The New York Review of Books

January

• A Good Trip Alexander Wetmore
• A Narodnik from Lynbrook Murray Kempton
• A Profitable Empire M.I. Finley
• Advocacy Norman A. Rheuban, reply by Herbert L. Packer
• African Hitler Edmund R. Leach
• After Pinkville Noam Chomsky
• America First Conor Cruise O’Brien
• An Urban Anarchist Richard Sennett
• Berlioz, Boulez, and Piaf Virgil Thomson
• Breakdowns Robert M. Adams
• Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars Jonathan Unger
• Cracked Wheat David Joravsky
• Distinctions Hannah Arendt, reply by J.M. Cameron
• From the African Ambassador Chester Kallman
• Hausbroken Peter Lloyd Jones
• How Hanoi Sees Nixon Richard J. Barnet
• Introducing Andrei Platonov Yevgeny Yevtushenko, translated from the Russian by Joseph Barnes
• Jesus’s Signature Edmund Wilson
• Liberation Then Simon Watson Taylor
• Looking for the Ancien Régime C.B.A. Behrens
• Magical Mystery Tour Wylie Sypher
• More Words Stuart B. Flexner, reply by W.V. Quine
• On Second Reading Alan Ryan
• Philosophy and Public Policy Kai Nielsen
• Police Brutality Paul Dolan, Yehudy Lindeman, Judah Stampfer, and John Thompson
• Saké in a Tumbler D.J. Enright
• See America First Ellen Willis
• Tacoma Coffeehouse The Shelter Half
• The Ace Study Alexander W. Astin, reply by Paul Lauter
• Tonkin Bay: Was There a Conspiracy? Peter Dale Scott
• Village Voices D.A.N. Jones
• Wrong Impression Murray Kempton

February

• A Frustrating Task Samuel P. Huntington, reply by Noam Chomsky
• A Tone-deaf Musical Dictionary Charles Rosen
• An Exchange on La Raza Elizabeth Martinez, reply by Edgar Z. Friedenberg
• Anaesthetic Criticism: I Frederick C. Crews
• Bedtime Story Edmund R. Leach
• Colonies George Kirk, reply by Geoffrey Barraclough
• Commissar of the Cold War Ronald Steel
• Exchange on Women’s Liberation & the Movies Thomas M. Kando, reply by Ellen Willis
• From Napoleon to Armageddon Hans J. Morgenthau
• Huey Marshall Frady
• In a Fix Arnaldo Momigliano
• It’s Only a Movie! Robert Mazzocco
• Lost Pussies Noel Annan
• Plantation Power J.H. Plumb
• Reich’s Therapy Paul Edwards, reply by Charles Rycroft
• Reservists’ Protest Reservists Committee to Stop the War
• Shine On, Tottering Republic W.S. Merwin
• Teachers Newsletter Marvin Hoffman
• The Chicago Conspiracy Trial: Allen Ginsberg on the Stand Jason Epstein
• The Theater of Grotowski Elizabeth Hardwick
• The Tristesse of the Incurable V.S. Pritchett
• The Unignorable Real Christopher Ricks
• The Very Thing John Wain
• Torture in Brazil Ilha das Flores
• What Is Fascism? Leonard Schapiro
• Who Killed Biafra? Stanley Diamond
• Yes Men Henry David Aiken

March

• A Somber Theater Helen Muchnic
• After the Avant-Garde Roger Shattuck
• An Interview with Sartre Jean-Paul Sartre
• Anaesthetic Criticism: II Frederick C. Crews
• Below the Boot R.C. Smail
• Champions Lester Adelsberg, reply by Virgil Thomson
• Champions J.R. Pole
• Colonel Agnew Murray Kempton
• Czechslovakia Eugen Loebl, reply by Hans J. Morgenthau
• Dreaming Up Petronius Alberto Moravia, translated from the Italian by Raymond Rosenthal
• For Conrad Aiken’s Ninety-Ninth Birthday I.A. Richards
• Germanics D.J. Enright
• Hot Water Jane Jacobs
• How Cities Grow Stein Weissenberger, reply by Richard Sennett
• Inside the New York Telephone Company Elinor Langer
• King Claudius Constantine Cavafy, translated by Edmund Keeley and George P. Savidis
• Lenten-Passover Fast Allan Brick and Richard R. Fernandez
• Marks of a Buddha Nigel Dennis
• Master Builder Jack Richardson
• Notes of a Neolithic Conservative Paul Goodman
• On “All Men Are Mad” Edmund Wilson
• Rembrandt Now Ernst Gombrich
• Resisting E.V. Walter
• Resolution Columbia Law School Student Senate
• The End of Atlantis A.G. Galanopoulos, reply by M.I. Finley
• The Father of American Black Nationalism Theodore H. Draper
• The Uncompleted Dossier Denis Donoghue
• The Women of the Telephone Company Elinor Langer
• Theatre of the World Frances A. Yates, reply by Wylie Sypher
• Vietnam: The Future Frances FitzGerald
• Vodou Power Raymond Carr

