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Contents

February 5, 1998 • Volume 45, Number 2

  • Geraldine Norman

    Fakes? e-edition

  • Hilary Mantel

    Not ‘Everybody’s Dear Jane’ e-edition

    Jane Austen: A Life by Claire Tomalin

    Jane Austen: A Life by David Nokes

  • Witold Rybczynski

    The Fifth City e-edition

    A Prayer for the City by Buzz Bissinger

  • Jack F. Matlock Jr.

    Russia’s Leaking Nukes e-edition

    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 e-edition

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

  • Lester C. Thurow

    Asia: The Collapse and the Cure e-edition

  • Peter Partner

    The Dangers of Divinity e-edition

  • Bill McKibben

    Call of the Wild e-edition

    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 e-edition

    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 e-edition

    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

LETTERS

Contributors

Gordon A. Craig is J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Stanford. His latest book is Politics and Culture in Modern Germany. (December 2003)

Hilary Mantel is an English novelist, short story writer, and critic. Her novel, Wolf Hall, won the Man Booker Prize in 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, Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future and Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet. He is also the founder of 350.org, the global climate campaign that has been actively involved in the fight against natural gas fracking.

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 is Roger S. Berlind Professor of Humanities and the Arts at Princeton. Her most recent books are A Widow’s Story: A Memoir and the forthcoming The Corn Maiden: Novellas and Stories. (September 2011)

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)

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.

Mark Danner is the author, most recently, of Stripping Bare the Body: Politics Violence War. He is Chancellor’s Professor of English, Journalism and Politics at the University of California at Berkeley and James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs, Politics and the Humanities at Bard College and is currently teaching at Al Quds University in East Jerusalem. Parts of his essay in the Review‘s October 13, 2011 issue were drawn from his Tanner Lectures on Human Value at Stanford University, which will be published next year as Torture and the Forever War. His work can be found at markdanner.com.

Jonathan Mirsky is a journalist and historian of China. Until 1998 he was East Asia editor of The Times of London. (October 2011)

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)