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Volume 18, Number 12 · June 29, 1972

Murray Kempton, What a Problem!

Bittersweet Encounter: The Afro-American and the American Jew by Robert G. Weisbord, by Arthur Stein

The Negroes and the Jews by Leonora E. Berson

No Name in the Street by James Baldwin

Michael Wood, Cunning Time

The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty

I.F. Stone, The New Shape of Nixon's World

Nicholas von Hoffman, Fiddler in the Doghouse

A Question of Judgment: The Fortas Case and the Struggle for the Supreme Court by Robert Shogan

James Merrill, 18 West 11th Street (poem)

John R. Searle, A Special Supplement: Chomsky's Revolution in Linguistics

Madeleine R. Levy, Michael E. Tigar, Reconsidering RFK

Kennedy Justice by Victor S. Navasky

Robert Craft, The Press: Freedom From, as well as Of

Roger Sale, I Am a Novel

The Confession of a Child of the Century, by Samuel Heather by Thomas Rogers

Eat of Me, I am the Savior by Arnold Kemp

End Zone by Don DeLillo

J.M. Cameron, Neither Marx nor Moses

Man on His Own: Essays in the Philosophy of Religion by Ernst Bloch, translated by E.B. Ashton

On Karl Marx by Ernst Bloch, translated by John Maxwell

Ronald Steel, The New Hustle in Haiti

Lincoln Kirstein, On Stravinsky

Clarence Brown, A Commencement Oration

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Letters

Hannah Arendt, Ann Birstein, et al. Crisis in the NY Public Library

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Contributors

Clarence Brown is the author of a prize-winning biography of Mandelstam and is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at Princeton.

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

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.

James Merrill died in 1995. The poem in this issue appears in Last Poems, a collection of previously unpublished work, just published by Thornwillow Press. (December 1998)

John R. Searle is Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. His most recent books are Mind: A Brief Introduction and Freedom and Neurobiology. (November 2006)

Ronald Steel is Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California, a recent fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, and the author of biographies of Walter Lippmann and Robert Kennedy. (June 2006)

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.

Michael Wood is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge. (April 2008)

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