April

• A Century of Futility I.F. Stone
• Ambassador Erect Gore Vidal
• Americans Abroad Jack Kramer
• An Exchange on Biafra Sara S. Berry, George A. Elbert, and Norman Thomas Uphoff, reply by Stanley Diamond
• Cage and the Collage of Noises Virgil Thomson
• Ecological Armageddon Robert L. Heilbroner
• Iron Comedian V.S. Pritchett
• Laos: The Story Nixon Won’t Tell Peter Dale Scott
• Lenin Year Neal Ascherson
• Man Hunt Christopher Ricks
• Neo-Neoclassicism Robert Rosenblum
• Not the Sheik Ernst Gombrich
• On Rational Inquiry in Universities Today Barrington Moore Jr.
• Plato Allan Bloom
• Poems from P.S. 61 Charles Conroy, Ilona Baburka, Natalie DeStefano, Marion Mackles, and Tomas Torres, et al.
• Revolution Then Lawrence Stone
• Scarred Monuments A.J.P. Taylor
• Sticking to the Union Murray Kempton
• The Perfectly Candid Man Stephen Spender
• The Scientific Imagination A. Gorman Hills, reply by P.B. Medawar
• Theatre of Delusion I.F. Stone
• Trouble in Buffalo Edgar Z. Friedenberg
• War Tax Protest Norma Becker and Richard Sternhill
• What Socialism Is and Is Not George Lichtheim
• Wishes, Lies, and Dreams: Teaching Children to Write Poetry Kenneth Koch

May

• An Exchange on Black History Caldwell Titcomb, Floyd J. Miller, James P. Breeden, and Dorothy Sterling, reply by Theodore H. Draper
• An Exchange on Sidney Hook Philip Toynbee, Berel Lang, and Lawrence W. Hyman, reply by Henry David Aiken
• Credentials Giorgio de Santillana
• Deus le Volt? Geoffrey Barraclough
• Empathy & Dance Michael Kirby, reply by Roger Shattuck
• Ghosts V.S. Pritchett
• Good Man Robert Mazzocco
• Greece: Cultural Freedom in the Gangster State Y, translated by Edward Wharton
• Live Attraction D.A.N. Jones
• Notes on Anarchism Noam Chomsky
• Oasis Poetry Denis Donoghue
• On Bombing Bettina Aptheker
• Report from the Niagara Frontier Edgar Z. Friedenberg
• Roman Imperialism R.I. Frank, reply by M.I. Finley
• Spanish Moss I.A. Richards
• TV Guide Charles Rosen
• The Ives Case Virgil Thomson
• The Panthers on Trial Murray Kempton
• The Sinister Redhead S.G.F. Brandon
• The Test Ban Comedy I.F. Stone
• Triste Trinidad J.H. Elliott
• Weimar and the Intellectuals I Carl E. Schorske
• Weimar and the Intellectuals: II Carl E. Schorske
• What’s New in Peru E.J. Hobsbawm
• Where We Are Now John H. Schaar and Sheldon S. Wolin
• Your Move D.W. Harding

