The New York Review of Books

January

• ‘Figaro’ at the Met: A Marriage on the Rocks Robert Craft
• A Cosmic and Practical Man Robert M. Adams
• All in the Family Noel Annan
• Américainerie J.H. Elliott
• Bearing Gifts Hugh Lloyd-Jones, reply by Arnaldo Momigliano
• Before & After Solzhenitsyn Gleb Struve
• Before and After Solzhenitsyn David N. Stern, reply by Leonard Schapiro
• Dryden & Oedipus Earl Miner, reply by Bernard Knox
• Gazing at Death Jean Starobinski, translated by Peter France
• In Chekhov’s Spell Robert Mazzocco
• No Cause for Optimism Richard Ashley, reply by Norman E. Zinberg
• On Being Free Vladimir Maramzin
• Pioneer Adam Smith, reply by Martin Gardner
• Prejudice & Slavery Carl N. Degler
• Saying Good-by to Hannah Mary McCarthy
• The CIA from Beginning to End Garry Wills
• The Fatal Charm of the Millennium Aileen Kelly
• The Good War Neal Ascherson
• The State of Poetry Irvin Ehrenpreis

February

• “No, but I read the book.” Michael Wood
• For Rosenberg Jon Silkin
• Greek for the Greekless Bernard Knox
• High Tide Robert Mollinger, reply by Frederick C. Crews
• Houseboat Days John Ashbery
• Leighton Lives Laurence Birns
• Looking for the Lost Generation Virgil Thomson
• Love in the Catskills Richard Ellmann
• Mishima and Militarism Henry Scott Stokes, reply by Hide Ishiguro
• Myths of the Food Crisis Nick Eberstadt
• Room at the Bottom Neal Ascherson
• Selected Memories of the Glorious Bird and the Golden Age Gore Vidal
• Summoning Up the Kabbalah Leon Wieseltier
• Talk about Ashbery Robert Brotherson, reply by Irvin Ehrenpreis
• The Cold War and Détente H. Stuart Hughes
• The Culík Case Michael A. Arbib
• The DeFunis Case: The Right to Go to Law School Ronald Dworkin
• The Last Days of New York Jason Epstein
• The New Conservatives Sheldon S. Wolin
• The Possessed Noel Annan
• The Relentless KGB Peter B. Reddaway
• The Ultra Ultra Secret Hugh Trevor-Roper
• Vindicating Mary Wollstonecraft Ellen Moers
• Whigs, Marxists, and Poachers Lawrence Stone
• Writing in the Shadow of the Monolith Carl R. Proffer

March

• A ‘Beautiful Coloured, Musical Thing’ Robert Craft
• Adamses: The ‘Best’ People I Gore Vidal
• All Mixed Up Michael Wood
• Ancient Incas and Modern Revolution Robert M. Adams
• Billie Holiday Elizabeth Hardwick
• Cambodia Under Its New Rulers William Shawcross
• Cato’s Gang Garry Wills
• Cutting Classes Andrew Hacker
• Detained in Ghana Eleanor Clark, Elizabeth Hardwick, John Hollander, Irving Howe, and Alfred Kazin, et al.
• FBI Mayhem Milton Viorst
• Growing Pains Ken Follett, reply by Moshe Safdie
• Guernica Herbert R. Southworth, reply by Alexander Cockburn
• How John Got On Douglas Cooper
• Into the Sunset John Kenneth Galbraith
• Living through Hell J.M. Cameron
• Michal Kalecki: A Neglected Prophet Joan Robinson
• News from the Muse Helen Vendler
• Rules of the Game Michael Wood
• Set Theory Norman Mailer
• Solved! Donald Windham, reply by Gore Vidal
• The Homecoming Neal Ascherson
• The Malraux Show John Russell
• The New Order in Asia John K. Fairbank
• The Passions of Bertrand Russell Bernard Williams
• The Revival of Official Art Charles Rosen and Henri Zerner
• Torture in Uruguay Ivan Morris
• Trompe L’oeil John Hellebrand, reply by Ada Louise Huxtable
• Whither Spain? Melissa G. Moyer and Jesus M. de Miguel, reply by Barbara Probst Solomon

