The New York Review of Books

January

• A History of Endurance Willie Lee Rose
• A Victorian Heroine Aileen Kelly
• Below Suspicion Robert Towers
• Conspicuous Grandeur Keith Thomas
• Cosa Nostra Geoffrey Grigson
• Human Rights for Everybody Marilyn Vogt, Emile de Antonio, Dore Ashton, Reza Baraheni, and Norma Becker, et al.
• Illness as Metaphor Susan Sontag
• Misanthrope Mishap Richard Wilbur
• Solving the China Problem John K. Fairbank
• Stir Crazy Clifford Geertz
• The Bakke Case: An Exchange Martin Staniland, John Robertson, Morton Weinfeld, Louis B. Schwartz, and Nathan P. Glazer, et al.
• The Great Spectacular Graham Greene
• The Long Work of Liberty George Konrad, translated from the Hungarian by Ivan Sanders
• The Master Builder Kenneth Clark
• The Mythical Life of D.H. Lawrence Stephen Spender
• The Play’s the Thing Harold E. Mahan
• The Third Coming Martin Gardner
• Traveling Light Stephen Spender

February

• A Four Handkerchief Tragedy Bernard Knox
• A Matter of Taste Robert Conquest, reply by Helen Muchnic
• Benevolent Adam Smith Garry Wills
• Buñuel’s Private Lessons Michael Wood
• Disease as Political Metaphor Susan Sontag
• Edith Wharton’s Secret Karl Miller
• Getting Down to Business Robert L. Heilbroner
• Images of Illness Susan Sontag
• More Psychiatric Terror Peter B. Reddaway
• Mr. Eliot’s Martyrdom Irvin Ehrenpreis
• Not Quite like a Top Robert Penn Warren
• On Robert Lowell Seamus Heaney
• Picking Up the Pieces Roger Sale
• Reading Opera Joseph Kerman
• Reluctant Resistance? Henry M. Pachter, reply by John Kenneth Galbraith
• Rich Kids Gore Vidal
• Short Reviews The Editors
• Snuggling with Lawrence Desmond Stewart, reply by Nigel Dennis
• The Chances for Peace: An Interview with General Peled Leon Wieseltier and Mattityahu Peled
• The Death Penalty Andrei D. Sakharov
• The First Universal Composer Robert Craft
• The Incurable V.S. Pritchett
• The Invasion of the Family David Brion Davis
• The Payoff Richard M. Weiss
• The Payoff Murat W. Williams, reply by Renata Adler
• The Rabelais Story Donald M. Frame, reply by Gabriel Josipovici
• The Slaves of Paraguay Richard Arens
• The View from the Inglenook Noel Annan
• Three Temperaments Edmund S. Morgan
• Troubling Comedian Thomas R. Edwards
• Walt Whitman: Ego and Art John Updike
• What Happened in Indonesia? An Exchange Francis J. Galbraith, reply by Martin Ennals
• What Trotsky Thought Irving Howe

March

• A Gentle-Violent Man V.S. Pritchett
• Accessible Alberti Mary Martin McLauglin
• Ah, Wilderness! Diane Johnson
• Animal Babel J.Z. Young
• Call for Chaos Neal Ascherson
• Close Encounters Budd Hopkins, reply by Martin Gardner
• Confessions of a Jewish Dissident I.F. Stone
• Cranberry Jello Leonid Tarassuk, reply by Nicolas Nabokov
• Evviva Vivaldi! A Consumer’s Report for the Tercentenary Robert Craft
• Fragment, 1959 Anna Akhmatova, version by Stephen Berg
• Hello to All That John Clive
• Joyce’s Influenza Louis Berrone, reply by Michael Wood
• Mandelstam Whole Henry Gifford
• Milton, Satan, and Subversion Quentin Skinner
• Morality and Reality H.L.A. Hart
• Oppenheimer Fund Harry Woolf
• Poem Osip Mandelstam, translated by Beatrice Stillman
• Poet in the Wings Roger Shattuck
• Psychiatry and Politics Sidney Bloch and Peter B. Reddaway, reply by Robert Coles
• Psychiatry and Politics Phyllis Roa
• Psychiatry and Politics Michael Parenti
• Rough Passage Ronald Steel
• Should the Poor Organize? E.J. Hobsbawm
• The Delmore File Robert Towers
• The End of White Rule? Conor Cruise O’Brien
• The Great Political Fiction Edmund S. Morgan
• The Life-giving Touch Ernst Gombrich
• The Rise of the Fork Keith Thomas
• The Rossettis L.E. Phillabaum
• The Rossettis Stanley Weintraub, reply by Geoffrey Grigson
• The Theater of Southern Africa Conor Cruise O’Brien
• The Vivaldi Numbers Game Robert Craft
• To the Sideshow Alison Lurie
• Too Little Waugh Robert Craft
• Wonderful Town! Ken Auletta