June

• “Princeton in the Nation’s Service” Lawrence Stone
• A Special Supplement: Cambodia Noam Chomsky
• A Special Supplement: The Old School at The New School Stanley Diamond and Edward J. Nell
• After the Fire James Merrill
• Always New Pains D.J. Enright
• An Open Letter to American Citizens on Behalf of Mexican Political Prisoners The Editors
• Available Arnold Dolin
• Cambodia Noam Chomsky
• Cambodia: Why the Generals Won Peter Dale Scott
• Certified Public Accountant K.W. Wedderburn
• Cuando George Dennison
• Cultivating Voltaire John Weightman
• Delany Available Robert J. Weiss
• French Ban on Brazilians Jill A. Cloonan
• From the City of Lies Murray Kempton
• God, Money, & the Crusades Marvin B. Becker, reply by Geoffrey Barraclough
• God, Money, & the Crusades Henry R. Huttenbach
• How the School System is Rigged for Failure Paul Lauter and Florence Howe
• Idealism and Its Critic John Bayley
• Language Barriers Denis Donoghue
• Memo to the AP Editors: How Laird Lied I.F. Stone
• Mexican Student Massacre Paul Goodman
• Mysterious Japan: A Diary Wassily Leontief
• National Coalition for a Responsible Congress James David Barber, James Darnell, and Cyrus Levinthal
• National Self-Abuse Edgar Z. Friedenberg
• Number One Gore Vidal
• O Canada! Jocelyn Dingman Fulford
• On the Massacre at Kent State Paul Goodman
• Peace Action at Columbia F.W. Dupee and Steven Marcus
• Peace Action at Columbia Serge Lang
• Revolutionary Aesthetics John Willett
• Right-Wing Terrorism Sean Shesgreen
• The National Petition Campaign Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Eugene D. Genovese
• The Panthers at Yale Francine du Plessix Gray
• Torture Protest Ivan Morris
• US Treasury Supports Resist Galway Kinnell and Florence Howe
• Voltaire: to Madame du Châtelet Richard Wilbur
• What Is to Be Done about Medieval History? Geoffrey Barraclough
• With It Philip Rahv

July

• A Special Supplement: A Visit to Laos Noam Chomsky
• A Special Supplement: On Violence J.M. Cameron
• Cambodia: Sanskrit Inscriptions J.F. Staal
• Closing the Oppenheimer Case H. Stuart Hughes
• Corporate Responsibility for War Crimes George Wald
• E.M. Forster (1879–1970) Stephen Spender
• Easy Writer Jack Richardson
• Explaining Titian’s Egg Seller Francis Haskell
• Female and Other Impersonators Christopher Ricks
• Grandiose Plan Gabriella Befani Canfield and Antonio Olivieri
• Looking for Louis C.B.A. Behrens
• Military America Robert L. Heilbroner
• Morality and Game Theory Morton D. Davis, reply by D.W. Harding
• Mystic - Making L.P. Elwell-Sutton
• National Lawyers Guild Charles R. Garry
• Newark: Keeping Up with LeRoi Jones Murray Kempton
• Old People’s Home W.H. Auden
• Our Flag Alfred Kazin
• Philosophers & Panthers Kai Nielsen
• Rational American Anthony Quinton
• So It Goes Edgar Z. Friedenberg
• Sticking to the Union Henry Nordin
• Sticking to the Union Stanley Plastrik, reply by Murray Kempton
• Street Actions V.S. Pritchett
• The F.B.I.Listening Service Lawrence Budner
• The Former Arthur Goldberg Murray Kempton
• Tory Stories Noel Annan
• Useful Critic Elizabeth Hardwick
• What Rand Is Not Studying Paul Weeks
• Why We Must Abolish Schooling Ivan Illich
• Writing Black History Dorothy Sterling, reply by Theodore H. Draper
• You Gotta Read Gadda Robert M. Adams

August

• A Dream Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, translated by Meyer Schapiro
• A Special Supplement: In North Vietnam Noam Chomsky
• Addie Mae Collins Library Ned O’Gorman
• An Exchange on Electoral Politics Frank Kofsky, reply by Eugene D. Genovese and Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
• Communist Dropouts Neal Ascherson
• Critical List Frank Kermode
• Did He Goof? William A. Williams
• Letter from the Underground Daniel Berrigan and S. J.
• Lichtenberg: Body Language & A Dream Matthew Hodgart
• Parents for Peace Gertrud Marcus
• Pow! Now D.A.N. Jones
• Quackery John Holt
• Streets D.J. Enright
• Surprise Party A.J.P. Taylor
• Survival of the Fattest Richard Sennett
• The Damned Murray Kempton
• The Joke Erazim V. Kohak
• The Joke Oliver Stallybrass, reply by D.A.N. Jones
• Tribal Sex War Gideon Forsythe
• Tribal Sex War George Jochnowitz
• Tribal Sex War Francis J. Rigney
• Up from Ultraism Jorge Luis Borges

