The New York Review of Books

January

• An Exchange on Post-Industrial Society Daniel Bell, reply by Christopher Lasch
• Auden’s Letters William Meredith and Monroe K. Spears
• Ballad of Mr. Dutcher and the Last Lynching in Gupton Robert Penn Warren
• Gilding the Iron Cage Sheldon S. Wolin
• How to Impeach Nixon Norman Siegel
• Is Freudian Symbolism a Myth? Charles Rycroft
• Israel: Three Months of Yom Kippur Bernard Avishai
• Knowledge of the Guru Joan Apter, reply by Francine du Plessix Gray and Ken Kelley
• Knowledge of the Guru Nicholas B. Dirks, Charles R.D. Lindley, and Leela A. Wood, reply by Francine du Plessix Gray and Ken Kelley
• Marius Bewley Committee James Merrill, Richard Poirier, Barbara Epstein, Frederick Morgan, and Karl Miller, et al.
• Ming Minx Cyril Birch
• Moses and Chopin Robert Craft
• Nolo Contendere Mary Ellmann
• Philip Rahv (1908–1973) Elizabeth Hardwick
• Prophets Christopher Ricks
• Protest to Podgorny Robert Brustein, Peter Gay, Octavio Paz, Vincent Scully, and Victor Erlich, et al.
• Shots of Donatello John Pope-Hennessy
• The Human Prospect Robert L. Heilbroner
• The Mideast War: A Rejoinder J.L. Talmon
• The Monster and his Myths Christopher Hill
• The Wisdom of Colette Rosemary Tonks
• Where the Energy Crisis Is Pushing Us Emma Rothschild

February

• U.S.A. Defended John Stevenson
• An Ulster Fable Conor Cruise O’Brien
• Appeal for Abdul Malik Henry Carlisle, Olga Andreyev Carlisle, Francine Gray, Muriel Rukeyser, and Harrison E. Salisbury, et al.
• Baby Talk Peter Farb
• Beyond Consolation Joseph Brodsky, translated by Barry Rubin
• Bukharin’s Way Leonard Schapiro
• Chile’s Victims Norman Birnbaum
• Dancing on the Titanic Robert Mazzocco
• Death for Dinner Daniel Zwerdling
• General Practitioners Roger Sale
• Gone With the Wind C. Vann Woodward
• Medium & Message Helmut Boersch-Supan, reply by Charles Rosen
• Micol’s Betrayal Marilyn Schneider, reply by Richard Ellmann
• Mission Impossible Neal Ascherson
• Nixon’s Victims Philip Berrigan, Ramsey Clark, Benjamin Spock, and Gloria Steinem
• Opening Up the Ruling Class C.B.A. Behrens
• Overtaking the Avant-Garde James Ackerman
• Running Off-Tackle William Phillips
• Shaking Up Franco’s Spain Barbara Probst Solomon
• Stravinsky’s Russian Letters Robert Craft
• The Attack on Mme Mandelstam Carl R. Proffer
• The Devil and Lolita Garry Wills
• The Kapstein Konnection I.J. Kapstein, reply by Gore Vidal
• The Repression at Belgrade University Noam Chomsky and Robert S. Cohen
• The Uses of John Foster Dulles Garry Wills
• Turning the Other Check Martin Gardner
• Victims of Survival Michael Wood
• What Can Biologists Solve? S.E. Luria
• Why Blacks Were Left Out George M. Fredrickson

March

• A Loyal Un-American Edmund S. Morgan
• A Program to Cripple Federal Prisoners Alberto Mares
• A Program to Cripple Federal Prisoners Aryeh Neier
• Alliance with Galbraith? Walter A. Weisskopf, reply by Paul M. Sweezy
• America’s Catholics Wilfrid Sheed
• As Good As They Come Nicholas von Hoffman
• Between Earth and Hell George F. Kennan
• Can Nixon Afford to Resign? Alan B. Morrison
• Chewing It Over Daniel Zwerdling
• Durkheim’s Call to Order Alasdair MacIntyre
• England Hath Need of Thee! J.M. Cameron
• Fear and Fang Karl Miller
• Female Gothic: The Monster’s Mother Ellen Moers
• Flirting With Disintegration Michael Wood
• For Hal Scharlatt (1935–1974) February 21, 1974 Richard Stern
• How I Came to Dissent Andrei D. Sakharov, translated by Guy Daniels
• On Colonel Risner Mary McCarthy
• Saint of Inertia V.S. Pritchett
• Short Reviews The Editors
• Short Reviews The Editors
• Soviet Anti-Semitism Mikhail Agursky
• Stalin, Trotsky, & Cromwell J.M. Cameron
• Stalin, Trotsky, & Cromwell Adam B. Ulam, reply by Christopher Hill
• The Attack on Lydia Chukovskaya Zhores A. Medvedev
• The Eyes Have It John Golding
• The Fate of Kudirka V. Bielski
• The Monarchs of the Persian Gulf Simon Head
• The Myth of Roger Casement Noel Annan
• The Oil Company Blues Les Aspin
• Torture in Hanoi Anthony Lewis
• Wickedly Wonderful Widow Virgil Thomson
• Wrestling With Fiction Roger Sale

