Women and Children First 199 — Ian Jack

How do we cope with the public and private disaster? Jasmina Tesanovic on being bombed in Belgrade -- The Diary of a Political Idiot; Ian Jack on good behavior aboard the Titanic; Joy Williams on the necessary death of her dog Hawk; Edward Said on the shame of his body; James Buchan inside Saddam's Iraq. Plus: Edmund White, and the debut of a novelist unknown when this issue was published -- Zadie Smith.