Editing Jonathan Schell

{{Short description|American author and advocate against nuclear weapons (1943–2014)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}}
[[File:Jonathan Schell Occupy Town Square 2012 Shankbone.JPG|thumb|Schell giving a reading at the [[Occupy Wall Street]] event Occupy Town Square, in [[Tompkins Square Park]] in New York, February 2012]]

'''Jonathan Edward Schell''' (August 21, 1943 – March 25, 2014) was an American reporter and writer whose work primarily dealt with American foreign policy from the [[Vietnam War]] to the [[War on Terror]], as well as the threat posed by [[nuclear weapons]] and support for [[nuclear disarmament]].

==Life and career==
===Early life and education===
Schell was born in [[New York City]] on August 21, 1943, to Orville Hickock Schell Jr., a lawyer who chaired [[Americas Watch]], and Marjorie Bertha.<ref name="Bernstein2014">{{cite web |last1=Bernstein |first1=Adam |date=2014-03-26 |title=Writer opposed nuclear arms race <!--first published online with the title "Jonathan Schell, author 'The Fate of the Earth,' dies at 70"--> |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/2014/03/26/02c76602-b51a-11e3-8cb6-284052554d74_story.html |url-access=subscription |website=The Washington Post |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140327170850/https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/2014/03/26/02c76602-b51a-11e3-8cb6-284052554d74_story.html |archive-date=2014-03-27}}</ref><ref name="Fox2014">{{cite web |last1=Fox |first1=Margalit |author-link1=Margalit Fox |date=2014-03-26 |title=Jonathan Schell, 70, Author on War in Vietnam and Nuclear Age, Dies <!--first published online with the title "Jonathan Schell, Author Who Explored War, Dies at 70"--> |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/27/us/jonathan-schell-author-who-explored-war-dies-at-70.html |url-access=limited |website=The New York Times |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140327072517/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/27/us/jonathan-schell-author-who-explored-war-dies-at-70.html |archive-date=2014-03-27}}</ref> His siblings included a sister, Suzanne, and a brother, [[Orville Schell]], a former Dean of the [[University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism]] and, {{As of|lc=y|since=y|2006|post=,}} the Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.–China Relations at [[Asia Society]] in New York.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Pogrebin |first1=Robin |author-link1=Robin Pogrebin |date=2006-09-26 |title=Journalist and China Expert to Head Center at Asia Society |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/26/arts/journalist-and-china-expert-to-head-center-at-asia-society.html |url-access=limited |website=The New York Times |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241204035548/https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/26/arts/journalist-and-china-expert-to-head-center-at-asia-society.html |archive-date=2024-12-04}}</ref> He studied at [[Dalton School]] in New York and graduated from [[The Putney School]] in Vermont.<ref name="Fox2014" /> In 1965 he graduated from Harvard University with a degree in Far Eastern history. He then spent a year learning Japanese at the [[International Christian University]] in Tokyo.<ref name="Bernstein2014" />

===Early career: Vietnam, ''The New Yorker''===
After completing his studies in Tokyo, Schell flew to [[Saigon]] in January 1967, as [[United_States in the Vietnam War|American involvement]] in the [[Vietnam War]] continued to escalate.<ref name="LAT2014">{{cite web |author1=<!--Staff and wire byline.--> |date=2014-03-26 |title=Jonathan Schell dies at 70; author and anti-nuclear activist |url=https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-jonathan-schell-20140327-story.html |website=Los Angeles Times |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241226042217/https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-jonathan-schell-20140327-story.html |archive-date=2024-12-26}}</ref> He managed to acquire a [[press pass]] by claiming to be a correspondent for ''[[The Harvard Crimson]]'', and would later recount how the [[United States news media and the Vietnam War|correspondents reporting on the war]] "took [him] under their wing".<ref name="Remnick2014">{{Cite web |last1=Remnick |first1=David |author-link1=David Remnick |date=2014-03-26 |title=Postscript: Jonathan Schell, 1943-2014 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/postscript-jonathan-schell-1943-2014 |url-access=limited |website=The New Yorker |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250105082857/https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/postscript-jonathan-schell-1943-2014 |archive-date=2025-01-05}}</ref> He was a witness to [[Operation Cedar Falls]], writing particularly on the destruction of [[Bến Súc]].<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Schell |first1=Jonathan |date=1967-07-15 |title=The Village of Ben Suc |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1967/07/15/the-village-of-ben-suc |department=A Reporter at Large |magazine=The New Yorker |volume=43 |issue=21 |pages=28–93 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230605070440/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1967/07/15/the-village-of-ben-suc |archive-date=2023-06-05}}</ref> His reportage was published first in ''[[The New Yorker]]'' and then as a book, ''The Village of Ben Suc'', with [[Alfred A. Knopf]].<ref name="Remnick2014" />

