The New York Review of Books

January

• A Good Writer Virgil Thomson
• Active Vonnegut Norman Dorsen, reply by James Wolcott
• Beasts and Men Abram Tertz, translated and abridged by William E. Harkins
• Duellist Quentin Skinner
• He Was French Robert Hughes
• Homage to Cicero Frederick Seidel
• Kennan vs. Bohlen? John Taft, reply by Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
• Notes from the Composer Robert Craft
• Paris: Moses and Polytheism Thomas Sheehan
• Shredded Novels V.S. Pritchett
• Sign Language Denis Donoghue
• Sociosexology Clifford Geertz
• The Claims of Mischief Michael Wood
• The Education of Clover Adams Millicent Bell
• The End of Cambodia? William Shawcross
• The Flying University Alfred J. Ayer, Heinrich Boell, Paolo Casini, Jean Delumeau, and Michael Dummett, et al.
• The Middle Way Stephen Jay Gould
• The Old Diplomacy James Joll
• The Sad Years Phyllis Grosskurth

February

• A Magical Critic Frances A. Yates
• A Spy Romance V.S. Pritchett
• Aeneid II, 3-56 translated by Robert Fitzgerald
• Afghanistan: The Imperial Dream Firuz Kazemzadeh
• America the Bad? Ronald T. Takaki, reply by C. Vann Woodward
• An Exchange on Plato Thomas Nagel and T.H. Irwin, reply by M.F. Burnyeat
• Correction and Clarification Diane Johnson
• Ego, Prince of Id John Weightman
• Enlightenment on the Market J.M. Roberts
• Epics Robert Lowell
• Evolution Toward What? J.Z. Young
• Eye of the Storm Susan Sontag
• Fair Play Robert Towers
• Ghost Story John Richardson
• Help! Jason Epstein
• How to Kill a Valley Peter Matthiessen
• Marx and the Giraffe G.A. Cohen, reply by Peter Singer
• Marx and the Giraffe Melvin Rader, reply by Peter Singer
• Must We Copy Japan? Tetsuo Najita
• Poet’s Gallery Helen Vendler
• Quo Vadis, Wojtyla? Thomas Sheehan
• Regina Pinxit Rosemary Dinnage
• Release Wesolowksa Gordon Feller
• Supreme Court Confidential Anthony Lewis
• The Assassination of Paris Richard Cobb
• The Long and the Short of It Irvin Ehrenpreis
• The New Economics
• The Right Eagle Martin Shockley, reply by C. Vann Woodward
• The Talk of Nohant Renee Winegarten, reply by Diane Johnson
• The Wisdom of the East Ramsay Wood, reply by Gore Vidal
• Una Grande Calamità Luigi Barzini
• Who Murdered Lady Ashbrooke? Russell Davies
• Windows on Russia John Bayley

March

• ‘The Banality of Evil’ A.P. Martinich, reply by Elie Kedourie
• A Fine Way With the Language Al Alvarez
• America’s Greatest Construction: Can It Work? Herbert Scoville Jr.
• Athenian Drama, Attic Salt Peter Green
• Creating American Inequality Andrew Hacker
• Fierce Games Richard Murphy
• Great Dane Lincoln Kirstein
• Hostess with the Mostest John Russell
• How High the Hand? Warren Button
• In the Shadow Rosemary Dinnage
• It’s Love! Thomas R. Edwards
• Jane Austen Society Rosalind Van Praag
• Liberal Milyukov Lipman Bers
• Lightly Toasted James Wolcott
• Love and Revolution Neal Ascherson
• Men, Women, and Lit. Sandra Zagarell and Nina Auerbach, reply by Rosemary Dinnage
• Molière Imaginaire Vernon Young
• Monkey Business Martin Gardner
• News about Darwin J.Z. Young
• Not a Chaser Anne C. Garrison, reply by Robert O. Paxton
• Pope’s “Problem” John H. Felts, reply by Irvin Ehrenpreis
• Psycho-Suppression Peter B. Reddaway
• Reflections on the Present Danger Stanley Hoffmann
• Stefan Zweig Symposium Marion Sonnenfeld
• Stubborn Steinbeck Roger Sale
• Terror in Guatemala Jose Pertierra
• The Choices of Isaiah Berlin Sidney Morgenbesser and Jonathan Lieberson
• The Emperor of Roman History G.W. Bowersock
• The Great Good Place Harry Levin
• The New Masters Michael Walzer
• The New Purge Peter B. Reddaway
• The Palestinian Position: An Exchange Mattityahu Peled, reply by Bernard Avishai
• The Plight of the Victim Graham Hughes
• The Plot Thickens David Glassco, reply by Alfred Kazin
• The Questions of Isaiah Berlin Jonathan Lieberson and Sidney Morgenbesser
• Translating Pasternak Lev Loseff, reply by Peter France
• Underqualified for the Job J.H. Plumb
• Velikovsky’s Deluge Lynn E. Rose, reply by Martin Gardner
• Who Held the Grand Mosque Hostage? Arnold Hottinger
• Who Started the Cold War? An Exchange Steven J. Cagney, reply by Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

