Table of Contents
Volume 21, Number 5 · April 4, 1974
P.B. Medawar, How to Be Your Own Worst Enemy 
Type A Behavior and Your Heart by Meyer Friedman MD, by Ray H. Rosenman MD
Mary McCarthy, Watergate
Christopher Ricks, Gigantist
The Eye of the Storm by Patrick White
V.S. Naipaul, A Country Dying on Its Feet
Murray Kempton, The Trouble With Harry (and Henry)
The Price of Vision: The Diary of Henry A. Wallace 1942-1946 edited by John Morton Blum
Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman by Merle Miller
D.J. Enright, Child of Europe
Selected Poems translated by the author himself; the other hands are Peter Dale Scott, Richard Lourie, Jan Darowski, John Carpenter, Lawrence Davis, and A. M.) by Czeslaw Milosz. Translated by several hands, (the greater number of these poems are, with an introduction by Kenneth Rexroth
Emma Rothschild, Concocting the Next "Crisis"
Edmund R. Leach, Anthropology Upside Down
Reinventing Anthropology edited by Dell Hymes
Ellen Moers, Female Gothic: Monsters, Goblins, Freaks
E.J. Hobsbawm, The Great Gramsci
Selections from the Prison Notebooks of Antonio Gramsci edited and translated by Quintin Hoare, by Geoffrey Nowell Smith
Letters from Prison by Antonio Gramsci, selected, translated, and introduced by Lynne Lawner
The Editors, Short Reviews
In Praise of Darkness by Jorges Luis Borges, translated by Norman Thomas di Giovanni
Lost Chance in China: The World War II Despatches of John S. Service edited by Joseph W. Esherick
The Fearful Void by Geoffrey Moorhouse
Bright Eyes: The Story of Susette La Flesche, an Omaha Indian by Dorothy Clarke Wilson
Confessions of a Bird Watcher by Roger Barton
Letters
Emir Rodriguez-Monegal, Suppression in Uruguay
Mauricio Schoijet, Suppression in Uruguay
David Finn, Candid Camera
Claude Gruen, Mark Green, et al. After the Raid
V.E. Kelly, After the Raid
Melvin Richter, Rescuing Chileans
Maurice Zeitlin, Rescuing Chileans
Contributors
D. J. Enright's books include The Alluring Problem, Fields of Vision, Collected Poems 1948—1998, and, most recently, Interplay: A Kind of Commonplace Book. (August 2000)
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.
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).
V. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932 and emigrated to England in 1950, when he won a scholarship to University College, Oxford. He is the author of many novels, including A House for Mr. Biswas, A Bend in the River, and In a Free State, which won the Booker Prize. He has also written several nonfiction works based on his travels, including India: A Million Mutinies Now and Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples. He was knighted in 1990 and in 1993 was the first recipient of the David Cohen British Literature Prize.
Christopher Ricks is William M. and Sara B. Warren Professor of the Humanities and Co-Director of the Editorial Institute at Boston University, and Professor of Poetry at Oxford. His most recent book is Dylan’s Visions of Sin. (March 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)
