Table of Contents

Volume 3, Number 8 · December 3, 1964

John Richardson, Trompe l'Oeil

Life with Picasso by Françoise Gilot, by Carlton Lake

John Gross, Waugh Revisited

A Little Learning by Evelyn Waugh

Frederick C. Crews, Comedy and Beyond

The Key to My Heart: A Comedy in Three Parts by V.S. Pritchett

Stations by Burt Blechman

James Merrill, A Carpet Not Bought (poem)

Paul Goodman, The Liberal Victory

W.D. Snodgrass, In Praise of Robert Lowell

The Old Glory by Robert Lowell, directed by Jonathan Miller

Wylie Sypher, The Language of the Dead

Tomb Sculpture by Erwin Panofsky, edited by H.W. Janson

Gore Vidal, The Writing of E. Nesbit

Janet Adam Smith, Engines of Mischief: The Best Children's Books of 1964

Wally the Wordworm by Clifton Fadiman

The Untold Adventures of Santa Claus by Ogden Nash

How the Whale Became by Ted Hughes

How to Catch a Crocodile by Robert Pack

Squawky by Stephen Potter

A Day Without Wind by William Mayne

The Letter on the Tree by Natalie Savage Carlson

Children of Africa by Louise A. Stinetorf

The Takula Tree by Elizabeth P. Fleming

Meeting with a Stranger by Duane Bradley

The King Who Loved Candy by Peter Hughes

The Young Man Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn by Eric von Schmidt

Elisabeth the Cow Ghost by William Pène du Bois

Tom and Tabby by John Symonds

To Catch a Spy by Amelia Elizabeth Walden

The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander

The Burning of Njal by Henry Treece

Save the Khan by B. Bartos-Höppner

Knights Beseiged by Nancy Faulkner

I Go by Sea, I Go by Land by P.L. Travers

Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh

The Alley by Eleanor Estes

The Coriander by Eilis Dillon

Marius Bewley, Oz Country

The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral by Leo Marx

The Wizard of Oz and Who He Was edited with two introductory essays by Martin Gardner, by Russell B. Nye

J.H. Plumb, Sir Lewis Namier

Sir Lewis Namier and John Brooke by Charles Townshend

Martha Cameron, The Damned

The Inner Room by Vera Randal

Hans J. Morgenthau, The Death of Marxism

World Communism by Richard Lowenthal

Robert M. Adams, Throwing up Absurd

Last Exit To Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr.

Nova Express by William S. Burroughs

The Invention of Morel (and other stories from La Trama Celeste) by Adolfo Bioy Casares

Us He Devours by James B. Hall

G.M. Matthews, The Last Days of the Poets

The Fatal Gift of Beauty: The Final Years of Byron and Shelley by A.B.C. Whipple

Francis Haskell, Whistler and Lautrec

Art Nocturne: The Art of James McNeill Whistler by Denys Sutton

Lautrec by Lautrec by P. Huisman, by M.G. Dortu

Creighton Gilbert, Tolnay's Michelangelo

The Art and Thought of Michelangelo by Charles de Tolnay, translated by Nan Buranelli

Hilton Kramer, A Scribble in the Air

A Concise History of Modern Sculpture by Herbert Read

Frank Kermode, The Man in the Closet

The Life of Drama by Eric Bentley

J.H. Elliott, Merchants and Pirates

My Voyage Around the World by Francesco Carletti, translated by Herbert Weinstock

Elizabethan Privateering by K.R. Andrews


Letters

Robert Cammer, Letters
James L. Magrish, Yosal Rogat, Letters



Contributors

Frederick Crews's most recent book is Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays. (December 2007)

J. H. Elliott is Regius Professor Emeritus of Modern History at the University of Oxford. His books include The Count-Duke of Olivares and Spain and Its World. Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1492– 1830 has just been published. (June 2006)

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)

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)

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

James Merrill died in 1995. The poem in this issue appears in Last Poems, a collection of previously unpublished work, just published by Thornwillow Press. (December 1998)

John Richardson's A Life of Picasso, Volume Two, was published in December. Volume One won the Whitbread Prize in England in 1991. (March 1997)

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


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