April

• Bertrand Russell’s Bust Alfred J. Ayer, Lord Brockway, Peter Cadogan, Lord Ritchie-Calder, and Frank Dobson, et al.
• Boom and Bust Emma Rothschild
• But Will It Play in Belgrade? Dusan Puvacic, reply by John Bayley
• Communist Myths Leonard Schapiro
• Della Robbia Disputes H.W. Janson
• Disappointed Ezra F. Vogel, reply by Tetsuo Najita
• Forever Jade Jonathan D. Spence
• Getting Away From It All Tamar Jacoby
• Grand Disillusions Noel Annan
• Her Life as a Man Rosemary Dinnage
• How Psychosomatic Is Your Illness? Charles Rycroft
• How to Rescue Literature Roger Shattuck
• I Bee M J.Z. Young
• Kham Stvo? Olga Andreyev Carlisle
• Looking for the Exit John Willett
• Love It or Leave It! Elizabeth Hardwick
• Love and Hate V.S. Pritchett
• Maine Real Estate Alfred Corn
• Passing the Buck Nicholas von Hoffman
• Pioneer Millicent Bell
• Poetry and Thought Rene Daumal
• Publick Benefits and Private Vices E.J. Hobsbawm
• Reading in Circles Maureen Bloomfield, reply by Denis Donoghue
• Release Yuriy Shukhevych Mark W. Weber
• Sociosexology Carl N. Degler, reply by Clifford Geertz
• Some Fun! James Wolcott
• Sounding Off J.M. Cameron
• Terror in Italy: An Exchange Martin Glaberman, Armando De Palma, and Paul M. Howell, reply by Thomas Sheehan
• The Best? C. Vann Woodward
• The Call of Nature Dieter E. Zimmer, reply by Bruce Chatwin
• The Charm of the Scout Stephen Toulmin
• The Elusiveness of a Life Richard S. Kennedy
• The Elusiveness of a Life John Bernard Myers, reply by Helen Vendler
• The Great Game Michael Wood
• The Moonies Betty Underwood, reply by Francine Gray
• The Moonies Timothy Miller
• The Munich Massacre Kenneth Van Leuven, reply by Leon Wieseltier
• The Road to Selfdom Robert L. Heilbroner
• Third Canto Hans Magnus Enzensberger
• What’s New About the Old Regime? Robert Darnton
• Why Didn’t Slaves Rebel? Winthrop D. Jordan

