeritus of Economics at MIT, won the 1987 Nobel Prize in Economics. His most recent book is Work and Welfare. (November 2007)

Brian Urquhart is a former Undersecretary-General of the United Nations. His books include Hammarskjöld, A Life in Peace and War, and Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey. (November 2008)

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.

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