April

• ‘Full to Overflowing’ C.L. Barber
• A Daemon at Oxford Stuart Hampshire
• A Hard Case John Kenneth Galbraith
• All or Nothing Murray Bookchin, reply by Raymond Carr
• An Exchange on Zionism Hillel Halkin and Leon Wieseltier, reply by Bernard Avishai
• Artist of Nightmare Helen Muchnic
• Beethoven at Home Frank Kermode
• Eliot’s ‘Headland’ David L. Simpson, reply by Irvin Ehrenpreis
• Heroic Darkness Garry Wills
• Immersed in America Monroe K. Spears
• Koestler’s Solution Stephen Jay Gould
• Monkey Business Mark Helprin
• Monkey Business Richard Stern, reply by Roger Sale
• Nothing Sacred Michael Wood
• Pensée Persons Clive James
• Power in History Herbert Butterfield
• Schorr’s Case John L. Hess, reply by Garry Wills
• Separating the Chypre from the Ghosts Michael Wood
• Some Romance! Irving Howe
• TV Guide James Wolcott
• The Bad Old Days H. Stuart Hughes
• The Gnostic Secrets W.H.C. Frend
• The Honor of Alger Hiss Garry Wills
• The New History of England Christopher Hill
• The Outlaw Karl Miller
• The Third Indochina War William Shawcross
• Two Cheers for Leskov Leonard Schapiro
• Virginia Woolf Fever Noel Annan
• What Joyce Meant Gerald Graff, reply by Michael Wood
• Words & Music Irving Singer, reply by Joseph Kerman
• Worried Scientists Daniel Callahan

May

• An Exchange on Adam Smith D.D. Raphael and Bernard Avishai, reply by Garry Wills
• Bentley’s Play Banned Richard Howard and Dore Ashton
• Dropping Out Nadja Jernakoff and Georgii Vladimov
• Gothic Sibyl Rosemary Dinnage
• How Did the Germans Do It? C.B.A. Behrens
• How to Get the Festschrift George Berger
• Israel and Dissidence Baruch A. Levine
• James at an Awkward Age Veronica Geng
• Kenyan Writer Jailed Edward Hower
• Light on Lasso Robert Craft
• Live Souls V.S. Pritchett
• Marriage of Inconvenience E.H. Carr
• Mr. Eliot’s Motives James E. Miller Jr., reply by Irvin Ehrenpreis
• Portrait of the Artist Nigel Dennis
• Saint of the Mundane John Updike
• Shortchanged at the Met David H. Wright
• Something About a Soldier Thomas R. Edwards
• Tales of Manhattan Robert Towers
• The Days of the Dulleses John Phillips
• The Great Riddle Andrew Hacker
• The Indictment Donald Woods
• The Lower Depths Frederic Wakeman Jr.
• The Morose Revolution Neal Ascherson
• The Outsider Edmund S. Morgan
• The Professors: A Survey of a Survey Serge Lang
• The State of the Union Sheldon S. Wolin
• Why He’s Not the Best Marshall Frady
• Why Israel Should Settle Now Guido Goldman
• Will I Be on Television? Ladislav Hejdanek
• Wives and Mistresses Elizabeth Hardwick
• Xenophon’s Flute Girls George E. Dimock Jr., reply by Bernard Knox