April

• A Country Dying on Its Feet V.S. Naipaul
• After the Raid Claude Gruen, reply by Ralph Nader and Mark Green
• After the Raid V.E. Kelly
• An Exchange on The Human Prospect L.S. Stavrianos and Robert L. Olson, reply by Robert L. Heilbroner
• Anthropology Upside Down Edmund R. Leach
• Candid Camera David Finn
• Child of Europe D.J. Enright
• Concocting the Next “Crisis” Emma Rothschild
• Exodus Janet Adam Smith
• Female Gothic: Monsters, Goblins, Freaks Ellen Moers
• Folie à deux Charles Rycroft
• Gigantist Christopher Ricks
• How to Be Your Own Worst Enemy P.B. Medawar
• Imperial Israel? Richard Bevis, reply by Bernard Avishai
• Plight of Moroz Rose Styron
• Portrait of a Southern Liberal George McMillan
• Purgatorio Michael Wood
• Rescuing Chileans Melvin Richter
• Rescuing Chileans Maurice Zeitlin
• Shooting America Susan Sontag
• Short Reviews The Editors
• Suppression in Uruguay Emir Rodriguez-Monegal
• Suppression in Uruguay Mauricio Schoijet
• Surrender of the Will Richard Sennett
• The Circus Kenneth Koch
• The Fate of the Munchkins Alison Lurie
• The Great Gramsci E.J. Hobsbawm
• The New Struggle for Palestine Bernard Avishai
• The Trouble With Harry (and Henry) Murray Kempton
• Triumph of the Will Neal Ascherson
• Uncle Thomas’s Cabin Garry Wills
• Under the Overcoat Alex de Jonge
• Watergate Mary McCarthy

May

• A Great Soviet Psychologist David Joravsky
• A Novelist Worth Knowing Karl Miller
• Adoption Ivan Morris
• An Un-American Politician?
• Broken Images Frances A. Yates
• Bukharin and Others Robert Claiborne, reply by Leonard Schapiro
• Bukharin and Others James A. Young
• Catholics Michael Novak, reply by Wilfrid Sheed
• Dazzling and Dizzying
• Discovering Karl Popper Peter Singer
• Eating to Die David Rush, reply by Daniel Zwerdling
• Fabulous Calvino Gore Vidal
• Female Gothic Laurence Senelick, reply by Ellen Moers
• Festschrift Harvey Gross
• Grandeur and Filth Frank Kermode
• He Tried Harder J.H. Plumb
• How Useful Is IQ? Stanley Bosworth, reply by S.E. Luria
• In the Mouse Trap Robert Craft
• Inside the Fortress Elsa First
• Israel: The Last Hurrah Bernard Avishai
• Israel: The Threat from the Right Bernard Avishai
• Joyce Center Frank Kermode
• Letter from the Land of Opportunity Gene Lyons
• Morality Play Richard J. Barnet
• Pioneer V.S. Pritchett
• Prometheus in America Sheldon S. Wolin
• See My Agent Andrew Kopkind
• Seizure in Argentina Ronald Christ
• Sir or Madam John Richardson
• Solzhenitsyn and Yugoslavia Mihajlo Mihajlov, translated by Maria Mihajlov Ivusic
• Spellbinder Kenneth Clark
• Stravinsky Theodore Strawinsky, reply by Robert Craft
• Stravinsky in the Twenties Robert Craft
• Terror in Chile I: The Chicago Commission Report Chicago Commission of Inquiry Into the Status of Human Rights in Chile
• Terror in Chile II: The Amnesty Report Rose Styron
• The Fight Over University Women Gertrude Ezorsky
• The Ghost of Gatsby Robert Mazzocco
• The Jolly Institution C. Vann Woodward
• The Moor Oppressed? Sidney Krome, reply by George M. Fredrickson
• The Pleasures of Gertrude Stein Donald Sutherland
• The Politics of Food Emma Rothschild
• The Strange Case of Jefferson’s Subpoena Garry Wills
• The Twinkies Menace Roslyn Willett, reply by Daniel Zwerdling
• They Don’t Make Them Like That Any More H. Stuart Hughes
• Tongue-Tied Burton Raffel
• Tongue-Tied Paul Schmidt
• Torture of Our Prisoners Joan Simon Crowell
• Where We Started J.H. Elliott
• Who Began the Killing? Seamus Deane, reply by Conor Cruise O’Brien
• Who Began the Killing? Janet Lewis Winters

