Table of Contents
Volume 1, Number 4 · October 17, 1963
Norman Mailer, The Mary McCarthy Case
The Group by Mary McCarthy
M.I. Finley, In a Nutshell 
The Rise Of The West by William H. McNeill
Robert L. Heilbroner, Wild Raspberries
Challenge to Affluence by Gunnar Myrdal
Eve Auchincloss, Needles & Pins
A Man and Two Women by Doris Lessing
The Reservoir and Snowman Snowman by Janet Frame
The Quiet Enemy by Cecil Dawkins
Lillian Hellman, Scotch on the Rocks
Lionel Abel, The Genius of Jean Genet
Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet, translated by Bernard Frechtman
Marion Magid, Fail-Safe
The Creative Present: Notes on Contemporary American Fiction edited by Nona Balakian, edited by Charles Simmons
Gerald Holton, A New Encyclopedia
The Harper Encyclopedia of Science edited by James R. Newman
Creighton Gilbert, Going for Baroque
Patrons and Painters: A Study in the Relations between Italian Art and Society in the Age of the Baroque by Francis Haskell
John Hollander, Making Out
Making Do by Paul Goodman
Frank O'Connor, Les Caves du Vatican
Letters From Vatican City by Xavier Rynne
John Gross, Oy!
Idiots First by Bernard Malamud
The War of Camp Omongo by Burt Blechman
Seven Days of Mourning by L.S. Simckes
H.L.A. Hart, Holmes's Common Law
The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes, edited by Mark DeWolfe Howe
Michael Fried, Bad Form
Abstract Painting by Michel Seuphor
Daniel M. Friedenberg, Castro Convertible
The United States, Cuba, and Castro by William Appleman Williams
Robert M. Adams, Nacht und Tag
The Benefactor by Susan Sontag
Adrienne Rich, The Corpse-Plant (poem)
Theodore Roethke, His Foreboding (poem)
Stanley Kunitz, Theodore Roethke
John Berryman, A Strut for Roethke (poem)
Letters
Constantine FitzGibbon, Letter
Contributors
M. I. Finley (1912-1986), the son of Nathan Finkelstein and Anna Katzellenbogen, was born in New York City. He graduated from Syracuse University at the age of fifteen and received an MA in public law from Columbia, before turning to the study of ancient history. During the Thirties Finley taught at Columbia and City College and developed an interest in the sociology of
the ancient world that was shaped in part by his association with members of the Frankfurt School who were working in exile in America. In 1952, when he was teaching at Rutgers, Finley was summoned before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee and asked whether he had ever been a member of the Communist Party. He refused to answer, invoking the Fifth Amendment; by the end of the year he had been fired from the university by a unanimous vote of its trustees. Unable to find work in the US, Finley moved to England, where he taught for many years at Cambridge, helping to redirect the focus of classical education from a narrow emphasis on philology to a wider concern with culture, economics, and society. He became a British subject in 1962 and was knighted in 1979. Among Finley's best-known works are The Ancient Economy, Ancient Slavery and Modern Ideology, and The World of Odysseus.
John Gross’s most recent book is A Double Thread, a memoir. He is the editor of The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes, which will be published in paperback in September. (May 2008)
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)
Norman Mailer (1923-2007) was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. In 1955 he co-founded The Village Voice. He is 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; Harlot's Ghost; Oswald's Tale; The Gospel According to the Son; and The
Castle in the Forest.
