The New York Review of Books

January

• A Family Romance Rosemary Dinnage
• Dorothy Day (1897–1980) J.M. Cameron
• Free Ismael Weinberger Pauline Kravath
• Italy: Terror on the Right Thomas Sheehan
• Master of Letters John Russell
• No Holds Barred Nigel Dennis
• Not a Supporter Jeffrey L. Sammons
• O Canada Ramsay Cook, reply by J.M. Cameron
• Otherworldly Goods Irvin Ehrenpreis
• Outsider Thomas R. Edwards
• Short Reviews The Editors
• The Boss Irving Howe
• The Conservative Onslaught John Kenneth Galbraith
• The Ghost of Protagoras Stephen Jay Gould
• The Macedonian Connection Peter Green
• The Older America: Can It Survive? Felix G. Rohatyn
• Uncle Jose in Mexico H.L. Rodriguez
• Who Needs Enemies? James Wolcott

February

• A Radical Field Marshal István Deák
• A Room of Her Own Helen Vendler
• A Season Joseph Brodsky
• After Palio Eugenio Montale, translated by Luciano Rebay
• Appointment in Samara C.L.R. James, reply by Leonard Schapiro
• Back to Evolution P.B. Medawar
• Before the Deluge Gabriele Annan
• Brecht in Asphalt Robert Brustein
• Claims for ESP Charles T. Tart, reply by Martin Gardner
• Dissent on Douglas
• Do Israel’s Arabs Have a Future? Bernard Avishai
• Embers of Guilt Garry Wills
• Follow the Fleet John Keegan
• Friends and Enemies Bernard Avishai
• Hit Parade Clive James
• If Workers Were the Boss Ira Brous, reply by Robert L. Heilbroner
• In the Cards Frances A. Yates
• No Place for Heroes Tamar Jacoby
• No Sage Alexander Nehamas, reply by J.M. Cameron
• Original Sins Lawrence Stone
• Qualm John Ashbery
• Reagan and the Real America Emma Rothschild
• Repression in Latin America Rogers Albritton, George Boolos, Hector-Neri Castaneda, Stanley Cavell, and Noam Chomsky, et al.
• Restoring ‘Sister Carrie’ Alfred Kazin
• Secret Sharer Denis Donoghue
• Semi-Heroes V.S. Pritchett
• The Cold Comedian Robert M. Adams
• The Curse of the Guthries Murray Kempton
• The Health Crisis in the USSR Nick Eberstadt
• The Lights Go Down Matthew Wilder
• The Lights Go Down Erhard K. Dortmund, reply by Renata Adler
• The Lights Go Down Jennifer Dunning
• The Lights Go Down Arthur J. Cox
• The New Liszt Robert Craft
• The Russian God P.A. Vyazemsky, translated by Alan Myers
• The Second American Revolution? Gore Vidal
• The Spanish Style Raymond Carr
• To a Friend in Fall William Alfred
• Was Hiroshima Necessary? Another Exchange Dexter Masters and Geoffrey C. Ward, reply by Joseph W. Alsop and David Joravsky
• Were These Revolutions Necessary? Richard Lowenthal
• Zimbabwe: The Takeover Xan Smiley

March

• ‘Herrenvolk Democracy’ C. Vann Woodward
• A Center for Lincoln William Walton
• A Mixed Bane Graham Hughes
• An Aesthete at War Bruce Chatwin
• Caesura John Ashbery
• Devil’s Brew Robert M. Adams
• Golden Gaits Roger Sale
• Gould Was Right P.B. Medawar
• Growing Up Nazi Neal Ascherson
• Guatemala: A Government Program of Political Murder: The Amnesty Report Amnesty International
• How Valid Is Psychoanalysis? An Exchange Adolf Gruenbaum, reply by Edward Rothstein
• In the Museum of Strangeness Michael Wood
• Insolvent America James Chace
• Laughter in the Dark Clive James
• Lippmann and the Schwimmer Case Edith Wynner
• Mr. Possessed Aileen Kelly
• Nadezhda Mandelstam (1899–1980) Joseph Brodsky
• Not Heaven D.L. Olmsted
• Not Heaven Harrison E. Salisbury
• On Hawthorne’s Mind John Updike
• On Target Leslie H. Gelb, reply by Alexander Cockburn and Andrew Cockburn
• Phantom Darryl Pinckney
• Reagan’s Latin America Tom J. Farer
• Reconciliations Robert Towers
• Reconstructing America Felix G. Rohatyn
• Slow Waker Thom Gunn
• Stands to Reason P.F. Strawson
• The ‘Praxis’ Philosophers Robert S. Cohen and Stanley Hoffmann
• The Condemned
• The Doge’s Secrets Peter Burke
• The End of Philosophy? Quentin Skinner
• The Enigma of U.S. Grant C. Vann Woodward
• The Nobel Lecture, 1980 Czeslaw Milosz
• Thin Ice Patricia Craig
• Was Peter All That Great? Marc Raeff
• Who Wrote Thomas Wolfe’s Last Novels? John Halberstadt