June

• A Tale of Long Ago Jack Richardson
• An Exchange on Artificial Intelligence Hubert Dreyfus and John Haugeland, reply by Bernard Williams
• An Exchange on Israel Daniel J. Amit, reply by Bernard Avishai
• Can You Go Home Again? Thomas R. Edwards
• Carlyle, Our Hero? Noel Annan
• Death’s Checkered Past Robert Darnton
• Defense William W. Kaufmann, reply by Mary Kaldor and Alexander Cockburn
• Fair Play for Olmsted Laura Wood Roper, reply by C. Vann Woodward
• Giving New Life to Death Robert Darnton
• Good Trip Robert M. Adams
• Hooked Michael Wood
• In Answer to Solzhenitsyn Andrei D. Sakharov, translated by Guy Daniels
• LNS in Trouble James Forman, William M. Kunstler, Jack Newfield, Marge Piercy, and Cora Weiss, et al.
• Mr. Blotner, Mr. Feaster, and Mr. Faulkner William H. Gass
• No Acquittal Brian Inglis
• Paradise Regained Gregory Rabassa, reply by Michael Wood
• Portugal: A Neat Revolution Kenneth Maxwell
• President Park’s Reprisals Victor Honig
• Real Women Stuart Hampshire
• Sad Brazil Elizabeth Hardwick
• Sorry! James Finn
• Soviet Inhumanity Robert L. Bernstein, Simon Michael Bessie, Henry Carlisle, John Hersey, and William Jovanovich, et al.
• Soviet Inhumanity Clarence Brown and Victor Erlich
• Talleyrand’s Cut A.J.P. Taylor
• Terror in Chile Rose Styron
• The Dangers of Nostalgia Roger Sale
• The Defense Confidence Game Mary Kaldor and Alexander Cockburn
• The End of an Era Geoffrey Barraclough
• The French Deadlock Theodore Zeldin
• The Genius of the Place William H. Jordy
• The Kingdom of Heaven Garry Wills
• The Road from Damascus Frances FitzGerald
• Workers under the Junta Joanne Fox Przeworski

July

• A Biology of Russian Dolls Stephen Toulmin
• A Declaration By Vladimir Maramzin Vladimir Maramzin
• After the Moon Walk Edward Field
• Executive Privilege: Jefferson & Burr & Nixon & Ehrlichman Dumas Malone, reply by Garry Wills
• Gothic Guesswork Karl Miller
• How Thieu Hangs On William Shawcross
• Insult & Injury Bob Scholte
• Looking Backward Peter Singer
• Real Class Gore Vidal
• Romantic Jones Martin Green, reply by Charles Rycroft
• Seer of the Ego John Bayley
• Soul Food D.W. Harding
• The Historian’s Skin Arnaldo Momigliano
• The Kurdish Tragedy Simon Head
• Trick or Treatment John G. Fuller, reply by Martin Gardner
• Whale Poem Frederick Morgan

August

• Buchanan Redux Irvin Ehrenpreis
• Complaint L.D. Reddick
• Flaubert in Egypt Robert Penn Warren
• In Defense of Misery Margot Hentoff
• It’s Protein Jacob G. Tolpin
• Khrushchev Forgets Leonard Schapiro
• O Tempora! O Moors! Michael Wood
• On Trial in Chile Martin Garbus
• On the Make in Paris and London Douglas Cooper
• People in a Trap Neal Ascherson
• Power of Positive Popperism Robert Solo, reply by Peter Singer
• Satan in Salem Keith Thomas
• Simone Says… V.S. Pritchett
• Stravinsky in America Robert Craft
• TV Guide Andrew Kopkind
• The Big Week in Washington Garry Wills
• The Way We Live Now Roger Sale
• Was This Empire Necessary? Ronald Steel

September

• A Curious Politician Murray Kempton
• All About Henry Ronald Steel
• An Appeal for Vladimir Maramzin Joseph Brodsky
• Argentina: The Brothels Behind the Graveyard V.S. Naipaul
• From Jamestown to San Clemente Sheldon S. Wolin
• From the Ridiculous to the Ridiculous John Bayley
• In Eliot’s Cave Stephen Spender
• Just Plain Jerry Nicholas von Hoffman
• Proust and the Will Roger Shattuck
• Prove It George Soros, reply by Peter Singer
• Running Out of Food Emma Rothschild
• The Alexander Romance Ernst Badian
• Were Slaves More Efficient? Some Doubts About ‘Time on the Cross’ Thomas L. Haskell

