Table of Contents

Volume 21, Number 10 · June 13, 1974

Andrei D. Sakharov, In Answer to Solzhenitsyn

Letter to the Soviet Leaders by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, translated by Hilary Sternberg

Garry Wills, The Kingdom of Heaven

All the President's Men by Carl Bernstein, by Bob Woodward

Michael Wood, Hooked

My Life as a Man by Philip Roth

Robert Darnton, Death's Checkered Past

Western Attitudes toward Death: From the Middle Ages to the Present by Philippe Ariès, translated by Patricia M. Ranum

A.J.P. Taylor, Talleyrand's Cut

Talleyrand: The Art of Survival by Jean Orieux, translated by Patricia Wolf

Kenneth Maxwell, Portugal: A Neat Revolution

Portugal e o Futuro: Análise da Conjuntura Nacional [Portugal and the Future] by António de Spínola

Robert M. Adams, Good Trip

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig

Alexander Cockburn, Mary Kaldor, The Defense Confidence Game

Report of the Secretary of Defense, James R. Schlesinger, to the Congress on the FY 1975 Defense Budget and FY 1975-1979 Defense Program

William H. Jordy, The Genius of the Place

FLO: A Biography of Frederick Law Olmsted by Laura Wood Roper

Frederick Law Olmsted's New York by Elizabeth Barlow, illustrative portfolio by William Alex

"Frederick Law Olmsted and the Dialectical Landscape" by Robert Smithson

Forty Years of Landscape Architecture: Central Park edited by Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., edited by Theodora Kimball

Thomas R. Edwards, Can You Go Home Again?

If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin

Train Whistle Guitar by Albert Murray

Another Life by Derek Walcott

Daniel J. Amit, Bernard Avishai, An Exchange on Israel

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Letters

Laura Wood Roper, C. Vann Woodward, Fair Play for Olmsted
Gregory Rabassa, Michael Wood, Paradise Regained
James Finn, Sorry!

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Contributors

Alexander Cockburn edits the newsletter CounterPunch and writes columns for the Los Angeles Times and The Nation.

Robert Darnton is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the University Library at Harvard. His latest book is George Washington’s False Teeth: An Unconventional Guide to the Eighteenth Century. (June 2008)

Thomas R. Edwards is Emeritus Professor of English at Rutgers and a former editor of Raritan. His most recent book is Over Here: Criticizing America, 1968–1989. (June 2004)

Kenneth Maxwell is Director of Latin American Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. His new book, Naked Tropics: Essays on Empire and Other Rogues, will be published this month. (July 2003)

Garry Wills was born in Atlanta, Georgia. One of our most distinguished historians and critics, he is the author of numerous books, including Saint Augustine, Papal Sin, and the Pulitzer Prize–winning Lincoln at Gettysburg. He has won many other awards, among them two National Book Critics Circle Awards and the 1998 National Medal for the Humanities. He is currently Professor of History Emeritus at Northwestern University. A regular contributor to the New York Review of Books, he lives in Evanston, Illinois.

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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