Table of Contents

Volume 1, Number 2 · June 1, 1963

Edmund Wilson, Every Man His Own Eckermann

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Crosland's Socialism

The Conservative Enemy by C.A.R. Crosland

Allen Tate, FMF

Ford Madox Ford: A Study of His Novels by Richard A. Cassell

Novelist Of Three Worlds: Ford Madox Ford by Paul L. Wiley

Ford Madox Ford's Novels: A Critical Study by John A. Meixner

Alfred Chester, Fruit Salad

City Of Night by John Rechy

Marshall Cohen, Sovereign Law

The Sovereign Prerogative: The Supreme Court and the Quest for Law by Eugene V. Rostow

Law, Liberty, and Morality by H.L.A. Hart

Stephen Spender, Death in Jerusalem

Eichmann In Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt

F.W. Dupee, You're Welcome

Thank You And Other Poems by Kenneth Koch

Benjamin DeMott, America Absolved

Anti-Intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter

J.F. Powers, Trade Preserv'd

The Great Hunger by Cecil Woodham-Smith

Truman Capote, The $6 Misunderstanding

Mobile by Michel Butor

Robert L. Heilbroner, Capitalism Contained

The American Economic Republic by Adolf A. Berle

Richard Wilbur, Longfellow

Longfellow: His Life and Work by Newton Arvin

Marius Bewley, An International Episode

A Favorite Of The Gods by Sybille Bedford

Robert Brustein, Buechner

Complete Plays and Prose by Georg Buechner, translated with an introduction by Carl Richard Mueller

H. Stuart Hughes, Spengler

Man and Technics by Oswald Spengler, translated by C.F. Atkinson

The Hour of Decision by Oswald Spengler, translated by C.F. Atkinson

Steven Marcus, A New Beat

The Tin Drum by Günter Grass

Ben B. Seligman, Dollars, Taxes

The Paper Economy by David T. Bazelon

Andrew Chiappe, Shakespeare

Shakespeare Criticism, 1935-1960 Selected with an introduction by Anne Ridler

Alison Lurie, Early Powell

What's Become of Waring? by Anthony Powell

Marion Magid, Tapes

Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews. Second Series.

Joseph Frank, A Raw Deal

Dostoevsky by David Magarshack

Nathan P. Glazer, Too Much

Little Science, Big Science by Derek J. De Solla Price

Richard Poirier, Cook's Tour

V. by Thomas Pynchon

Anthony Hecht, Recent Poetry

To Mix With Time by May Swenson

Final Solutions by Frederick Seidel

John Lukacs, French Army

The French Army: A Military Political History by Paul Marie de la Gorce

Dare Call It Treason by Richard M. Watt

Eve Auchincloss, Oxford Gothic

The Unicorn by Iris Murdoch

Alfred Kazin, Literary Realism

Documents of Modern Literary Realism edited by George J. Becker

Lionel Abel, Second Thoughts on Existentialism

Kenneth Burke, William Carlos Williams, 1883–1963

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Letters

Ronnie Dugger, Letter
John S. Bowman, Letter
Janet Burroway Eysselinck, Letter
Eric A. Havelock, Letter
Mark DeWolfe Howe, Letter
Harold Matson, Letter
Ivar Oxaal, Letter
Ivar Oxaal, James E. Shapiro, Letter
Louis Untermeyer, Letter
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Dwight Macdonald, Letter
Stanley J. Rowland, Letter
Roy Harvey Pearce, Letter
Justin O'Brien, Letter
Bernard Malamud, Letter
Roz Angier, Letter
Irma Brandeis, Letter
Emerson Greenaway, Letter
David Lipman, Letter
C. Vann Woodward, Letter
Robert C. Quinlan, Letter
Meredith Pitkin, Letter
Stuart C. Sherman, Letter
Dorothy Rudo, Letter
Agnes E. Meyer, Letter
Raymond Medeiros, Letter
Clifford Lord, Letter
Mark Levensky, Letter
Gerald Holton, Letter
Roger Hagan, Letter
Herschel Halbert, Letter
W.B. Fleischmann, Letter
Dean Brelis, Letter
William C. Cowan, Letter

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Contributors

Benjamin Demott is Mellon Professor of Humanities Emeritus at Amherst. His most recent book is Junk Politics: The Trashing of the American Mind. (May 2005)

Joseph Frank is Professor Emeritus of Slavic and Comparative Literature at Stanford. He is the author of Dostoyevsky: The Mantle of the Prophet, 1871–1881. (June 2008)

Anthony Hecht'sCollected Later Poems and Melodies Unheard: Essays on the Mysteries of Poetry were published in 2003. He died on October 20. (December 2004)

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

John Lukacs was born in Budapest in 1924. He has written twenty-five works of history and criticism, including Budapest 1900: A Historical Portrait of a City and Its Culture; Historical Consciousness: Or, The Remembered Past; The Duel: The Eighty-Day Struggle Between Churchill and Hitler; and, most recently, George Kennan: A Study of Character.

Alison Lurie is a former Professor of English at Cornell. Her most recent novel is Truth and Consequences.

J. F. Powers (1917-1999) was born in Jacksonville, Illinois, and studied at Northwestern University while holding a variety of jobs in Chicago and working on his writing. He published his first stories in The Catholic Worker and, as a pacifist, spent thirteen months in prison during World War II. Powers was the author of three collections of short stories and two novels—Morte D'Urban, which won the National Book Award, and Wheat That Springeth Green—all of which have been reissued by New York Review Books. He lived in Ireland and the United States and taught for many years at St John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota.

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., the author of numerous books on American history, served as adviser to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. He died this year. His Journals: 1952– 2000, from which an excerpt appears in this issue, will be published in October by Penguin. (October 2007)

Richard Wilbur's book Mayflies: New Poems and Translations will be published in April. (November 2000)

Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) is widely regarded as the preeminent American man of letters of the twentieth century. Over his long career, he wrote for Vanity Fair, helped edit The New Republic, served as chief book critic for The New Yorker, and was a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books. Wilson was the author of more than twenty books, including Axel's Castle, Patriotic Gore, and a work of fiction, Memoirs of Hecate County.

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