Table of Contents

Volume 20, Number 5 · April 5, 1973

Alfred Kazin, Melville the New Yorker

Catherine Hoskyns, Martyr by Choice

Lumumba Speaks: The Speeches and Writings of Patrice Lumumba 1958-1961 edited by Jean Van Lierde, translated by Helen Lane, with an Introduction by Jean-Paul Sartre

W.H. Auden, George L. Kline, The Poems of Joseph Brodsky

Joseph Brodsky, Three Poems (poem)

Jason Epstein, Can We Afford Sliced Eggplant?

The Retreat from Riches: Affluence and Its Enemies by Peter Passell, by Leonard Ross

Peter Singer, Animal Liberation

Animals, Men and Morals edited by Stanley Godlovitch, edited by Roslind Godlovitch, edited by John Harris

Robert M. Adams, Can Venice Be Saved?

Robert Darnton, French History: The Case of the Wandering Eye

Reactions to the French Revolution by Richard Cobb

The Police and the People: French Popular Protest 1789-1820 by Richard Cobb

A Second Identity: Essays on France and French History by Richard Cobb

Les Hommes et la mort en Anjou aux 17e et 18e siècles by François Lebrun

Vision de la mort et de l'au-delà en Provence d'après les autels des âmes du purgatoire, XVe-XXe siècles by Gaby Vovelle, by Michel Vovelle

Crimes et criminalité en France sous I'Ancien Régime, 17e-18e siècles by A. Abbiateci, by F. Billacois, by Y. Bongert, by N. Castan, by Y. Castan, by P. Petrovitch

Jean Stafford, Touch and Go

Groups, Gimmicks, and Instant Gurus by William R. Coulson

The Pit by Gene Church, by Conrad D. Carnes

Neal Ascherson, After the Czech "New Wave"

All the Bright Young Men and Women: A Personal History of the Czech Cinema by Josef Skvorecky

Political Grouping in the Czechoslovak Reform Movement by Vladimir V. Kusin

Reform Rule in Czechoslovakia: The Dubcek Era 1968-1969 by Galia Golan

John Black, Franco and the Duchess

My Prison by the Duchess of Medina Sidonia

The Editors, Short Reviews

The Case for Black Reparations by Boris I. Bittker

A Piece of Truth by Amalia Fleming

Days of Sadness, Years of Triumph: The American People 1939-1945 by Geoffrey Perrett

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Letters

Ramsey Clark, Vanden Heuvel Vs. Hogan
Paul Blanc, The Third Man
Jim Fishman, Lawyers for the Poor
R.W. Flint, Amy Lowell's Cats
Joseph Lane, Come to the Fair

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Contributors

Neal Ascherson is the author of The Struggles for Poland, The Black Sea, and Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland. He is the editor of the journal Public Archaeology at University College London. (November 2007)

W. H. Auden (1907–1973) was born in North Yorkshire, England, the son of a doctor. He studied at Oxford and published his first book, Poems, in 1930, immediately establishing himself as one of the outstanding voices of his generation. Auden emigrated to New York in 1939, where he became a US citizen and converted to Anglicanism. He wrote essays, critical studies, plays, and opera librettos for such composers as Benjamin Britten, Igor Stravinsky, and Hans Werner Henze, as well as the poems for which he is most famous.

Joseph Brodsky was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987. His Collected Poems in English will be published next spring. He died in 1996. (January 2000)

Robert Darnton is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the University Library at Harvard. His latest book is George Washington’s False Teeth: An Unconventional Guide to the Eighteenth Century. (June 2008)

Jason Epstein was for many years editorial director of Random House and has written on food for various publications. (March 2008)

Alfred Kazin's most recent book is God and the American Writer. (April 1998)

Peter Singer is Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University.

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