Table of Contents

Volume 1, Number 1 · February 1, 1963

F.W. Dupee, James Baldwin and the "Man"

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

Dwight MacDonald, To the Whitehouse

The Politics of Hope by Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

Robert Lowell, Buenos Aires (poem)

Mary McCarthy, Déjeuner sur l'Herbe

The Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs

Philip Rahv, House of the Dead?

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, translated by Ralph Parker

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, translated by Max Hayward, by Ronald Hingley

Edgar Z. Friedenberg, Organization Kids

Education and the New America by Solon T. Kimball, by James McClellan Jr.

Elizabeth Hardwick, Grub Street: New York

John Berryman, Three Dream Songs (poem)

Oscar Gass, Russian Economic Development

Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective by Alexander Gerschenkron

Dimensions of Soviet Economic Power by Joint Economic Committee

Growth of Industrial Production in the Soviet Union by G. Warren Nutter

The Real National Income of Soviet Russia Since 1928 by Abram Bergson

W.H. Auden, Adam as a Welshman

Anathemata by David Jones

James R. Newman, Sharing the Universe

The Exploration of Outer Space by A.C.B. Lovell

Nicola Chiaromonte, Albee Damned

Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee

Lionel Abel, Don't Sing Your Crap

The Screens by Jean Genet

Steven Marcus, Seymour

Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters by J.D. Salinger

Robert Penn Warren, Lyrics from "Delight" (poem)

John Berryman, Auden's Prose

The Dyer's Hand by W.H. Auden

Irving Howe, PR

The Partisan Review Anthology edited by William Phillips, edited by Philip Rahv

Susan Sontag, Simone Weil

Selected Essays by Simone Weil, translated by Richard Rees

Alfred Kazin, Russian Sketches

Voices in the Snow by Olga Carlisle

John Maddocks, Anglo-Saxon Attitudes

The Origin of Races by Carleton S. Coon

R.W. Flint, Poetry

The Next Room of the Dream by Howard Nemerov

Snapshots of a Daughter-In-Law by Adrienne Rich

Long Live Man by Gregory Corso

Adrienne Rich, Poetry

The Lordly Hudson: Collected Poems by Paul Goodman

William Meredith, Poetry

Absent and Present by Chester Kallman

R.W. Flint, Poetry

For Love by Robert Creely

Jonathan Miller, Off-Centaur

The Centaur by John Updike

Paul Goodman, A Discussion in Toronto

Barbara Probst Solomon, I'd Rather Be Dwight

Against the American Grain by Dwight Macdonald

Lewis A. Coser, The Deluge

The Production and Distribution of Knowledge in the United States by Fritz Machlup

John Hollander, Sick Hix in Pix

Moon Missing by Edward Sorel

Hold Me! by Jules Feiffer

William Phillips, History on the Couch

Crowds and Power by Elias Canetti

John Thompson, New Novels

Occasion for Loving by Nadine Gordimer

Sissie by John A. Williams

Eternal Fire by Calder Willingham

Midge Decter, New Novels

Of Streets and Stars by Alan Marcus

Robert Jay Lifton, The Bomb

Children of the A-Bomb compiled by Aràta Osada

Elizabeth Hardwick, Ring

The Ring Lardner Reader edited by Maxwell Geismar

David T. Bazelon, Mythraking

The Great Ascent by Robert L. Heilbroner

Marius Bewley, Closing Time

The Familiar Faces by David Garnett

Dennis H. Wrong, Who's in Charge?