September

• “This Shame Will Be Welcome…” A Speech by Fidel Castro Lee Lockwood
• A Place to Send Books Leon Botstein
• Becker Case Reopened! Murray Kempton
• Brain Storm P.F. Strawson
• Caesar’s Things Elizabeth Hardwick
• China is Far John K. Fairbank
• Doing West F.W. Dupee
• Gangsterism; Torture in Greece Z
• Gangsterism; Torture in Greece Nicholas Skoulas
• Greece: Tyranny Without a Future W.G. Forrest
• Grub First L.I. Press, reply by George Lichtheim
• Harvard on My Mind Kenneth Keniston
• Improving IVs James E. Malia
• In the Cage Edgar Z. Friedenberg
• Is a New Politics Possible? Sheldon S. Wolin and John H. Schaar
• Ivesiana Peter Yates, reply by Virgil Thomson
• Lame Shadows W.H. Auden
• Mitchell’s Fishing Expedition Cyrilly Abels, Aaron Asher, Jules Feiffer, Joseph Heller, and Lawrence Hill, et al.
• Mrs. Stowe’s Vengeance Ellen Moers
• Now You See, Said Mark Virginia Kidd
• O Altitudo! D.J. Enright
• Obsolete Therefore Instructive Leszek Kolakowski
• Oppenheimer Cushing Strout
• Pollution Crusade Allen M. Moore, reply by Wassily Leontief
• Power to the Caribbean People V.S. Naipaul
• Protest Joel W. Hedgpeth
• Reflections on the End of the Republic Hans J. Morgenthau
• Spices & Christians
• The Agony in the Garden Murray Kempton
• The Author in Exile to His Publisher in Prison Vassili Vassilikos, translated by James Merrill
• The Boys Margot Hentoff
• The Old New School Sabine D. Jordan, reply by Stanley Diamond
• The Speech Fidel Castro
• Violence & Civility Chandler Davis
• Violence & Civility Nathan Rotenstreich, reply by J.M. Cameron

October

• A Special Supplement: Nixon’s Crime Program and What It Means Herbert L. Packer
• At Sea with Ernest Hemingway Christopher Ricks
• Bums for Gore William T. Winberry
• Coming Up for Freire Jonathan Kozol
• Conservative Man Tom Bottomore
• Criticism Richard Stern, reply by D.A.N. Jones
• Divided Selves D.A.N. Jones
• Dr. Bleuler Clemens E. Benda
• Gooney Bird Jean Stafford
• Greece and Its Future Peter Calvocoressi
• Hyperkinetic Children Carlos Carrillo, reply by John Holt
• In Search of Black History Eric Foner
• Inside Voltaire’s Skin Jack Undank, reply by John Weightman
• Irresistible Dickens John Bayley
• June and July Paul Goodman
• Just Plain Bill Joseph Epstein
• Keeping Up with Updike Jack Richardson
• Martin Luther King’s Second Assassination Richard John Neuhaus
• Matisse in Paris Hilton Kramer
• Mentor Program R.C. Buck, Chandler Davis, and Jacob Feldman
• Mexican Political Prisoners Friends of the Political Prisoners
• Mistranslation A. Gorman Hills
• Moth Myth John Weightman
• National Student Strike Center Gordon Fellman
• O Calcutta! Matthew Hodgart
• On “The Dark Night of the Soul” Daniel Berrigan
• Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man (Cont.) Igor Stravinsky
• Protest Rebecca Berman
• Rabbit Stew J.H. Plumb
• Russell, Radicalism, and Reason Stuart Hampshire
• Seattle Eight Melvin Rader
• Senator Goodell Daniel Berrigan, Philip Berrigan, Malcolm Boyd, Robert McAfee Brown, and Noam Chomsky, et al.
• Soledad Brother: Two Prison Letters from George Jackson George Jackson, introduction by Greg Armstrong
• The Craving Void V.S. Pritchett
• The Great American Poet Alfred Kazin
• The Mysterious East Doris Lessing, reply by L.P. Elwell-Sutton
• The Mysterious East Idries Shah
• The Nature of the Miracle Clarence Brown and Nadezhda Mandelstam
• The Old New History Frances A. Yates
• The Trouble at Isla Vista H. Porter Abbott
• Torturer Edward S. Herman
• Tragedy in Uruguay Jose Yglesias, translated by Lee Lockwood
• Two Political Poems John Berryman
• Used Reviews C.S. Pillai
• Vietnamizing Greeks Stavros Pappas and Alexander B. Panaghoulis
• Workers and Students at the New School Sylvia Price, reply by Stanley Diamond

