Table of Contents
Volume 8, Number 8 · May 4, 1967
J.M. Cameron, Rude Torso 
Love's Body by Norman O. Brown
Mary McCarthy, Report from Vietnam II: The Problems of Success
Matthew Hodgart, Kicking the Hobbit
The Lord of the Rings I. The Fellowship of the Ring; II. The Two Towers; III. The Return of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien. Second, revised edition, with a new Foreword by author
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Tolkien Reader Introduction by Peter Beagle
Andrew Kopkind, Times' Square
The Artillery of the Press: Its Influence on American Foreign Policy by James Reston
Charles Rycroft, Lost Children
The Empty Fortress by Bruno Bettelheim
Theodore H. Draper, A Special Supplement: Vietnam: How Not to Negotiate
Denis Donoghue, Svevo's Comedy
Short Sentimental Journey, and Other Stories by Italo Svevo, Translations by Beryl de Zoete, by L. Collison-Morley, by Ben Johnson
Italo Svevo: The Man and the Writer by P.N. Furbank
John Plamenatz, Pascal Our Contemporary
The Hidden God by Lucien Goldmann, translated by Philip Thody
Pascal by Jean Steinmann, translated by Martin Turnell
Walter Savage Landor, A Foren Ruler (poem)
John Wain, Versions of Pastoral
Shepherds of the Night by Jorge Amado, translated by Harriet de Onis
Mother and Son: A Brazilian Tale translated by Barbara Shelby, translated by Gilberto Freyre
In Orbit by Wright Morris
Letters
David A. Freedman, John H. Schaar, et al. Berkeley
Conor Cruise O'Brien, Meyer Schapiro, True Confession?
Peter B. Standish, Lobby
Contributors
Denis Donoghue is University Professor at NYU, where he holds the Henry James Chair of English and American Letters. He is the author of The Practice of Reading, Words Alone: The Poet T.S. Eliot, and, most recently, The American Classics. (October 2006)
Theodore Draper's books include The Roots of American Communism and A Struggle for Power: The American Revolution. He is at work on a book about the nineteenth century in the US. (September 1999)
Mary McCarthy (1912-1989) was a novelist, essayist, and critic. Her political and social commentary, literary essays, and drama criticism appeared in magazines such as Partisan Review, The New Yorker, Harper's, and The New York Review of Books, and were collected in On the Contrary (1961), Mary McCarthy's Theatre Chronicles 1937-1962 (1963), The Writing on the Wall (1970), Ideas and the Novel (1980), and Occasional Prose (1985). Her novels include The Company She Keeps (1942), The Oasis (1949), The Groves of Academe (1952), A Charmed Life (1955), The Group (1963), Birds of America (1971), and Cannibals and Missionaries (1971). She was the author of three works of autobiography, Memories of a Catholic Girlhood (1957), How I Grew (1987), and the unfinished Intellectual Memoirs (1992), and two travel books about Italy, Venice Observed (1956) and The Stones of Florence (1959). Her essays on the Vietnam War were collected in The Seventeenth Degree (1974); her essays on Watergate were collected in The Mask of State (1974).
Charles Rycroft is a psychoanalyst practicing in London. His books include A Critical Dictionary of Psychoanalysis, Anxiety and Neurosis, The Innocence of Dreams, and Psychoanalysis and Beyond. (May 1997)
