Table of Contents

Volume 21, Number 3 · March 7, 1974

Karl Miller, Fear and Fang

Selected Poems 1957-1967 by Ted Hughes, drawings by Leonard Baskin

The Iron Giant: A Story in Five Nights by Ted Hughes, drawings by Robert Nadler

Anthony Lewis, Torture in Hanoi

They Wouldn't Let Us Die: The Prisoners of War Tell Their Story by Stephen A. Rowan

The Passing of the Night: My Seven Years as a Prisoner of the North Vietnamese by Colonel Robinson Risner

Mary McCarthy, On Colonel Risner

Virgil Thomson, Wickedly Wonderful Widow

Staying on Alone: Letters of Alice B. Toklas edited by Edward Burns, with an introduction by Gilbert A. Harrison

Nicholas von Hoffman, As Good As They Come

Many Battles: The Autobiography of Ernest Gruening by Ernest Gruening

Wilfrid Sheed, America's Catholics

Catholics by Brian Moore

Aphrodite in Mid-Century: Growing Up Female and Catholic in Postwar America by Caryl Rivers

The Last Catholic in America by John R. Powers

The Seduction of the Spirit: The Use and Misuse of People's Religion by Harvey Cox

The Rise of the Unmeltable Ethnics: Politics and Culture in the Seventies by Michael Novak

The New Agenda by Andrew M. Greeley

Fragments of the Century by Michael Harrington

Catholic America by John Cogley

Bare Ruined Choirs: Doubt, Prophecy, and Radical Religion by Garry Wills

V.S. Pritchett, Saint of Inertia

Oblomov and His Creator: The Life and Art of Ivan Goncharov by Milton Ehre

Alan B. Morrison, Can Nixon Afford to Resign?

Alasdair MacIntyre, Durkheim's Call to Order

Emile Durkheim: His Life and Work by Steven Lukes

Les Aspin, The Oil Company Blues

The Editors, Short Reviews

My Belief: Essays on Life and Art by Hermann Hesse, translated by Denver Lindley

Three Faces of Marxism: The Political Concepts of Soviet Ideology, Maoism, and Humanist Marxism by Wolfgang Leonhard, translated by Ewald Oser

The Invisible China: The Overseas Chinese and the Politics of Southeast Asia by Garth Alexander

Xingu: The Indians, Their Myths by Orlando Villas Boas, by Claudio Villas Boas, edited by Kenneth S. Brecher, translated by Susana Hertelendy Rudge

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Letters

Alberto Mares, A Program to Cripple Federal Prisoners
Aryeh Neier, A Program to Cripple Federal Prisoners
Zhores A. Medvedev, The Attack on Lydia Chukovskaya
V. Bielski, The Fate of Kudirka
Mikhail Agursky, Soviet Anti-Semitism
Daniel Zwerdling, Chewing It Over

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Contributors

Anthony Lewis, a former columnist for The New York Times, has twice won the Pulitzer Prize. His book Freedom for the Thought We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment was published this year. (May 2008)

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).

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