The New York Review of Books

January

• ‘This is not the end of the world’ Michael Wood
• A History of Night Jorge Luis Borges, translated by Alastair Reid
• A Poet in Politics John Bayley
• American Terror Graham Hughes
• Death of TB Richard C. Lewontin, reply by Lewis Thomas
• Exchange on Hannah Arendt Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, reply by Sheldon S. Wolin
• Guest of the Shah Christopher Matthews
• In Borges’s Labyrinth Alastair Reid
• Not to Worry Asher Seidel, reply by W.V. Quine
• Pinter Land Russell Davies
• Revelations of Vygotsky P.D. Wall
• Revelations of Vygotsky Lillian Weber, reply by Stephen Toulmin
• Taking Action Peter B. Reddaway
• The Cabinet of Dr. Lacan Richard Wollheim
• The German Leviathan Felix Gilbert
• The Puritan You Love to Hate Edmund S. Morgan
• The Return of Ruskin Diane Johnson
• The Sayings of Don Geraldo V.S. Pritchett
• The Socratic Method Bernard Knox
• Wanderers Robert Towers

February

• A Professional Sage Philip Rawson
• A Shah Lobby Next? I.F. Stone
• Classics and Commercials Richard Poirier
• From the Country of the Blue Denis Donoghue
• From the Drawing Board Donald J. Casey, reply by Geoffrey Barraclough
• From the Greek I.F. Stone
• How Carter Hangs On Garry Wills
• I’ll Take My Stans Nicholas von Hoffman
• Jane Austen and Heroism Irvin Ehrenpreis
• Life Studies John Russell
• Lost China Frederic Wakeman Jr.
• Love and War Roger Sale
• Mark Rothko: An Exchange Lee Seldes and Harriet Van Horne, reply by Robert Hughes
• Moralist of Exile V.S. Pritchett
• Partisans
• Pudding Stone Helen Vendler
• Sihanouk’s Case William Shawcross
• Terror in Freedonia Thomas R. Edwards
• The Boss’s New Clothes Richard Sennett
• The Corruption of Love Rosemary Dinnage
• The Masks of Mary Renault Peter Green
• The Open Political Struggle in Poland Abraham Brumberg
• The Pessimist Murray Kempton
• The Reasons Why Jerome Karabel
• The Starved Self Rosemary Dinnage
• Under the Sheet Morton Smith, reply by Frank Kermode
• Understanding Islam Peter Brown
• What Should Be Fought For Mihajlo Mihajlov

March

• 20 Years of Castro’s Revolution Juan Goytisolo, translated by Barbara Probst Solomon
• A Drowned Talent Vernon Young
• A Revolutionary Artist John Pope-Hennessy
• Braking for Elves Alison Lurie
• Cannibalism: An Exchange W. Arens, reply by Marshall Sahlins
• Criminal Violence: An Exchange Lawrence K. Karlton, Marjorie Brown Roy, and Raphael Sealey, reply by Graham Hughes
• Dear Parrot John Phillips
• Dickens on the Barricades Edgar Johnson
• F. W. Dupee 1904–1979 Mary McCarthy
• False Alarm: The Story Behind Salt II George B. Kistiakowsky
• Foiled Jessica Mitford, reply by Julian Symons
• From the Vedas to Wagner: Short Reviews Robert Craft
• Hoover Makes a Comeback Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
• Human Prospecting Peter Singer
• In Cold Blood Bernard Avishai
• In Extremis Robert Towers
• Indian Art and Its Illusions V.S. Naipaul
• Kicking the Door Václav Havel, translated from the French by Tamar Jacoby
• Lowell Criticism Steven Gould Axelrod, reply by Helen Vendler
• Lowell and the Furies D.S. Carne-Ross
• Men and Woman Frederick Seidel
• Neighing in the Wind Christopher Middleton
• Spender & Auden Edward Mendelson, reply by John Bayley
• Taking Off Quentin Skinner
• The New Two China Problem John K. Fairbank
• The Road to Morocco Albert Hourani
• The Source of Sur-Realism L.C. Breunig, reply by Robert Mazzocco
• The Witch Trials Perry T. Rathbone, reply by Edmund S. Morgan
• Vulgar Marxism Michael Wood
• War in Our Time A.J.P. Taylor
• Waxing Lyric Bernard F. Dick, reply by Peter Green
• Why Confucius Counts Jonathan D. Spence

