The New York Review of Books

January

• “Your Lone and Loving Exile” Alfred Kazin
• An Ambiguous Act John Clive
• Another CIA Plot? William Shawcross
• At Least One Way John Thompson
• Bird Watching Richard Gordon
• Bird Watching Jeff Simon, reply by Virgil Thomson
• Dickinsons in Love
• Huxley at Home Robert Craft
• Incomparable Empson
• Men at Work Robert L. Heilbroner
• New Magazine James E. Algeo
• Reply Bob Scholte
• Some General Instructions Kenneth Koch
• Taking Sides L.C. Knights, reply by Irvin Ehrenpreis
• The Great World Crisis I Geoffrey Barraclough
• The Jewish State in Question Bernard Avishai
• The Man the Democrats Need Garry Wills
• Victims Joseph Brodsky
• Victims Noam Chomsky and Ali Farshbaf
• Victims Shirley Stewart
• Victims of Psychiatry P.B. Medawar
• What Rover Knew

February

• A Disagreement Anthony West, reply by Frank Kermode
• A Master Musicologist Charles Rosen
• A Misunderstood Genius Irvin Ehrenpreis
• A New Solution for the CIA I.F. Stone
• A Nice Place to Visit E.P. Thompson
• Academic Vaudeville Thomas R. Edwards
• Artifices of Eternity Peter Brown and Sabine MacCormack
• Defending Riverside Harry Levin, reply by Stephen Booth
• Fascinating Fascism Susan Sontag
• Imperial Image Makers J.H. Elliott
• Letter to Tito Alfred J. Ayer, Noam Chomsky, Robert S. Cohen, Dagfinn Follesdal, and Juergen Habermas, et al.
• Lisztomania Robert Craft
• Looking for “Reality” Sheldon S. Wolin
• Myra, Myron, & Gore Thom Willenbecher and Steven Abbot, reply by Robert Mazzocco
• Nicola Chiaromonte and the Theatre Mary McCarthy
• On Pirandello’s ‘Clothing the Naked’ Nicola Chiaromonte, translated by Mary McCarthy and Ronald Strom
• One-Man Language Paul Auster
• Russell Foundation in Trouble Ken Coates and Noam Chomsky
• Sherlockology Clive James
• The Boremann Documents Joel H. Weinberg, reply by Hugh Trevor-Roper
• The Boy Who Couldn’t Grow Up
• The Hammett Case Roger Sale
• The Life of the Mind Guy Davenport, reply by Irvin Ehrenpreis
• The New Wave in Psychiatry Elsa First
• Undiscovered Country? Joseph L. Love
• War for Oil? I.F. Stone
• What Children Know About Politics Robert Coles

March

• Among the Israelis Stephen Spender
• An Honest Man Gerald Brenan
• Bearers of Bad Tidings: Writers and the American Dream Robert Penn Warren
• Cards of Identity Donald Davie
• Children and Politics: Outsiders Robert Coles
• Credit for Kracauer Susan Sontag
• Czechoslovakia’s Imprisoned Conscience Karel Kovanda
• Feminism and Fascism: An Exchange Adrienne Rich, reply by Susan Sontag
• KGB Thuggery Peter B. Reddaway
• Leonardo Mystery Paul Oskar Kristeller, reply by Kenneth Clark
• Liberation in Lisbon Neal Ascherson
• Liszt Learning Eleanor Perenyi, reply by Robert Craft
• Maramzin Trial Carl R. Proffer
• Masquerades Michael Wood
• Million Dollar Yeggs Alexander Cockburn
• Money on the Brink Nicholas von Hoffman
• None of Your Business Robert L. Heilbroner
• One of the Family John Bayley
• Play It Again, Sam Michael Wood
• Progress in Dying William B. Ober
• The Curious Case of Max Müller Hugh Lloyd-Jones
• The Giant of Busseto Robert Craft
• The Great American Butchery C. Vann Woodward
• The Politics of Middle Class Children Robert Coles
• The Right to Be Rich or Poor Peter Singer
• Time Trips Matthew Hodgart
• War for Oil? An Exchange Earl C. Ravenal, Otto Nathan, Fred M. Gottheil, and Michael Blankfort, reply by I.F. Stone

