Table of Contents

Volume 12, Number 8 · April 24, 1969

Igor Stravinsky, Where Is Thy Sting?

Robert Lowell, Power (poem)

V.S. Naipaul, Anguilla: The Shipwrecked 6000

Stephen Spender, Man of Distinction

Democracy and the Student Left by George Kennan

Isaiah Berlin, A Note on Vico's Concept of Knowledge

Jean Stafford, Spirits

Being Geniuses Together by Kay Boyle, by Robert McAlmon

Those Remarkable Cunards, Emerald and Nancy by Daphne Fielding

Nancy Cunard: Brave Poet, Indomitable Rebel edited by Hugh Ford

Frederick C. Crews, The Radical Students

The Conflict of Generations: The Character and Significance of Student Movements by Lewis S. Feuer

Overlive: Power, Poverty, and the University by William M. Birenbaum

University in Turmoil: The Politics of Change by Immanuel Wallerstein

Robert Mazzocco, a a a a a a …

a by Andy Warhol

Mark Strand, Miss America (poem)

John Wain, Women's Work

The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford by Jean Stafford

Bruno's Dream by Iris Murdoch

A Compass Error by Sybille Bedford

John Gross, Lieutenants and Luftmenschen

The Military Philosophers by Anthony Powell

Mr. Bridge by Evan S. Connell Jr.

Pictures of Fidelman by Bernard Malamud

The Adventures of Menahem-Mendl by Sholom Aleichem, Translated from the Yiddish by Tamara Kahana

Robert Brustein, Monkey Business

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Letters

Veterans for Peace in Vietnam, Free Speech
Michael Kenny, Barrington Moore, Jr., Revolution in America?
William H. Hinton, Revolution in America?
Rudolph Binion, Anthony Quinton, Frau Lou's Complaint
Milton Schwebel, Education Now
Samuel Solomon, Devoted to Racine

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Contributors

Isaiah Berlin was born in Riga in 1909. In 1916 his family moved to Petrograd, where he witnessed the Russian Revolution, and in 1921 he emigrated to England. He was educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and became a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, where he was later appointed Professor of Social and Political Theory. He served as the first president of Wolfson College, Oxford, and as president of the British Academy. He died in 1997. For more information, see the Isaiah Berlin Virtual Library.

Frederick Crews's most recent book is Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays. (December 2007)

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)

Robert Lowell died in 1977. His Collected Poems was published this summer. The letters in this issue will be included in The Letters of Robert Lowell, edited by Saskia Hamilton, to be published next year by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC. (November 2003)

V. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932 and emigrated to England in 1950, when he won a scholarship to University College, Oxford. He is the author of many novels, including A House for Mr. Biswas, A Bend in the River, and In a Free State, which won the Booker Prize. He has also written several nonfiction works based on his travels, including India: A Million Mutinies Now and Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples. He was knighted in 1990 and in 1993 was the first recipient of the David Cohen British Literature Prize.

Mark Strand teaches in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia. His most recent book is New Selected Poems. (March 2008)

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