April

• A Private Press Laura (Riding) Jackson, reply by Virgil Thomson
• Art and Life Katharine Strelsky, reply by Aileen Kelly
• Boyish Masters A.J.P. Taylor
• Bring Us out of Egypt Philip Levine
• Degrees of Rape Margaret J. Gates, reply by Diane Johnson
• Degrees of Rape Jean MacKellar
• Degrees of Rape Winslow Hunt
• Dogs and Heroes in Homer Bernard Knox
• Eliot’s Request Peter du Sautoy
• Energy and the Politicians Alexander Cockburn and James Ridgeway
• Family Theory Fred Weinstein and Gerald M. Platt, reply by Christopher Lasch
• Fate of a Poet Joseph Brodsky
• Fighting Freud Frank Kermode
• Freedom and Anarchy David T. Wieck, reply by Aileen Kelly
• Frustrated Father W.H.C. Frend
• Great Scot Janet Adam Smith
• Heroine Addiction Michael Wood
• History of World Languages D.J. Enright
• In Gibbon’s Shade Peter Brown
• In a Frozen Country Gennady Shmakov and John Malmstad
• India: A Wounded Civilization V.S. Naipaul
• Jung and God Rosemary Dinnage
• Kabbalah Anyone? Justus George Lawler, reply by Leon Wieseltier
• Kabbalah Anyone? Thomas B. Hess
• Lie-Fishing Charles B. MacDonald
• Lie-Fishing Ronald Mansbridge, reply by Hugh Trevor-Roper
• Luxe et Veritas Hugh Honour
• Man of Pain Paul Auster
• Milking the Elk Wilfrid Sheed
• Murder, she says. Roger Sale
• Nijinsky and ‘Le Sacre’ Robert Craft
• Paleface John Bayley
• Passions in Politics Michael Wood
• Pound and Fascism Donald Davie
• San Diego Mayhem Kingsley Widmer, reply by Milton Viorst
• Sentimental Education Robert L. Heilbroner
• Suntan V.S. Pritchett
• The Adams’ Fall: II Gore Vidal
• The Aesthete of War V.S. Pritchett
• The Good Rasputin Guy Daniels, reply by Carl R. Proffer
• The Jews and the Devil Andrei Sinyavsky, translated by Michael Glenny
• The People v. Patty Hearst Diane Johnson
• The Real Reason Chappaquiddick Disqualifies Kennedy
• The Schorr Case: The Real Dangers I.F. Stone
• The Short View Thomas R. Edwards
• The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice P.B. Medawar
• The War No One Won E.H. Carr
• Visitor Arthur H. Samuelson
• Was Alger Hiss Framed? Allen Weinstein
• Wet Casements John Ashbery

May

• A Man for the Hour Leon Wieseltier
• Actions Louder than Words Charles Rycroft
• Banks: The Coming Crisis Emma Rothschild
• Der Rosenkavalier: ‘Something Mozartian’? Robert Craft
• For the Record C. David Heymann, reply by Donald Davie
• Graves Everywhere Neal Ascherson
• Hooked! Roger Sale
• In the Closet? Jon Stallworthy
• Is There Hope for English? C.L. Barber
• Jeweler at Work Helen Muchnic
• Love, Hate, and Ezra Pound Irvin Ehrenpreis
• Melt That Pot Michael Novak
• Melt That Pot Adaljiza Sosaz Riddell, reply by Andrew Hacker
• On Hannah Arendt Robert Lowell
• Science, Salvation, and the Cabala Frances A. Yates
• Sex in the Head J.M. Cameron
• Superagent Hugh Trevor-Roper
• Terror in the Catskills Nina Baym
• Terror in the Catskills Thomas H. Pauly, reply by Richard Ellmann
• The Haves and the Have Nots Geoffrey Barraclough
• The Hiss Case: An Exchange Stephen W. Salant, Athan Theoharis, and David Levin, reply by Allen Weinstein
• The Struggles of T.S. Eliot Michael Wood
• The Threat to the Republic I.F. Stone
• The True Peru John T. Donnelly
• The True Peru Ernest W. Ranly, reply by Robert M. Adams
• The Wounds of India V.S. Naipaul
• Under Westy’s Eyes Kevin Buckley

June

• ‘Elektra’and Richard Strauss Robert Craft
• A Better Mouse Trap Irwin D.J. Bross, reply by P.B. Medawar
• A Better Mouse Trap Joseph R. Hixson
• A Better Mouse Trap Robert S. Schwartz
• A Celestial Telephone Exchange J.M. Cameron
• An Imperialist’s Progress Hugh Trevor-Roper
• Anti-Papa Politics Garry Wills
• At the Waldorf Garry Wills
• Banks: The Politics of Debt Emma Rothschild
• Big Deals John Gardner
• Bombay: The Skyscrapers and the Chawls V.S. Naipaul
• Crying for Attention Michael Wood
• Eliot’s English Usage Robert Craft, reply by Michael Wood
• Freedom When? Fred A. Crane, reply by Gore Vidal
• Gifts to Greeks David Jackson
• Help Moroz Jeri Laber
• Hitchcock Laughs Michael Wood
• India: New Claim on the Land V.S. Naipaul
• No Charge Louis Jolyon West
• Short Reviews The Editors
• Short Reviews The Editors
• Singing ‘Mammy’ to Doris Garry Wills
• Swift’s Sting Irvin Ehrenpreis
• Sylvia Plath’s Apotheosis Karl Miller
• Terror in Argentina Reuben Shiffman
• The American Amnesia John H. Schaar
• The Hiss Case (cont’d) Harrison E. Salisbury, reply by Allen Weinstein
• The Hiss Case (cont’d) John H.F. Shattuck, reply by Allen Weinstein
• The Power of Property Ferdinand Lundberg, reply by John Kenneth Galbraith
• Trouble in Freedonia Richard Wollheim
• Two Poems Stephen Spender
• Unasked Questions Nicholas von Hoffman
• Witnesses Murray Kempton

