Table of Contents

Volume 18, Number 8 · May 4, 1972

Roger Sale, Whom Can You Trust?

Hide Fox, and All After by Rafael Yglesias

Muriel by George P. Elliott

Rites of Passage by Joanne Greenberg

Hermaphrodeity by Alan Friedman

Wassily Leontief, George McGovern, George McGovern: On Taxing & Redistributing Income

Elizabeth Hardwick, Working Girls: The Brontës

Charlotte Brontë: The Evolution of a Genius by Winifred Gérin

Emily Brontë by Winifred Gérin

Frank Kermode, Shakespeare in the Movies

Antony and Cleopatra (to be released in the United States later this year) directed by Charlton Heston

Macbeth directed by Roman Polanski

King Lear directed by Peter Brook

Edgar Z. Friedenberg, After Puberty, What?

Notes of a Processed Brother by Donald Reeves

No Particular Place To Go: The Making of a Free High School by Steve Bhaerman, by Joel Denker

Twelve to Sixteen: Early Adolescence edited by Stephen R. Graubard

L.C. Knights, Coleridge: The Wound Without the Bow

Coleridge, The Damaged Archangel by Norman Fruman

Ronald Dworkin, A Special Supplement: The Jurisprudence of Richard Nixon

Ernst Gombrich, Zebra Crossings

House Decoration in Nubia by Marian Wenzel

Nuba Personal Art by James C. Faris

Bangwa Funerary Sculpture by Robert Brain, by Adam Pollock

Self-Decoration in Mount Hagen by Andrew Strathern, by Marilyn Strathern

Virgil Thomson, Scenes from Show Biz

Run-Through: A Memoir by John Houseman

The Editors, Short Reviews

Russian Literature Triquarterly edited by Carl R. Proffer, edited by Ellendea Proffer

War Resisters Canada by Kenneth Fred Emerick

The Superlawyers by Joseph C. Goulden


Letters

Toby E. Huff, Lawrence Stone, Witches & Beggars
Stanley K. Sheinbaum, Defending Ellsberg & Russo
Jay Cocks, Ricki Franklin, et al. Censoring Cuba
Antoni Gronowicz, Michael Wood, Pique
Stanley Diamond, The Situation in Nigeria



Contributors

Ronald Dworkin is Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law and Philosophy at NYU and Jeremy Bentham Professor of Law and Philosophy at University College London. His books include Is Democracy Possible Here? (2006), Justice in Robes, Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality, and Freedom's Law. He is the 2007 winner of the Ludvig Holberg International Memorial Prize for "his pioneering scholarly work" of "worldwide impact."

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.)

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.

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


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