Table of Contents

Volume 11, Number 8 · November 7, 1968

Elizabeth Hardwick, Mr. America

Wallace by Marshall Frady

Octavio Paz, The Shame of the Olympics (poem)

I.F. Stone, McNamara and the Militarists

The Essence of Security by Robert S. McNamara

Helen Muchnic, Pasternak in His Letters

Letters to Georgian Friends by Boris Pasternak, translated by David Magarshack

Hans J. Morgenthau, The Lesser Evil

Noel Annan, Character

The White-Garnett Letters edited by David Garnett

T.H. White by Sylvia Townsend Warner

Conor Cruise O'Brien, Beware of Melancholy

Against the World: Attitudes of White South Africa by Douglas Brown

African Opposition in South Africa: The Failure of Passive Resistance by Edward Feit

The Seeds of Disaster: A Guide to the Realities, Race Policies and World-wide Propaganda Campaigns of the Republic of South Africa by John Laurence

Rhodesia: Crisis of Color edited by Theodore Bull of the Central African Examiner, with an Introduction by Gwendolen M. Carter

The Long View by Alan Paton, edited by Edward Callan

The Separated People: A Look at Contemporary South Africa by E.J. Kahn Jr.

Margot Hentoff, Notes from a Plague Year

Bound For Glory by Woody Guthrie

Daybreak by Joan Baez

Martin Bernal, Pekinology

The Spirit of Chinese Politics by Lucian Pye

G.M. Matthews, The Living Keats

John Keats by Robert Gittings

Vincent Harding, Mike Thelwell, Anna Mary Wells, et al. An Exchange on "Nat Turner"


Letters

Arthur Blaustein, How Agnew May Be Elected
Peter Brooks, Lawrence Stone, Community of Scholars?
Margaret Randall, David Gallagher, Literary Life in Cuba
Czeslaw Milosz, Poet Power
Eldridge Cleaver for President Fund, Cleaver for President



Contributors

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

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)

Octavio Paz (1914-1998) was born in Mexico City, and his extraordinarily busy and fruitful life took him from civil-war Spain to surrealist Paris, from US universities to the Mexican embassy in New Delhi, where he served for six years as ambassador before resigning in protest after his government's suppression of student demonstrations at the 1968 Olympic Games. A great poet, Paz was also the author of many essays and a study of Mexican identity, The Labyrinth of Solitude, as well as the founder and editor of two important journals, Plural and Vuelta. Octavio Paz received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990.

I.F. Stone was an American journalist, publisher of I.F. Stone's Weekly, and a regular contributor to the Review. For more about him please visit www.ifstone.org.


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