Table of Contents
Volume 11, Number 7 · October 24, 1968
Mary McCarthy, Notes on the Election
Mark Strand, My Death 
(poem)
Roger Shattuck, The Conquerer
Anti-Memoirs by André Malraux, translated by Terence Kilmartin
Geoffrey Barraclough, The Great Disturbing Element
The History of Germany Since 1789 by Golo Mann
Germany, 1789-1919, A Political History by Agatha Ramm
Britain and Germany in Africa: Imperial Rivalry and Colonial Rule edited by Prosser Gifford, edited by William Robert Louis
Richard J. Barnet, The North Vietnamese in Paris I. The Impasse
Jonathan Mirsky, The North Vietnamese in Paris II. What They Don't Say
Alfred Kazin, The Ghost Sense
J.H. Plumb, The Bourgeois Take-Over
The Bourgeois, Catholicism vs Capitalism by Bernard Groethuysen, translated by Mary Ilford, with an Introduction by Benjamin Nelson
Bayeux in the Late Eighteenth Century by Olwen H. Hufton
Christopher Ricks, Pale Fire
Carlyle and the Idea of the Modern by Albert J. LaValley
Sartor Called Resartus by G.B. Tennyson
Denis Mack Smith, Why Mussolini Made It
Italy from Liberalism to Fascism by Christopher Seton-Watson
The Fall and Rise of Modern Italy by Serge Hughes
Letters
Paul Goodman, The Best Man
Arthur Hertzberg, The Chosen People
Arthur I. Waskow, Opposition
Sidney Lipshires, Hugh Trevor-Roper, The Chosen People
Contributors
Alfred Kazin's most recent book is God and the American Writer. (April 1998)
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).
Jonathan Mirsky is a journalist and historian specializing in Chinese affairs. He has been to Tibet six times. (July 2008)
Christopher Ricks is William M. and Sara B. Warren Professor of the Humanities and Co-Director of the Editorial Institute at Boston University, and Professor of Poetry at Oxford. His most recent book is Dylan’s Visions of Sin. (March 2008)
Roger Shattuck is the author of Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography. He has most recently edited new editions of two books by Helen Keller. He is University Professor Emeritus at Boston University. (May 2005)
Mark Strand teaches in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia. His most recent book is New Selected Poems. (March 2008)
