Table of Contents

Volume 2, Number 4 · April 2, 1964

Elizabeth Hardwick, The Disaster at Lincoln Center

William Styron, A Southern Conscience

A Southern Prophecy by Lewis H. Blair, Introduction by C. Vann Woodward

Francis Haskell, Ruskin

The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings edited with an Introduction by John D. Rosenberg

Helen Muchnic, Russian Pastorale

Going to Town and Other Stories by Yuri Kazakov, compiled and translated by Gabriella Azrael

Harold Rosenberg, "As a Teen-Age Boy of the Twentieth Century…"

Culture Against Man by Jules Henry

Elizabeth Bishop, Twelfth Morning; Or What You Will (poem)

Marvin Mudrick, Pshaw!

On Language by George Bernard Shaw, edited by Abraham Tauber

The Religious Speeches of Bernard Shaw edited by Warren S. Smith

A Guide to the Plays of Bernard Shaw by C.B. Purdom

The Loves of George Bernard Shaw by C.G.L. DuCann

G.B.S. and the Lunatic by Lawrence Langner

Hugh Trevor-Roper, Accounting for Hitler

The Reichstag Fire by Fritz Tobias

Big Business in the Third Reich by Arthur Schweitzler

Steven Marcus, The Limits of Literary History

English Literature, 1815-1832 (Volume X in The Oxford History of English Literature) by Ian Jack

Walter Laqueur, Middle-Eastern Illusions

The Middle East and the West by Bernard Lewis

III Rzesza i Arabski Wschod (The Third Reich and the Arab East) by Lukasz Hirszowicz

Egypt in Revolution by Charles Issawi

The Arabs and the World: Nasser's Arab Nationalist Policy by Charles D. Cremeans

Robert M. Adams, Hit and Miss

Second Skin by John Hawkes

A Fine Madness by Elliott Baker

E.J. Hobsbawm, Koestler's England

Suicide of A Nation? An Inquiry into the State of Britain Today edited by Arthur Koestler

Paul de Man, Heidegger Reconsidered

What is Existentialism? by William Barrett

John Hollander, This Is Your Life, John Donne

Take Heed of Loving Me by Elizabeth Gray Vining


Letters

Sidney Hook, Fail-Safe, &c.
David Josephson, Michael Pickard, et al. Fail-Safe, &c.
Frank S. Meyer, Fail-Safe, &c.
E.C. Beer, Ford Madox Ford
John Thompson, Auden



Contributors

Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979) was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and a National Book Critics Circle Award for her poetry. The poems in this issue will appear in Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments, edited by Alice Quinn, to be published this month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. (March 2006)

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)

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)


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