May

• A Mysterious Man? Arthur J. Knodel, reply by John Weightman
• A Mysterious Man? Gordon Douglas, reply by John Weightman
• An Expense of Spirit Martin Gardner
• Apartment in Prague Anthony Kenny
• Back to Back S.L. Washburn
• Black Power Now Marshall Frady
• Cagney & the Cold War William A. Williams, reply by Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
• Contradictory Lawrence V.S. Pritchett
• Death and Utility H.L.A. Hart
• December in Florence Joseph Brodsky
• Designing Women Quentin Bell
• Doomed for Success V.S. Pritchett
• Egyptian Erudition Joann McQuiston, reply by Peter Green
• Five Prisoners of Conscience Amnesty International
• Forgotten Israelis Lesley Hazleton
• Hate in a Cold Climate John Thompson
• Help Dr. Tomin Thomas Nagel
• His Neighbor’s Wife Helen Muchnic
• How to Read the Civil Rights Act: An Exchange Orrin G. Hatch, Barry R. Gross, and Henry Glickman, reply by Ronald Dworkin
• Hunting for Humanity Robert Darnton
• In Defense of Doctors P.B. Medawar
• In Like Flynn James Wolcott
• Jensen’s Last Stand Stephen Jay Gould
• Katherine Mansfield’s Secrets Claire Tomalin
• Kesh & Loaning Robert Tracy, reply by Al Alvarez
• Kesh & Loaning Brian Moore
• Light and Lively John Russell
• Low Marx Steven Lukes
• Mr. P, Mrs. V, and Mr. T Alexander Cockburn
• Not Right for Our Rose Diane Johnson
• Our Hearts Belong to Daddy Richard Sennett
• Period Fiction Robert Towers
• Plebes and Patricians Lawrence Stone
• Remembering Barthes Susan Sontag
• Scott’s Case Gore Vidal
• Sewall Wright’s ‘Evolution’ Morris Philipson
• Short and Sweet Glenn C. Altschuler and Murray Steinberg, reply by J.H. Plumb
• Stranger than Nonfiction Roger Sale
• Syberberg’s ‘Hitler’ J.P. Stern and Doris Sommer, reply by Susan Sontag
• Taking Brecht’s Measure Michael Wood
• The Brave Immoralist Philippa Foot
• The Case of General Seregni Juan Goytisolo, translated by Gregory Rabassa
• The Case of Luca Della Robbia John Pope-Hennessy
• The Great Benito? Denis Mack Smith
• The Inflation in Your Future Robert L. Heilbroner
• The Kazepides Case N.C. Bhattacharya, A.S. Carson, R.S. Pannu, M.K. Bacchus, and P.J. Miller, et al.
• The Monkey King Frederic Wakeman Jr.
• The New Masters Alvin W. Gouldner, reply by Michael Walzer
• The Powers of Sympathy Irvin Ehrenpreis
• The Rich Arab States in Trouble Arnold Hottinger
• The Troubled State of Modern Architecture Ada Louise Huxtable
• The Voice of the Victim Edith E. Flynn, reply by Graham Hughes
• The Voice of the Victim Frank Kofsky
• Who Am I Anyway? Douglas R. Hofstadter

June

• A Fine Rough English Diamond V.S. Pritchett
• A Modern Master Kenneth Clark
• Academic Freedom at BU Helen Vendler, Howard Zinn, Shane Hunt, S.M. Miller, and Freda Rebelsky, et al.
• Art of a Nasty Time John Willett
• Cautionary Tale Robert Towers
• Deconstructing Deconstruction Denis Donoghue
• How to Read a Book John Bayley
• In Prison Jack Henry Abbott, introduction by Norman Mailer
• Laugh-in with Rabelais D.P. Walker
• Life Among the Ninnies James Wolcott
• Life in the Therapeutic State Christopher Lasch
• One Man’s Milton Robert M. Adams
• Parapsychology: An Exchange Olivier Costa de Beauregard, Richard D. Mattuck, Brian D. Josephson, and Evan Harris Walker, reply by Martin Gardner
• Perfectly Clear Ronald Steel
• Rats or Cheese? J.H. Elliott
• Rescuing Literature: An Exchange Robert Greer Cohn, Bruce Henricksen, Marian Ury, and Steven M. Albert, reply by Roger Shattuck
• Restoration & Revolution Harvey Wheeler, reply by G.W. Bowersock
• Survivors Neal Ascherson
• The Crime of Reform David Brion Davis
• The Evidence of ‘The Brethren’: An Exchange Scott Armstrong and Bob Woodward, reply by Anthony Lewis
• The Genius of the Red Chamber Frederic Wakeman Jr.
• The Iranian Revolution Shaul Bakhash
• The No-WIN Society John Kenneth Galbraith
• The Poets’ Greece Peter Green
• The Two Solzhenitsyns John Bayley
• The View from Cairo Arthur Hertzberg
• West Bank Blues Terence Smith
• Without Regret or Hope Joan Didion

July

• Aimez-vous Canada? J.M. Cameron
• Editing Nast Draper Hill
• Excelsior! Gwyn Jones
• Flying Home Galway Kinnell
• Gong Ho Nicholas von Hoffman
• Kvetchy But Unbowed James Wolcott
• Love Which Neighbor? Morton Smith, reply by J.M. Cameron
• Sin and the Scientist David Joravsky
• Strong Medicine Thomas McKeown, reply by P.B. Medawar
• The Case That Will Not Rest Andrew Hacker
• The Charleston Trust Quentin Bell
• The Crisis in the West Stanley Hoffmann
• The Hitler Addiction Alan Bullock
• The Return of the Khmer Rouge William Shawcross
• Threats of Violence Julian Symons
• Two Pleas at Berkeley John Kenneth Galbraith
• Uncensored Berenson Ernest Samuels
• Your Show of Shows John Richardson

