Table of Contents
Volume 46, Number 10 · June 10, 1999
Vaclav Havel, Kosovo and the End of the Nation-State 
Rosemary Dinnage, Dreamer
Coleridge: Darker Reflections, 1804-1834 by Richard Holmes
Richard Dorment, Contretemps at Prince's Gate
The Peacock Room: A Cultural Biography by Linda Merrill
Jonathan Raban, Journey to the End of the Night
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition by Caroline Alexander. Published in association with the American Museum of Natural History, New York, where Caroline Alexander has co-curated an exhibition that includes the James Caird and more than 150 of Frank Hurley's photographs: "The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition," April 10-October 11, 1999.
Shackleton by Roland Huntford
I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination by Francis Spufford
Endurance: An Epic of Polar Adventure by F.A. Worsley, with a preface by Patrick O'Brian
South: Ernest Shackleton and the Endurance Expedition (1919) a film by Frank Hurley
Scott's Last Expedition: The Journals by Robert Falcon Scott, with a new introduction by Beryl Bainbridge
Mrs. Chippy's Last Expedition: The Remarkable Journal of Shackleton's Polar-Bound Cat by Caroline Alexander
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing
Shackleton's Boat Journey by F.A. Worsley
South: A Memoir of the Endurance Voyage by Ernest Shackleton
Tim Judah, Inside the KLA
Helen Vendler, 'The Voice at 3 AM'
Jackstraws by Charles Simic
Charles Simic, With Paper Hats Still on Our Heads (poem)
Charles Simic, Sunday Papers (poem)
Gabriele Annan, Letting Go
Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice by A.S. Byatt
Human Voices by Penelope Fitzgerald
Edmund S. Morgan, Plantation Blues
Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation by John Hope Franklin, by Loren Schweninger
Rituals of Blood: Consequences of Slavery in Two American Centuries by Orlando Patterson
Ian Buruma, The Man Who Would Be King
The Singapore Story: Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew by Lee Kuan Yew
Can Asians Think? by Kishore Mahbubani
Garry Wills, Athens on Fifth Avenue
Warren Zimmermann, Milosevic's Final Solution
Colin McGinn, Can We Ever Understand Consciousness?
Mind, Language, and Society:Philosophy in the Real World by John R. Searle
On the Contrary: Critical Essays, 1987-1997 by Paul M. Churchland, by Patricia S. Churchland
Jonathan Mirsky, The Dalai Lama on Succession and on the CIA
Arthur Kempton, The Fall of The Black Empires
To Be Loved: The Music, the Magic, the Memories of Motown: An Autobiography by Berry Gordy
Berry, Me, and Motown by Raynoma Gordy Singleton
An Original Man: The Life and Times of Elijah Muhammad by Claude Andrew Clegg III
Letters
Gregory Dowling, Richard Holmes, Good News!
C. Vann Woodward, Andrew Hacker, Sticking to the Union
Liliane Weissberg, Amos Elon, Hannah Arendt's Integrity
Contributors
Gabriele Annan is a book and film critic living in London. (March 2006)
Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard. He received this year’s Shorenstein Award for writing about Asia. His novel The China Lover will be published this fall. (June 2008)
Rosemary Dinnage's books include The Ruffian on the Stair, One to One: Experiences of Psychotherapy, and Annie Besant.
Richard Dorment is the art critic of the Daily Telegraph. (April 2008)
Vaclav Havel, one of the six signers of the statement “Tibet: The Peace of the Graveyard,” is former president of the Czech Republic. (May 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)
Arthur Kempton, the author of Boogaloo: The Quintessence of American Popular Music, is a fellow at the Institute for African-American Research at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. (March 2006)
Colin McGinn teaches in the philosophy department at the University of Miami and is a Cooper Fellow. His most recent book is Shakespeare’s Philosophy: Discovering the Meaning Behind the Plays. (March 2008)
Jonathan Mirsky is a journalist and historian specializing in Chinese affairs. He has been to Tibet six times. (July 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)
Jonathan Raban's books include Arabia: A Journey Through the Labrynth, Old Glory, Bad Land, Passage to Juneau, and Waxwings. He is the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Heinemann Award of the Royal Society of Literature, the PEN/West Creative Nonfiction Award, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers' Award, and the Governor's Award of the State of Washington. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, The Guardian, and The Independent. He lives in Seattle.
Charles Simic is a poet, essayist and translator. He has published twenty collections of his own poetry, five books of essays, a memoir, and numerous of books of translations. He has received many literary awards for his poems and his translations, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Griffin Prize and the MacArthur Fellowship. Voice at 3 A.M., his selected later and new poems, was published in 2003 and a new book of poems My Noiseless Entourage came out in the spring of 2005.
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)
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.
Warren Zimmermann, a professor of international diplomacy at Columbia University, was US Ambassador to Yugoslavia from 1989 to 1992. A revised edition of his book, Origins of a Catastrophe:Yugoslavia and Its Destroyers, has just been published in paperback. (June 1999)
