Table of Contents

Volume 2, Number 6 · April 30, 1964

Frank Kermode, The Case for William Golding

The Spire by William Golding

Edgar Z. Friedenberg, The Question of Major Eatherly

The Hiroshima Pilot by William Bradford Huie

Richard Ellmann, In Lord Alfred's Camp

Bosie by Rupert Croft-Cooke

J.H. Plumb, A Black Heart

The King Incorporated by Neal Ascherson

Richard Wollheim, What is Art?

Art and Anarchy by Edgar Wind

Peter Wiles, Prop Art

Soviet Foreign Propaganda by Frederick C. Barghoorn

Benjamin DeMott, City Light

Doings and Undoings by Norman Podhoretz

Robert M. Adams, New Short Stories

Prize Stories 1964: The O. Henry Awards edited by Richard Poirier

Come Back, Dr. Caligari by Donald Barthelme

Three: 1964 by R.H. Robinson, by E.R. Widmer, by E. Pohoryles

Emblems of Conduct by Donald Windham

Behold Goliath by Alfred Chester

John Weightman, Day-Dreams

The Psychoanalysis of Fire by Gaston Bachelard, translated by Alan C.M. Ross

The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard, translated by Maria Jolas

J.H. Elliott, Chronicles of the Conquest

The Conquistadors: First-person Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico edited and translated by Patricia de Fuentes

Cortes: The Life of the Conqueror by his Secretary Francisco Lopez de Gomara, translated and edited by Lesley Byrd Simpson

The Aztecs: The History of the Indies of New Spain by Fray Diego Durán, translated by Doris Heyden, by Fernando Horcasitas

Julian Moynahan, Displaced Persons

I Was Dancing by Edwin O'Connor

The Old Man and Me by Elaine Dundy

Love You Good, See You Later by Eugene Walter

Vladimir Nabokov, On Translating Pushkin Pounding the Clavichord

Walter Arndt, Goading the Pony

Diana Trilling, A Scandal in Education

High School English Textbooks: A Critical Examination by James J. Lynch, by Bertrand Evans

Louis Kronenberger, Congreve in His Letters

William Congreve: Letters & Documents collected and edited by John C. Hodges

Adrienne Rich, In the Woods (poem)

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Letters

Harry G. Johnson, Daniel Bell, General Motors
Marshall C. Lewis, General Motors
E.R. Kittrell, General Motors
John Bernard Myers, Lincoln Center
Alice S. Morris, Lincoln Center
Edward Earle Penn, Lincoln Center
Gene Thornton, Lincoln Center
David Shaber, Elizabeth Hardwick, Lincoln Center
Lawrence Luckinbill, Lincoln Center
Al Capp, John Hollander, Gulp!
Stanley Kauffmann, The Devil's Disciple
Sam Wellbaum, The Devil's Disciple
F.W. Dupee, The Devil's Disciple
Richard Ohmann, Marvin Mudrick, The Devil's Disciple

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Contributors

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)

J. H. Elliott is Regius Professor Emeritus of Modern History at the University of Oxford. He has just published a new volume of essays, Spain, Europe and the Wider World, 1500–1800. (August 2009)

Frank Kermode lives in Cambridge, England. His latest book, ConcerningE.M. Forster, will be published in December.
 (October 2009)

Julian Moynahan is Professor of English Emeritus at Rutgers University. His most recent book is Anglo-Irish: The Literary Imagination in a Hyphenated Culture. (May 2000)

Vladimir Nabokov died in 1977. The translation in this issue appears in Verses and Versions, a collection of Nabokov’s translations of three centuries of Russian poetry, published this month by Harcourt. (November 2008)

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)

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