April

• A Matter of Psychology Felix G. Rohatyn
• A Walk with You John Hollander
• All-American Bard Irvin Ehrenpreis
• An Honest Man Morton White
• An Unfinished Man Viola Hopkins Winner
• Artist in Politics Noel Annan
• Bargain War Gerard Chaliand, translated by Tamar Jacoby
• Being True to Heidegger Stanley Cavell, Hubert Dreyfus, Karsten Harries, John Haugeland, and David Hoy, et al.
• Being True to Heidegger Willis Domingo, reply by Thomas Sheehan
• Brecht in Plastic Lee Baxandall, reply by Robert Brustein
• Brecht in Plastic Albert Maltz
• Colette in Pieces Diane Johnson
• Collaborators H.W. Janson
• Comedy of Ignorance Michael Wood
• Correcting Jünger Iring Fetscher, reply by Bruce Chatwin
• Correcting Jünger Morris Rabinowitz
• Credit for Innes T.H. Breen
• Daring to Speak Its Name Ursula Enters Copely
• Daring to Speak Its Name Peter L. Thorslev Jr.
• Designer Genes S.L. Washburn
• Drop by Drop John K. Fairbank
• Every Which Way Darryl Pinckney
• For ‘Solidarity’ Barry Commoner, Hal Draper, Kate Ellis, Barbara Garson, and Allen Ginsberg, et al.
• Foreign Policy: What’s to Be Done? Stanley Hoffmann
• Freedom in Turkey Stanley Diamond, Edward J. Nell, and Anwar M. Shaikh
• God Save Our Old Nobility A.J.P. Taylor
• Herodotus and Scholem David Biale, reply by Arnaldo Momigliano
• Heroics Gordon S. Wood
• Insolvent America James Chace
• Judging the Czechs J.P. Stern, reply by Milan Kundera
• Keaton and Lubitsch David Shipman, reply by Dwight Macdonald
• Life with Father Michael Walzer
• Lippmann & Schwimmer Ronald Steel
• Marx in Art Albert Boime, reply by Henri Zerner
• More On Ape Talk S.L. Washburn and Francine Patterson, reply by Martin Gardner
• On the Beat James Wolcott
• Our Gods Frederick Seidel
• Poem Alexander Pushkin, translated by Alan Myers
• Strictly from Hunger John Richardson
• Take Back Your Ming Jonathan D. Spence
• Tears on the Kimono Richard Storry
• The Arrest of Azadovsky Vera S. Dunham, Victor Erlich, and Robert Louis Jackson
• The Battler Alfred Kazin
• The Beast in Man Keith Thomas
• The Brave John Keegan
• The Chomsky Experiments Thomas Roeper
• The Eyes of Ez Lincoln Kirstein
• The French Complaint John Weightman
• The Gambler Norman Stone
• The Greyhound Saint Lester K. Little
• The New Orthodoxy Stanley Hoffmann
• The Oedipal Revolution Edmund S. Morgan
• The Party’s Power Tatjana Kirstein, reply by Leonard Schapiro
• The Prisoner’s Dream Eugenio Montale, translated by William Arrowsmith
• The Second Life of Art Eugenio Montale
• The Spanish Anarchists: An Exchange William Herrick, reply by Bernard Knox
• The Spirit of 1917 John Russell
• The World as a Stage Quentin Skinner
• The Worm’s Eye View David Grayson Allen, reply by Lawrence Stone
• Up for Grabs Andrew Hacker
• Vissi d’arte Joseph Kerman
• Voice That Came with the Coots Eugenio Montale, translated by William Arrowsmith
• What ‘R.’ Wrought Robert Craft
• Winner Freeman Dyson

