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Volume 5, Number 10 · December 23, 1965

Isaiah Berlin, A Great Russian Writer

The Prose of Osip Mandelstam translated with an Introductory Essay by Clarence Brown

Osip Mandelstam, Nine Poems by Ossip Mandelstam (poem)

Anna Ahmatova, A Portrait of Mandelstamm

Paul de Man, The Mask of Albert Camus

Notebooks 1942-1951 by Albert Camus, translated and annotated by Justin O'Brien

Jean Stafford, This Happy Breed

The Gentle Americans by Helen Howe

C.H. Waddington, The Question of Aggression

The Natural History of Aggression edited by J.D. Carthy, edited by F.J. Ebling

John Gross, Kazin in the Thirties

Starting Out in the Thirties by Alfred Kazin

Frances A. Yates, Renaissance Man

The Heroic Frenzies by Giordano Bruno, translated with Introduction and notes by Paul Eugene Memmo Jr.

John Thompson, Matthiessen and Updike

At Play in the Fields of the Lord by Peter Matthiessen

Of the Farm by John Updike

J.H. Plumb, History in Spite of Itself

The Great Mutiny by James Dugan

Robert Brustein, La Dolce Spumoni

Juliet of the Spirits directed by Federico Fellini

Roland Oliver, Out of Africa

A Political History of Tropical Africa by Robert I. Rotberg

The Rise of Nationalism in Central Africa: The Making of Malawi and Zambia 1873-1964 by Robert I. Rotberg

A History of Postwar Africa by John Hatch

Nigeria, the Tribe, the Nation or the Race: The Politics of Independence by F.A.O. Schwartz Jr.

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Letters

Paul Goodman, A Letter to John Lindsay
Staughton Lynd, Irving Howe, An Exchange on Vietnam
Elizabeth Hardwick, Frederick C. Crews, Wilson and the Academy
D'Arcy Fitzwilliam-Vere, I.F. Stone, It Was Xenophanes

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Contributors

Isaiah Berlin was born in Riga in 1909. In 1916 his family moved to Petrograd, where he witnessed the Russian Revolution, and in 1921 he emigrated to England. He was educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and became a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, where he was later appointed Professor of Social and Political Theory. He served as the first president of Wolfson College, Oxford, and as president of the British Academy. He died in 1997. For more information, see the Isaiah Berlin Virtual Library.

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)

Osip Mandelstam (1891–1938) was born and raised in St. Petersburg, where he attended the prestigious Tenishev School, before studying at the universities of St. Petersburg and Heidelberg and at the Sorbonne. Mandelstam first published his poems in Apollyon, an avant-garde magazine, in 1910, then banded together with Anna Akhmatova and Nicholas Gumilev to form the Acmeist group, which advocated an aesthetic of exact description and chiseled form, as suggested by the title of Mandelstam's first book, Stone (1913). During the Russian Revolution, Mandelstam left Leningrad for the Crimea and Georgia, and he settled in Moscow in 1922, where his second collection of poems, Tristia, appeared. Unpopular with the Soviet authorities, Mandelstam found it increasingly difficult to publish his poetry, though an edition of collected poems did come out in 1928. In 1934, after reading an epigram denouncing Stalin to friends, Mandelstam was arrested and sent into exile. He wrote furiously during these years, and his wife, Nadezhda, memorized his work in case his notebooks were destroyed or lost. (Nadezhda Mandelstam's extraordinary memoirs of life with her husband, Hope Against Hope and Hope Abandoned, published in the 1970s, later helped to bring Mandelstam a worldwide audience.)

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