April

• ‘A Revolutionary Without Fanaticism’ Isaiah Berlin
• ‘The Least Unsafe Man of Genius’ Henry Gifford
• Anorexia Hilde Bruch
• Anorexia David L. Fogelson, reply by Rosemary Dinnage
• Answering Service Peter Green
• Est Is Est Jonathan Lieberson
• Explosions of Conscience V.S. Pritchett
• From the Pit Clive James
• Goodbye to Nearly All That Lawrence Stone
• Has China Failed? Nick Eberstadt
• Heart of Darkness Diane Johnson
• Home-grown Radicals C. Vann Woodward
• House Call Pat Wall
• It Makes You Wonder J.M. Cameron
• Jane Austen’s Politics Marilyn Butler, reply by Irvin Ehrenpreis
• Lacan: An Exchange Fritz Fleischmann and Stuart Schneiderman, reply by Richard Wollheim
• Master Classes Roger Shattuck
• No Surrender Rosemary Dinnage
• On the Gold Standard Thomas R. Edwards
• South Africa: What Is Black? Xan Smiley
• Take the B Train P.F. Strawson
• The Damned Neal Ascherson
• The Fight to Save the Steel Mills Staughton Lynd
• The German Problem Wolfram F. Hanrieder, reply by Felix Gilbert
• The Sitwell Show John Richardson
• The Weimar Wind Tunnel Stephen Spender
• The Words of Van Gogh John Russell
• Women and Education in China: How Much Progress? Nick Eberstadt

May

• ‘A Decade of Permissiveness’ John Archibald Wheeler
• ‘The Paradox of Cause’ Cushing Strout, reply by Peter Singer
• A Sample Seance: the Excursion to Ephesus James Merrill
• An Opportunity for Palestinians? Elias H. Tuma
• At the Yeatses Richard Ellmann
• Bankruptcy and Revolt John Thompson
• Begin vs. Begin Bernard Avishai
• Books as Vodka Lev Lifshitz-Losev, translated by Joseph Denny
• Ceremony Robert Mazzocco
• China Watching Peter R. Moody Jr., reply by John K. Fairbank
• China Watching James D. Seymour, reply by John K. Fairbank
• China: How Much Success? Nick Eberstadt
• Dangerous Acquaintances
• Deep-Est W.W. Bartley III, reply by Jonathan Lieberson
• Divorce à la Mode Andrew Hacker
• Doing Without Nuclear Power Charles Komanoff
• Embracing Adversity Robert Mazzocco
• Exultation and Explanation Stephen Jay Gould
• Fiction Collective Raymond Federman and Carol Sturm Smith
• Flannery O’Connor’s Gifts Robert Towers
• Forbidden Fruit Michael Wood
• Gissing and the Cruelty of Life Julian Symons
• Hard Lines Richard Pipes
• Her Second Chance Eleanor Duckworth
• Hoffa and JFK Dan E. Moldea
• How to Define the Crime Graham Hughes
• James Merrill’s Myth: An Interview Helen Vendler and James Merrill
• Lacan: An Exchange Sherry Turkle, reply by Richard Wollheim
• Liverpool: Notes from Underground Caroline Blackwood
• Marlboro Country David Brion Davis
• Matter over Mind Nelson Goodman
• Memorial for F.W. Dupee Kenneth Koch, Edward W. Said, George Stade, and Michael Wood
• Mr. Right Ellen Moers
• Now Read the Book Stephanie Wolfe Murray
• Politics Recaptured Keith Thomas
• Power to the Minorities Gerard Chaliand
• Quantum Theory and Quack Theory Martin Gardner and John Archibald Wheeler
• Release Dzhemilev Eqbal Ahmad, Eric Bentley, Daniel Berrigan, Philip Berrigan, and Richard A. Falk, et al.
• Sin Will Find You Out Julia Vitullo-Martin
• The Broken Spine John Bayley
• The CIA in Angola John Stockwell, reply by Gerald J. Bender
• The Flight from the Fire V.S. Naipaul
• The Nazi Boom Geoffrey Barraclough
• The Papal Papers Hugh Trevor-Roper
• The Politics of Sociobiology Stephen Jay Gould, Joseph Alper, Bertram Bruce, Robin Crompton, and Val Dusek, et al.
• The Rise of the Writer Robert Darnton
• The Solid Gold Cornflake Nicholas von Hoffman
• Timely Griefs Jane Kramer
• Too Much Opera? Charles Rosen
• Upmanship V.S. Pritchett
• Where the New Pope Stands J.M. Cameron
• William Byrd and the Catholics Joseph Kerman

