Table of Contents

Volume 17, Number 5 · October 7, 1971

Elizabeth Hardwick, In Maine

V.S. Pritchett, The Old Stone House

Upstate: Records and Recollections of Northern New York by Edmund Wilson

Vladimir Nabokov, Rowe's Symbols

Nabokov's Deceptive World by William Woodin Rowe

Allen S. Whiting, What Nixon Must Do to Make Friends in Peking

Robert Craft, Non Credo

Mass September 8, 1971 by Leonard Bernstein

Atallah Mansour, Palestine: The Search for a New Golden Age

Helen Muchnic, Genius

Pushkin by Henri Troyat, translated by Nancy Amphoux

Pushkin on Literature translated and edited by Tatiana Wolff

Pushkin: A Comparative Commentary by John Bayley

Jonathan Miller, TV Guide

Francis Carney, A State of Catastrophe

Political Change in California: Critical Elections and Social Movements, 1890-1966 by Michael Paul Rogin, by John L. Shover

Reagan and Reality: The Two Californias by Edmund G. (Pat) Brown

Ronnie and Jesse: A Political Odyssey by Lou Cannon

The Destruction of California by Raymond F. Dasmann

Anti-California: Report from Our First Parafascist State by Kenneth Lamott

The Secret Boss of California by Arthur H. Samish, by Bob Thomas

Martin Malia, Backward History in a Backward Country

The Rise of the Romanovs by Vasili Kliuchevsky, translated by Liliana Archibald

Russia in World History, Selected Essays by M.N. Pokrovsky, translated by Roman Szporluk, translated by Mary Ann Szporluk

Russia in the Era of Peter the Great by L. Jay Oliva

The Tsars: From Ivan the Terrible to Nicholas II, 1533-1917 by Ronald Hingley

The Tragic Dynasty: A History of the Romanovs by John Bergamini

The Romanovs: Three Centuries of an Ill-Fated Dynasty by E.M. Almedingen

Years of the Golden Cockerel: The Last Romanov Tsars, 1814-1917 by Sidney Harcave

The Cossacks by Philip Longworth

Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. Massie

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Letters

Salim Lone, The Lost Indians of Kenya
Peter D. Lax, Steve Smale, Plan of Action
Patricia Meyerowitz, Virgil Thomson, Lesbianism Never?
Ernst Chain, A.W. Frankland, et al. Lady Fleming
Leon Rappoport, Psychophysical Research
Richard Ohmann, A Paradox Resolved

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Contributors

Robert Craft was awarded the International Prix du Disque at the Cannes Music Festival for 2002.(May 2002)

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.

Martin Malia is Professor of History Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author, most recently, of Russia Under Western Eyes, from the Bronze Horseman to the Lenin Mausoleum. (November 2001)

Jonathan Miller has directed operas and plays throughout the world, most recently Pelléas and Mélisande at the Metropolitan Opera. His many books include The Body in Question, States of Mind, On Reflection, and Nowhere in Particular. The article that appears in this issue is based on a talk given at the New York Public Library. (May 2000)

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