May

• An Exchange on William O. Douglas Warren Lehman, Arnold Milton Paul, and Geoffrey C. Ward, reply by Ronald Dworkin
• Born Again? Peter Partner
• Breaking Away John Willett
• Catherine Was Great Henry Gifford
• Deep Time and Ceaseless Motion Stephen Jay Gould
• Fascinating Rhythm J.Z. Young
• Girl Crazy Phyllis Grosskurth
• Hide and Seek Denis Donoghue
• His Man in Canton John K. Fairbank
• How to Wreck the Economy Lester C. Thurow
• In the Hell of Art Peter France
• Low-Rent Tragedies Robert Towers
• Network D.M. Davin, reply by Denis Donoghue
• No Reservations George Levine
• Origins of Tarot Michael Dummett
• Revisiting Zionism Gershom Schocken
• Sailors Have More Fun James Wolcott
• The Album of Donald Evans Bruce Chatwin
• The Archaeology of Foucault Ian Hacking
• The Experiment at Davis Bend George M. Fredrickson
• The Great Defense Deception James Fallows
• The Musicological Marvel Charles Rosen
• The Poet-Logician V.S. Pritchett
• The Power of the Unstated Patricia Craig
• The Sword and Cross Alan Riding
• The Twist J.B. Hasted
• The Walter Rodney Affair Huw Beynon, Lionel Cliffe, Michael Craton, David William Cohen, and Philip D. Curtin, et al.
• The Wise Lord and the Lie Mary Renault
• Who Lost Iran? Shaul Bakhash

June

• A Soviet Feminist Catherine A. Fitzpatrick
• A Working Girl Keith Thomas
• Acts of Love Mary McCarthy
• An Appeal in Iran People of Iran
• Chamberlain and the Jews
• Comic Schemes Robert Towers
• Discovering Jack H. Abbott Norman Mailer
• Elbe Swans and Other Poets Stephen Spender
• Fallen Idols H.W. Janson
• Finder Carlton Lake
• France: The Big Change? Stanley Hoffmann
• Friendship Richard Stern, reply by James Wolcott
• How to Put Humpty Together Again David Vogel
• Indefensible! Herbert Scoville Jr.
• Kilmartin’s Way Roger Shattuck
• Know Thy President Nicholas von Hoffman
• Out of the Picture Francis Haskell
• Poem Sarah Plimpton
• Return of the Native John Bayley
• Saving a Whale Murray Kempton
• Spaghetti West C. Vann Woodward
• Stalin and Spain William Herrick
• The Demand for the Supply Side Robert L. Heilbroner
• The Greek Conquest of Britain Bernard Knox
• The Heidegger Question Paul Edwards
• The Heidegger Question Willis Domingo, reply by Thomas Sheehan
• The Responsibility of Scientists Andrei D. Sakharov
• The Revenge of the Vrai Edward Rothstein
• The Shortcut to Outlaw Abortion Lawrence Sager
• The Way We Lived Then Ronald Blythe
• Thrillernik Julian Symons
• Tiptoe Through the Tudors Christopher Hill
• Two Notes by Jack H. Abbott Jack Henry Abbott
• Was Shakespeare a Chauvinist? Anne Barton

July

• ‘Crying Wolfe’: An Exchange Richard S. Kennedy, reply by John Halberstadt
• A Modest Proposal George F. Kennan
• An Exchange on the Palestinians Jonathan Dimbleby, Ann Mosely Lesch, and Elia Zureik, reply by Bernard Avishai
• Bartleby and Manhattan Elizabeth Hardwick
• Clubland John Thompson
• Czech Crackdown Barbara C. Sproul
• Demon Lover V.S. Pritchett
• Growing Up East German Robert Coles
• Is Modern Architecture Dead? Ada Louise Huxtable
• It Can Happen James Webster, reply by Charles Rosen
• Leftovers Allen Harrison
• Leftovers Charlotte McNaughton
• Leftovers Robert Tracy and Rebecca Tracy, reply by John Richardson
• Minneapolis Story Robert Penn Warren
• On Cardinal Wyszynski Murray Kempton
• Phew! Oops! Oof! Christopher Ricks
• Picture of Dorian Gray Conor Cruise O’Brien
• Poland Rewrites History Robert Darnton
• Sociable Comets Helen Vendler
• Stage Fret Thomas R. Edwards
• Stretch Genes P.B. Medawar
• The Great Bourgeois Bargain Richard Cobb
• Two Poems by Tomas Venclova Tomas Venclova, translated by David McDuff
• What Hitler Told Goering Gerhard L. Weinberg, reply by Norman Stone

