Table of Contents

Volume 20, Number 4 · March 22, 1973

George F. Kennan, Noble Man

Helmuth von Moltke: A Leader Against Hitler by Michael Balfour, by Julian Frisby

Stephen Spender, Private Eye

Homage to Daniel Shays: Collected Essays, 1952-1972 by Gore Vidal

Tom Wicker, Who Crushed Nixon's Revolution?

The Politics of a Guaranteed Income: The Nixon Administration and the Family Assistance Plan by Daniel P. Moynihan

V.S. Pritchett, Bang!

Getting Married by August Strindberg, translated and edited with an introduction by Mary Sandbach

Joan Didion, Hollywood: Having Fun

Memo from David O. Selznick selected and edited by Rudy Behlmer

Figures of Light: Film Criticism and Comment by Stanley Kauffmann

Jean Starobinski, The Man Who Told Secrets

Diderot by Arthur M. Wilson

Oeuvres Complètes by D. Diderot, edited by Roger Lewinter

Diderot's Letters to Sophie Volland: A Selection translated by Peter France

Michael Wood, Rocketing to the Apocalypse

Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

Anna Akhmatova, The Guest (poem)

Peter Schrag, Heresy in Los Angeles

Peter Passell, Leonard Ross, Taps for Liberals

Setting National Priorities: The 1973 Budget by Charles L. Schultze, by Edward R. Fried, by Alice M. Rivlin, by Nancy H. Teeters

Shelter and Subsidies: Who Benefits from Federal Housing Policies by Henry Aaron

Thomas R. Edwards, Jonathan, Benny, and Solitude

The Devil Tree by Jerzy Kosinski

The Autograph Hound by John Lahr

A Woman Named Solitude by André Schwarz-Bart, translated by Ralph Manheim

Lawrence Stone, How Nasty Was Thomas Cromwell?

Policy and Police: The Enforcement of the Reformation in the Age of Thomas Cromwell by G. R. Elton


Letters

Frank Jellinek, Benjamin Schwartz, Mao & the Paris Commune
Marvin Rosenberg, The Ulcer Type
Steven Schrader, Teachers and Writers
Goodwin G. Weinberg, Beerbohm's Mum
Sandra Luce, The Kofsky Campaign
Bluma L. Trell, Ask the Met
Editors First Casualty Press, Sequel



Contributors

Joan Didion is the author of The Year of Magical Thinking and We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction.

Thomas R. Edwards is Emeritus Professor of English at Rutgers and a former editor of Raritan. His most recent book is Over Here: Criticizing America, 1968–1989. (June 2004)

George F. Kennan, Professor Emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, was Ambassador to the USSR in 1952, and Ambassador to Yugoslavia from 1961 to 1963. His most recent books are At a Century's Ending and An American Family. (April 2001)

Jean Starobinski is Professor Emeritus of French literature at the University of Geneva. Blessings in Disguise and Largesse are among his works in English. A translation of his recent Action et réaction is to appear later this year. (May 2003)

Michael Wood is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge. (March 2010)


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