The New York Review of Books

January

• A Great Magus Frances A. Yates
• A Special Supplement: Morality & Pessimism Stuart Hampshire
• Carnage in Eden Cyril Connolly
• Ford’s Better Idea Hannah Arendt, Donald Barthelme, Eric Bentley, Norman Birnbaum, and James Boatwright, et al.
• Gullah William A. Stewart, reply by Monroe K. Spears
• Hard to Swallow Ellen Willis
• Iago’s Defense Briant Harris, reply by L.C. Knights
• Ireland: Dying for Bones Conor Cruise O’Brien
• Nixon’s Blitzkrieg I.F. Stone
• Not a Bad Deal Tom Hayden
• Playboys and a Working Woman Roger Sale
• Six Poems of Osip Mandelstamm Osip Mandelstam, translated by W.S. Merwin and Clarence Brown
• Sons of the Morning Mary McCarthy
• Sturm und Drang Hugh Honour
• The Ancient Child V.S. Pritchett

February

• A Dirty Dean and a Brazen Head Roger Sale
• A Letter Mary McCarthy
• After the Fall Stanley Hoffmann
• Balzac at Thirty V.S. Pritchett
• Battle Over the Revolution
• Bloomsbury and Virginia Woolf Elizabeth Hardwick
• Blue Collar Blues Murray Kempton
• Byron’s Baby F.W. Bateson
• Can the War End? Frances FitzGerald
• Common Sense Jeffrey Race, reply by Frances FitzGerald
• Deep Language George Lakoff
• Ezra Pound Michael Wood
• In the American Grain John Ashbery
• Nancy Noel Annan
• Old Times Francine du Plessix Gray
• One Easy Piece Charles Rosen
• Passionate Witness E.J. Hobsbawm
• Poetry of the Unspeakable Stephen Spender
• Seals at High Island Richard Murphy
• Shrinking History—Part One Robert Coles
• Small Furry People Margaret Wimsatt
• Success Story W.H.C. Frend
• The Real Kissinger? David Landau
• The Sleeping Chess Player Alan Gewirth, reply by John R. Searle
• Thoughts of Mao Tse-tung Benjamin Schwartz
• Threat to the Supreme Court Peter Westen
• Veni, Vici, VD W.H. Auden
• Walt’s Faults Anthony Lewis

March

• Ask the Met Bluma L. Trell
• Bang! V.S. Pritchett
• Beerbohm’s Mum Goodwin G. Weinberg
• Come, Come Now Clemens E. Benda, reply by Irving Singer
• Crackdown in Yugoslavia Charles H. Kahn and Robert S. Cohen
• Eager Beaver Ronald Blythe
• East Germany Lives Neal Ascherson
• Heresy in Los Angeles Peter Schrag
• Hollywood: Having Fun Joan Didion
• How Nasty Was Thomas Cromwell? Lawrence Stone
• Jonathan, Benny, and Solitude Thomas R. Edwards
• Mao & the Paris Commune Frank Jellinek, reply by Benjamin Schwartz
• No Member Al Goldstein, reply by Ellen Willis
• Noble Man George F. Kennan
• On Richard Hofstadter Christopher Lasch
• Private Eye Stephen Spender
• Putting Hitler in His Place Charles T. Hoard, reply by Geoffrey Barraclough
• Putting Hitler in His Place Henry M. Pachter
• Rocketing to the Apocalypse Michael Wood
• Royal Herring Ian R. Christie, reply by J.H. Plumb
• Seeing Bergman Michael Wood
• Sequel Editors First Casualty Press
• Shrinking History—Part Two Robert Coles
• Sincerely Yours Philippa Foot
• Taps for Liberals
• Teachers and Writers Steven Schrader
• The Ape Redressed P.B. Medawar
• The Guest Anna Akhmatova, translated by Stanley Kunitz and Max Hayward
• The Insider Noel Annan
• The Kofsky Campaign Sandra Luce
• The Man Who Told Secrets Jean Starobinski
• The Ulcer Type Marvin Rosenberg
• Toward a Third Indochina War I.F. Stone
• Who Crushed Nixon’s Revolution? Tom Wicker

