Table of Contents
Volume 15, Number 4 · September 3, 1970
John H. Schaar, Sheldon S. Wolin, Is a New Politics Possible? 
W.H. Auden, Lame Shadows
Tonio Kröger and Other Stories by Thomas Mann, translated by David Luke
Edgar Z. Friedenberg, In the Cage
Families Against the City by Richard Sennett
The Uses of Disorder by Richard Sennett
Murray Kempton, Becker Case Reopened!
Against the Evidence: The Becker-Rosenthal Affair by Andy Logan
John K. Fairbank, China is Far
Marshall in China by John Robinson Beal
China and Ourselves: Explorations and Revisions by a New Generation edited by Bruce Douglass, edited by Ross Terrill, Preface by Edgar Snow
Revolution and Chinese Foreign Policy: Peking's Support for Wars of National Liberation by Peter Van Ness
Party Leadership and Revolutionary Power in China edited by John Wilson Lewis
Leszek Kolakowski, Obsolete Therefore Instructive
Humanism and Terror by Maurice Merleau-Ponty, translated and with Notes by John O'Neill
Ellen Moers, Mrs. Stowe's Vengeance
The Novels of Harriet Beecher Stowe by Alice C. Crozier
V.S. Naipaul, Power to the Caribbean People
D.J. Enright, O Altitudo!
The Seamless Web by Stanley Burnshaw
Letters
Virginia Kidd, Now You See, Said Mark
Sabine D. Jordan, Stanley Diamond, The Old New School
Joel W. Hedgpeth, Protest
Peter Yates, Virgil Thomson, Ivesiana
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.
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)
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.
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.
