Table of Contents

Volume 12, Number 2 · January 30, 1969

Mary McCarthy, The Writing on the Wall

The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell edited by Sonia Orwell, edited by Ian Angus

Barrington Moore, Revolution in America?

John Gross, Poverty Program

Charles Booth's London selected and edited by Albert Fried, by Richard M. Elman

Charles Booth and the City edited with an Introduction by Harold W. Pfautz

Allan Silver, Who Cares for Columbia?

Crisis at Columbia: Report of the Fact-Finding Commission Appointed to Investigate the Disturbances at Columbia University in April and May, 1968

The Closed Corporation: American Universities in Crisis by James Ridgeway

Up Against the Ivy Wall by Jerry L. Avorn. Other Members of the Staff of the Columbia Daily Spectator

Morton White, The Power of Positive Pragmatism

The Origins of Pragmatism: Studies in the Philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce and William James by A.J. Ayer

D.P. Walker, The Pope's Horoscope

Reflections on Men and Ideas by Giorgio de Santillana

Frank Kermode, The IBM Shakespeare

A Complete and Systematic Concordance to the Works of Shakespeare by Marvin Spevack

George Lichtheim, A New Twist in the Dialectic

Pour Marx by Louis Althusser

Lire Le Capital Tome I by Louis Althusser, by Jacques Rancière, by Pierre Macherey

Lire Le Capital Tome II by Louis Althusser, by Etienne Balibar, by Roger Establet

Pouvoir Politique et Classes Sociales de l'Etat Capitaliste by Nicos Poulantzas

Stratégie et Révolution en France en 1968 by André Glucksmann

Peut-on être communiste aujourd'hui? by Roger Garaudy

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Letters

Walter Goodman, Vern Countryman, HUAC

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Contributors

John Gross’s most recent book is A Double Thread, a memoir. He is the editor of The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes, which will be published in paperback in September. (May 2008)

Frank Kermode lives in Cambridge, England. His most recent book is The Age of Shakespeare. (May 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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