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).