Table of Contents
Volume 1, Number 5 · October 31, 1963
V.S. Pritchett, The Harlot's Progress 
Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure by John Cleland
Elizabeth Hardwick, Frost in His Letters
The Letters of Robert Frost to Louis Untermeyer
Midge Decter, A Good Man is Hard to Find
America Comes of Middle Age: Columns 1949-1962 by Murray Kempton
Oscar Gass, China and Russia
Peking and Moscow by Klaus Mehnert
Escape from Red China by Robert Loh, as told to Humphrey Evans
G. S Fraser, Ransom Revised
Selected Poems (A Revised and Enlarged Edition) by John Crowe Ransom (A Revised and Enlarged Edition)
A.J.P. Taylor, The Reason Why
Winston Churchill and the Dardanelles: A Dialogue in Ends and Means by Trumbull Higgins
Jason Epstein, Dr. Yes
The First New Nation by S.M. Lipset
John Weightman, The King and I
The Age of Magnificence: Memoirs of the Court of Louis XIV by the Duc de Saint-Simon, selected, edited, and translated by Sanche de Gramont
George Lichtheim, Underground Man
Plekhanov: The Father of Russian Marxism by Samuel H. Baron
Harvey Swados, Piecework
The State of the Unions by Paul Jacobs
Nicola Chiaromonte, Metacritic
Metatheatre by Lionel Abel
George P. Elliott, Trials and Errors
The Journey and the Pity by Pawel Mayewski
Seconds by David Ely
V.S. Naipaul, Black Man's Burden
Jamaican Blood and Victorian Conscience by Bernard Semmel
Marianne Moore, Occasionem Cognosce (poem)
Al Alvarez, Keats
John Keats by Walter Jackson Bate
John Keats: The Making of a Poet by Aileen Ward
Richard Eberhart, Flux (poem)
Letters
Burt Blechman, Oy, Oy!
John Gross, Oy, Oy!
Maxwell Geismar, More Jacobiting
Arnold Wolfson, Letter
Contributors
Al Alvarez's most recent book is Risky Business, a selection of essays, many of which first appeared in The New York Review of Books.
Jason Epstein was for many years editorial director of Random House. He is chairman of On Demand Books, maker of the Espresso Book Machine. His latest book, Eating: A Memoir, will be published in October. (August 2009)
Elizabeth Hardwick (1916-2007) was a frequent contributor to 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 (NYRB Classics); the essay collections A View of My Own and Seduction and Betrayal (NYRB Classics).
Marianne Moore (1887-1972) was a poet, essayist, book reviewer, and translator. She is considered one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century.
V. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932 and emigrated to England in 1950, when he won a scholarship to University College, Oxford. He is the author of many novels, including A House for Mr. Biswas, A Bend in the River, and In a Free State, which won the Booker Prize. He has also written several nonfiction works based on his travels, including India: A Million Mutinies Now and Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples. He was knighted in 1990 and in 1993 was the first recipient of the David Cohen British Literature Prize.
Harvey Swados (1920–1972) was born in Buffalo, the son of a doctor. A graduate of the University of Michigan, he served in the Merchant Marine during World War II and published his first novel, Out Went the Candle, in 1955. His other books include the novels Standing Fast and Celebration; a group of stories set in an auto plant, On the Line, widely regarded as a classic of the literature of work; and various collections of nonfiction, including A Radical's America. Swados's 1959 essay for Esquire, "Why Resign from the Human Race?," has often been said to have inspired the formation of the Peace Corps.
John Weightman, Professor Emeritus of the University of London, is the author of The Concept of the Avant-Garde. He will soon publish The Cat Sat on the Mat: Language and the Absurd. (October 2002)
