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Volume 5, Number 11 · January 6, 1966

Ernst Gombrich, The Art of the Greeks

Greek Temples, Theatres, and Shrines by Helmut Berve, by Gottfried Gruben, photographs by Max Hirmer

Greek Sculpture by R. Lullies, photographs by Max Hirmer

A History of 1000 Years of Greek Vase Painting by Paolo Enrico Arias, translated by B. Shefton, photographs by Max Hirmer

Ancient Greek Sculpture of South Italy and Sicily by Ernest Langlotz, photographs by Max Hirmer

Crete and Mycenae by Spyridon Marinatos, photographs by Max Hirmer

The Techniques of Painted Attic Pottery by Joseph Veach Noble

The Portraits of the Greeks by G.M.A. Richter

Elizabeth Hardwick, Theater in New York

The Country Wife by William Wycherley

Inadmissible Evidence by John Osborne

The Devils by John Whiting

Edgar Z. Friedenberg, Kids Without a Country

The Uncommitted: Alienated Youth in American Society by Kenneth Keniston

Mark Strand, The Accident (poem)

Hans J. Morgenthau, Monuments to Kennedy

A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

Kennedy by Theodore C. Sorensen

Eleanor Clark, "Angel of Devastation"

The Two Lives of Edith Wharton by Grace Kellogg

Edith Wharton and Henry James: The Story of Their Friendship by Millicent Bell

The Edith Wharton Reader selected with an Introduction by Louis Auchincloss

The Reef by Edith Wharton, Introduction by Louis Auchincloss

Edith Wharton 1862-1937 by Olivia Coolidge

Harold Acton, Strange Bedfellows

La Batarde by Violette Leduc, translated by Derek Coltman

Witches' Sabbath by Maurice Sachs, translated by Richard Howard

The Hunt by Maurice Sachs, translated by Richard Howard

Jason Epstein, Living in New York

John Weightman, Just Friends

Conversations with Andre Gide by Claude Mauriac, translated by Michael Lebeck

Ronald Steel, Mr. Clean

Waging Peace: 1956-1961 by Dwight D. Eisenhower

D.J. Enright, Uttering the Unutterable

The Death of Virgil by Hermann Broch, translated by Jean Starr Untermeyer

Geoffrey Barraclough, Historian at the End of His Tether

The Era of Tyrannies by Elie Halévy, translated by R.K. Webb

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Letters

Anne Fremantle, Vietnam
John P. Roche, Irving Howe, Vietnam
Sing-nan Fen, It's All Mental
Cushing Strout, Morton White, It's All Mental
The Editors, Sorry

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Contributors

D. J. Enright's books include The Alluring Problem, Fields of Vision, Collected Poems 1948—1998, and, most recently, Interplay: A Kind of Commonplace Book. (August 2000)

Jason Epstein was for many years editorial director of Random House and has written on food for various publications. (March 2008)

Professor Sir Ernst Gombrich OM was born in Vienna in 1909 and died in London on November 3, 2001, aged 92. He studied at the Theresianum and then at the Second Institute of Art History at the University of Vienna under Julius von Schlosser (1928-33). He then worked as a Research Assistant and collaborator with the museum curator and Freudian analyst Ernst Kris. He joined the Warburg Institute in London as a Research Assistant in 1936. During World War 2 he was employed by the BBC as a Radio Monitor. After the war he rejoined the Warburg Institute eventually becoming its Director in 1959. His major publications include The Story of Art (1950), Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation (1960), Aby Warburg: An Intellectual Biography (1970), The Sense of Order: A Study in the Psychology of Decorative Art. (Also see: www.gombrich.co.uk.)

Elizabeth Hardwick (b. 1916) has been a frequent contributor to The 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, the essay collection A View of My Own, and The Selected Letters of William James, for which she acted as editor.

Ronald Steel is Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California, a recent fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, and the author of biographies of Walter Lippmann and Robert Kennedy. (June 2006)

Mark Strand teaches in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia. His most recent book is New Selected Poems. (March 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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