November

• A Feelthy Commission Murray Kempton
• A New Era in Shakespeare Criticism? Frank Kermode
• A Pinch of Saltus Eric L. McKitrick
• A Special Supplement: Anthropology on the Warpath in Thailand Joseph G. Jorgensen and Eric R. Wolf
• Alfred’s Fiasco Noam Chomsky, William C. Davidon, Richard Drinnon, Louis Kampf, and Joel H. Levinson
• Bibliography Murray Kempton
• Cops Murray Kempton
• Female Trouble Eric J. Vanderbush
• From Athens to the New School: An Exchange Elisabeth Bruehl, Robert Bruehl, and Robert Bland, reply by Stanley Diamond and Edward J. Nell
• Ghosts and Others Denis Donoghue
• Heretics Neal Ascherson
• Hyperkinesis cont’d. M. Yanow
• In South Vietnamese Jails Don Luce and Ngo Ba Thanh
• Is Science Evil? E.J. Hobsbawm
• Nat Turner and “Dred”
• No Joke A.D.H. Jones
• On Being Loyal W.S. Merwin
• Portrait with a Wart or Two W.H. Auden
• Power to the Workers? Robert Dahl
• Seattle Defense Fund Zirel Sweezy
• Senator Goodell & Philip Berrigan: An Untold Story Philip Nobile
• Spanish Holocaust J.H. Elliott
• Statement Ngo Cong Duc
• Stay-At-Homes Edward Friedman, reply by John K. Fairbank
• The Appalachian Tragedy Harry M. Caudill
• The Bitter Price Helen Muchnic
• The Gentle Nietzscheans Conor Cruise O’Brien
• The Kennedy Fantasy Ronald Steel
• The Lapis Lazuli of the Ancient World Edward H. Schafer, reply by Jorge Luis Borges
• The Mandel Case Germaine Bree, Gabriel Jackson, S.E. Luria, Laurent B. Frantz, and Christopher Lasch, et al.
• The Riddle of Hölderlin Paul de Man
• The Way to End the War: The Statement of Ngo Cong Duc Rennie Davis, Richard A. Falk, and Robert Greenblatt
• Violence, Anarchy, and Alexander Berkman John William Ward
• What This Country Needs… William A. Williams
• Workers’ Defense League Murray Kempton
• Worried Peter Munz, reply by Geoffrey Barraclough
• Youth Wants to Know Edgar Z. Friedenberg

December

• A Special Supplement: American Slaves and Their History Eugene D. Genovese
• A Special Supplement: Taking Rights Seriously Ronald Dworkin
• Amnesty International Frank Vergata
• Birdbath Jean Stafford
• Black History Roland Oliver
• Dr. Bleuler’s Diagnosis Nancy Milford
• Exchange on Black Nationalism Theodore H. Draper, reply by Eric Foner
• Exorcising Demons Mary Meigs, reply by D.A.N. Jones
• Fabricated Evidence in the Kent State Killings I.F. Stone
• Fairy Tale Liberation Alison Lurie
• Hyperkinetic Kids (cont’d) Virginia I. Douglas
• I Don’t Know for Certain… Jaime Sabines, translated from the Spanish by W.S. Merwin
• It Was Morse Alan J. Arikian
• Jesus’ Other Life I.A. Richards
• Journal du Voyeur Jason Epstein
• Killing for Freedom Willie Lee Rose
• Little Private Lives Margot Hentoff
• Magsmen, Macers, Gonophs, Footpads and Pimps Noel Annan
• Notes on Pushkin Edmund Wilson
• Pepys’s Pain William Matthews
• Pintermania Nigel Dennis
• Prodding MLA Wayne O’Neill
• Richard Hofstadter, 1916–1970 C. Vann Woodward
• Schooling: The Ritual of Progress Ivan Illich
• The Berrigans Paul Mayer
• The Berrigans Shane Stevens
• The Coming of Capitalism C.B.A. Behrens
• The Evolution of Charles Darwin Gavin de Beer
• The Medical-Industrial Complex Barbara Ehrenreich
• The View from Jefferson’s Camp Eric L. McKitrick
• The Visit George Starbuck
• Though He Slay Me… Alfred Kazin
• Unbuckled Margot Hentoff
• Uruguay Primer Nathan P. Glazer, reply by Jose Yglesias
• Was Chinese Communism Inevitable? Martin Bernal
• Who Killed Lumumba? Catherine Hoskyns
• Worshipping the Red Mushroom W.H.C. Frend