Table of Contents

Volume 51, Number 10 · June 10, 2004

Tim Flannery, The Heart of the Country

Under a Wild Sky: John James Audubon and the Making of The Birds of America by William Souder

Audubon's Elephant: America's Greatest Naturalist and the Making of The Birds of America by Duff Hart-Davis

Brian Urquhart, A Cautionary Tale

Plan of Attack by Bob Woodward

Orlando Figes, The Truth About Shostakovich

A Shostakovich Casebook edited by Malcolm Hamrick Brown

Shostakovich and Stalin: The Extraordinary Relationship Between the Great Composer and the Brutal Dictator by Solomon Volkov, translated from the Russian by Antonina W. Bouis

Paul Kennedy, Mission Impossible?

Colossus: The Price of America's Empire by Niall Ferguson

The Geographical Pivot of History an article by Halford J. Mackinder

Democratic Ideals and Reality by Halford J. Mackinder

John Leonard, The Prophet

Sweet Land Stories by E.L. Doctorow

Reporting the Universe by E.L. Doctorow

Three Screenplays by E.L. Doctorow, with an introduction, commentaries, and interviews by Paul Levine

Elizabeth Drew, Bush: The Dream Campaign

Gordon S. Wood, The Shopper's Revolution

The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence by T.H. Breen

Ken Kalfus, Soviet Sad Sack

Bill McKibben, Crossing the Red Line

Imagining the Unthinkable: An Abrupt Climate Change Scenario and Its Implications for United States National Security a report by Peter Schwartz and Doug Randall

Power to the People: How the Coming Energy Revolution Will Transform an Industry, Change Our Lives, and Maybe Even Save the Planet by Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran

The End of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New World by Paul Roberts

Boiling Point: How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists, and Activists Have Fueled a Climate Crisis—and What We Can Do to Avert Disaster by Ross Gelbspan

Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment by James Gustave Speth

The Heat Is On: The Climate Crisis, the Cover-Up, the Prescription by Ross Gelbspan

Feeling the Heat: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Climate Change edited by Jim Motavalli

The Hype About Hydrogen: Fact and Fiction in the Race to Save the Climate by Joseph J. Romm

Bush Versus the Environment by Robert S. Devine

Strategic Ignorance: Why the Bush Administration Is Recklessly Destroying a Century of Environmental Progress by Carl Pope and Paul Rauber

Tim Judah, Impasse in Kosovo

Patrick Radden Keefe, 'The Leak Was Me'

Mark Ford, Auden Remakes 'The Tempest'!

The Sea and the Mirror:A Commentary on Shakespeare's The Tempest by W.H. Auden, edited by Arthur Kirsch

Mark Danner, Torture and Truth

Article 15-6 Investigation of the 800th Military Police Brigade (The Taguba Report) by Major General Antonio M. Taguba

Report of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on the Treatment by the Coalition Forces of Prisoners of War and Other Protected Persons by the Geneva Conventions in Iraq During Arrest, Internment and Interrogation by Delegates of the International Committee of the Red Cross, February 2004

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Letters

Alma Guillermoprieto, Letter

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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.

Elizabeth Drew, who lives in Washington, is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books. She is the author of twelve books.

Orlando Figes is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, London University. His new book, The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin’s Russia, will be published this month. (November 2007)

Tim Flannery is a professor at Macquarie University in Sydney and chair of the Copenhagen Climate Council. His latest book is The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth. (May 2008)

Mark Ford teaches in the English Department at University College London. His edition of the poetry of Frank O’Hara was published in February. (April 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)

Ken Kalfus's most recent book is a novel, The Commissariat of Enlightenment. He is also the author of two short story collections, Thirst and Pu-239 and Other Russian Fantasies.

Patrick Radden Keefe is a project leader at the World Policy Institute and the author of Chatter: Dispatches from the Secret World of Global Eavesdropping. (May 2005)

Paul Kennedy, the J. Richardson Dilworth Professor of History and Director of International Security Studies at Yale, is the author and editor of fifteen books, including The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers. His latest book is The Parliament of Man: The Past, Present, and Future of the United Nations. (November 2006)

John Leonard writes on books every month for Harper’s and on television every week for New York magazine. (June 2007)

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.

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. (June 2008)

Gordon Wood is the Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History at Brown. A collection of his essays, The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History, was published in March. (May 2008)

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