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June 10, 2004 • Volume 51, Number 10

  • Tim Flannery

    The Heart of the Country e-edition

    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 e-edition

    Plan of Attack by Bob Woodward

  • Orlando Figes

    The Truth About Shostakovich e-edition

    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? e-edition

    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 e-edition

  • Gordon S. Wood

    The Shopper’s Revolution e-edition

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

  • Ken Kalfus

    Soviet Sad Sack e-edition

  • 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

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

    Bush Versus the Environment by Robert S. Devine

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

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

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

    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

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

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

  • Tim Judah

    Impasse in Kosovo e-edition

  • Mark Ford

    Auden Remakes ‘The Tempest’! e-edition

    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 InternationalCommittee 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

LETTERS

Contributors

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

Elizabeth Drew, who lives in Washington, is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books. She is the author of fourteen books, including one of the first books on the role of money in modern US politics, from 1983.


Gordon Wood is the Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History Emeritus at Brown. His latest book is The Idea of America: Reflections on the Birth of the United States. (November 2011)

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.

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.

Tim Flannery is Panasonic Professor of Environmental Sustainability at Macquarie University in Sydney. His latest book is Here on Earth: A Natural History of the Planet.
 (February 2012)

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 Life. (April 2011)

Orlando Figes is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the author, among other books, of The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin’s Russia, A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution: 1891–1924, and Natasha’s Dance: A Cultural History of Russia. His latest book is The Crimean War: A History. (January 2012)

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)

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.

Tim Judah is the Balkans Correspondent of TheEconomist. He is the author of The Serbs: History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia, a new edition of which has just been published. He is also the author of two books on Kosovo and one on the Ethiopian marathon runner Abebe Bikila. He has reported on the Balkans, Afghanistan, Kurdistan, Iraq, and Sudan for The New York Review.
 (March 2010)

Alma Guillermoprieto is the author of Dancing with Cuba, a memoir of her experience teaching Cunningham and Graham technique in Havana’s national schools of art.
 (February 2012)

Mark Ford’s third collection of poetry, Six Children, a volume of criticism, Mr. and Mrs. Stevens and Other Essays, and his translation of Raymond Roussel’s Nouvelles Impressions d’Afrique were recently published. (October 2011)