June

• ‘Cannibals and Kings’: An Exchange Marvin Harris, reply by Marshall Sahlins
• After the Fire Alfred Leslie
• All in the Family Hugh Trevor-Roper
• Appeal for Valladares Frank Calzon
• Beyond the Evidence Diane Johnson
• Carnal Knowledge E. D. Hirsch Jr.
• Does Saudi Arabia Face Revolution? Arnold Hottinger
• Down There on a Visit Frank Kermode
• Eternal Riddles Martin Gardner
• He’ll Take Manhattan Paul Goldberger
• Heroes Neal Ascherson
• License to Kill Graham Hughes
• Lit in Trouble Irvin Ehrenpreis
• Pain and Laughter V.S. Pritchett
• Pass the SALT: An Interview with Paul Warnke Paul Warnke and Walter Pincus
• Poe in the Sky Karl Miller
• Rediscovering Haydn Charles Rosen
• Ruskin’s Originality Rosemarie Haag Bletter, reply by Diane Johnson
• Scientists as Servants David Joravsky
• Secrets of the Shell Gore Vidal
• Some Views of Mrs. Thatcher’s Victory Kingsley Amis, Noel Annan, Ronald Dworkin, Karl Miller, and Hugh Trevor-Roper, et al.
• The Crime of Cambodia Stanley Hoffmann
• The Dietary Prohibitions of the Hebrews Jean Soler, translated by Elborg Forster
• The End of Servility C.B.A. Behrens
• The Pettifogging Pit James D. Brophy, reply by John Richardson
• The Saudi Way Name Withheld
• The Sense of Sense Henri Zerner
• The Stains of Ireland Denis Donoghue
• Tolerating Terrorism Rachelle Marshall, reply by Bernard Avishai
• Tolerating Terrorism Jan Schreiber
• What Mary Ann Knew Mary Gordon
• Who’s Progressive? Bennett Muraskin, reply by Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

July

• A Contest Between Conjurors Harry Levin
• A Satisfied Author Carl Faith, reply by Lev Lifshitz-Losev
• Feeding on Fantasy Thomas R. Edwards
• Has China Failed? An Exchange Harry Grundfest, Charles J. Coe, Charles M. Dobbs, Marc Blecher, and Benedict Stavis, et al.
• How to Get Ahead: From an Address to the Yale Graduating Class John Kenneth Galbraith
• Max Hayward (1924–1979) Leonard Schapiro
• Red Flannel Days Nicholas von Hoffman
• Rewriting the Russian Rules Leonard Schapiro
• Rhodesia: Can the Bishop Win? Xan Smiley
• Silone’s Archive Darina Silone
• Stingo’s Story Robert Towers
• The Chosen People Edmund S. Morgan
• The Lattimore Version Frank Kermode
• The Red and the White Raymond Carr
• The Simplicity of the Unknown Past Kenneth Koch
• The Ten-Year-Old Man V.S. Pritchett
• The Yugoslav Dissidents Mihajlo Mihajlov
• Trips to California Robert Penn Warren
• Victorian Swish Noel Annan

August

• ‘Love and Do as You Please’ Frank Kermode
• Anti-Semitism in Spain Barbara Probst Solomon
• Darwin Vindicated! Stephen Jay Gould
• Dodgson’s Passion Rosemary Dinnage
• Eminent Romantics Karl Miller
• How D’you Do? Sol Gittleman
• How D’you Do? Leo Rauch, reply by V.S. Pritchett
• How It Works Jean-Francis Held
• Italy: Behind the Ski Mask Thomas Sheehan
• Letter from ‘Manhattan’ Joan Didion
• More on Mrs. Hitler Hugh Trevor-Roper
• Not So Freed Men C. Vann Woodward
• Objection Mahmoud El Okdah
• On the Thanatos Trail Peter Green
• Pictures from an Expedition Martha Duffy
• Piranesi’s Year Hugh Honour
• Plea for Lisovoy Anthony Quinton, Charles Taylor, Peter Strawson, Iris Murdoch, and Stuart Hampshire
• The Half-cracked Hero Neal Ascherson
• The New Horror Jean Lacouture
• The Portable Canterbury Elizabeth Hardwick
• The Rise of Mrs. Thatcher Bruce Page, reply by Kingsley Amis
• Voznesensky’s Case Clive James

