Table of Contents

Volume 1, Number 7 · November 28, 1963

William Styron, An Elegy for F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald edited by Andrew Turnbull

Meyer Schapiro, Lives of the Painters

Born Under Saturn by Rudolf Wittkower, by Margot Wittkower

Philip Booth, After the Thresher (poem)

R.W. Flint, Cosmic Comics

A Singular Man by J.P. Donleavy

The Maniac Responsible by Robert Gover

Visions of Gerard by Jack Kerouac

Susan Sontag, A Hero of our Time

Structural Anthropology by Claude Lévi-Strauss, Translated from the French by Claire Jacobson, by Brook Grundfest Schoepf

G. S Fraser, Two Poets

Poems 2 by Alan Dugan

Stand Up, Friend, with Me by Edward Field

Jason Epstein, Wilson's Amerika

The Cold War and the Income Tax: A Protest by Edmund Wilson

R.P. Blackmur, Old Moderns

Eight Modern Writers by J.I.M. Stewart

Paul Goodman, On A. J. Muste

John Gross, Dissenting Opinion

A World More Attractive by Irving Howe

H. Stuart Hughes, Visible Men

The Negro Protest: James Baldwin, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King talk with Kenneth B. Clark

When the Word is Given…A Report on Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X. and the Black Muslim World by Louis E. Lomax

Lewis A. Coser, The Eagle Has No Head

The Americans: A New History of the People of the United States by Oscar Handlin

Daniel M. Friedenberg, Bossa Nova

Invisible Latin America by Samuel Shapiro

Paul de Man, Giraudoux

Three Plays: Judith, Tiger at the Gates, and Duel of Angels by Jean Giraudoux, translated by Christopher Fry

Xavier Prynne, Vice-Presidential Notes: (The 6th Vice-Presidential Note)


Letters

Ralph Schoenman, Bertrand Russell
Amitai Etzioni, Jason Epstein, More on Dr. Yes
Cleveland Moffett, George P. Elliott, Journey and Pity
Bryna Ivens Untermeyer, Frost and Untermeyer



Contributors

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.

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)

Meyer Schapiro, who died in 1996, taught for many years at Columbia. He was one of the most influential art historians of the last century and a contributor to The New York Review. Meyer Schapiro Abroad: Letters to Lillian and Travel Notebooks, in which the letters in this issue appear, will be published in January by Getty. (December 2008)

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.


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