April

• After the Czech “New Wave” Neal Ascherson
• Amy Lowell’s Cats R.W. Flint
• An American Tragedy Margot Hentoff
• An Exchange on “The Chicanos” Rudolph O. de la Garza, reply by John Womack Jr.
• Animal Liberation Peter Singer
• Appeal for the Release of Vietnamese Political Prisoners The Representatives of Cultural, Political, and Social Organizations in South Vietnam
• Bruce Ashley’s Case Larry Gara
• Can Congress Stop the President? I.F. Stone
• Can Venice Be Saved? Robert M. Adams
• Can We Afford Sliced Eggplant? Jason Epstein
• Come to the Fair Joseph Lane
• Cultural Barbarians? Basil T. Paquet and Larry Rottmann, reply by Stephen Spender
• Cultural Barbarians? Jan Barry
• Darling, They’re Quoting Our Poem Denis Donoghue
• Franco and the Duchess John Black
• French History: The Case of the Wandering Eye Robert Darnton
• Getting Used to Mugging Andrew Hacker
• Hollywood Stanley Kauffmann, reply by Joan Didion
• Hollywood Robert Chappetta, reply by Joan Didion
• Latins in Manhattan Michael Wood
• Lawyers for the Poor Jim Fishman
• Martyr by Choice Catherine Hoskyns
• Melville the New Yorker Alfred Kazin
• O’Hara, Cheever & Updike Alfred Kazin
• Ravaged by Common Sense J.H. Plumb
• Sartre on Amnesty Jean-Paul Sartre
• Screwed! Peter Passell and Leonard Ross
• Short Reviews The Editors
• Sticking to the Union Franklin Wallick
• Sticking to the Union The MIT Press
• The Man Who Came in from the Cold Steven Kelman, reply by Neal Ascherson
• The Poems of Joseph Brodsky W.H. Auden and George L. Kline
• The Third Man Paul Blanc
• Three Poems Joseph Brodsky, translated by George L. Kline
• Touch and Go Jean Stafford
• Up Against the Wall at Tsinghua U. Ross Terrill
• Vanden Heuvel Vs. Hogan Ramsey Clark
• What’s Going On Upstairs? John Weightman

May

• A Chronicle of Death in Russia translated by Paul Schmidt
• A Transit to Narcissus Norman Mailer
• Abolition of Torture Ivan Morris
• An Exchange on Psychohistory Bruce Mazlish, reply by Robert Coles
• Beautiful and Damned Robert Mazzocco
• Confusion among Christians J.M. Cameron
• Conquered by Macaulay Hugh Trevor-Roper
• Cracking Leni’s Case D.J. Enright
• Crisis Critic Frank Kermode
• Dancing in the Dark Michael Wood
• Dark Laughter Erich Heller
• Fiction and America Mary McCarthy, reply by Alfred Kazin
• Gertrude Stein, Geographer: I William H. Gass
• Gertrude Stein, Geographer: II William H. Gass
• Getting Solzhenitsyn Straight Zhores A. Medvedev, translated from the Russian by Peter B. Reddaway
• Good Manners Edgar Z. Friedenberg
• Greetings from Far Away Martin Gardner
• Hitler and Hirohito Geoffrey Barraclough
• Inequality and Education Christopher Lasch
• Letter from Chile Richard Fagen
• Mediterranean Mysteries J.H. Elliott
• Mocking the Irish Gods John Horgan
• Poem Samuel Menashe
• Right About Face Noel Annan
• Rules of the Game John Gittings
• Seduction and Betrayal: I Elizabeth Hardwick
• Sen. Eagleton & War Powers Thomas F. Eagleton, reply by I.F. Stone
• Short Reviews The Editors
• Surprise, Surprise Thomas R. Edwards
• The Ashes of Hollywood I: The Bottom 4 of the Top 10 Gore Vidal
• The Ashes of Hollywood II: The Top 6 of the Top 10 Gore Vidal
• The Library Murder Case Ellen Moers
• The Power and Old Glory Ronald Steel
• The Sporting News William H. Gass
• The World Behind Watergate Kirkpatrick Sale
• Thieu’s Prisoners Martin Bernal, Lucien Bianco, George McT. Kahin, Kurt Steiner, and K.J. Pelzer, et al.
• Torture in Three Countries Don Luce, Alexander Esenin-Volpin, and Margaret Papandreou
• What Price Growth? Peter Passell and Leonard Ross, reply by Jason Epstein

June

• A Special Supplement: Impeachment I.F. Stone
• Appeal for Peace in the Middle East Hannah Arendt, Wolfgang Bauer, Michel-Antoine Burnier, Ernst Bloch, and Jean Cassou, et al.
• Back J. Glenn Gray
• Crazy Mixed-up Kids D.W. Harding
• Food for Thought David Rosinger, reply by Peter Singer
• Forster and his Merry Men Karl Miller
• Hearing from Chekhov V.S. Pritchett
• Hitler à la Mode Alan Bullock
• Intolerable Memories Neal Ascherson
• Isn’t It Romantic? Charles Rosen
• John Dos Passos: A Letter from the Front John Dos Passos
• Looking Back on Picasso Anthony Blunt
• On George Lichtheim Steven Lukes
• On Safari Francine du Plessix Gray
• Pound Notes Max Geltman, reply by Michael Wood
• Progress Is the Mother of Problems (G. K. Chesterton) W.H. Auden
• Rating Nader Simon Lazarus and Leonard Ross
• Seduction and Betrayal II Elizabeth Hardwick
• Spanish Prisoners Barbara Probst Solomon and Allard K. Lowenstein
• The Good Old Days Ronald Steel
• The President Addresses the Nation Philip Roth
• Thieu’s Prisoners Joseph Buttinger
• Unsinkable Painting Hugh Honour
• Watch Out for Japan Geoffrey Barraclough
• Wise-Women Alison Lurie

