Table of Contents

Volume 11, Number 11 · December 19, 1968

V.S. Pritchett, Hell on Earth

The First Circle by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, translated by Thomas P. Whitney

The Cancer Ward David Burg, will be published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in February) by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, translated by Rebecca Frank

Mary McCarthy, Letter from London: The Demo

Eugenio Montale, Xenia (1964–1966) (poem)

Jack Richardson, The Black Arts

Rebellion or Revolution? by Harold Cruse

Black Fire edited by LeRoi Jones, edited by Larry Neal

Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver

Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone by James Baldwin

Francis Haskell, Daumier's Human Comedy

Honoré Daumier: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Water Colors and Drawings by K.E. Maison

Geoffrey Barraclough, Luxury Trade

A History of Warfare by Field-Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein

Waterloo: Day of Battle by David Howarth

The War to End All Wars: The American Military Experience in World War I by Edward M. Coffman

President Wilson Fights His War: World War I and the American Intervention by Harvey A. DeWeerd

The Ordeal of Total War 1939-1945 by Gordon Wright

The German Officer Corps, 1890-1914 by Martin Kitchen

Michael Field, Please Pass the Parmesan

Italian Food by Elizabeth David

The Complete Book of Pasta by Jack Denton Scott, photographs by Samuel Chamberlain, drawings by Melvin Klapholz

Great Italian Cooking by Luigi Carnacina, translated and edited by Michael Sanino

L.C. Knights, Coleridge Lives!

Coleridge by Walter Jackson Bate

Raymond Carr, Allá vá! Ra! Ra! Ra!

Iberia by James Michener

Spanish Scene by Chandler Brossard

Franco by Brian Crozier

Franco by George Hills

Christopher Ricks, Extreme Instances

The Public Image by Muriel Spark

The Bachelors by Muriel Spark

Voices at Play by Muriel Spark

The Go-Away Bird and Other Stories by Muriel Spark

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark

Collected Stories: 1 by Muriel Spark

The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark

The Mandelbaum Gate by Muriel Spark

A Muriel Spark Trio: The Comforters, The Ballad of Peckham Rye, Memento Mori by Muriel Spark

Collected Poems: 1 by Muriel Spark

Heinz Lubasz, Hitler's Welfare State

Hitler's Social Revolution: Class and Status in Nazi Germany 1933-1939 by David Schoenbaum

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Letters

Staughton Lynd, Eugene D. Genovese, Self-Evident Truths?
Noam Chomsky, Frederick C. Crews, et al. Reforming the MLA
George B. Alexander, Fruits of the MLA
William H.Y. Hackett, Fruits of the MLA
Theodore Besterman, Fruits of the MLA
Frederick Buechner, Fruits of the MLA
Ronald Gottesman, Fruits of the MLA
Frank J. Donner, Fruits of the MLA
Paul Baender, Fruits of the MLA

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Contributors

Raymond Carr was Warden of St. Antony's College, Oxford, and has written extensively on modern Spanish history. (April 2003)

Francis Haskell, formerly Professor of Art History at Oxford, is the author of Patrons and Painters, Rediscoveries in Art, Past and Present in Art and Taste, and History and Its Images: Art and the Interpretation of the Past. (February 1999)

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).

Eugenio Montale was born in Genoa in 1896 and died in 1981. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1975. (November 2004)

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)

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