His second book, ''The Military Half: An Account of Destruction in Quang Ngai and Quang Tin'', published in 1968, also drew a graphic picture of the devastating effects of American bombings and ground operations on [[Quảng Ngãi Province]] and [[Quảng Tín Province]] in South Vietnam.<ref name="Fox2014" /><ref>{{cite web |author1=<!--No author name given.--> |date=1968-06-01 |title=Review of ''The Military Half: An Account of the Destruction in Quang Ngai and Quang Tin'' |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/a/jonathan-schell-4/the-military-half-an-account-of-the-destruction/ |website=Kirkus Reviews |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241226041615/https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/a/jonathan-schell-4/the-military-half-an-account-of-the-destruction/ |archive-date=2024-12-26}}</ref>

{{Quote box |quote=Never has a nation unleashed so much violence with so little risk to itself. It is the government's way of waging war without the support of its own people, and involves us all in the dishonor of killing in a cause we are no longer willing to die for. |author=Jonathan Schell |source=''The New Yorker'', 1972<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Schell |first1=Jonathan <!--uncredited/unsigned--> |date=1972-04-22 |title=Notes and Comment |url=https://archives.newyorker.com/newyorker/1972-04-22/flipbook/032/ |url-access=subscription |department=The Talk of the Town |magazine=The New Yorker |volume=48 |issue=9 |access-date=2025-01-20 |postscript=none}}; quoted in {{harvnb|Bernstein|2014}}.</ref> |align=right |width=35%}}
From 1967 until 1987, Schell was a staff writer at ''The New Yorker'', where he served as the principal writer of the magazine's Notes and Comment section. He wrote essays for the magazine on the [[presidency of Richard Nixon]], including the [[Watergate scandal]] that led to the president's resignation in 1974, that formed the basis to his book, ''The Time of Illusion''. The Notes and Comments section was awarded the [[George Polk Award]] for Commentary in 1979.<ref>{{cite web |date=<!--Continuously updated website, no date given.--> |title=Past George Polk Award Winners |url=https://liu.edu/polk-awards/past-winners |website=George Polk Awards |publisher=Long Island University |at=1979 George Polk Award Winners |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250114232115/https://liu.edu/polk-awards/past-winners |archive-date=2025-01-14 |access-date=2025-01-20}}</ref>

In 1977, [[William Shawn]], the longtime editor-in-chief of ''The New Yorker'', designated Schell as his chosen successor to replace him but he was forced to rescind that plan as it proved immediately unpopular with the magazine's staff.<ref name="Botsford2003">{{cite book |last1=Botsford |first1=Gardner |year=2003 |title=A Life of Privilege, Mostly |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ia-2AQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA237&printsec=frontcover |publication-place=New York |publisher=St. Martin's Press |isbn=978-0-312-30343-3 |access-date=2025-01-19}}</ref>{{rp|pp=238–242}} Shawn revisited the same plan in 1982 but again withdrew Schell's name from consideration in the face of a staff revolt. Ultimately, upon a change of ownership of the magazine in 1987, Shawn was removed and replaced as editor-in-chief with [[Robert Gottlieb]].<ref name="Botsford2003" />{{rp|p=258}}