September

• ‘The Sense of Order’: An Exchange Ernst Gombrich, reply by Henri Zerner
• An Exchange on the Oracle Joseph Fontenrose, reply by Peter Green
• An Old Engraving John Hollander
• Change of Address Stephen A. Kezerian, reply by John Kenneth Galbraith
• Cult Freedom Thomas Robbins, reply by Diane Johnson
• Disappointment Richard Gilman, reply by Frank Kermode
• Free Ahmad Fan Yew Teng
• Herbert Marcuse Erica Sherover Marcuse and Peter Marcuse
• High Spirits J.M. Cameron
• Hooray for Monsters D.J. Enright
• Information Wanted Graham Greene
• Less Than One Joseph Brodsky
• Meet Mr. Right Nicholas von Hoffman
• Moynihan’s Call Eliot Janeway, reply by Jane Kramer
• Oil: A Solution John Kenneth Galbraith
• Out of the Labyrinth Gerald Brenan
• Playing Stendhal V.S. Pritchett
• Prophetess Owen Chadwick
• South Africa: An Ominous Lull Conor Cruise O’Brien
• The Finger and the Ear David Jackson
• The Heart in Hiding Denis Donoghue
• The Heavy Fantastic Julian Symons
• The Legal Revolutionary A.J.P. Taylor
• The Superluminal Jack Sarfatti
• The Superluminal John Archibald Wheeler
• The Toome Road Seamus Heaney
• The Virtues of Plato M.F. Burnyeat
• The Wars of D.H. Lawrence John Gross

October

• 137 Bunnys Herbert Ruhm, reply by Harry Levin
• 30 out of 600 Christopher Logue
• Amnesty International on Argentina Amnesty International
• Argentine Terror: A Memoir V.S. Naipaul
• Back to Burckhardt
• Bangs and Whimpers Michael Wood
• Between Paris and Jerusalem Leon Wieseltier
• Boycott Taba Nelson Algren, Michael Arlen, Donald Barthelme, Saul Bellow, and Elizabeth Bishop, et al.
• Cheerful Chronicle J.M. Cameron
• Cult of the Sword Richard Storry
• Dreamer Stephen Jay Gould
• Fathers and Ghosts
• Found! Douglas Taylor
• Hard Marker Victor Brombert
• Hard Marker Peter N. Dunn, reply by Gore Vidal
• Hard Marker Irving Younger
• Help Peace Now Irving Howe and Sidney Morgenbesser
• In the Trap
• Meat Loaf Stephen Spender
• Nervous Liberals Michael Walzer
• Not a Mountebank Lynn E. Rose, reply by Martin Gardner
• Not a Mountebank
• Nothing to Lose David Trainer
• On the Assassins’ Trail Gore Vidal
• Oracle (cont’d)
• Pasternak in Private Peter France
• Science and Society: An Exchange Daniel J. Kevles and Paul Feyerabend, reply by David Joravsky
• She Had It All Diane Johnson
• The Cold War Revisited Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
• The Discovery of the Gnostic Gospels Elaine H. Pagels
• The Heavenly Deception Francine du Plessix Gray
• The Old Ecole Tie John Talbott
• The Power of the Press D.P. Walker
• They’ll Take Manhattan Randolph D. Pope
• They’ll Take Manhattan Roger Hurwitz
• They’ll Take Manhattan John Romano, reply by Joan Didion
• Three Poems by Heberto Padilla Heberto Padilla, translated by Alastair Reid
• Tony White Richard Murphy
• Tut-Tut-Tut Peter Green
• Uncle Oedipus and Ante Bellum David Brion Davis
• Unhappy Landings Robert M. Adams
• Upward to Defeat Neal Ascherson
• Waiting for Revolution Conor Cruise O’Brien