July

• Bombing Center for Cuban Studies
• Brodsky’s Poetry Gleb Struve, reply by George L. Kline
• Chomsky Replies Noam Chomsky
• Committee in Defense of Andrei Amalrik Henry Carlisle, John Hersey, Arthur Miller, Harrison E. Salisbury, and John Updike, et al.
• Good Grief Denis Donoghue
• James Joyce Jorge Luis Borges, translated from the Spanish by Norman Thomas di Giovanni
• Just Good Friends John Wain
• Roth’s Novel Robert Brustein
• Roth’s Novel Philip Roth
• Solzhenitsyn George Feifer, reply by Zhores A. Medvedev
• Sophocles Our Contemporary? D.S. Carne-Ross
• The Case for the Colonels Richard Clogg
• The Shame of the Republic Henry Steele Commager
• The Soviet Jews Leonard Schapiro
• The Strange Case of the Missing Coins Martin Jessop Price
• The Washington Power Game I.F. Stone
• Watergate Notes Mary McCarthy
• What Is the ‘Energy Crisis’? Emma Rothschild
• What They Said Jane Fonda and Tom Hayden
• Yankees Vs. Cowboys Steve Weissman, reply by Kirkpatrick Sale

August

• A New Jesus? W.H.C. Frend
• Illusions About Energy Emma Rothschild
• It Pays to Be Ignorant I.F. Stone
• Last Testament John Thompson
• Lies Mary McCarthy
• Married to Marilyn Norman Mailer
• On Karl Kraus Walter Kaufmann, reply by Erich Heller
• See Canada First James Kraft, reply by Edgar Z. Friedenberg
• Story Without End Simon Head
• Stravinsky: Problems for Biographers Robert Craft
• The Shadow of Booker T. Washington Jervis Anderson
• Translating Akhmatova Joseph Brodsky, translated by Carl R. Proffer
• Traveling Light Martin Bernal

September

• Can Poetry Be Reviewed? Stephen Spender
• Flipping for a Diamond Lillian Hellman
• Heretical about Heresy Harvey Cox, reply by J.M. Cameron
• Kissing Hitler Michael Wood
• Mexico and Its Demons Carlos Fuentes
• On Morality & Pessimism Amnon Goldworth and Gordon Brumm, reply by Stuart Hampshire
• Risking Kierkegaard J.M. Cameron
• Sliding Into English Leonard Michaels
• Survivors Edgar Z. Friedenberg
• Teaching Great Poetry to Children Kenneth Koch
• The Fever Breaks Robert Crichton, reply by Gore Vidal
• The Mysterious Moon Marks Charles B.M. McBurney
• The Rights of Editors William Empson
• Watergate: A Skeptical View Noam Chomsky

October

• “Not One Step Further”: An Interview with Solzhenitsyn Alexander Solzhenitsyn
• A Cold War Battle Walter Laqueur, reply by Ronald Steel
• A Cold War Battle Robert James Maddox
• A Funny Sort of God Conor Cruise O’Brien
• A Manifesto Lucien Bianco, Jean-Paul Brisson, Jacques Brunschwig, Claude Cadart, and Gerard Chaliand, et al.
• A Pleasing Discovery Denis Donoghue
• After the Fall Hugh Trevor-Roper
• Bad Dreams Luigi Barzini
• Balzac Possessed John Bayley
• Chopin’s Progress Robert Craft
• Criticism Alexander Doniphan Wallace
• Cutting the Marble Rosemary Tonks
• Death of a Salesman Garry Wills
• Epic Overreach D.S. Carne-Ross
• Expensive Eternity V.S. Pritchett
• Fathers and Children: Turgenev and the Liberal Predicament Isaiah Berlin
• Going Dutch Robert B. Nicodemus
• II: Underground Routes Frances A. Yates
• III: Seeing the Invisible Christopher Hill
• In Love With Times Square Ada Louise Huxtable
• Joyce and Vico: The Middle Way Stuart Hampshire
• Kafka’s Love Letters Franz Kafka
• Mystery in History D.P. Walker
• Nobel Peace Prize Karl Bissinger, Joseph Chaikin, Noam Chomsky, Martin Bauml Duberman, and Andrea Dworkin, et al.
• Not Recommended Eileen Simpson[Berryman]
• Occupational Disease Frank Adams
• Occupational Disease Steven H. Hochman, reply by I.F. Stone
• On Being Bugged Joseph M. Kraft
• Photography Susan Sontag
• Please, Yale Donald Greene
• Posthumous Letter to Gilbert White W.H. Auden
• Psyche-History Benjamin Nelson, E.V. Walter, Jerome Gittleman, Donald A. Nielsen, and Toby E. Huff, et al.
• Pure Incest Curtis Bennett, reply by F.W. Bateson
• Silence Bella Akhmadulina, with Albert Todd, translated from the Russian by Daniel Halpern
• Smile Joyce Carol Oates, reply by John Thompson
• Take Me to Your Leader Christopher Lasch
• The Chilean Tragedy Laurence Birns, Congressman Donald Fraser, and Michael Harrington
• The Presidency After Watergate Henry Steele Commager
• The Sakharov Campaign I.F. Stone
• Two Letters by Edmund Wilson Edmund Wilson
• Was It Matriarchy? Steven Webster, reply by Adrienne Rich
• West Point and the Third Loyalty Gore Vidal
• Writing a Novel Elizabeth Hardwick