In the early 1980s, Schell wrote a series of articles in ''The New Yorker'', subsequently published in 1982 as ''[[The Fate of the Earth]]'', which were instrumental in raising public awareness about the dangers of the [[nuclear arms race]] and became an essential part of the [[Nuclear Freeze campaign]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Gusterson |first1=Hugh |author-link1=Hugh Gusterson |date=2012-03-30 |url=https://thebulletin.org/2012/03/the-new-abolitionists/ <!-- former URL at http://www.thebulletin.org/web-edition/columnists/hugh-gusterson/the-new-abolitionists--> |title=The new abolitionists |website=Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241207182435/https://thebulletin.org/2012/03/the-new-abolitionists/ |archive-date=2024-12-07 |quote=The preeminent intellectual associated with [the Nuclear Freeze] movement, Jonathan Schell{{nbsp}}...}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Wittner |first1=Lawrence S. |author-link1=Lawrence S. Wittner |year=2003 |title=A History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement, 1971 to the Present |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4ouQhNthlHgC&hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA187&printsec=frontcover |series=Stanford Nuclear Age Series |publisher=Stanford University Press |page=187 |doi=10.1515/9781503624320 |isbn=978-0-8047-4862-9 |access-date=2025-01-20 |via=Google Books}}</ref> The book received the [[Los Angeles Times Book Prize|''Los Angeles Times'' Book Prize]], and was nominated for the [[Pulitzer Prize]], the [[National Book Award]], and the [[National Book Critics Circle Award]].<ref name="LAT2014" /><ref>{{cite web |title=1983 Pulitzer Prize Winners & Finalists |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/1983 |website=The Pulitzer Prizes |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230614193602/https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/1983 |archive-date=2023-06-14 |postscript=none}}; {{cite web |title=National Book Awards 1983 |url=https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-1983/?cat=general-nonfiction-pb&sub-cat=general-nonfiction-hc |website=<!--Website name the same as publisher.--> |publisher=National Book Foundation |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240527121100/https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-1983/?cat=general-nonfiction-pb&sub-cat=general-nonfiction-hc |archive-date=2024-05-27 |postscript=none}}; {{cite web |title=The National Book Critics Circle Awards: 1982 Winners & Finalists |url=https://www.bookcritics.org/past-awards/1982/ |website=<!--Website name the same as publisher.--> |publisher=National Book Critics Circle |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241219091804/https://www.bookcritics.org/past-awards/1982/ |archive-date=2024-12-19}}</ref> He became an advocate for [[Nuclear disarmament|disarmament]] and a world free of [[nuclear weapons]].<ref name="LAT2014" />

===Later career: ''The Nation'', teaching===
In 1987, Schell was a fellow at the [[Harvard Institute of Politics]] at the [[John F. Kennedy School of Government]], and in 2002 he served as a fellow at the Kennedy School's [[Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy]].<ref name="ShorensteinBio">{{cite web |year=2002 |title=Jonathan Schell |url=https://shorensteincenter.org/staff_bio/jonathan-schell/ |website=<!--Website name the same as publisher.--> |publisher=Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20250120022646/https://shorensteincenter.org/staff_bio/jonathan-schell/ |archive-date=2025-01-20}}</ref> He was a visiting lecturer at [[Yale Law School]] in 2003, and a fellow at the [[Yale Center for the Study of Globalization]] in 2005.<ref>{{cite web |title=Jonathan Schell |url=http://www.ycsg.yale.edu/activities/schell_bio.html |website=<!--Website name the same as publisher.--> |publisher=Yale Center for the Study of Globalization |url-status=unfit |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141228083105/http://www.ycsg.yale.edu/activities/schell_bio.html |archive-date=2014-12-28}}</ref> He taught at several other universities, including [[Princeton University|Princeton]], [[Emory University|Emory]], [[New York University]], [[The New School]], and [[Wesleyan University]].<ref name="SchellMemorialLecture">{{cite web |title=Jonathan Schell Memorial Lecture Series |url=https://typemediacenter.org/prizes/fate-of-the-earth/ |website=<!--Website name the same as publisher.--> |publisher=Type Media Center |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240917055511/https://typemediacenter.org/prizes/fate-of-the-earth/ |archive-date=2024-09-17}}</ref> At the time of his death he was a visiting lecturer at [[Yale College]].<ref name="Bernstein2014" />

He was a columnist for ''[[Newsday]]'' from 1990 until 1996.<ref name="ShorensteinBio" /> From 1998 to his death in 2014, he was a senior fellow at [[Type Media Center|The Nation Institute]] and the peace and disarmament correspondent for ''[[The Nation]]'' magazine.<ref name="SchellMemorialLecture" /> In addition, he wrote for ''[[Tom Engelhardt|TomDispatch]]'', ''[[Harper's Magazine]]'', ''[[Foreign Affairs]]'', and ''[[The Atlantic]]''.<ref name="ShorensteinBio" /><ref name="Queally2014">{{cite web |last1=Queally |first1=Jon |date=2014-03-26 |title=Progressives Mourn Passing of Author and Activist Jonathan Schell |url=https://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/03/26/progressives-mourn-passing-author-and-activist-jonathan-schell <!--Former URL at http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/03/26-3--> |website=Common Dreams |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150227055054/https://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/03/26/progressives-mourn-passing-author-and-activist-jonathan-schell |archive-date=2015-02-27}}</ref>

