Table of Contents

Volume 10, Number 11 · June 6, 1968

William H. Gass, Mirror, Mirror

King, Queen, Knave by Vladimir Nabokov

Nabokov: The Man and His Work edited by L.S. Dembo

Keys to Lolita by Carl R. Proffer

Mary McCarthy, Hanoi II

Noel Annan, A Very Queer Gentleman

Lytton Strachey, Vol. 1, The Unknown Years 1880-1910, Vol. 2, The Years of Achievement, 1910-1932 by Michael Holroyd

A.J.P. Taylor, Far-Away Countries

Diplomat in Berlin 1933-39: Papers and Memoirs of Józef Lipski, Ambassador of Poland edited by Waclaw Jedrzewicz

Stalin, Hitler, and Europe 1933-39 Volume I, The Origins of World War II by James E. McSherry

Ronald Dworkin, On Not Prosecuting Civil Disobedience

Denis Donoghue, Objects Solitary and Terrible

Live or Die by Anne Sexton

The Lice by W.S. Merwin

Love Letters from Asia by Sandra Hochman

Reasons for Moving by Mark Strand

J.P. Kenyon, The Last Whig

The Crisis of the Seventeenth Century: Religion, the Reformation and Social Change by H.R. Trevor-Roper

Jason Epstein, The Politics of School Decentralization

Reconnection for Learning: A Community School System for New York City York City Schools; McGeorge Bundy, chairman

Robert M. Adams, Reviving Spenser

Spenser's World of Glass by Kathleen Williams

Spenser's Images of Life by C.S. Lewis, edited by Alastair Fowler

The Poetry of "The Faerie Queene" by Paul J. Alpers

Allegorical Imagery by Rosemond Tuve

Spenser's Image of Nature: Wild Man and Shepherd in "The Faerie Queene" by Donald Cheney



Contributors

Noel Annan is the author of Leslie Stephen and Our Age, among other books. (October 1999)

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)

Ronald Dworkin is Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law and Philosophy at NYU and Jeremy Bentham Professor of Law and Philosophy at University College London. His books include Is Democracy Possible Here? (2006), Justice in Robes, Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality, and Freedom's Law. He is the 2007 winner of the Ludvig Holberg International Memorial Prize for "his pioneering scholarly work" of "worldwide impact."

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

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).


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