Table of Contents
Volume 13, Number 2 · July 31, 1969
V.S. Pritchett, Five Minutes of Life 
The Lonely Years 1925-1939 by Isaac Babel, edited by Nathalie Babel, translated by Andrew R. MacAndrew
You Must Know Everything: Stories 1915-1937 by Isaac Babel, edited and with Notes by Nathalie Babel, translated by Max Hayward
Mary McCarthy, Hanging by a Thread
Between Life and Death by Nathalie Sarraute
D.A.N. Jones, Tribal Gods
Idanre and Other Poems by Wole Soyinka
Plays from Black Africa edited by Frederic Litto
Murderous Angels by Conor Cruise O'Brien
Erik H. Erikson, Letter to Gandhi
D.J. Enright, Shivery Games
The Four-Gated City by Doris Lessing
John McDermott, A Special Supplement: Technology: The Opiate of the Intellectuals
Program on Technology and Society Fourth Annual Report: 1967-8
Vern Countryman, The Russians are Coming!
The FBI in Our Open Society by Harry Overstreet, by Bonaro Overstreet
Letters
Florence Howe, Love & Resist
Elizabeth Bobrick, Bernard Cole, et al. Sons and Daughters
Kay Rexrode, Sorry, Marshall Lee
Marghanita Laski, No Thanks, Mogul
Contributors
D. J. Enright's books include The Alluring Problem, Fields of Vision, Collected Poems 1948—1998, and, most recently, Interplay: A Kind of Commonplace Book. (August 2000)
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).