In 2002 and 2003, Schell was a persistent critic of the [[2003 invasion of Iraq|invasion of Iraq]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Schell |first1=Jonathan |date=2003-02-13 |title=The Case Against the War |url=https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/case-against-war-0/ |url-access=limited |website=The Nation |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200305102806/https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/case-against-war-0/ |archive-date=2020-03-05}}</ref> He later commented, "There doesn't seem to be a rush to find the people who were right about Iraq and install them in the mainstream media."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Reed |first1=Jebediah |date=January 10, 2007 |title=The Iraq Gamble |url=http://www.radaronline.com/features/2007/01/betting_on_iraq_8.php |website=[[Radar Online|Radar]] |at=Right but Poor: Jonathan Schell |url-status=unfit |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070114074936/http://www.radaronline.com/features/2007/01/betting_on_iraq_8.php |archive-date=2007-01-14}}</ref>

Jonathan Schell died at age 70, on March 25, 2014, at his home in [[Brooklyn]], with a cancer caused by an underlying blood condition that may have been caused by [[Agent Orange]]. His last years were spent in research on climate change for an unwritten book he titled ''The Human Shadow.''<ref>{{cite web |last1=Engelhardt |first1=Tom |author-link1=Tom Engelhardt |date=March 30, 2014 |title=In Memoriam: Jonathan Schell (1943-2014) |url=https://tomdispatch.com/in-memoriam-jonathan-schell-1943-2014/ |website=TomDispatch.com |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240414103247/https://tomdispatch.com/in-memoriam-jonathan-schell-1943-2014/ |archive-date=2024-04-14}}</ref>

==Reception and legacy==
In 1967, [[John Mecklin]] wrote in ''[[The New York Times Book Review]]'' that ''The Village of Ben Suc'', Jonathan Schell's first book, was "written with a skill that many a veteran war reporter will envy, eloquently sensitive, subtly clothed in an aura of detachment, understated, extraordinarily persuasive."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Mecklin |first1=John |date=1967-10-29 |title=Moving Day in Vietnam |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1967/10/29/121515569.html |url-access=subscription |department=Book Review |work=The New York Times |at=sec. 7, p. 3 |access-date=2025-01-20 |via=TimesMachine |postscript=none}}; quoted in {{cite news |last1=Johnson |first1=George |date=1988-02-28 |title=New & Noteworthy |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/02/28/books/new-noteworthy.html |url-access=limited |department=Book Review |work=The New York Times |at=sec. 7, p. 34 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404085649/https://www.nytimes.com/1988/02/28/books/new-noteworthy.html |archive-date=2023-04-04}}</ref>

Reviewing ''The Military Half: An Account of Destruction in Quang Ngai and Quang Tin'', journalist and historian [[Jonathan Mirsky]] wrote in ''[[The Nation]]'': "I know no book which has made me angrier and more ashamed."<ref name="Fox2014" />

On its publication in 1982, ''[[The Fate of the Earth]]'' was described by [[Kai T. Erikson|Kai Erikson]] in ''The New York Times Book Review'' as "a work of enormous force" and "an event of profound historical moment{{nbsp}}... [I]n the end, it accomplishes what no other work has managed to do in the 37 years of the nuclear age. It compels us{{em dash}}and compel is the right word{{em dash}}to confront head on the nuclear peril in which we all find ourselves."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Erickson |first1=Kai |date=1982-04-11 |title=A Horror Beyond Comprehension |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/04/11/books/a-horror-beyond-comprehension.html <!--Former URL at https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/98/12/06/specials/schell-fate.html--> |url-access=limited |department=Book Review |work=The New York Times |at=sec. 7, p. 3 & 16 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240404085021/https://www.nytimes.com/1982/04/11/books/a-horror-beyond-comprehension.html |archive-date=2024-04-04}}</ref> The book also reflected on the end of love, politics and art, and the [[Human extinction|annihilation of humans as a species]]. [[CBS News]] journalist [[Walter Cronkite]] called the book "one of the most important works of recent years", praise that helped to solidify the book's commercial success.<ref name="Bernstein2014" />

