Table of Contents

Volume 21, Number 21 & 22 · January 23, 1975

Irvin Ehrenpreis, Dickinsons in Love

The Life of Emily Dickinson by Richard B. Sewall

Robert L. Heilbroner, Men at Work

Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century by Harry Braverman

Robert Craft, Huxley at Home

Aldous Huxley: A Biography by Sybille Bedford

Alfred Kazin, "Your Lone and Loving Exile"

Henry James: Letters Volume I, 1843-1875 edited by Leon Edel

Garry Wills, The Man the Democrats Need

P.B. Medawar, Victims of Psychiatry

The Victim Is Always the Same by I. S. Cooper MD.

Kenneth Koch, Some General Instructions (poem)

Geoffrey Barraclough, The Great World Crisis I

World Bank Annual Report 1974

International Monetary Fund, Annual Report of the Executive Directors for the Fiscal Year Ended April 30, 1974

A Time to Choose: America's Energy Future by the Energy Policy Project of the Ford Foundation, with a foreword by McGeorge Bundy

World Hunger: Causes and Remedies Studies, 1520 New Hampshire Avenue, NW, Washington, DC

By Bread Alone by Lester R. Brown

The Energy Crisis by Tad Szulc

John Clive, An Ambiguous Act

The Great Reform Act by Michael Brock

Michael Wood, Incomparable Empson

William Empson: The Man and His Work edited by Roma Gill

Bernard Avishai, The Jewish State in Question

Peace in the Middle East? Reflections on Justice and Nationhood by Noam Chomsky

Between Enemies: A Compassionate Dialogue Between an Israeli and an Arab by Amos Elon, by Sana Hassan

John Thompson, At Least One Way

No Way by Natalia Ginzburg, translated by Sheila Cudahy

Touch the Water, Touch the Wind by Amos Oz. translated by Nicholas de Lange in collaboration with the author

William Shawcross, Another CIA Plot?

Operation Splinter Factor by Stewart Steven


Letters

Joseph Brodsky, Victims
Noam Chomsky, Ali Farshbaf, Victims
Shirley Stewart, Victims
Richard Gordon, Bird Watching
Jeff Simon, Virgil Thomson, Bird Watching
Brendan Gill, J.M. Cameron, What Rover Knew
L.C. Knights, Irvin Ehrenpreis, Taking Sides
James E. Algeo, New Magazine
Bob Scholte, Reply



Contributors

Robert Craft was awarded the International Prix du Disque at the Cannes Music Festival for 2002.(May 2002)

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

Kenneth Koch died on July 6. He was Professor of English at Columbia. During his lifetime, he published at least thirty volumes of poetry and plays. He was also the author of a novel, The Red Robins; two books on teaching poetry writing to children, Wishes, Lies, and Dreams and Rose, Where Did You Get That Red?; and I Never Told Anybody: Teaching Poetry Writing in a Nursing Home. A new collection of his poetry, A Possible World, and Sun Out: Selected Poems 1952–54, will be published this fall. (August 2002)

William Shawcross is the author of several books on Cambodia. (December 1996)

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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