Table of Contents

Volume 21, Number 19 · November 28, 1974

V.S. Pritchett, Nabokov's Touch

Look at the Harlequins! by Vladimir Nabokov

Strong Opinions by Vladimir Nabokov

C.H. Waddington, The Mystery of the Libidinous Molecule

Life: The Unfinished Experiment by S.E. Luria

The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology-Watcher by Lewis Thomas

Animal Architecture by Karl von Frisch, with the collaboration of Otto von Frisch, translated by Lisbeth Gombrich

Alexander Cockburn, Propaganda of the Victors

The Senate Watergate Report with an introduction by Daniel Schorr

The Great Cover-Up: Nixon and the Scandal of Watergate by Barry Sussman

The Palace Guard by Dan Rather, by Gary Paul Gates

No Final Victories by Lawrence O'Brien

Undercover: Memoirs of an American Secret Agent by E. Howard Hunt

The Fall of a President by the staff of the Washington Post

Big Brother and the Holding Company: The World Behind Watergate edited by Steve Weissman, with introduction by Noam Chomsky

Francis Carney, George Jackson and His Legend

Angela Davis: An Autobiography by Angela Davis

Comrade George by Eric Mann

"The Dragon Has Come" by Gregory Armstrong

Noel Annan, Bring Back the Birch!

Swinburne: Portrait of a Poet by Philip Henderson

The Year of the Wombat: England, 1857 by Francis Watson

Harold L. Kahn, Sitting on Top of the World

Emperor of China: Self-Portrait of K'ang-hsi by Jonathan D. Spence

Michael Wood, Fiction in Extremis

The Abbess of Crewe by Muriel Spark

The Connoisseur by Evan S. Connell Jr.

The Mystic Adventures of Roxie Stoner by Berry Morgan

John Ashbery, Two Poems (poem)

Alfred Kazin, Tolstoy and His Quaker

Susan Sontag, Photography: The Beauty Treatment

William H. Fox Talbot: Inventor of the Negative-Positive Process by André Jammes

The Daybooks of Edward Weston, Vol. II, California by Edward Weston

French Primitive Photography introduction by Minor White, commentaries by André Jammes, by Robert Sobieszek

Paul Strand: A Retrospective Monograph, Vol. I, The Years 1915-1946; Vol. II, The Years 1950-1968 by Paul Strand

The Daybooks of Edward Weston, Vol. I, Mexico by Edward Weston

Alison Lurie, Happy Endings

Waiting for the Party: The Life of Frances Hodgson Burnett by Ann Thwaite

Robert Mazzocco, American Graffito

Sinatra: The Main Event at Madison Square Garden, October 12 and 13

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Letters

Max Gluckman, Report from the Field
Peter Clecak, Peter Singer, Still Powerless?
Jeri Laber, Victims
Noam Chomsky, Daniel Ellsberg, et al. Victims
Noam Chomsky, Victims
Charles O. McDonald, V.S. Naipaul, The Secret Agent

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Contributors

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

John Ashbery is the author of twenty books of poetry, including Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (1975), which received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the National Book Award; and Some Trees (1956), which was selected by W. H. Auden for the Yale Younger Poets Series. He has also published art criticism, plays, and a novel. Ashbery is currently the Charles P. Stevenson, Jr., Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard College.

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

Alfred Kazin's most recent book is God and the American Writer. (April 1998)

Alison Lurie is the author of two collections of essays on children’s literature, Don’t Tell the Grownups and Boys and Girls Forever. She is a former professor of English at Cornell and has published nine novels, of which the most recent is Truth and Consequences. (May 2008)

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.

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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