In an 'Author's Note' to his collection of five short stories entitled ''[[Einstein's Monsters]]'' (1987), the Anglo-American writer [[Martin Amis]] said this about Schell's writings regarding nuclear weapons: "And throughout I am grateful to Jonathan Schell, for ideas and imagery. I don't know why he is our best writer on this subject. He is not the most stylish, perhaps, nor the most knowledgeable. But he is the most decorous and, I think, the most pertinent. He has moral accuracy; he is unerring."<ref>{{cite book |last1=Amis |first1=Martin |year=1988 |orig-date=first published in 1987 |title=Einstein's Monsters |publication-place=London |publisher=Penguin Books |page=ix |isbn=978-0-14-010315-1}}</ref>

Writing in ''[[Foreign Affairs]]'' magazine, however, David Greenberg called ''The Fate of the Earth'' an "overwrought doomsday polemic."<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Greenberg |first1=David |url=https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/empire-strikes-out-why-star-wars-did-not-end-cold-war <!--former URL at http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/55872/david-greenberg/the-empire-strikes-out-why-star-wars-did-not-end-the-cold-war--> |url-access=subscription |title=The Empire Strikes Out: Why Star Wars Did Not End the Cold War |magazine=Foreign Affairs |date=2000-03-01 |access-date=2025-01-15}}</ref> Two decades later, in ''[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]]'', [[Michael Kinsley]] characterized it as "an overheated stew of the obvious and the idiotic" and suggested it was "the silliest book ever taken seriously by serious people."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Kinsley |first1=Michael |date=1999-03-07 |title=Gratuitous Meritocracy |url=https://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/readme/1999/03/_3.html |website=Slate |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241226042135/https://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/readme/1999/03/_3.html |archive-date=2024-12-26}}</ref> The ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' noted that "some reviewers found Schell's book shrill and overstated."<ref name="LAT2014" />

Reviewing ''[[The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear Danger]]'' in ''The New York Times Book Review'' in 2007, [[Martin Walker (reporter)|Martin Walker]] characterized it as "a passionate and cogently argued case for the complete abolition of nuclear weapons{{nbsp}}... There is little in Schell's book that is new, but his careful assembly of the available evidence will scare the pants off most readers. And so it should."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Walker |first1=Martin |date=2007-11-25 |title=Smoking Guns and Mushroom Clouds |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/25/books/review/Walker-t.html |url-access=limited |department=Book Review |work=The New York Times |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240610093204/https://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/25/books/review/Walker-t.html |archive-date=2024-06-10}}</ref>

In 2019, philosopher [[Akeel Bilgrami]] described Schell as "one of the great public intellectuals of our time,"<ref name=bilgrami2019>{{cite book |last1=Bilgrami |first1=Akeel |title=Nature and Value |date=2019 |publisher=Columbia University Press |isbn=978-0-231-55090-1 |pages=ix–xvi |doi=10.7312/bilg19462-001 |chapter=Preface|s2cid=243015528 }}</ref>{{rp|x}} and described ''The Fate of the Earth'' as a "rightly celebrated classic".<ref name=bilgrami2019/>{{rp|x}}