June

• Allen’s Alley Michael Wood
• Are Ulstermen English? Tommy Murtagh, reply by Neal Ascherson
• Bert and LaBelle and Jimmy and God Gore Vidal
• Calculated Risks Michael Wood
• Carter and the New Constitution Sheldon S. Wolin
• Coming of the Book Jill Danzig
• Deciphering the Big Book Frank Kermode
• Do Animals Communicate? Kent Bach, reply by J.Z. Young
• Five Hundred Years of the King’s English Denis Donoghue
• Forced Marches Robert Towers
• Greene’s Castle Conor Cruise O’Brien
• Hardy Hardy Stephen Spender
• Hell Reconsidered William Styron
• Hitler’s Impresario Hugh Trevor-Roper
• Inescapable Marx Robert L. Heilbroner
• Israel: The Sticking Point Lesley Hazleton
• Leavis’s Way D.W. Harding
• Martyr Conor Cruise O’Brien
• Milton’s God William Empson
• Mining ‘Ulysses’ S.L. Goldberg, reply by Richard Ellmann
• On Moral Outrage Barrington Moore Jr.
• Panama: A New Peril Garry Wills
• Release Ngugi James Baldwin, Claire Bloom, Basil Davidson, Margaret Drabble, and J.G. Farrell, et al.
• Sphinx John Hollander
• Strangers and Brothers J.H. Elliott
• The Ape Who Never Grows Up J.Z. Young
• The Bad Tooth Luigi Barzini
• The Charms of Catastrophe Martin Gardner
• The Defector’s Secrets Wilfrid Sheed
• The Flight from Positivism Quentin Skinner
• The Good Old Days John Kenneth Galbraith
• The Ideal Director Francis Haskell
• The Life of Sim Botchit Richard Ellmann
• The Party Isn’t Over
• The Purge and the Bomb Dexter Masters, reply by H. Stuart Hughes
• The Purge and the Bomb David Caute
• The Undefeated Helen Muchnic
• Throwaways Rosemary Dinnage
• Tolstoy in Doubt Aileen Kelly
• Triumph of a Heretic Bernard Knox
• Truth or Consequences J.M. Cameron
• Unkind Cut Martin Shockley, reply by Diane Johnson
• What Happened in Indonesia? Ruth McVey and Benedict R. Anderson
• What It Means To Be Censored Lev Lifshitz-Losev, translated by Joseph Deney
• Where’s Mama? Leo Hamalian, reply by Karl Miller

July

• ‘Treasures of Early Irish Art’: An Exchange David Greene, reply by David H. Wright
• A Guy Like I Garry Wills
• Alone Anna Akhmatova, version by Stephen Berg
• An Exchange on Cambodia Gareth Porter, reply by William Shawcross
• Carter, Africa, & Salt I.F. Stone
• For a New ‘Internationale’ Jacques Julliard, translated by Tamar Jacoby
• Good Grief! Robert Towers
• Help Wanted Ned O’Gorman
• Infirmary Blues Nigel Dennis
• Let There Be Light F.W. Bateson
• Must Democracy Be Capitalist? Michael Walzer
• Pioneers and Phantoms John Bayley
• Steerage A. David Wunsch, reply by Robert Towers
• The Predicament Mary Gordon
• The Private Life of F.O. Matthiessen Harry Levin
• The Real China Frederic Wakeman Jr.
• The Technological Trap Beyond SALT International Institute for Strategic Studies
• What Chateaubriand Saw Hugh Honour
• Witnesses to Calamity
• Women in Love Martha Duffy

