Table of Contents

Volume 1, Number 8 · December 12, 1963

Richard Wilbur, The Lilacs (poem)

Frank Kermode, Colette

The Blue Lantern by Colette, translated by Roger Senhouse

Richmond Lattimore, Brief Encounter

The Ancient Greeks: An Introduction to their Life and Thought by M.I. Finley

Gore Vidal, Citizen Ken

The McLandress Dimension by Mark Epernay

Gertrude Himmelfarb, The Scientific Imagination

Evolution by Ruth Moore and the Editors of Life

The Evolution of Man by G.H.R. von Koenigswald

The Intelligence of Louis Agassiz: A Specimen Book of Scientific Writings by Guy Davenport

Darwiniana by Asa Gray ed. A. Hunter Dupree

The Tangled Bank: Darwin, Marx, Frazier, Freud as Imaginative Writers by Stanley Edgar Hyman

Darwin for Today ed. by Stanley Edgar Hyman

Neal Ascherson, The Queen of Hearts

Queen Victoria's Early Letters edited by John Raymond

F.W. Dupee, Nabokov: the Prose and Poetry of It All

M.I. Finley, Bogus Togas

The Civilization of Rome by Pierre Grimal, translated by W.S. Maguiness

The Revolutions of Ancient Rome by F.R. Cowell

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., End as a Man

George C. Marshall: Education of a General, 1880-1939 by Forrest C. Pogue, with the assistance of Gordon Harrison

G. S Fraser, Louis MacNeice

The Burning Perch by Louis MacNeice

Collected Poems, 1925-1948 by Louis MacNeice

Helen Muchnic, Dostoevsky's Journalism

Dostoevsky's Occasional Writings selected, translated, and introduced by David Magarshack

Nathan P. Glazer, City Lights

City Politics by Edward C. Banfield, by James C. Wilson

Richard Poirier, The Great Tradition

Scrutiny, (1932-1953) with a Retrospect by F.R. Leavis

Marius Bewley, Adams at Home

The Adams Family Correspondence edited by L.H. Butterfield

John Hollander, Science Fiction

A Voyage To Arcturus by David Lindsay

Russian Science Fiction An Anthology, ed. by Robert Magidoff

Robert L. Heilbroner, In the French Style

Economic Planning in France by John Hackett, by Anne-Marie Hackett

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Letters

Thorpe Menn, Thanks
Hans Koningsberger, Fanny
Paul Goodman, Comp. Lit.

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Contributors

Neal Ascherson is the author of The Struggles for Poland, The Black Sea, and Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland. He is the editor of the journal Public Archaeology at University College London. (November 2008)

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 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)

Frank Kermode lives in Cambridge, England. His most recent book is The Age of Shakespeare. (October 2008)

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)

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

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

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