==Bibliography==
===Books===
* {{cite book |ref=none |author=Schell, Jonathan |display-authors=0 |title=The Village of Ben Suc |publisher=Alfred A. Knopf |year=1967 <!--|lccn=67029479-->}}
* {{cite book |ref=none |author=Schell, Jonathan |display-authors=0 |title=The Military Half: An Account of Destruction in Quang Ngai and Quang Tin |publisher=Alfred A. Knopf |year=1968}}
* {{cite book |ref=none |author=Schell, Jonathan |display-authors=0 |title=The Time of Illusion |publisher=Alfred A. Knopf |year=1976}}
* {{cite book |ref=none |author=Schell, Jonathan |display-authors=0 |title=The Fate of the Earth |title-link=The Fate of the Earth |publisher=Alfred A. Knopf |year=1982}}
* {{cite book |ref=none |author=Schell, Jonathan |display-authors=0 |title=The Abolition |publisher=Alfred A. Knopf |year=1984}}
* {{cite book |ref=none |author=Schell, Jonathan |display-authors=0 |title=History in Sherman Park: An American Family and the Reagan-Mondale Election |publisher=Alfred A. Knopf |year=1987}}
* {{cite book |ref=none |author=Schell, Jonathan |display-authors=0 |title=The Real War: The Classic Reporting on the Vietnam War |publisher=Pantheon Books |year=1988}} (Collects ''The Village of Ben Suc'' and ''The Military Half'' with a new essay)
* {{cite book |ref=none |author=Schell, Jonathan |display-authors=0 |title=Observing the Nixon Years: "Notes and Comment" from ''The New Yorker'' on the Vietnam War and the Watergate Crisis, 1969-1975 |publisher=Pantheon Books |year=1989}}
* {{cite book |ref=none |author=Schell, Jonathan |display-authors=0 |title=Writing in Time: A Political Chronicle |publisher=Moyer Bell |year=1997}}
* {{cite book |ref=none |author=Schell, Jonathan |display-authors=0 |title=The Gift of Time: The Case for Abolishing Nuclear Weapons Now |title-link=The Gift of Time: The Case for Abolishing Nuclear Weapons Now |publisher=Metropolitan Books |year=1998}}
* {{cite book |ref=none |author=Schell, Jonathan |display-authors=0 |title=The Unfinished Twentieth Century |title-link=The Unfinished Twentieth Century |publisher=Verso |year=2001}}
* {{cite book |ref=none |author=Schell, Jonathan |display-authors=0 |title=The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People |title-link=The Unconquerable World |publisher=Metropolitan Books |year=2003}}
* {{cite book |ref=none |author=Schell, Jonathan |display-authors=0 |title=A Hole in the World: An Unfolding Story of War, Protest, and the New American Order |publisher=Nation Books |year=2004}}
* {{cite book |ref=none |author=Schell, Jonathan |display-authors=0 |title=The Jonathan Schell Reader: On the United States at War, the Long Crisis of the American Republic, and the Fate of the Earth |publisher=Nation Books |year=2006}}
* {{cite book |ref=none |author=Schell, Jonathan |display-authors=0 |title=The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear Danger |title-link=The Seventh Decade |publisher=Metropolitan Books |year=2007}}

===Journalism===
{{Incomplete list|date=December 2018}}{{bots|deny=Citation bot}} <!-- Retrospective check of TNY; last checked = July 15, 1967-->

* {{cite magazine |ref=none |last1=Schell |first1=Jonathan |display-authors=0 |date=July 15, 1967 |title=The Village of Ben Suc |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1967/07/15/the-village-of-ben-suc |department=A Reporter at Large |magazine=The New Yorker |volume=43 |issue=21 |pages=28–93}}
* Comment on the Pentagon Papers (June 26, 1971)
* Comment on the interdependence of the United States and the Soviet Union, displayed in latest Middle East peace talks (January 7, 1974)
* Comment on America's growing cynicism (January 21, 1974)
* Comment on the A.C.L.U.'s defense of a neo-Nazi march in Skokie, Illinois (August 21, 1978)
* Comment on the role of "obsession" in American foreign policy (May 14, 1984)
* Comment on Iran-Contra (January 26, 1987) 
* {{cite magazine |ref=none |last1=Schell |first1=Jonathan |display-authors=0 |date=August 1996 |title=The Uncertain Leviathan |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1996/08/the-uncertain-leviathan/376647/ |magazine=The Atlantic Monthly |volume=278 |issue=2 |pages=70–78}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links ==
{{Commons category}}
{{Wikiquote}}
*{{IMDb name|4200189}}
*{{C-SPAN|1005274}}
* {{Internet Archive author |sname= Jonathan Schell}}
{{Vietnam War correspondents|state=collapsed}}
{{Anti-nuclear movement|state=collapsed}}
{{Authority control}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Schell, Jonathan}}
[[Category:1943 births]]
[[Category:2014 deaths]]
[[Category:20th-century American essayists]]
[[Category:21st-century American essayists]]
[[Category:American anti–nuclear weapons activists]]
[[Category:American non-fiction environmental writers]]
[[Category:American people of German descent]]
[[Category:Harvard University alumni]]
[[Category:The Nation (U.S. magazine) people]]
[[Category:The New Yorker staff writers]]
[[Category:The Putney School alumni]]
[[Category:Wesleyan University faculty]]