November

• America the Bad? C. Vann Woodward
• Catherine and Igor Stravinsky Robert Craft
• Cuisine Minceur Robert Towers
• Does Mind Matter? P.B. Medawar
• Einstein and Israel Isaiah Berlin
• Finite Variety V.S. Pritchett
• Fitting Lippmann Memorial Barry Bingham Sr., James MacGregor Byrne, Stanton R. Cook, John Cowles Jr., and Katharine Graham, et al.
• For Jim Farrell’s Funeral Mary McCarthy
• Ford’s Modern Romance Alfred Kazin
• Geography Justus George Lawler
• Harking and Barking Michael Wood
• Hide and Seek Patrick O’Donnell, reply by E. D. Hirsch Jr.
• Hog Heaven John Gregory Dunne
• In the Alleys of Mentalité Lawrence Stone
• It Makes You Wonder Vernon Young
• La Dogaressa John Richardson
• Life Studies John Bayley
• Lucky Blackman in My Dream…. Frederick Morgan
• Mean Spirits Elie Kedourie
• Mod Apostle James Wolcott
• Montezuma’s Zoo S.L. Washburn, reply by Marshall Sahlins
• Never-Never-Land Geoffrey Grigson
• On Voznesensky Ilya Levin, William Jay Smith, Harrison E. Salisbury, and S. Frederick Starr, reply by Clive James
• Solzhenitsyn and Russian Nationalism: An Interview with Andrei Sinyavsky Andrei Sinyavsky and Olga Andreyev Carlisle
• The Fear of the Occult Frances A. Yates
• The German Problem: An Exchange David P. Calleo, reply by Felix Gilbert
• The Instigator Lincoln Kirstein
• The Permanent Revolution Charles Rosen and Henri Zerner
• The Suppressed Gnostic Feminism Elaine H. Pagels
• The Threat of the Gnostics Elaine H. Pagels
• The Works of Merton Robert E. Daggy, reply by J.M. Cameron
• Two Poems by John Ashbery John Ashbery
• Was Freud a Crypto-Biologist? Richard Wollheim
• Who Crushed Fatah? Joseph J. Malone, reply by Bernard Avishai
• You’re Welcome Graham Greene

December

• Alexander’s Mules Ernst Badian
• Bizarre Behavior William O. McCagg Jr., reply by Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
• Blues for Mr. Baldwin Darryl Pinckney
• Death for Sale Diane Johnson
• Dubious Battles Adam B. Ulam, reply by Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
• Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979) James Merrill
• Free the Czechs Edward Albee, Christian Anfinsen, Dore Ashton, Patricia Barnes, and Donald Barthelme, et al.
• From a Part of Speech Joseph Brodsky
• How to Read the Civil Rights Act Ronald Dworkin
• I. A. Richards (1893–1979) Harry Levin
• In Egypt’s Prisons Allan Solomonow
• Kill the Killers? Burton Raffel
• Kill the Killers? John Arsenian, reply by Graham Hughes
• Last Exit to LA Irving Howe
• On Your Marx Peter Singer
• Only in America Robert Hughes
• Paradise Regained Gore Vidal
• Playing Hooky C. Vann Woodward
• Re-creating Eve Rosemary Dinnage
• Return to Sender Robert Towers
• Smiles in the Dark Nigel Dennis
• Still in Print Norris Smith
• The Bullet of Devolution Walter L. Arnstein, reply by Neal Ascherson
• The Case of Dr. Kissinger Stanley Hoffmann
• The Defeat of the Gnostics Elaine H. Pagels
• The Dream of Mind and Machine Edward Rothstein
• The Indigestible M.F.K. Fisher
• The Powers of Alexander Pope Irvin Ehrenpreis
• The Secrets of the Pyramids John Anthony West, reply by Peter Green
• The War that Made South Africa Neal Ascherson
• Un-Kinglike King J.H. Plumb
• Variations on an Idée Fixe Bruce Chatwin
• Vive Leroy Morris Philipson
• Web-Footed Gentry Robert O. Paxton
• Weeds Peter Huchel, translated by Rika Lesser
• Whose Peace Now? Bernard Avishai