November

• A Spirited Exchange Allen Spraggett, reply by Martin Gardner
• A Statement By Valery Panov Valery Panov
• Agnew’s Successor: What Nixon Fears I.F. Stone
• An Odd Ball in an Odd Country at an Odd Time W.H. Auden
• Balancing the World’s Accounts Robert L. Heilbroner
• Carnival in Caracas Norman Gall
• Discovering America Murray Kempton
• Dos Passos Divided Thomas R. Edwards
• Dream Houses Ernst Gombrich
• Episodes in the Class War Karl Miller
• Fathers and Children: Turgenev and the Liberal Predicament Part II Isaiah Berlin
• Fathers and Children: Turgenev and the Liberal Predicament Part III Isaiah Berlin
• Freak Show Susan Sontag
• Galbraith’s Utopia Paul M. Sweezy
• Hogan’s Goats Andrew Hacker
• How Smart Are Computers? Bernard Williams
• In Chinese Prisons John K. Fairbank
• In Soviet Prisons Renata Cardinale and Arthur C. Danto
• In Soviet Prisons Peter B. Reddaway
• It’s Later than You Think Michael Wood
• Mahler the Modern Robert Craft
• Malcolm Lowry’s Inferno William H. Gass
• Movie Crazy Michael Wood
• No, Plato, No W.H. Auden
• Owing Your Soul to the Company Store Ralph Nader and Mark Green
• Portrait of a-What? John Richardson
• Real Hands Yannis Ritsos, translated from the Greek by Minas Savvas
• Rousseau & Modern Tyranny Jean Starobinski, translated by Peter France
• Rugged Outcast Blair Worden
• Running Out of Gas Emma Rothschild
• Senator Proxmire’s Questions William Proxmire
• Slug of Redemption Neal Ascherson
• Soviet Anti-Semitism Ethel Dunn, reply by Peter B. Reddaway
• The Charms of H.G. Wells Noel Annan
• The Death of Chile Laurence Birns
• The Evolution of a Proof P.B. Medawar
• The Glass Dump Road Richard Murphy
• The Mideast War: A Reply Daniel J. Amit
• Three Poems Roberto Juarroz, translated by W.S. Merwin
• Two Statements on the Mid-East War Shlomo Avineri, Joseph Ben-David, Ernst Bergmann, Aryeh Dvoretzky, and Samuel Eisenstadt, et al.
• Two Statements on the Mid-East War Ruth Brandwein, Irene Gendzier, Howard Zinn, Michael Brower, and Robert Bullock, et al.
• Two on the Aisle Richard Sennett
• W. H. Auden (1907–1973) Stephen Spender
• Warped Innocence Richard Ellmann
• What Did the Romantics Mean? Charles Rosen
• Who Killed Lorca V.S. Pritchett
• Why Nixon Fears to Resign I.F. Stone
• Women and Poetry Jane Gapen, reply by Rosemary Tonks
• Women’s Work Mary Ellmann

December

• American Dissent in Moscow Grace Paley, Paul Mayer, Noam Chomsky, David Dellinger, and David McReynolds, et al.
• Blackjack Love Ken Kelley
• Blissing Out in Houston Francine du Plessix Gray
• Closing Time for Open Ed? Herbert R Kohl
• Historian of Everything Keith Thomas
• In Memory of Paul Goodman George Dennison
• Malcolm Lowry’s Inferno: II
• Moses and Aaron in Paris Robert Craft
• No Thank You, Mr. President Alfred Kazin
• The Art and Arts of E. Howard Hunt Gore Vidal
• The Big Freeze Jason Epstein
• The Stravinsky Archive David S. Adams, reply by Robert Craft
• Torture Conference Rose Styron
• Very Different Cats Robert Mazzocco
• Where the Wolf Howls Michael Wood
• Yeats and the Spirits William Empson