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Volume 9, Number 11 · December 21, 1967

Edgar Z. Friedenberg, Boy's Life

Stop-time by Frank Conroy

North Toward Home by Willie Morris

Elizabeth Hardwick, The Little Foxes Revived

The Little Foxes by Lillian Hellman, produced by Saint Subber, directed by Mike Nichols

John Holt, Children in Prison

Village School Downtown by Peter Schrag

Death at an Early Age: The Destruction of the Hearts and Minds of Negro Children in the Boston Public Schools by Jonathan Kozol

Christopher Ricks, That Old Identity Game

Robert Browning and His World: The Private Face by Maisie Ward

The Devil Drives: A Life of Sir Richard Burton by Fawn M. Brodie

Conor Cruise O'Brien, A Condemned People

Matthew Hodgart, The Witches' Secrets

Andrew Lang's Color Fairy Tale Books: The Blue Fairy Book; The Red Fairy Book; The Green Fairy Book; The Yellow Fairy Book; The Pink Fairy Book; The Grey Fairy Book; The Violet Fairy Book; The Crimson Fairy Book; and The Brown Fairy Book edited by Andrew Lang

V.S. Pritchett, An Edwardian Dropout

Hugh Trevor-Roper, Gibbon Made Simple

Edward Gibbon, the Historian by Joseph Ward Swain

Denis Donoghue, The Other Country

The Golden Key by George MacDonald, illustrated by Maurice Sendak, Afterword by W.H. Auden

D.P. Walker, System Builders

Traces on the Rhodian Shore: Nature and Culture in Western Thought from Ancient Times to the End of the Eighteenth Century by Clarence J. Glacken

The Royal Society: Concept and Creation by Margery Purver

Science in Utopia: A Mighty Design by Nell Eurich

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Letters

Marius Bewley, Robert Mazzocco, Grafitti
Stephen F. Cohen, George Lichtheim, The Real Bolshevist
Henry F. Gibbs, Bonnie & Clyde
Eleanor Prosser, Frank Kermode, Hamlet Brainwashed
Robert Bly, Protest
Elizabeth Bishop, Stephen Spender, Sorry
Richard Flacks, Draft Resistance
Arthur I. Waskow, More Amplification

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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)

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).

Conor Cruise O'Brien's many books include God Land: Reflections on Religion and Nationalism and The Long Affair: Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution. His Memoir: My Life and Themes will be published in the US in May. (December 2000)

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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