July

• American Plastic: The Matter of Fiction Gore Vidal
• Cinderella in Reverse John Bayley
• Coming Up for Air Frank Kermode
• Driving Out Demons Harold Bloom
• Eliot’s English Usage (Contd.) Robert Craft
• Eliot’s English Usage (Contd.) Christopher Ricks, reply by Robert Craft
• Free Mustafa Dzhemilev Reza Baraheni, Pavel Litvinov, and Martin Sostre
• Hi ho, Silver! Michael Wood
• Musical Rx for a Political Season Robert Craft
• Only in America Leon Wieseltier
• Sex in the Head Peter Singer, reply by J.M. Cameron
• Sex in the Head Eugene C. Bianchi
• Sex in the Head Morton Hunt
• South Africa’s White War Neal Ascherson
• The American Revolution: Was There “A People”? Edmund S. Morgan
• The DeFunis Case: An Exchange Michael Winger and Glen W. Bell, reply by Ronald Dworkin
• Travel Tip Paul Brennan
• Two Poems John Berryman
• Vietnam: The First Year Tiziano Terzani

August

• ‘Bioethics’: The Case of the Fetus Peter Singer
• Battleground G.N. Gabbard, reply by C.L. Barber
• Battleground Frederic R. Jameson
• Careful Rapture Sybille Bedford
• Christians vs. Christians W.H.C. Frend
• Gigolo Robert Mazzocco
• India: A Defect of Vision V.S. Naipaul
• Light from Above Helen Muchnic
• Open to Discussion H. Harvard Arnason
• Over the Edge Rosemary Dinnage
• The “Excelsior” Affair Elizabeth Hardwick, Gore Vidal, Philip Roth, Arthur Miller, and Noam Chomsky, et al.
• The American Revolution: Who Were ‘The People’? Edmund S. Morgan
• The Carter Question I: Love and Profit Garry Wills
• The Carter Question II: Piety and Politics Elizabeth Hardwick
• The Great Pretender A.J.P. Taylor
• The Sunny Side of the Street Alexander Cockburn and James Ridgeway
• The Wild Blue Yonder Michael Wood
• True Patriots Diane Johnson
• Trust the Tale Murray M. Schwartz
• Two Poems John Hollander

September

• ‘Intelligence’: The Constitution Betrayed Henry Steele Commager
• A Family Matter Roger Sale
• Aoi! George Kearns, reply by Irvin Ehrenpreis
• Appeal for Kofi Awoonor Alfred Kazin
• Appeal from Poland Stanisław Barańczak, Jacek Bochenski, Kazimierz Brandys, Stefan Kisielewski, and Andrzej Kijowski, et al.
• Battle over Monty Neal Ascherson
• Dead Heat Dumb-Out Garry Wills
• Epidemic Man Keith Thomas
• Horror in Uganda I: Amin’s Subjects Denis Hills
• Horror in Uganda II: Amin’s Butchery David Martin
• India: Synthesis and Mimicry V.S. Naipaul
• Myths for Mothers Helen Vendler
• Poem Osip Mandelstam, translated from the Russian by Beatrice Stillman
• Poetry and Terror Richard Murphy
• Reflections on Terrorism Conor Cruise O’Brien
• Reviewing Sylvia Plath Mary Folliet, reply by Karl Miller
• Reviewing Sylvia Plath Olwyn Hughes
• Reviewing Sylvia Plath Edward Butscher
• Rx for Illich Lewis Thomas
• Slim Pickens Mark Crispin Miller
• Surprise! Robert M. Stevenson, reply by I.F. Stone
• The Battle of Lenox Hill Robert Craft
• The Call of the Wild Jonathan Miller
• The Cult of Joe Stephen Spender
• The Disenchanted D.J. Enright
• The Gutman Report George M. Fredrickson
• The Hiss Case: Another Exchange! Peter H. Irons and Stephen W. Salant, reply by Allen Weinstein
• The Ladies Vanish Michael Wood
• The Mark of Bewick Henri Zerner
• The Narcissist Society Christopher Lasch
• The Power of Lit. Richard Ohmann, reply by C.L. Barber
• The Second Oswald David Pryce-Jones
• Tough Guys Thomas R. Edwards
• Youth Stares at Minoan Sunset Robert Penn Warren