April

• A Great Art Historian Anthony Blunt
• Between Thunder and Lightning Robert Mazzocco
• Bloomsbury Variations Irvin Ehrenpreis
• Bringing the News Roger Sale
• Busy Minister Thomas R. Edwards
• Farewell to Hitler Geoffrey Barraclough
• Freud and the Imagination Charles Rycroft
• Grateful to Strunk Eric Werner, reply by Charles Rosen
• Home Remedies D.W. Harding
• In the Literary Jungle Michael Wood
• It Wasn’t Freud John E. George, reply by Clive James
• Jumbo History Keith Thomas
• Le Sacre and Pierre Monteux: An Unknown Debt Robert Craft
• Matters of Life and Death Robert Mazzocco
• Mixed Feelings John Ashbery
• Outbidding Howard B. Levine, reply by P.B. Medawar
• Russian Nightmares Helen Muchnic
• Short Reviews The Editors
• Some New Books on Hitler and National Socialism Geoffrey Barraclough
• The Anatomy of Mind William H. Gass
• The CIA and the Man Who Was Not Oswald Bernard Fensterwald and George O’Toole
• The Hidden Revolution in Portugal Kenneth Maxwell
• The Human Sewer Garry Wills
• The Irish Situation Richard Murphy, reply by Donald Davie
• The Real Energy Problem Christopher T. Rand, reply by Geoffrey Barraclough
• University Women: An Exchange Sidney Hook, reply by Gertrude Ezorsky
• Verdi, Shakespeare, and ‘Falstaff’ Robert Craft
• What Made Ralegh Run? Theodore K. Rabb
• Whittaker Chambers and ‘The Middle of the Journey’ Lionel Trilling

May

• Amnesty in Czechoslovakia Ivan Morris
• Art & Life With the Rich Richard Wollheim
• Backstairs at Court Garry Wills
• Dante Agonistes D.S. Carne-Ross
• Do We Need Prisons? An Exchange Peter Koenig and Raymond E. James, reply by Garry Wills
• Family Therapy: An Exchange Lynn Hoffman, Paul Watzlawick, John H. Weakland, and Richard Fisch, reply by Elsa First
• Founding Father Tom Eric Foner
• Gael in Wonderland Karl Miller
• Gorgeous Sills Garry Wills
• Haul Casts Pall on Mall Douglas Cooper
• In Portuguese Prisons Antonio de Figueiredo
• Israel and the PLO: A Way Out of the Impasse Mattityahu Peled and Elias H. Tuma
• Knock, Knock. Who’s There? Alan Tyson
• Millions of Missing Links J.Z. Young
• New Quarterly A.J. Liehm
• Numero Uno John K. Fairbank
• Pictures From an Institution Michael Wood
• Plight of the Kurds Benjamin Spock, Gerald Holton, Stanley Hoffmann, Morris Halle, and Salvador E. Luria, et al.
• Portugal Under Pressure Kenneth Maxwell
• Romantic Documents Charles Rosen
• Spreading Hegel’s Wings Anthony Quinton
• Telling Time Robert Craft
• That Sax Frank Kofsky, reply by Virgil Thomson
• The Art of Debunkery Richard Murphy
• The Battered, Triumphant Sage William H. Gass
• The Family Mill Alan Ryan
• The French Disease Steven Englund
• The Great American Debate J.H. Elliott
• The Man Who Became an Indian Jesse D. Green
• The Model of a Modern Modernist Frank Kermode
• The Nostalgic Kingdom of Maurice Ravel Robert Craft
• The Poet Crowned Seamus Heaney
• The Scientific Psychology of Sigmund Freud William H. Gass
• The Spirit of ‘76 Andrew Kopkind
• The Two Stevensons Karl Miller
• This Property Is Condemned Peter Wirth, reply by Peter Singer
• Three Poems Robert Lowell
• Vietnam: After the Debacle Jean Lacouture
• What Rules America? Andrew Hacker
• Within the Pale Karl Miller

June

• A New King for the Congo V.S. Naipaul
• A Sort of Pilgrim Noel Annan
• A Special Supplement: The Meaning of Vietnam Stuart Hampshire, Elizabeth Hardwick, Garry Wills, Gore Vidal, and Norman Mailer, et al.
• An American Army Francis Carney
• An Appeal from Moscow Peter B. Reddaway
• Conned in Cambodia I.F. Stone
• Did Wordsworth Kill Lucy? Donald H. Reiman, reply by Charles Rosen
• Escapes From Freedom Boris Shragin, translated by Mirra Ginsburg
• Fathers and Children Christopher Ricks
• Good Henry & Bad Henry Garry Wills
• Goriot in Tokyo Michael Wood
• Home to Roost: A Bicentennial Address Hannah Arendt
• How Doomed Are We? Emma Rothschild
• In the Promised Land Gene Lyons
• Not Freud’s Discovery Martin Gardner
• Spreading Hegel’s Wings—II Anthony Quinton
• Springtime for Hitler Rudolph Binion, reply by Geoffrey Barraclough
• Springtime for Hitler Philip Y. Nicholson
• Teacher Irvin Ehrenpreis
• The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie Robert Craft
• The Dominant Doctor Jean Starobinski, translated by Peter France
• The Power of Smokey Alison Lurie
• The Voice of the Underdog William Empson
• Typing It Up Roger Sale
• What Shelley Knew G.M. Matthews
• Wolfeburg Barbara Rose

