Table of Contents

Volume 12, Number 11 · June 5, 1969

Elizabeth Hardwick, Dead Souls

Ernest Hemingway: A Life Story by Carlos Baker

W.H. Auden, Epistle to a Godson (poem)

I.F. Stone, The War Machine under Nixon

Edmund R. Leach, High School

The Teachings of Don Juan: a Yaqui Way of Knowledge by Carlos Castaneda

Robert L. Heilbroner, Marxism: For and Against

Marxist Economic Theory by Ernest Mandel

John K. Fairbank, Still Mysterious

To Change China: Western Advisers in China 1620-1960 by Jonathan Spence

China and the West by Wolfgang Franke, translated by R.A. Wilson

John Weightman, Paranoid Poetics

Castle to Castle by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, translated by Ralph Mannheim

C.H. Waddington, A Matter of Life and Death

Life or Death: Ethics and Options edited by Daniel H. Labby

Man, Medicine and Environment by René Dubos

So Human an Animal by René Dubos

The Biological Time Bomb by Gordon Rattray Taylor

The Silent Weapons by Robin Clarke

Christopher Ricks, Follies

The Girls by Henri de Montherlant, translated by Terence Kilmartin

Something to Answer For by P.H. Newby

Impossible Object by Nicholas Mosley

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Letters

Irving Howe, Frederick C. Crews, Complaint
Edmund Wilson, Fruit Salad
David McReynolds, Sign of the Times
Ron Wolin, Student Mobilization
Edward P. Morgan, Sufficiency
Saul Maloff, A Fine Point

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Contributors

W. H. Auden (1907–1973) was born in North Yorkshire, England, the son of a doctor. He studied at Oxford and published his first book, Poems, in 1930, immediately establishing himself as one of the outstanding voices of his generation. Auden emigrated to New York in 1939, where he became a US citizen and converted to Anglicanism. He wrote essays, critical studies, plays, and opera librettos for such composers as Benjamin Britten, Igor Stravinsky, and Hans Werner Henze, as well as the poems for which he is most famous.

Elizabeth Hardwick (b. 1916) has been a frequent contributor to The 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, the essay collection A View of My Own, and The Selected Letters of William James, for which she acted as editor.

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)

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.

John Weightman, Professor Emeritus of the University of London, is the author of The Concept of the Avant-Garde. He will soon publish The Cat Sat on the Mat: Language and the Absurd. (October 2002)

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