Table of Contents
Volume 1, Number 12 · February 6, 1964
William Meredith, An Assent to Wildflowers 
(poem)
Neal Ascherson, T. E. Lawrence
T. E. Lawrence to His Biographers by Robert Graves, by B.H. Liddell Hart
338171, T.E. Lawrence of Abrabia by Victoria Ocampo, translated by David Garnett
Robert Brustein, Out of This World
Elizabeth Hardwick, The Family Way
The Wapshot Scandal by John Cheever
Ralph Ellison, The Blues
Blues People by LeRoi Jones
Richard Hofstadter, A Progressive Hero
George W. Norris: The Making of a Progressive, 1861-1912 by Richard Lowitt
William Arrowsmith, An Early Modern
A Life by Italo Svevo, translated by Archibald Colquhoun
Nancy Mitford, Belle Lettriste
Madame de Sevigne by Harriet Ray Allentuch
Benjamin DeMott, A Hard Case
James Forrestal: A Study of Personality Politics and Policy by Arnold A. Rogow
Francis Haskell, Mannerisms
Italian Mannerism by Giuliano Briganti
Mannerism, the European Style of the Sixteenth Century by Franzsepp Würtenberger
Mannerism and Maniera by Craig Hugh Smyth
Edgar Z. Friedenberg, Uplift
Self-Renewal: The Individual and the Innovative Society by John W. Gardner
R.W. Flint, Rhapsody In Blue
The Collected Novels of Conrad Aiken with an introduction by R.P. Blackmur
Ernest Nagel, Science As History
Scientific Change edited by A.C. Crombie
Martin Turnell, Big Three
Corneille by P.J. Yarrow
The Art of Jean Racine by Bernard Weinberg
Men and Masks: A Study of Moliere by Lionel Gossman
Henry David Aiken, Working Up The Absurd
Problematic Rebel by Maurice Friedman
G. S Fraser, Mythmanship
Fables of Identity: Studies in Poetic Mythology by Northrop Frye
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.
(July 2009)
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)
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.
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).
Francis Haskell, formerly Professor of Art History at Oxford, is the author of Patrons and Painters, Rediscoveries in Art, Past and Present in Art and Taste, and History and Its Images: Art and the Interpretation of the Past. (February 1999)
Nancy Mitford (1904-1973) was the eldest of the "Mitford girls," the sisters who captured the attention of the English public and press with their literary talents and unpopular politics. Nancy Mitford herself was famous for her novels (The Pursuit of Love, The Blessing, and Don't Tell Alfred), for her forays into social science (a critical study of the English aristocracy), and for her biographies of famous figures from French history (Madame de Pompadour, Voltaire in Love, and The Sun King).
