Table of Contents

Volume 15, Number 8 · November 5, 1970

Murray Kempton, Cops

People vs. Butcher by Eliot Asinof

Police Power by Paul Chevigny

The Police: A Sociological Study of Law, Custom and Morality by William A. Westley

Varieties of Police Behavior by James Q. Wilson

William A. Williams, What This Country Needs…

The Shattered Dream: Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression by Gene Smith

W.H. Auden, Portrait with a Wart or Two

Belloc: A Biographical Anthology edited by Herbert van Thal

Conor Cruise O'Brien, The Gentle Nietzscheans

Rennie Davis, Richard A. Falk, Robert Greenblatt, The Way to End the War: The Statement of Ngo Cong Duc

Ngo Cong Duc, Statement

Denis Donoghue, Ghosts and Others

Adam and the Train: Two Novels by Heinrich Böll

Whitewater by Paul Horgan

The Dick by Bruce Jay Friedman

The Ghost of Henry James by David Plante

John William Ward, Violence, Anarchy, and Alexander Berkman

Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist: Studies in the Libertarian and Utopian Tradition by Alexander Berkman, with an Introduction by Kenneth Rexroth

Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist: Studies in the Libertarian and Utopian Tradition by Alexander Berkman, with an Introductory Note by Hutchins Hapgood, a new Introduction by Paul Goodman

J.H. Elliott, Spanish Holocaust

The Tears of the Indians by Bartolomé de Las Casas, translated by John Philips

The Life of Las Casas by Sir Arthur Helps

The Chronicles of Michoacán translated and edited by Eugene R. Craine, by Reginald C. Reindorp

Gold, Glory, and the Gospel by Louis B. Wright

The Conquest of the Incas by John Hemming

Frank Kermode, A New Era in Shakespeare Criticism?

Johnson on Shakespeare edited by Arthur Sherbo, with an Introduction by Bertrand H. Bronson

Shakespearian and other Studies by F.P. Wilson, edited by Helen Gardner

Shakespeare the Craftsman by M.C. Bradbrook

Shakespeare: The Pattern in his Carpet by Francis Fergusson

The Tragic Engagement: A Study of Shakespeare's Classical Tragedies by Judah Stampfer

The Tiger's Heart: Eight Essays on Shakespeare by Herbert Howarth

Motiveless Malignity by Louis Auchincloss

Macbeth and the Players by Dennis Bartholomeusz

The Pillar of the World: Antony and Cleopatra in Shakespeare's Development by Julian Markels

Iago: Some Approaches to the Illusion of his Motivation by Stanley Edgar Hyman

Reinterpretations of Elizabethan Drama edited by Norman Rabkin

An Essay on Shakespeare's Sonnets by Stephen Booth

Shakespeare's Verbal Art in Th'Expence of Spirit by Roman Jakobson, by Lawrence G. Jones

Philip Nobile, Senator Goodell & Philip Berrigan: An Untold Story

Eric L. McKitrick, A Pinch of Saltus

Edgar Saltus by Claire Sprague

Robert Bland, Elisabeth Bruehl, Robert Bruehl, et al. From Athens to the New School: An Exchange

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Letters

Edward H. Schafer, Jorge Luis Borges, The Lapis Lazuli of the Ancient World
Don Luce, Ngo Ba Thanh, In South Vietnamese Jails
Peter Munz, Geoffrey Barraclough, Worried
Murray Kempton, Workers' Defense League
Eric J. Vanderbush, Female Trouble
Zirel Sweezy, Seattle Defense Fund

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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.

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)

J. H. Elliott is Regius Professor Emeritus of Modern History at the University of Oxford. His books include The Count-Duke of Olivares and Spain and Its World. Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1492– 1830 has just been published. (June 2006)

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.

Frank Kermode lives in Cambridge, England. His most recent book is The Age of Shakespeare. (October 2008)

Eric L. McKitrick is Professor of History Emeritus at Columbia. He is the author, with Stanley Elkins, of The Age of Federalism. (November 2001)

Conor Cruise O'Brien's many books include God Land: Reflections on Religion and Nationalism and The Long Affair: Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution. His Memoir: My Life and Themes will be published in the US in May. (December 2000)

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