August

• An American Sissy Gore Vidal
• An Exchange on the New Grove Roger Scruton and Bea Friedland, reply by Charles Rosen
• China: How Much Dissent? Jonathan D. Spence
• Death in Iran Walter Abish, Aijaz Ahmad, Eqbal Ahmad, Edward Albee, and John Ashbery, et al.
• Fall of a House X
• In the Southern Camp William Styron
• Is Mathematics for Real? Martin Gardner
• It’s the Argument Steven Kovacs, reply by Michael Wood
• Life With Father Roger Sale
• Lincoln Shelter Lincoln Kirstein
• Striking Out James Wolcott
• The Disappointments of Jefferson Gordon S. Wood
• The Gambler’s Throw Stuart Hampshire
• The Glow of Irreality Stephen Spender
• The New American Dream Tom Hayden, reply by David Vogel
• The Victory of the New Israel Bernard Avishai
• Up from Monetarism and Other Wishful Thinking John Kenneth Galbraith

September

• ‘Unacceptable Damage’ Lewis Thomas
• Chaplin and Lubitsch David Shipman, reply by Dwight Macdonald
• Coetzee Is Available T.G. Rosenthal
• Death Row Philip C. Brasfield
• Death Row L.M. Jendrzejczyk
• Ecstasy Robert M. Adams
• Genes & Culture Charles J. Lumsden and Edward O. Wilson
• In a Grim Country William Shawcross
• On the Indian World-Mountain Robert Towers
• Patriot Noel Annan
• Ravings of a Renegade James Joll
• Reagan’s Deficit Curtis Crawford, reply by Lester C. Thurow
• Scaffolding of Lies Leonard Schapiro
• The ‘Shadow’ and the Substance Robert Craft
• The Flood Next Time D.J. Enright
• The Message of the Insider
• The Road from Pisa to Florence Nicholas Christopher
• The UN Tango Murray Kempton
• Timerman and His Enemies Michael Walzer
• Two Cheers for Ike Ronald Steel
• Two by Nabokov
• Verses on the Winter Campaign 1980 Joseph Brodsky, translated by Alan Myers
• Who Brought Home the Bacon? S.L. Washburn and Sharon Ranieri

October

• A Bachward Glance Joseph Kerman
• A Genius for Revenge Rhoda Koenig
• Abortion and the Law Louis Seidman, reply by Lawrence Sager
• After Jonestown Diane Johnson
• Borderline Cases John M. Crewdson
• Destiny’s Tots Christopher Jencks
• Digging In Irvin Ehrenpreis
• Good Housekeeping C. Vann Woodward
• Greece Against Itself Peter Green
• In the Latino Americano Mirror Michael Wood
• Innocents Patricia Craig
• Just Plain Will Robert M. Adams
• Justice to Mrs. Tolstoy Aileen Kelly
• Mark Chapman’s Family Murray Kempton
• Master Illusionist Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
• Modern Times Jeremy Bernstein
• Mrs. Chesnut’s Affair Kenneth S. Lynn, reply by William Styron
• O’Connor’s Crab-apple Jelly Richard Ellmann
• On Michelangelo’s Mind Michael Baxandall
• Sex and Fashion Alison Lurie
• Short Reviews
• Something for Your Entire Family Victoria Hamilton
• Tehran Winter V.S. Naipaul
• The Azadovsky Affair Joseph Brodsky
• The Bitter History of Slave History Ernst Badian
• The Buck Stops Here Marshall Frady
• The Case of Prof. Stastny Stanley Hoffmann, Sidney Verba, Adam B. Ulam, Noam Chomsky, and Stanley Rothman, et al.
• The Hunger Strikers Denis Donoghue
• The Inferiority Complex Richard C. Lewontin
• The Kennedy Solution Toby Cohen
• The Silent Majority Jonathan Lieberson
• The Unpalatable Azadeh Esteglal
• The Young Pretender Murray Kempton
• ThreePoems by Eugenio Montale Eugenio Montale, translated by Robert Lowell
• Unspeakable News Neal Ascherson
• Verifying Genocide Robert W. Creamer, reply by Gore Vidal
• What the Doctor Ordered Jules Geller, reply by Robert Darnton