August

• ‘Watson, I’m Back’ Julian Symons
• A Good Doctor Elsa First
• A Modern Master Frank Kermode
• At the Poles of Poetry Irvin Ehrenpreis
• Beckett Biographia Ruby Cohn, reply by Richard Ellmann
• Black Diamond Jerome Charyn
• Concorde Diary Robert Craft
• Controlling the Writing on the Wall Jan Kott, translated by M. Rosenzweig
• Democratic Vistas Willie Lee Rose
• Families Karl Miller
• Merci, Giscard Edward Albee, Saul Bellow, Carlos Fuentes, Günter Grass, and Arthur Miller, et al.
• Oil in the Family John Kenneth Galbraith
• Oil in the Family Page Smith
• Payne Whitney Poems James Schuyler
• The Bakke Decision: Did It Decide Anything? Ronald Dworkin
• The Disconcerting Sybil
• The Heart of Jefferson Edmund S. Morgan
• The Long Island Night Howard Moss
• The Russian Way Leonard Schapiro
• Typhoon on the Bay Garry Wills
• Who Can Salvage Peace? Stanley Hoffmann

September

• Before Her Time Rosemary Dinnage
• Begging the Bakke Question Paul Weiss
• Begging the Bakke Question W. Paul Vogt, reply by Ronald Dworkin
• Blue Sheep Zen Robert M. Adams
• Boys Will Beat Boys Neal Ascherson
• Heroes in Nature Stephen Jay Gould
• Is Brazil on the Brink of Democracy? Harry Maurer
• Jerry for President? Marshall Frady
• Lost Generation Robert Coles
• Mysteries of Louisa May Alcott Ann Douglas
• Or None of the Above Laurence Veysey, reply by Serge Lang
• Short Reviews The Editors
• Sour Notes Robert Craft
• The Mess of Things Robert O. Paxton
• The Mozart of Psychology Stephen Toulmin
• The Worst of Times? Lawrence Stone
• Theater of Cruelty Gennady Smakov
• Upward Mobility Herbert Schmertz
• Why Men Do Not Revolt James Joll

October

• 1968 Frederick Seidel
• Catastrophe Publishers Lore Henlein
• Character V.S. Pritchett
• Compulsion Julian Symons
• Could Marx Answer Acton? Hal Draper, reply by Robert L. Heilbroner
• Could Marx Answer Acton? John McMurtry, reply by Robert L. Heilbroner
• Death and Its History Lawrence Stone
• Death in New England Lawrence Stone
• Digging Out Doug John K. Fairbank
• Downtown Rosemary Dinnage
• Easy Living J.H. Plumb
• Hannah Arendt: From an Interview Hannah Arendt
• Home Remedies Diane Johnson
• Hyperopia Robert S. McElvaine, reply by Garry Wills
• K G B Psychiatry Peter B. Reddaway
• Know Yourself Alfred J. Ayer
• Lithuanian Divertissement Joseph Brodsky, translated by Alan Myers
• Looking for Livy Richard Karz
• Looking for Livy Robert Wohl, reply by Luigi Barzini
• On Apollinaire Robert Mazzocco
• Portrait of the Artist Roger Sale
• Rhodesia: The Coming Chaos Xan Smiley
• Short Reviews The Editors
• Short Reviews The Editors
• Soulcraft Ronald Dworkin
• Stopping to Think Sheldon S. Wolin
• The Hope I.F. Stone
• The Illusion of Sociobiology Stuart Hampshire
• The Last Intellectual Susan Sontag
• The Lesson of Thomas More Quentin Skinner
• The Not So Light Fantastic Michael Wood
• The Quest for the Magical Jesus Frank Kermode
• The Rights of Myron Farber Ronald Dworkin
• The Scientist as Conformist David Joravsky
• The Strategic Mind John Kenneth Galbraith
• The Transformation of Bobby Kennedy Marshall Frady
• The Truth About Yugoslavia Mihajlo Mihajlov, translated by William E. Harkins
• The Two Thoreaus Leo Marx
• The Wizard of Oc Keith Thomas
• Waiting for the New Order Geoffrey Barraclough
• Yesterday’s Today Show Francis Haskell

