Table of Contents

Volume 17, Number 11 · December 30, 1971

Alfred Kazin, Displaced Person

In a Free State by V.S. Naipaul

Edgar Z. Friedenberg, Pox Americana

Microbes and Morals: The Strange Story of Venereal Disease by Theodor Rosebury M.D.

Richard J. Barnet, The CIA's New Cover

The Rope Dancer by Victor Marchetti

Francis Haskell, Rubens and Marie

Rubens' Life of Marie de' Medici by Jacques Thuillier, by Jacques Foucart

Robert Coles, Understanding White Racists

Escape from Freedom by Erich Fromm

Man for Himself: An Inquiry into the Psychology of Ethics by Erich Fromm

The Authoritarian Personality by Theodor Adorno et al.

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee, by Walker Evans

The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Toward Mankind by Simone Weil, translated by Arthur Wills

Tom Watson: Agrarian Rebel by C. Vann Woodward

The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell

One Dimensional Man by Herbert Marcuse

White Racism by Joel Kovel

Psychoanalytic Study of Society edited by Warner Muensterberger, edited by Sidney Axelrad

F.W. Bateson, Grendel and Beowulf Were Two Pretty Boys

Beowulf translated with an Introduction and Afterword by Burton Raffel, Drawings by Leonard Baskin

Grendel by John Gardner, illustrated by Emil Antonucci

Adrienne Rich, The Mirror in Which Two Are Seen As One (poem)

Noam Chomsky, The Case Against B.F. Skinner

Beyond Freedom and Dignity by B.F. Skinner

John Bayley, Trouble in the Family

The Last Year of Leo Tolstoy by Valentin Bulgakov, translated by Ann Dunnigan, with an Introduction by George Steiner

Tolstoy, My Father: Reminiscences by Ilya Tolstoy, translated by Ann Dunnigan

Diane Wakoski, Working Poet

Poems 1934-1969 by David Ignatow

Paul Goodman, The Sweet Style of Ernest Hemingway

The Editors, Short Reviews

My Land is Dying by Harry Caudill

The French Student Uprising, November 1967-June 1968: An Analytical Record edited by Alain Schnapp, edited by Pierre Vidal-Naquet

Water Wasteland: Ralph Nader's Study Group Report on Water Pollution by David Zwick, by Marcy Benstock


Letters

Noam Chomsky, Faye Dunaway, et al. The Covered Wagon
Noam Chomsky, Vladimir Dedijer, et al. Russell Memorial Symposium
James Laughlin, Brussels Sprouts
Trevor West, Trouble in Ireland
Maxwell Geismar, Defense
Mike Shub, Beautiful Rio



Contributors

John Bayley has written two books about his wife, the novelist Iris Murdoch, Elegy for Iris and Iris and Her Friends. (July 2004)

Francis Haskell, formerly Professor of Art History at Oxford, is the author of Patrons and Painters, Rediscoveries in Art, Past and Present in Art and Taste, and History and Its Images: Art and the Interpretation of the Past. (February 1999)

Alfred Kazin's most recent book is God and the American Writer. (April 1998)


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