Table of Contents

Volume 20, Number 8 · May 17, 1973

Norman Mailer, A Transit to Narcissus

Last Tango in Paris directed by Bernardo Bertolucci

John Gittings, Rules of the Game

The Limits of Foreign Policy: The West, the League, and the Far Eastern Crisis of 1931-1933 by Christopher Thorne

Gore Vidal, The Ashes of Hollywood I: The Bottom 4 of the Top 10

Noel Annan, Right About Face

Wellington: Pillar of State by Elizabeth Longford

Christopher Lasch, Inequality and Education

Inequality: A Reassessment of the Effect of Family and Schooling in America by Christopher Jencks. and others

Education and the Rise of the Corporate State by Joel H. Spring

The Great School Legend: A Revisionist Interpretation of American Public Education by Colin Greer

Class, Bureaucracy, and Schools by Michael B. Katz

William H. Gass, Gertrude Stein, Geographer: II

Edgar Z. Friedenberg, Good Manners

Forum: Canadian Life and Letters, 1920-1970 edited by J.L. Granatstein, edited by Peter Stevens

Zhores A. Medvedev, Getting Solzhenitsyn Straight

Solzhenitsyn: A Biography by David Burg, by George Feifer

Thomas R. Edwards, Surprise, Surprise

The World of Apples by John Cheever

People Will Always Be Kind by Wilfrid Sheed

Points for a Compass Rose by Evan S. Connell Jr.

Frank Kermode, Crisis Critic

The Archaeology of Knowledge and The Discourse on Language by Michel Foucault, translated by A.M. Sheridan Smith

Richard Fagen, Letter from Chile

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Letters

Thomas F. Eagleton, I.F. Stone, Sen. Eagleton & War Powers
Peter Passell, Leonard Ross, et al. What Price Growth?
Mary McCarthy, Alfred Kazin, Fiction and America
Martin Bernal, Lucien Bianco, et al. Thieu's Prisoners

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Contributors

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

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)

Frank Kermode lives in Cambridge, England. His most recent book is The Age of Shakespeare. (May 2008)

Norman Mailer (1923-2007) was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. In 1955 he co-founded The Village Voice. He is the author of more than thirty books, including The Naked and the Dead; The Armies of the Night, for which he won a National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize; The Executioner's Song, for which he won his second Pulitzer Prize; Harlot's Ghost; Oswald's Tale; The Gospel According to the Son; and The Castle in the Forest.

Gore Vidal's most recent novel is The Golden Age. (February 2002)

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