Table of Contents

Volume 20, Number 13 · August 9, 1973

John Thompson, Last Testament

Recovery by John Berryman

I.F. Stone, It Pays to Be Ignorant

Joseph Brodsky, Translating Akhmatova

Poems of Akhmatova selected, translated, and introduced by Stanley Kunitz, by Max Hayward

Norman Mailer, Married to Marilyn

Robert Craft, Stravinsky: Problems for Biographers

Mary McCarthy, Lies

Martin Bernal, Traveling Light

The Chinese Difference by Joseph Kraft

Notes from China by Barbara Tuchman

A China Passage by John Kenneth Galbraith

To Peking and Beyond: A Report on the New Asia by Harrison Salisbury

W.H.C. Frend, A New Jesus?

The Secret Gospel by Morton Smith

Clement of Alexandria and a Secret Gospel of Mark by Morton Smith

Simon Head, Story Without End

For Reasons of State by Noam Chomsky

Critical Essays and an Index to Vols. 1-4 of the Senator Gravel Edition of the Pentagon Papers edited by Noam Chomsky, edited by Howard Zinn

Emma Rothschild, Illusions About Energy

United States Mineral Resources US Geological Survey, Professional Paper No. 820

US Energy Outlook National Petroleum Council (1625 K Street NW, Washington, DC 20006)

The Potential for Energy Conservation Office of Emergency Preparedness (Executive Office of the President)

Jervis Anderson, The Shadow of Booker T. Washington

Booker T. Washington: The Making of a Black Leader, 1856-1901 by Louis R. Harlan

The Booker T. Washington Papers, Volume 1: The Autobiographical Writings; Volume 2: 1860-1889 edited by Louis R. Harlan

Walter Kaufmann, Erich Heller, On Karl Kraus


Letters

James Kraft, Edgar Z. Friedenberg, See Canada First



Contributors

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 Craft was awarded the International Prix du Disque at the Cannes Music Festival for 2002.(May 2002)

Simon Head is a Senior Fellow at the Rothermere American Institute at Oxford. His most recent book is The New Ruthless Economy: Work and Power in the Digital Age. (August 2007)

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.

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).

Emma Rothschild is a fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and will be teaching history at Harvard next fall. Her latest book is Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet and the Enlightenment. (March 2004)

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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