October

• ‘Bodyguard of Lies’: An Exchange Anthony Cave Brown, reply by Hugh Trevor-Roper
• A Successful Alchemist Frank Kermode
• An Artist in Prison Mark S. Wittenberg
• An Expert’s Obligation David P. Bancroft, reply by Diane Johnson
• Ananda Marga Replies Richard J. Gochal
• Bananas John Kenneth Galbraith
• Drums Under the Window Denis Donoghue
• Friendly Fire C.D.B. Bryan, reply by Diane Johnson
• Getting Religion John H. Schaar
• Hellenic Things Harry L. Levy, reply by David Jackson
• India: Paradise Lost V.S. Naipaul
• Lessons of Kropotkin Aileen Kelly
• Letter from Moscow I.A. Mel’cuk
• Lowell’s Comedy Irvin Ehrenpreis
• Mahler Now Pierre Boulez
• Not a Broker E. Milton McDonald
• Old Campaigners John Thompson
• On the Death of Mao John K. Fairbank
• Orphans and Oracles: What Clara Knew Karl Miller
• Pavilions Lincoln Kirstein
• Planned Obsolescence Christopher Lasch
• Plastic Fiction Paul Illert, reply by Gore Vidal
• Plastic Fiction Name Withheld
• Plastic Fiction James W. Earl
• Psycholanguage Leo A. Spiegel
• Silenced South Africans Caldwell Titcomb, Elliot Norton, Kevin Kelly, Arthur Friedman, and Carolyn Clay, et al.
• Sister Water Robert Penn Warren
• Terror in Argentina Mort Rosenblum
• Terror in Iran Reza Baraheni
• The Customs of the Country Hugh Trevor-Roper
• The Mystery of Jean Bodin Frances A. Yates
• The Paris Opéra in New York Robert Craft
• The Promise of Populism C. Vann Woodward
• The Smiles of Carter Edgar Z. Friedenberg
• Theatrical Sartre William H. Gass
• Trumbull’s Klutzy Triumph Garry Wills
• Two Poems Reza Baraheni
• Which Side Was Clausewitz On? C.B.A. Behrens
• You Don’t Have to Be Khazarian… Leon Wieseltier

November

• ‘Winnie’ and ‘Uncle Wolf’ Robert Craft
• An American Family Willie Lee Rose
• Artaud Possessed Roger Shattuck
• Caliban’s Gift Christopher Hill
• Carter on His Own Garry Wills
• Disclaimer Eugene D. Genovese, reply by George M. Fredrickson
• Embryonic “Bioethics” Thomas A. Shannon, reply by Peter Singer
• Embryonic “Bioethics” Paul Ramsey
• Endangered Species Michael Wood
• Faust: Still Striving and Straying Harry Levin
• He Can’t Lose Michael Howard
• In a Universe of Ghosts Leon Wieseltier
• Iran Boycott; An Exchange Gregg E. Gorton, reply by Reza Baraheni
• Justice to Charlotte Brontë Diane Johnson
• Leakage Nicholas von Hoffman
• Lowell’s Irony Constance A. Sullivan, reply by Irvin Ehrenpreis
• Mended D.L. Abramovitch, reply by John Thompson
• Notable American Women Barbara Sicherman
• On Alger Hiss John Chabot Smith
• On the Pioneer Trail Arnaldo Momigliano
• Russia: The Pursuit of the Extreme Leonard Schapiro
• Sense of the Present Elizabeth Hardwick
• Short Review The Editors
• So It Went Robert Towers
• Support for the Polish Workers Saul Bellow, Heinrich Boell, Jean Daniel, Jean-Marie Domenach, and Pierre Emmanuel, et al.
• The Campaign to Destroy Martin Luther King David Wise
• The Dostoevsky Labyrinth V.S. Pritchett
• The Dress Code Alison Lurie
• The Founders’ Virtues Garry Wills
• The Virgin in History Keith Thomas
• Violence in Olympia Peter Brown
• Where Chomsky Stands Bernard Williams
• Who Makes the Movies? Gore Vidal

December

• Appointment in Khazaria Henry R. Huttenbach, reply by Leon Wieseltier
• Art for Christmas John Richardson
• Art, Sex and Isherwood Gore Vidal
• Consistent Kissinger Sheldon S. Wolin
• Elegy for ‘Mary Hartman’ Robert Craft
• Goodbye to All That Neal Ascherson
• How Tyranny Returned to Thailand William Shawcross
• Letter from South Africa Nadine Gordimer
• The Genius of Aubrey Beardsley Kenneth Clark
• The Not-So-Innocent Eye Francis Haskell
• Unhappy Dictators Michael Wood