August

• A Struggle Against Suffocation Czeslaw Milosz
• All in the Family Ronald Steel
• Beyond Bitterness Irving Howe
• Chinese Ghost Story Frederic Wakeman Jr.
• Did the Resistance Matter? Robert O. Paxton
• Displaced Person V.S. Pritchett
• Issyvoo’s Conversion Stephen Spender
• Moravia’s Victims Robert M. Adams
• New York Poets Denis Donoghue
• Notes from the Thirties Edmund Wilson
• Right to Life? Peter Singer
• The Animal Himself Lincoln Kirstein
• The Elections: Why the System Has Failed Tom Wicker
• The Perils of Pauline Renata Adler
• The Struggle Within the Church: An Exchange A.P. Martinich, M.J. Fitzgerald, and James Huffman, reply by Thomas Sheehan
• The Threat of Messianism: An Interview with Gershom Scholem Gershom Scholem and David Biale
• The Uprooted Neal Ascherson
• To the Greenhouse Robert Towers
• Two Poems by Heberto Padilla Heberto Padilla, translated by Alastair Reid

September

• Dictator Marx? Peter Singer
• He Had What It Takes Robert Towers
• His Uncle’s Nephew A.J.P. Taylor
• Laughter in the Dark V.S. Pritchett
• Letter from a Chinese College The Editors
• Mind as Passion Susan Sontag
• Morning of the Jackal Nicholas von Hoffman
• Power to the People Richard Sennett
• Professor Nabokov John Updike
• Seduction and Betrayal Ronald Steel
• The Cult of the Lost Cause C. Vann Woodward
• The Hedgehog and the Fox John S. Bowman, reply by Jonathan Lieberson and Sidney Morgenbesser
• This Critic and This Gin and These Shoes Gore Vidal
• Tiny Coffins James Wolcott
• What Happened in Iran? Michael M.J. Fischer, reply by Shaul Bakhash
• Winners and Losers at the ‘Times’ Murray Kempton

October

• ‘The Scar of Sigmund Freud’ Edward Rothstein
• A Journey Into the Soviet Future Leonard Schapiro
• A Poet’s Tragedy John Bayley
• After Gdansk: Two Interviews Abraham Brumberg, Jan Litynski, and Edward Lipinski
• Cambodia, C’est Moi Michael Field
• Campo di Fiori Czeslaw Milosz, translated by David Brooks and Louis Iribarne
• Chomsky and His Critics Ian Hacking
• Comet With a Cold P.B. Medawar
• Getting to Know You Richard Ellmann
• Gorilla Talk Francine Patterson
• Inequality for Everyone? An Exchange Bruno Foa, Charles Nissim-Sabat, and Michael Birkner, reply by Andrew Hacker
• Is the Party Over? Jason Epstein
• Jensen and Bias: An Exchange Nathan P. Glazer and H.J. Eysenck, reply by Stephen Jay Gould
• Liberalizing Lenin? Patrick Flaherty, reply by Leonard Schapiro
• Lust for Life Eugene Victor Thaw
• Making the Classless Society Ernest Mandel, reply by Leonard Schapiro
• Missing Picasso E.A. Carmean Jr.
• Missing Picasso Douglas Cooper, reply by John Richardson
• On the Edge J.M. Cameron
• Perilous Relations John Thompson
• Re-inventing the Eighteenth Century Francis Haskell
• Solitary Confinement Jack Henry Abbott
• Take Me to Your Leader J.M. Cameron
• The Fury of the Northmen Gwyn Jones
• The Great Mystifier Rosemary Dinnage
• The Hedgehog and the Fox Continued Isaiah Berlin
• The Heroic Hermaphrodite Frederick Brown
• The Last of the Modernists D.S. Carne-Ross
• The Middle Eastern Muddle Robert Graham
• The Mysteries of Mr. Lippmann Anthony Lewis
• The Scar of Sigmund Freud Edward Rothstein
• Theme and Variations Joseph Kerman
• Trouble at BU Samuel McCracken
• Vote for Keaton Dwight Macdonald
• Was the Hiroshima Bomb Necessary? An Exchange Joseph W. Alsop and David Joravsky, reply by David Joravsky
• With the Afghan Rebels Gerard Chaliand