July

• A Whiter Wash William Shawcross
• Amedeo Modigliani Anna Akhmatova, translated by Djemma Bider
• American, Black, Creole, Pidgin, and Spanglish English Monroe K. Spears
• An Exchange on the Jewish State Noam Chomsky, reply by Bernard Avishai
• How to Lie in Washington and Get Away With It Laurence Birns
• In the Disintegrating City Rosemary Dinnage
• Is There a Ruling Class? G. William Domhoff
• Is There a Ruling Class? Maurice Zeitlin, reply by Andrew Hacker
• Jane Austen’s Militant Comedy V.S. Pritchett
• Letter from Nashville Robert Mazzocco
• Marvelous Poet James Merrill
• New Mag! John Bernard Myers
• Peace for Israel: A Proposal Yosi Amitai, Uri Avneri, and Amos Kenan
• Revolutionary Women Aileen Kelly
• Save the Whales! J.Z. Young
• The CIA’s Mystery Man Peter Dale Scott, reply by Bernard Fensterwald and George O’Toole
• Two Poems Constantine Cavafy, translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard
• Vulnerable Japan E.J. Hobsbawm

August

• Adventures of the Deep Thomas R. Edwards
• From Ragtime to Riches Roger Sale
• Letters Vernon A. Walters, reply by Kenneth Maxwell
• Mindless Societies C.H. Waddington
• On Boredom
• Sartre at Seventy: An Interview Jean-Paul Sartre and Michel Contat, translated by Paul Auster and Lydia Davis
• Stricken Boston Robert Coles
• The ‘Doctor Faustus’ Case Robert Craft
• The Augustinian Ruskin Garry Wills
• The CIA in Latin America Gabriel García Márquez, translated by Gregory Rabassa
• The Return of Laura Riding Paul Auster
• Two True Stories Peter B. Reddaway, Frank Baldwin, and Bruce Cumings
• Wealth and Power: The Politics of Food and Oil Geoffrey Barraclough
• Yankee Doodle Andy William A. Williams

September

• A Higher Selfishness? Roger Shattuck
• An Exchange on Leni Riefenstahl David B. Hinton, reply by Susan Sontag
• Divine Wind D.J. Enright
• Exiles Mark Strand
• Indira’s Coup Oriana Fallaci
• Kissingerizing Gil Carl AlRoy
• Notice Taken Hunter Hannum and Hildegarde Hannum
• Odd Sound Graham Greene
• Off the Plantation Willie Lee Rose
• Prosecution Witnesses Helen Muchnic
• Shaken Men Michael Wood
• Sin and Significance Thomas Nagel
• Taken for a Ride Harold Rosenberg, reply by Douglas Cooper
• Taping Friday Neal Ascherson
• The Grants Gore Vidal
• The Outcast Cardinal J.M. Cameron
• Two Modern Masters Robert Craft
• Wrong Suburb Alan Ryan, reply by Anthony Quinton
• Yale Enlightened Garry Wills

