Table of Contents

Volume 18, Number 9 · May 18, 1972

William H. Gass, The Doomed in Their Sinking

The Savage God: A Study of Suicide by A. Alvarez

Suicide by Jacques Choron

Frances FitzGerald, The Offensive I: The View from Vietnam

I.F. Stone, II Machismo in Washington

Stephen Spender, Late Stravinsky Listening to Late Beethoven (poem)

Charles Rosen, Love That Mozart

The Life and Death of Mozart by Michael Levey

Robert Coles, The Case of Michael Wechsler

In a Darkness by James A. Wechsler

Noel Annan, The Good Life

The Victorian Country House by Mark Girouard

Roger Shattuck, The D-S Expedition: Part I

Dada and Surrealist Art by William S. Rubin

Arp on Arp by Jean Arp, translated by Joachim Neugroschel, edited with an Introduction by Marcel Jean

V.S. Naipaul, Without a Dog's Chance

After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie by Jean Rhys

Geoffrey Hartman, The Mystery of Mysteries

The Underground Man by Ross Macdonald

Virgil Thomson, Untold Tales

Without Stopping: An Autobiography by Paul Bowles

The Thicket of Spring: Poems 1926-1969 by Paul Bowles

The Editors, Short Reviews

The Summer Game by Roger Angell

Mythologies by Roland Barthes, translated by Annette Lavers

Brown Bomber: The Pilgrimage of Joe Louis by Barney Nagler

The Washington Pay-off: An Insider's View of Corruption in Government by Robert Winter-Berger

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Letters

Nathan P. Glazer, Neville Maxwell, Indignation over India
Stanley Plastrik, Indignation over India
Robert James Maddox, Ronald Steel, Who Started the Cold War?
William A. Williams, Who Started the Cold War?
Elizabeth Devine, For Women Only
Noam Chomsky, Vietnam Calendar
K.J.P. Maynard, Tuesday Siesta Available
Robert M. Bartlow, Error on Testing
Mary Ann Caws, D/S Journal
Michael M. Ames, Dorothy E. Smith, Regrettable Delay

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Contributors

Noel Annan is the author of Leslie Stephen and Our Age, among other books. (October 1999)

Frances FitzGerald's books include Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War. Her most recent book is Vietnam: Spirits of the Earth. (April 2007)

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.

Charles Rosen's most recent book is Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist. (February 2008)

Roger Shattuck is the author of Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography. He has most recently edited new editions of two books by Helen Keller. He is University Professor Emeritus at Boston University. (May 2005)

I.F. Stone was an American journalist, publisher of I.F. Stone's Weekly, and a regular contributor to the Review. For more about him please visit www.ifstone.org.

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