October

• A Blow Against Sadism Peter Schrag
• A Document of Our Time Karel Kovanda
• A Letter from Cesar Chavez Cesar E. Chavez
• Big Problem for Marx J.E. Seigel
• Breaks for Women Robert J. Steinfeld, reply by Gertrude Ezorsky
• Breaks for Women Jeanne C. Wacker
• British Blushes Karl Miller
• Buyers’ Market Frank Kermode
• Cambridge Poetry Festival Elizabeth Thomas and Richard Burns
• Caught Again John Thompson
• Conrad’s Darkness V.S. Naipaul
• Did Mill Go Too Far? Ronald Dworkin
• Emperor of Concrete Gore Vidal
• End Games of Empire? Stanley Diamond
• Freud and Women Christopher Lasch
• Great Depression Irvin Ehrenpreis
• Imagining Jews Philip Roth
• Include Me Out Michael Wood
• Killers and Jokers Richard J. Barnet
• Making Black Music Virgil Thomson
• Meeting the FBI Leon Friedman, Stephen Gillers, and Norman Dorsen
• Parsifal: The Worship of Wagnerism Robert Craft
• Postscript to Nixon Mary McCarthy
• Rebels Without a Cause Michael Walzer
• Rogue Poet V.S. Pritchett
• Seeing Slavery Whole C. Vann Woodward
• Surviving Death J.M. Cameron
• Taking the Wagner Cure Robert Craft
• That’s Entertainment Robert Mazzocco
• The Fate of Rubin Carrington L. Goodrich, Burton Watson, C. Martin Wilbur, Myron L. Cohen, and Gerald Curtis, et al.
• The Fix I.F. Stone
• The Not So Great Dictator Luigi Barzini
• The Poetry of Neruda Michael Wood
• The Threat of Marx Terry M. Perlin, reply by Sheldon S. Wolin
• The View from the Precipice Peter Brown
• Toward the Black Pussy Cafe Wilfrid Sheed
• Traveller’s Palm Richard Murphy
• Up Against the News Harold Rosenberg
• What We Didn’t Know About Slavery Willie Lee Rose
• Where Can Guillermina Be? Pablo Neruda, translated by Alastair Reid
• Will South Africa Explode? George M. Fredrickson

November

• American Graffito Robert Mazzocco
• An International Episode Irvin Ehrenpreis
• Bormann’s Last Gasp Hugh Trevor-Roper
• Bring Back the Birch! Noel Annan
• Fiction in Extremis Michael Wood
• George Jackson and His Legend Francis Carney
• Happy Endings Alison Lurie
• Israel and the Palestinians Sana Hassan
• Master of Arts Henri Zerner
• Mr. Ford’s Deceptions I.F. Stone
• Nabokov’s Touch V.S. Pritchett
• Philip Roth and the Jews: An Exchange Marie Syrkin, reply by Philip Roth
• Photography: The Beauty Treatment Susan Sontag
• Plain Sailing Christopher Hill
• Propaganda of the Victors Alexander Cockburn
• Renoir’s Spell Raymond Durgnat, reply by Robert Mazzocco
• Report from the Field Max Gluckman
• Sitting on Top of the World Harold L. Kahn
• Still Powerless? Peter Clecak, reply by Peter Singer
• Sue and Arabella Elizabeth Hardwick
• The Charm of Insolence Robert Mazzocco
• The Massacre of the Innocents Lawrence Stone
• The Mystery of the Libidinous Molecule C.H. Waddington
• The Secret Agent Charles O. McDonald, reply by V.S. Naipaul
• Tolstoy and His Quaker Alfred Kazin
• Toward the Iceberg Karl Miller
• Two Poems John Ashbery
• Verse for Urania James Merrill
• Victims Jeri Laber
• Victims Noam Chomsky
• Victims I.F. Stone, David McReynolds, Noam Chomsky, and Daniel Ellsberg

December

• “A People That Shall Dwell Alone…” Chimen Abramsky
• A Great Explorer Philip Morrison
• A Sullied, Sallied, Solid Text Stephen Booth
• An Exchange on Freud and Women Jean Strouse, Marcia Cavell, and Jean Baker Miller, reply by Christopher Lasch
• Auden at Milwaukee Stephen Spender
• Critical Standards Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, reply by Philip Roth
• Death at Random
• Elegy to W.H. Auden Joseph Brodsky
• Enigma Variations Irvin Ehrenpreis
• Leonardo’s Notebooks Kenneth Clark
• On Looking Into Fitzgerald’s Homer D.S. Carne-Ross
• Private Property Charles Rosen
• Return to Rome Eleanor Clark
• THE POET AND ‘THE RAKE’ Robert Craft
• The Dome of the Rock: Jerusalem (1970) Chester Kallman
• The Resistance in Russia Peter B. Reddaway
• Timon of Paris Elizabeth Hardwick
• Two Poems W.H. Auden
• W.H. Auden (1907–1973) Under Tom Tower Richard Ellmann
• Winter’s Tales Roger Sale