October

• A Reply Lev Navrozov
• Abba Eban on the Palestinians Abba Eban
• Absolutely Yours, Hegel Richard Gram
• Absolutely Yours, Hegel Robert C. Solomon, reply by Anthony Quinton
• American Prophet Frederick C. Crews
• An Open Letter to the Secretary General Ludvik Vaculik
• Anatomy Lessons Quentin Bell
• Black English J.L. Dillard, reply by Monroe K. Spears
• Boysenberry Sherbet Irvin Ehrenpreis
• Coffee Break for Sisyphus Michael Wood
• Collected Novels John Hollander
• Collection on Consciousness Joyce Phipps
• Cracking the Code D.S. Carne-Ross
• Daddy! Michael Rogin
• Dictatorship with Charm E.J. Hobsbawm
• Double Assault Edith Russell
• Dream-Power Lawrence Krader, reply by Charles Rycroft
• Gifts of the Gab Donald Davie
• Girl Crazy N.A. Straight
• Good Mixer Audrey Williamson, reply by Eric Foner
• Haunted Landscape Robert M. Adams
• He’s Got a Problem Michael Bawtree
• He’s Not So Dumb Garry Wills
• Hello to All That Karl Miller
• Israel Letter: The New Trap Bernard Avishai
• Magical and Mundane Shakespeare C.L. Barber
• Mozart’s ‘Opera of All Operas’ Robert Craft
• Next Question Egon Radvany
• Old Man Anthony Ostroff
• Paradox Robert Penn Warren
• Perplexing Painters Francis Haskell
• Poverty, Crime & Revolution Robert Darnton
• Puzzling Peter Levi, reply by Noel Annan
• Salzburg, Mozart and ‘Così’ Robert Craft
• Shaky Mobutu Stephen R. Weissman
• Short Reviews The Editors
• Telling Laura (Riding) Jackson, reply by Paul Auster
• The Boom in the Death Business Emma Rothschild
• The Dostoevskys V.S. Pritchett
• The Greeks and Us Arnaldo Momigliano
• The Kim Chi Ha Case Bruce Cumings
• The Lives of Ancient Women Ernst Badian
• The Real Macaulay Hugh Trevor-Roper
• The Return of George Wallace Marshall Frady
• The Sporting Life Garry Wills
• The Theft of Childbirth Adrienne Rich
• The Troubles John Montague, reply by Karl Miller
• The True & Tragical History of ‘Time on the Cross’ Thomas L. Haskell
• The Uses of Antislavery George M. Fredrickson
• Unsafe at Any Speed Norman E. Zinberg
• Valentine John Ashbery
• Vets Anthology Jan Barry and W.D. Ehrhart

November

• Aeschylus Pinioned and Grabbed Bernard Knox
• Against “Sociobiology” Elizabeth Allen, Barbara Beckwith, Jon Beckwith, Steven Chorover, and David Culver, et al.
• Art, Life & Dr. Williams Helen Vendler
• Brazil: the Sealed Coffin Richard M. Morse, Thomas E. Skidmore, Alfred Stepan, Stanley Stein, and Charles Wagley
• Busy Work Martin Tropp, reply by Michael Wood
• Chile’s Murderous Regime Anthony T. Moffett
• Conspiracy of Silence Joseph Cohen
• Disintegrating Portugal: An Interview with Mário Soares Oriana Fallaci
• Disturbing, Fanatical, and Heroic Leonard Schapiro
• Fathers & Fathers & Sons Roger Sale
• Greatness and Melancholy Michael Wood
• How Freedom Took Root in Slavery J.H. Plumb
• Lost Allusions Christopher Ricks
• Modern Architecture in Question Ada Louise Huxtable
• Playing with ‘The Magic Flute’ Robert Craft
• Postscript from Portugal Kenneth Maxwell
• School’s Out Edgar Z. Friedenberg
• Someone to Watch Over You Garry Wills
• Spain on the Brink Barbara Probst Solomon
• The Corridors of DNA C.P. Snow
• The Emotions of Family Life Christopher Lasch
• The Family and History Christopher Lasch
• The Progress of Cesar Chavez Francis Carney
• The Rescue of Edith Wharton Irvin Ehrenpreis
• The Right Ruskin Jay Fellows
• Vectors Irving Howe
• Visible Woman Joanna S. Rose
• Working Up Work Frank Kermode

December

• ‘A Prodigy of Nature’ Robert Craft
• A Tail of Terror Alison Lurie
• Barthelme the Scrivener Thomas R. Edwards
• Coco’s Closet Francine Gray
• Cultural Hothouse Carl E. Schorske
• For Sociobiology Edward O. Wilson
• From Husak’s Castle Noam Chomsky
• From a Portuguese Prison Kenneth Maxwell
• Funds for Clio William N. Parker, reply by Thomas L. Haskell
• Help Wanted Ned O’Gorman
• In Scorn and Pity Karl Miller
• Joy in Mudville Moshe Safdie
• Keeping the Secret Nigel Dennis
• Laying the Dust Kirkpatrick Sale
• Lionel Trilling (1905–1975) John Thompson
• Mysteries of Islam Clifford Geertz
• Strawberry Shortcut Martin Gardner
• Street Musicians John Ashbery
• The Current Cinema Veronica Geng
• The Psychopathology of Journalism Alexander Cockburn
• The Secret of Their Voices Philip Levine
• The Short Good-bye Neville Maxwell
• The War Between Men and Women Diane Johnson
• What the Doctor Ordered Christopher Lasch
• Writer, Rightist or Freak? Hide Ishiguro