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Volume 20, Number 12 · July 19, 1973

Leonard Schapiro, The Soviet Jews

The Soviet Cage: Anti-Semitism in Russia by William Korey

Jewish Nationality and Soviet Politics: The Jewish Sections of the CPSU, 1917-1930 by Zvi Y. Gitelman

Mary McCarthy, Watergate Notes

D.S. Carne-Ross, Sophocles Our Contemporary?

The Eating of the Gods: An Interpretation of Greek Tragedy by Jan Kott

Henry Steele Commager, The Shame of the Republic

The Politics of Lying: Government Deception, Secrecy, and Power by David Wise

The Crippled Giant: American Foreign Policy and Its Domestic Consequences by J. William Fulbright

Political Prisoners in America by Charles Goodell

Martin Jessop Price, The Strange Case of the Missing Coins

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum The Collection of the American Numismatic Society: Part 2—Lucania

The Catalogue of the Collection of Ancient and Later Coins

Denis Donoghue, Good Grief

Epistle to a Godson, and Other Poems by W.H. Auden

W.H. Auden as a Social Poet by Frederick Buell

Forewords and Afterwords by W.H. Auden, selected by Edward Mendelson

Man's Place: An Essay on Auden by Richard Johnson

I.F. Stone, The Washington Power Game

John Wain, Just Good Friends

The Impossible Friendship: Boswell and Mrs. Thrale by Mary Hyde

Jorge Luis Borges, James Joyce (poem)

Emma Rothschild, What Is the 'Energy Crisis'?

Richard Clogg, The Case for the Colonels

Greece Without Columns: The Making of the Modern Greeks by David Holden

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Letters

Robert L. Bernstein, Simon Michael Bessie, et al. Committee in Defense of Andrei Amalrik
George Feifer, Zhores A. Medvedev, Solzhenitsyn
Robert Brustein, Roth's Novel
Philip Roth, Roth's Novel
Steve Weissman, Kirkpatrick Sale, Yankees Vs. Cowboys
Noam Chomsky, Chomsky Replies
Jane Fonda, Tom Hayden, What They Said
Gleb Struve, George L. Kline, Brodsky's Poetry
Center for Cuban Studies, Bombing

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Contributors

Denis Donoghue is University Professor at NYU, where he holds the Henry James Chair of English and American Letters. He is the author of The Practice of Reading, Words Alone: The Poet T.S. Eliot, and, most recently, The American Classics. (October 2006)

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 (1979). 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).

Emma Rothschild is Director of the Joint Centre for History and Economics at King's College, Cambridge and Harvard, and Professor of History at Harvard. Her latest book is Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet and the Enlightenment. (February 2009)

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.

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