November

• A Founding Family George M. Fredrickson
• American Prophet Daniel Aaron
• Better Than Counting Sheep Robert Penn Warren
• Blood and Jobs John Beverley
• Boggled Eugene V. Rostow, reply by Stanley Hoffmann
• Brass Bands and Raspberries Wilfrid Sheed
• Culture as Protein and Profit Marshall Sahlins
• Getting Along in Czechoslovakia Name Withheld
• Hello and Goodbye Martin Gardner
• In Loco Parentis Jakob Liszka, reply by Robert Coles
• Ladies in Distress Karl Miller
• Light Touch Robert Towers
• Looking Backward Clive James
• Nadia’s Case Lorna Selfe
• Notes from Valhalla Robert W. Gutman
• On the Go Sybille Bedford
• Only Yesterday Thomas R. Edwards
• Otherworldly W.V. Quine
• Papa Europe Robert O. Paxton
• Short Reviews The Editors
• Slippery Fish Robert Mazzocco
• Solving the Correggio Problem Henri Zerner, translated by Peter France
• St. Mark on Broadway Frank Kermode
• The Ballet and the Public: Notes from a Diary Lincoln Kirstein
• The Big C Lewis Thomas
• The Lost Cause W.H.C. Frend
• The One That Got Away Nigel Dennis
• The Partisan Frederick C. Crews
• The Persecution of Jiri Grusa A.J. Liehm, translated by Tamar Jacoby
• The Struggle for the Third World Geoffrey Barraclough
• To Criticize the Critic Paul Griffiths, reply by Robert Craft
• Two Poems by Heberto Padilla Heberto Padilla, translated by Alastair Reid
• While England Sleeps Noel Annan
• Who Said No? Stanley Hoffmann

December

• 24-Dec-71 Joseph Brodsky, translated by Alan Myers
• A Dredful Decision C. Vann Woodward
• A Shameful Story Leonard Schapiro
• Angola: A Story of Stupidity Gerald J. Bender
• Blue Chip Sublime Robert Hughes
• Contradictory Kipling V.S. Pritchett
• From Rags to Rags Alison Lurie
• Global Vision J.H. Elliott
• Heaven Can’t Wait
• How Did Art Collecting Begin? Joseph W. Alsop
• In Defense of Irrealism Nelson Goodman
• In Quest of Jesus Morton Smith, reply by Frank Kermode
• In Sorrow’s Kitchen Darryl Pinckney
• In a Cuban Prison Jean-Paul Sartre, Michel Foucault, Simone de Beauvoir, Claude Roy, and Phillippe Sollers, et al.
• Jesus and Adam Douglas J. Stewart, reply by Frank Kermode
• Mexican Divertimento Joseph Brodsky, translated with the author by Alan Myers
• Missing Connections Alfred Kazin
• Objection Joyce Carol Oates
• Ragged Individualist Irving Howe
• Scientists in Society Christopher Hill
• Swim or Sink Mary Gordon
• The Christie Mystery Julian Symons
• The Congo Desk Armistead M. Lee, reply by Geoffrey Barraclough
• The Erratic Magpie Douglas Cooper
• The Insulted and the Injured Michael Wood
• The Music of Suffering Irvin Ehrenpreis
• The Piaget Way Rosemary Dinnage
• The Revenge of I. B. Singer Leon Wieseltier
• The Rights of M.A. Farber: An Exchange Frederick F. Schauer, Virginia Held, and John L. Hess, reply by Ronald Dworkin
• Tuchman and History Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, reply by Lawrence Stone
• Understanding the Economic Crisis Joan Robinson
• Updike le Noir John Thompson
• Victory Robert Mazzocco
• Vietnam: The Defense’s Case Kevin Buckley
• Working on the Railroad Bruce D. Larkin, reply by John Kenneth Galbraith
• Yes, Santa, There Is a Virginia Frank Kermode