Table of Contents

Volume 20, Number 14 · September 20, 1973

Noam Chomsky, Watergate: A Skeptical View

Stephen Spender, Can Poetry Be Reviewed?

Moly and My Sad Captains by Thom Gunn

Writings to An Unfinished Accompaniment by W.S. Merwin

Braving the Elements by James Merrill

The Crystal Lithium by James Schuyler

A Change of Hearts by Kenneth Koch

They Feed They Lion by Philip Levine

Wintering Out by Seamus Heaney

J.M. Cameron, Risking Kierkegaard

Kierkegaard by Josiah Thompson

Carlos Fuentes, Mexico and Its Demons

The Other Mexico: Critique of the Pyramid by Octavio Paz, translated by Lysander Kemp, with a postscript translated by Helen R. Lane

Michael Wood, Kissing Hitler

Norman Mailer by Richard Poirier

Marilyn by Norman Mailer. Pictures by the World's Foremost Photographers

Kenneth Koch, Teaching Great Poetry to Children

Lillian Hellman, Flipping for a Diamond

Charles B.M. McBurney, The Mysterious Moon Marks

The Roots of Civilization by Alexander Marshack

Leonard Michaels, Sliding Into English

Rembrandt's Hat by Bernard Malamud

A Russian Beauty and Other Stories by Vladimir Nabokov

Edgar Z. Friedenberg, Survivors

Photographs of My Father by Paul Spike

The Amnesty of John David Herndon by James Reston Jr.

Gordon Brumm, Amnon Goldworth, Stuart Hampshire, On Morality & Pessimism


Letters

William Empson, The Rights of Editors
Robert Crichton, Gore Vidal, The Fever Breaks
Harvey Cox, J.M. Cameron, Heretical about Heresy



Contributors

Kenneth Koch died on July 6. He was Professor of English at Columbia. During his lifetime, he published at least thirty volumes of poetry and plays. He was also the author of a novel, The Red Robins; two books on teaching poetry writing to children, Wishes, Lies, and Dreams and Rose, Where Did You Get That Red?; and I Never Told Anybody: Teaching Poetry Writing in a Nursing Home. A new collection of his poetry, A Possible World, and Sun Out: Selected Poems 1952–54, will be published this fall. (August 2002)

Michael Wood is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge. (April 2008)


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