Table of Contents

Volume 20, Number 18 · November 15, 1973

Paul M. Sweezy, Galbraith's Utopia

Economics and the Public Purpose by John Kenneth Galbraith

Murray Kempton, Discovering America

Burr: A Novel by Gore Vidal

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

P.B. Medawar, The Evolution of a Proof

Darwin and His Critics: The Reception of Darwin's Theory of Evolution by the Scientific Community by David L. Hull

Susan Sontag, Freak Show

Walker Evans introduction by John Szarkowski

Diane Arbus edited and designed by Doon Arbus, by Marvin Israel

John Richardson, Portrait of a-What?

Portrait of a Marriage by Nigel Nicolson

Yannis Ritsos, Real Hands (poem)

Richard Ellmann, Warped Innocence

Behind the Door by Giorgio Bassani

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis by Giorgio Bassani

Five Stories of Ferrara by Giorgio Bassani

The Heron by Giorgio Bassani

Blair Worden, Rugged Outcast

Cromwell: The Lord Protector by Antonia Fraser

Cromwell: A Profile edited by Ivan Roots

Karl Miller, Episodes in the Class War

Antoine Bloyé by Paul Nizan, translated by Edmund Stevens

The Upstart by Piers Paul Read

Norman Gall, Carnival in Caracas

The Politics of the Barrios of Venezuela by Talton F. Ray

Petroleo y Dependencia by Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonzo

¿Socialismo para Venezuela? by Teodoro Petkoff

Conflict and Political Change in Venezuela by Daniel H. Levine

Political Mobilization of the Venezuelan Peasant by John Duncan Powell

Noel Annan, The Charms of H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells by Norman MacKenzie, by Jeanne MacKenzie

Bernard Williams, How Smart Are Computers?

What Computers Can't Do: A Critique of Artificial Reason by Hubert L. Dreyfus

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Letters

Shlomo Avineri, Joseph Ben-David, et al. Two Statements on the Mid-East War
Seymour Bellin, Ruth Brandwein, et al. Two Statements on the Mid-East War
Renata Cardinale, Arthur C. Danto, In Soviet Prisons
Peter B. Reddaway, In Soviet Prisons

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Contributors

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

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.

Murray Kempton (1917-1997) was a columnist for Newsday, as well as a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books. His books include Rebellions, Perversities, and Main Events and The Briar Patch, as well as Part of Our Time. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1985.

John Richardson's A Life of Picasso, Volume Two, was published in December. Volume One won the Whitbread Prize in England in 1991. (March 1997)

Susan Sontag (1933-2004) was the author of four novels, The Benefactor, Death Kit, The Volcano Lover, and In America, which won the 2000 National Book Award for Fiction; a collection of stories, I, Etcetera; several plays, including Alice in Bed and Lady from the Sea; and seven works of nonfiction, among them Where the Stress Falls and Regarding the Pain of Others. Her books have been translated into thirty-two languages. In 2001, she was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the body of her work; in 2003, she received the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade.

Bernard Williams is Deutsch Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. His most recent book is Making Sense of Humanity. The article in this issue is a revised version of the Orr Lecture given in the Music Faculty of Cambridge University, May 2000. An earlier draft was given at the Nexus Institute, Tilburg, Holland. (November 2000)

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