Table of Contents

Volume 14, Number 5 · March 12, 1970

Nigel Dennis, Marks of a Buddha

The Confessions of Aleister Crowley edited by John Symonds, edited by Kenneth Grant

Constantine Cavafy, King Claudius (poem)

Ernst Gombrich, Rembrandt Now

Rembrandt: The Complete Edition of the Paintings by Abraham Bredius, 3rd edition revised by Horst Gerson

Rembrandt by Joseph-Emile Muller, translated by Brian Hooley

Rembrandt: Life and Work by Jakob Rosenberg

Rembrandt Paintings by Horst Gerson

Rembrandt As An Etcher by Christopher White

Rembrandt: His Life, His Work, His Time by Bob Haak, translated by Elizabeth Willems Treeman

Rembrandt's "Aristotle" and Other Rembrandt Studies by Julius Held

Rembrandt in Amsterdam by R.H. Fuchs, translated by Patricia Wardle, translated by Alan Griffiths

Rembrandt by Michael Kitson

Elinor Langer, Inside the New York Telephone Company

Denis Donoghue, The Uncompleted Dossier

Travels with My Aunt by Graham Greene

Blind Love, and Other Stories by V.S. Pritchett

Murray Kempton, Colonel Agnew

Theodore H. Draper, The Father of American Black Nationalism

Roger Shattuck, After the Avant-Garde

The Theory of the Avant-Garde by Renato Poggioli, translated by Gerald Fitzgerald

Continuities by Frank Kermode

The Avant-Garde in Painting by Germain Bazin, translated by Simon Watson Taylor

Historia de las literaturas de vanguardia by Guillermo de Torre

Histoire de l'avant-garde en peinture by Germain Bazin

The Eclipse of the Intellectual by Elémire Zolla, translated by Raymond Rosenthal

The Art of Time: Essays on the Avant-Garde by Michael Kirby

Raymond Carr, Vodou Power

Papa Doc: The Truth About Haiti Today by Bernard Diedrich, by Al Burt

The Haitian People by James Leyburn, with a new Introduction by Sidney Mintz

Frederick C. Crews, Anaesthetic Criticism: II


Letters

Stein Weissenberger, Richard Sennett, How Cities Grow
Frances A. Yates, Wylie Sypher, Theatre of the World
Lester Adelsberg, Virgil Thomson, Champions
Allan Brick, Richard R. Fernandez, Lenten-Passover Fast
A.G. Galanopoulos, M.I. Finley, The End of Atlantis
J.R. Pole, Champions



Contributors

Raymond Carr was Warden of St. Antony's College, Oxford, and has written extensively on modern Spanish history. (April 2003)

Constantine Cavafy was born in Alexandria in 1863 and died there in 1933. He wrote most of his poems while employed in the Third Circle of Irrigation of the Ministry of Public Works. (June 2005)

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

Denis Donoghue is University Professor at NYU, where he holds the Henry James Chair of English and American Letters. He is the author of The Practice of Reading, Words Alone: The Poet T.S. Eliot, and, most recently, The American Classics. (October 2006)

Theodore Draper's books include The Roots of American Communism and A Struggle for Power: The American Revolution. He is at work on a book about the nineteenth century in the US. (September 1999)

Professor Sir Ernst Gombrich OM was born in Vienna in 1909 and died in London on November 3, 2001, aged 92. He studied at the Theresianum and then at the Second Institute of Art History at the University of Vienna under Julius von Schlosser (1928-33). He then worked as a Research Assistant and collaborator with the museum curator and Freudian analyst Ernst Kris. He joined the Warburg Institute in London as a Research Assistant in 1936. During World War 2 he was employed by the BBC as a Radio Monitor. After the war he rejoined the Warburg Institute eventually becoming its Director in 1959. His major publications include The Story of Art (1950), Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation (1960), Aby Warburg: An Intellectual Biography (1970), The Sense of Order: A Study in the Psychology of Decorative Art. (Also see: www.gombrich.co.uk.)

Murray Kempton (1917-1997) was a columnist for Newsday, as well as a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books. His books include Rebellions, Perversities, and Main Events and The Briar Patch, as well as Part of Our Time. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1985.

Roger Shattuck is the author of Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography. He has most recently edited new editions of two books by Helen Keller. He is University Professor Emeritus at Boston University. (May 2005)


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