Table of Contents
Volume 12, Number 9 · May 8, 1969
Jack Richardson, The Aesthetics of Norman Mailer 
Miami and The Siege of Chicago by Norman Mailer
C.B.A. Behrens, Tolerating the Terror
Artisans and Sans-Culottes by Gwynn A. Williams
Les Sans-Culottes by Albert Soboul
Edgar Z. Friedenberg, Only in America
The Temper of Our Time by Eric Hoffer
Eric Hoffer by Calvin Tompkins, with Aphorisms by Eric Hoffer
Working and Thinking on the Waterfront by Eric Hoffer
Harold W. Cruse, The Fire This Time?
Eldridge Cleaver: Post-Prison Speeches and Writings edited by Robert Scheer
D.W. Harding, Basic Richards
So Much Nearer: Essays Toward a World English by I.A. Richards
Design for Escape: World Education Through Modern Media by I.A. Richards
V.S. Naipaul, St. Kitts: Papa and the Power Set
Neal Ascherson, Under Eastern Eyes
Native Realm by Czeslaw Milosz
Seesaw: Cultural Life in Eastern Europe by Yorick Blumenfeld
Polish Writing Today edited by Celina Wieniawska
New Writing of East Europe edited by George Gömöri, edited by Charles Newman
Poland, Eagle in the East by William Woods
Soviet-East European Dialogue: International Relations of a New Type? by Nish Jamgotch Jr.
James Merrill, Remora (poem)
Denis Mack Smith, A Party Outside Politics
Unity in Diversity: Italian Communism and the Communist World by Donald L.M. Blackmer
Il Bipartitismo Imperfetto: Comunisti e Democristiani in Italia by Giorgio Galli
Peasant Communism in Southern Italy by Sidney G. Tarrow
The Searchers: Conflict and Communism in an Italian Town by Belden Paulson, by Athos Ricci
Roger Hilsman, Ronald Steel, An Exchange on the Missile Crisis
Letters
John G. Simon, Jason Epstein, Mayer Culpa
Contributors
Neal Ascherson is the author of The Struggles for Poland, The Black Sea, and Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland. He is the editor of the journal Public Archaeology at University College London. (November 2007)
Harold Cruse (1916-2005) was born in Petersburg, Virginia, the son of a railway porter. He was raised from a young age in New York City, where he attended high school, after which he served with the Army in Europe during World War II. Cruse attended the City College of New York, although he did not graduate, and was a member of the Communist Party for several years. He also wrote a number of plays and, in the 1960s, was co-founder with LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka) of the Black Arts Theater and School in Harlem. After publishing The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual in 1967, Cruse was invited to lecture at the University of Michigan, where he taught in the African-American studies program until his retirement as professor emeritus in the mid-1980s. Harold Cruse was also the author of Rebellion or Revolution?, Plural But Equal: A Critical Study of Blacks and Minorities and America's Plural Society, and The Essential Harold Cruse: A Reader.
James Merrill died in 1995. The poem in this issue appears in Last Poems, a collection of previously unpublished work, just published by Thornwillow Press. (December 1998)
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.