November

• A Misfit Master John Pope-Hennessy
• A Populist Vision Robert O. Keohane
• Alien Sages Frank Kermode
• An ‘Unheard of Intensity’ Robert Craft
• An Exchange on Fascism A. James Gregor, Anthony James Joes, and David D. Roberts, reply by Denis Mack Smith
• Apocalypse for Everyone Alexander Cockburn
• Birth of a Nation C. Vann Woodward
• Conversations with Akhmatova and Pasternak Isaiah Berlin
• Crises in Mathematics Ernest Nagel
• Fannikins’s Cunnikin Clive James
• Free Selic Catherine A. Fitzpatrick
• Free to Choose? Eldon Kenworthy, reply by Robert L. Heilbroner
• Free to Choose? J. Kipp Tenenbaum
• In Memoriam, Amada Alastair Reid
• In an Evolutionary Crucible Stephen Jay Gould
• Letter from the 153rd State Nadine Gordimer
• Persecution of a Poet Carlos Ripoll
• Remembering Madrid Bernard Knox
• Revolution and Religion Peter Singer
• Seize the Day Nicholas von Hoffman
• Short Review The Editors
• Should Alfie Be Let Off? Graham Hughes
• Splitting Up Edgar Z. Friedenberg
• Temperament of Genius V.S. Pritchett
• The CIA’s Tragic Error Arthur Macy Cox
• The Ghost Goes West J.M. Wallace-Hadrill
• The Myth of Missile Accuracy Andrew Cockburn and Alexander Cockburn
• The Sage of Sex Noel Annan
• The Two Thompsons David Neal, reply by Lawrence Stone
• The Unhappy Choice Stanley Hoffmann
• The Weimar Review James Joll
• Trouble at B.U. (cont’d) Helen Vendler, Howard Zinn, Shane Hunt, S.M. Miller, and Freda Rebelsky, et al.
• Waiting for Righty Diane Johnson
• Why the War Will Get Worse Shaul Bakhash
• You Better Believe It Denis Donoghue

December

• A Clean Well-Lighted Place George Plimpton
• A Successful Martyr Neal Ascherson
• America’s Garrison Government Edmund S. Morgan
• An Exchange on Art and Biography Francis V. O’Connor and B.H. Friedman, reply by Eugene Victor Thaw
• Balancing Act Josh Rubins
• Caveat Lector: The New Heidegger Thomas Sheehan
• Children of Paradise Michael Wood
• China Myths Maxine Hong Kingston
• Deconstruction: An Exchange Dorothea Tanning, Paul Alpers, and Robert C. Solomon, reply by Denis Donoghue
• Democracy Vs. Therapy Joshua Miller, reply by Christopher Lasch
• Fine Art for Kids Quentin Bell
• His Jewish Problem Joseph Frank
• Hurucan Derek Walcott
• Informing on the Informers Daniel Aaron
• Is the Press Losing the First Amendment? Ronald Dworkin
• Marxism and Liberty Robert L. Heilbroner, reply by Peter Singer
• Masterwoodworks Henri Zerner
• Mississippi Myths Robert Towers
• More on Monkey Talk Herbert Terrace
• More on Monkey Talk Jean Umiker-Sebeok and Thomas A. Sebeok
• Nabokov’s Show Robert M. Adams
• Old, Old Story A.J.P. Taylor
• Pact with the Devil E.J. Hobsbawm
• Parapsychology & Physics C. Crussard and J. Bouvaist, reply by Martin Gardner
• Parapsychology & Physics J.B. Hasted, reply by Martin Gardner
• Reagan Country Sheldon S. Wolin
• Rescuing Homosexual History Keith Thomas
• Rx for Alexina Geoffrey P. Redmond, reply by Frederick Brown
• Schoenberg and Dika Robert Craft
• Soviet Heroes Leonard Schapiro
• The All-Star Victorian John Bayley
• The Coming Emergency and What Can Be Done About It Felix G. Rohatyn
• The Gentle Slope of Castalia Clive James
• The Good Ship Britannia Robert Towers
• The Master of Mysticism Arnaldo Momigliano
• The New Plight of the Praxis Professors Richard J. Bernstein, Gary Bertsch, John P. Burke, Peter Caws, and Robert S. Cohen, et al.
• The Not-So-New Men Jack H. Hexter
• The Situation Is Desperate But Not Critical Wassily Leontief
• The Sun’s Bosom Paul A. Freund
• The Swedish Promise Robert L. Heilbroner
• The Thinking Man’s Novel Gore Vidal
• Waugh’s Last Stand Clive James
• What Is Intelligence? H.J. Eysenck, reply by Stephen Jay Gould
• Yuk! M.F.K. Fisher
• Zionists & Palestinians Bernard Avishai, reply by Terence Smith