Table of Contents

Volume 20, Number 17 · November 1, 1973

John K. Fairbank, In Chinese Prisons

Prisoner of Mao by Bao Ruo-wang (Jean Pasqualini), by Rudolph Chelminski

China Behind the Mask by Warren Phillips, by Robert Keatley

A Chinese View of China by John Gittings

W.H. Auden, An Odd Ball in an Odd Country at an Odd Time

St John of the Cross: His Life and Poetry by Gerald Brenan, with a translation of the poetry by Lynda Nicholson

W.H. Auden, No, Plato, No (poem)

Neal Ascherson, Slug of Redemption

From the Diary of a Snail by Günter Grass

Charles Rosen, What Did the Romantics Mean?

Caspar David Friedrich, 1774-1840: Romantic Landscape Painting in Dresden by William Vaughan, by Helmut Börsch-Supan, by Hans Joachim Neidhardt

Robert Schumann: The Man and His Music edited by Alan Walker

Mary Ellmann, Women's Work

Lesbian Nation by Jill Johnston

Combat in the Erogenous Zone by Ingrid Bengis

The Inevitability of Patriarchy by Steven Goldberg

The Manipulated Man by Esther Vilar

Not in God's Image by Julia O'Faolain, by Lauro Martines

Male Chauvinism! by Michael Korda

Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation by Mary Daly

Michael Wood, It's Later than You Think

As If By Magic by Angus Wilson

Temporary Kings by Anthony Powell

The World of Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse

All About Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse

The Plot That Thickened by P.G. Wodehouse

Isaiah Berlin, Fathers and Children: Turgenev and the Liberal Predicament Part II

Richard Sennett, Two on the Aisle

Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates by Erving Goffman

The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life by Erving Goffman

Encounters: Two Studies in the Sociology of Interaction by Erving Goffman

Towards a Poor Theatre by Jerzy Grotowski

Relations in Public: Micro Studies of the Public Order by Erving Goffman

Laurence Birns, The Death of Chile

Emma Rothschild, Running Out of Gas

Andrew Hacker, Hogan's Goats

The Briar Patch: The People of the State of New York v. Lumumba Shakur Et Al by Murray Kempton

I.F. Stone, Agnew's Successor: What Nixon Fears

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Letters

Allen Spraggett, Martin Gardner, A Spirited Exchange

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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.

Isaiah Berlin was born in Riga in 1909. In 1916 his family moved to Petrograd, where he witnessed the Russian Revolution, and in 1921 he emigrated to England. He was educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and became a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, where he was later appointed Professor of Social and Political Theory. He served as the first president of Wolfson College, Oxford, and as president of the British Academy. He died in 1997. For more information, see the Isaiah Berlin Virtual Library.

Andrew Hacker teaches political science at Queens College. He is currently writing a book on higher education in collaboration with Claudia Dreifus. (September 2008)

Charles Rosen's most recent book is Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist. (February 2008)

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.

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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