November

• A Good Man Leonard Schapiro
• Afghan Outcasts James K. Genden
• America’s Dreyfus Case Francis Russell
• An Alchemical Lear Frances A. Yates
• Are Justices Just? Graham Hughes
• Born Again Hugh Trevor-Roper
• Brave New World James Wolcott
• Can We Live the Good Life? J.M. Cameron
• Climbing Macchu Picchu Alastair Reid
• Closet Believers D.P. Walker
• Easy Come, Easy Go Alfred Kazin
• Going Crazy in India Rosemary Dinnage
• Goodbye, Hitler Geoffrey Barraclough
• Hollywood’s Hessians John Gregory Dunne
• How Long Can They Last? Conor Cruise O’Brien
• Idylls for Idlers Robert Bernard Martin
• In Libertad Prison William L. Wipfler
• In the Crab Pots Geoffrey Grigson
• Japan in the Chips Robert B. Reich
• Lipinski’s Farewell Edward Lipinski
• No Need for Names Wilfrid Sheed
• Not Greek to Them Robert R. Sullivan, reply by Quentin Skinner
• One of Us? Alfred Kazin
• Out of the Shadows David Brion Davis
• Past, Present, & Future Al Alvarez
• Reaching for the Gun Susan Sontag, reply by Richard Cobb
• Reagan and the “New” Israel Claude Gruen and Nina Gruen, reply by Bernard Avishai
• Reservations Robert Towers
• Return Yannis Ritsos, translated by Edmund Keeley
• Short Reviews The Editors
• The Battle for Macedonia Roger L. Lewis, reply by Peter Green
• The East: Three Reports George Konrad, Peter B. Reddaway, and Barbara C. Sproul, translated from the Hungarian by Ivan Sanders
• The Health Crisis in the USSR: An Exchange Albert Szymanski, reply by Nick Eberstadt
• The Heart of the Heart of the Country Diane Johnson
• The Missing Link Robert L. Heilbroner
• The Rake’s Progress Mary McCarthy
• The Real McCoy Denis Donoghue
• The Triumphs of the New Right Frances FitzGerald
• The Unraveling of Reagan? Murray Kempton
• The Wasteland of American Education Jacques Barzun
• The White Revolutionary Gordon A. Craig
• Which Catastrophe? John B. Anderson

December

• ‘Prince of the City’ Jay Presson Allen, reply by Murray Kempton
• ‘The New Grove’ cont’d. Stanley Sadie, reply by Charles Rosen
• ‘There Is No Penance Due to Innocence’ William Empson
• A Close Encounter Gunther S. Stent
• All Too Real Helen Vendler
• Back Issues Elizabeth Hardwick
• Bottoms Up Julian Symons
• Czech Nightmares Werner Paul, translated by Gitta Honegger
• Dartmouth Medal The Editors
• Death by a Thousand Cuts Lester C. Thurow
• Death in the Philippines John M. Gates
• Death in the Philippines David Nielsen, reply by Gore Vidal
• Death in the Philippines Russell Roth
• Empire Building John Keegan
• Fall and Decline Shaul Bakhash
• Happy Endings Christopher Lasch
• Holes in the Fence Edward Abbey, reply by John M. Crewdson
• How Guilty Were the French? Patrice Higonnet
• Intruders Richard Poirier
• Missing Person Dore Ashton, Aaron Asher, Louise Bernikow, Bell Chevigny, and Ronald Christ, et al.
• Music Does Not Flow Virgil Thomson
• Never-Never-Land V.S. Pritchett
• One Culture Rudolf Peierls
• Pas de deux John Russell
• Poem for the End of the Year Mary Gordon
• Proto-Photo Charles Rosen and Henri Zerner
• Reaganomics and Economics James Tobin
• Relic Luc Sante
• Short Reviews The Editors
• That Old Black and White Magic Clive James
• The Berlin Wall Tune Joseph Brodsky
• The Clowning Victim Alan Pryce-Jones
• The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie Richard Cobb
• The Novelist as Pedagogue John Bayley
• The Professor Knows Richard Wollheim
• The Trap of Rearmament James Fallows
• The Triumph of Matthew Arnold Noel Annan
• Uncle Wiz the Wizard Lincoln Kirstein
• Vietnam: An Exchange Arthur H. Westing and Carol E. Westing, reply by William Shawcross
• Washington at War Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
• Wolfe in Wolfe’s Clothing Janet Malcolm
• Wolfe’s Tale John Eldergill