Table of Contents
Volume 19, Number 11 & 12 · January 25, 1973
Mary McCarthy, Sons of the Morning 
The Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam
I.F. Stone, Nixon's Blitzkrieg
V.S. Pritchett, The Ancient Child
A Catalogue of the Caricatures of Max Beerbohm by Rupert Hart-Davis
A Peep into the Past and Other Prose Pieces by Max Beerbohm, collected and introduced by Rupert Hart-Davis
Max in Verse: Rhymes and Parodies by Max Beerbohm, edited by J.G. Riewald
The Lies of Art: Max Beerbohm's Parody and Caricature by John Felstiner
Cyril Connolly, Carnage in Eden
The Tree Where Man Was Born by Peter Matthiessen
The African Experience by Eliot Porter
The Serengeti Lion: A Study of Predator-Prey Relations by George B. Schaller
Osip Mandelstam, Six Poems of Osip Mandelstamm (poem)
Ellen Willis, Hard to Swallow
Deep Throat directed by Jerry Gerard
Stuart Hampshire, A Special Supplement: Morality & Pessimism
Hugh Honour, Sturm und Drang
The Life and Art of Henry Fuseli by Peter Tomory
Blake's Illustrations to the Poems of Gray by Irene Tayler
Conor Cruise O'Brien, Ireland: Dying for Bones
The Green Flag: The Turbulent History of the Irish National Movement by Robert Kee
Towards a New Ireland by Garret FitzGerald
Frances A. Yates, A Great Magus
John Dee: The World of an Elizabethan Magus by Peter J. French
The Occult Sciences in the Renaissance: A Study in Intellectual Patterns by Wayne Shumaker
"John Dee e il suo sapere" by Furio Jesi
Roger Sale, Playboys and a Working Woman
Semi-Tough by Dan Jenkins
Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer, 1943-1954, by Jeffrey Cartwright by Steven Millhauser
The Temptation of Jack Orkney and Other Stories by Doris Lessing
Letters
Tom Hayden, Not a Bad Deal
William A. Stewart, Monroe K. Spears, Gullah
Hannah Arendt, Donald Barthelme, et al. Ford's Better Idea
Briant Harris, L.C. Knights, Iago's Defense
Contributors
Stuart Hampshire, formerly Warden of Wardham College, Oxford, is the author of Spinoza and Justice Is Conflict.(October 2002)
Hugh Honour is the author, with John Fleming, of The Visual Arts: A History, which has recently been published in its sixth expanded edition. (November 2002)
Osip Mandelstam (1891–1938) was born and raised in St. Petersburg, where he attended the prestigious Tenishev School, before studying at the universities of St. Petersburg and Heidelberg and at the Sorbonne. Mandelstam first published his poems in Apollyon, an avant-garde magazine, in 1910, then banded together with Anna Akhmatova and Nicholas Gumilev to form the Acmeist group, which advocated an aesthetic of exact description and chiseled form, as suggested by the title of Mandelstam's first book, Stone (1913). During the Russian Revolution, Mandelstam left Leningrad for the Crimea and Georgia, and he settled in Moscow in 1922, where his second collection of poems, Tristia, appeared. Unpopular with the Soviet authorities, Mandelstam found it increasingly difficult to publish his poetry, though an edition of collected poems did come out in 1928. In 1934, after reading an epigram denouncing Stalin to friends, Mandelstam was arrested and sent into exile. He wrote furiously during these years, and his wife, Nadezhda, memorized his work in case his notebooks were destroyed or lost. (Nadezhda Mandelstam's extraordinary memoirs of life with her husband, Hope Against Hope and Hope Abandoned, published in the 1970s, later helped to bring Mandelstam a worldwide audience.)
Mary McCarthy (1912-1989) was a novelist, essayist, and critic. Her political and social commentary, literary essays, and drama criticism appeared in magazines such as Partisan Review, The New Yorker, Harper's, and The New York Review of Books, and were collected in On the Contrary (1961), Mary McCarthy's Theatre Chronicles 1937-1962 (1963), The Writing on the Wall (1970), Ideas and the Novel (1980), and Occasional Prose (1985). Her novels include The Company She Keeps (1942), The Oasis (1949), The Groves of Academe (1952), A Charmed Life (1955), The Group (1963), Birds of America (1971), and Cannibals and Missionaries (1971). She was the author of three works of autobiography, Memories of a Catholic Girlhood (1957), How I Grew (1987), and the unfinished Intellectual Memoirs (1992), and two travel books about Italy, Venice Observed (1956) and The Stones of Florence (1959). Her essays on the Vietnam War were collected in The Seventeenth Degree (1974); her essays on Watergate were collected in The Mask of State (1974).
Conor Cruise O'Brien's many books include God Land: Reflections on Religion and Nationalism and The Long Affair: Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution. His Memoir: My Life and Themes will be published in the US in May. (December 2000)
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.