The Deadlock of Democracy: Four Party Politics in America by James MacGregor Burns

Norman Mailer, Punching Papa

That Summer in Paris by Morley Callaghan

James Ackerman, Dim Beginnings

The Eternal Present Vol. I: The Beginning of Art (The A.W. Mellon Lectures in Fine Arts, 1957) by S. Giedion

Richard Poirier, à la Mode

Puzzles and Epiphanies by Frank Kermode

Jason Epstein, New Editions

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, edited by J.B. Bury

Nathan P. Glazer, West End Story

The Urban Villagers: Group and Class in the Life of Italian-Americans by Herbert J. Gans

William Styron, New Editions

Slave and Citizen: The Negro in the Americas by Frank Tannenbaum

Robert Lowell, Robert Frost: 1875–1963

Gore Vidal, Tenacity

Here to Stay: Studies in Human Tenacity by John Hersey

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Letters

The Editors, To the Reader

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Contributors

W. H. Auden (1907–1973) was born in North Yorkshire, England, the son of a doctor. He studied at Oxford and published his first book, Poems, in 1930, immediately establishing himself as one of the outstanding voices of his generation. Auden emigrated to New York in 1939, where he became a US citizen and converted to Anglicanism. He wrote essays, critical studies, plays, and opera librettos for such composers as Benjamin Britten, Igor Stravinsky, and Hans Werner Henze, as well as the poems for which he is most famous.

Jason Epstein was for many years editorial director of Random House and has written on food for various publications. (March 2008)

R.W. Flint translated, edited, and introduced The Selected Works of Cesare Pavese in 1968 and Marinetti: Selected Writings in 1971. He has contributed interviews, essays, translations, and reviews on Italian writers to various journals including Parnassus, Canto, and The Italian Quarterly. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Elizabeth Hardwick (b. 1916) has been a frequent contributor to The Partisan Review, The New Yorker, and The New York Review of Books, which she helped found in 1963. Her books include the novels The Simple Truth, The Ghostly Lover, and Sleepless Nights, the essay collection A View of My Own, and The Selected Letters of William James, for which she acted as editor.

John Hollander is Sterling Professor Emeritus of English at Yale. His new book of poems, A Draft of Light, will be published by Knopf in May. (March 2008)

Alfred Kazin's most recent book is God and the American Writer. (April 1998)

Robert Lowell died in 1977. His Collected Poems was published this summer. The letters in this issue will be included in The Letters of Robert Lowell, edited by Saskia Hamilton, to be published next year by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC. (November 2003)

Norman Mailer (1923-2007) was the author of more than thirty books, including The Naked and the Dead; The Armies of the Night, for which he won a National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize; The Executioner's Song, for which he won his second Pulitzer Prize; and The Castle in the Forest.

Mary McCarthy (1912-1989) was a novelist, essayist, and critic. Her political and social commentary, literary essays, and drama criticism appeared in magazines such as Partisan Review, The New Yorker, Harper's, and The New York Review of Books, and were collected in On the Contrary (1961), Mary McCarthy's Theatre Chronicles 1937-1962 (1963), The Writing on the Wall (1970), Ideas and the Novel (1980), and Occasional Prose (1985). Her novels include The Company She Keeps (1942), The Oasis (1949), The Groves of Academe (1952), A Charmed Life (1955), The Group (1963), Birds of America (1971), and Cannibals and Missionaries (1971). She was the author of three works of autobiography, Memories of a Catholic Girlhood (1957), How I Grew (1987), and the unfinished Intellectual Memoirs (1992), and two travel books about Italy, Venice Observed (1956) and The Stones of Florence (1959). Her essays on the Vietnam War were collected in The Seventeenth Degree (1974); her essays on Watergate were collected in The Mask of State (1974).

Jonathan Miller has directed operas and plays throughout the world, most recently Pelléas and Mélisande at the Metropolitan Opera. His many books include The Body in Question, States of Mind, On Reflection, and Nowhere in Particular. The article that appears in this issue is based on a talk given at the New York Public Library. (May 2000)

Susan Sontag (1933-2004) was the author of four novels, The Benefactor, Death Kit, The Volcano Lover, and In America, which won the 2000 National Book Award for Fiction; a collection of stories, I, Etcetera; several plays, including Alice in Bed and Lady from the Sea; and seven works of nonfiction, among them Where the Stress Falls and Regarding the Pain of Others. Her books have been translated into thirty-two languages. In 2001, she was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the body of her work; in 2003, she received the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade.

Gore Vidal's most recent novel is The Golden Age. (February 2002)

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