Table of Contents

Volume 7, Number 7 · November 3, 1966

D.J. Enright, Nabokov's Way

The Waltz Invention by Vladimir Nabokov

The Eye by Vladimir Nabakov

Despair by Vladimir Nabokov

Escape Into Aesthetics: The Art of Vladimir Nabokov by Page Stegner

Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited by Vladimir Nabokov

Elizabeth Hardwick, Auschwitz in New York

The Investigation by Peter Weiss

Steven Marcus, In Praise of Folly

Madness and Civilization by Michel Foucault

John Gross, The Art of Agnon

Two Tales by S.Y. Agnon, translated by Walter Lever

Ted Hughes, Wings (poem)

Paul Goodman, The Psychology of Being Powerless

Magdalen Goffin, The Divided Catholics

The Fourth Session by Xavier Rynne

What Happened at Rome? The Council and Its Implications for the Modern World by Gary MacEoin

Pope Paul VI: Apostle on the Move by Alden Hatch

J.H. Plumb, Boney

The Bonapartes by David Stacton

The Campaigns of Napoleon by David Chandler

Napoleon and the Birth of Modern Spain by Gabriel H. Lovett

Napoleon's Satellite Kingdoms by Owen Connelly

1812 by Anthony Brett James

Napoleon's Russian Campaign by Count Philippe-Paul de Ségur, translated by J. David Townsend, with a new Introduction by Peter Gay

Henry David Aiken, The University II: What Is a Liberal Education?

The Reforming of General Education by Daniel Bell

John Richardson, At the New Whitney

American Art from 1676 to the Present Day The Whitney Museum

Christopher Ricks, To Bennett's Rescue

Writer by Trade: A Portrait of Arnold Bennett by Dudley Barker

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Letters

Cushing Strout, Philip Rahv, Placing Hawthorne

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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)

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 was published in paperback last September. (May 2009)

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).

Ted Hughes's translation of Racine's Phèdre will be staged at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in January and published that month. His translation of the complete Oresteia, of which the poem in this issue is the opening, will be staged by the National Theatre in England and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in June. His last book was Birthday Letters. He died on October 28. (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)

Christopher Ricks teaches at Boston University and is the Immediate Past President of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics. He wrote Keats and Embarrassment.
 (June 2009)

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