Table of Contents

Volume 22, Number 1 · February 6, 1975

Robert Craft, Lisztomania

Liszt: The Artist as Romantic Hero by Eleanor Perényi

Liszt by Claude Rostand, translated by John Victor

The Man Liszt: A Study of the Tragi-Comedy of a Soul Divided Against Itself by Ernest Newman

I.F. Stone, War for Oil?

Alison Lurie, The Boy Who Couldn't Grow Up

Sheldon S. Wolin, Looking for "Reality"

The Real America: A Surprising Examination of the State of the Union by Ben J. Wattenberg

Roger Sale, The Hammett Case

The Continental Op by Dashiell Hammett, selected and with an introduction by Steven Marcus

Susan Sontag, Fascinating Fascism

The Last of the Nuba by Leni Riefenstahl

SS Regalia by Jack Pia

Paul Auster, One-Man Language

Le Schizo et les langues by Louis Wolfson, with a preface by Gilles Deleuze

Charles Rosen, A Master Musicologist

Essays on Music in the Western World by Oliver Strunk

E.P. Thompson, A Nice Place to Visit

The Country and the City by Raymond Williams


Letters

Alfred J. Ayer, Noam Chomsky, et al. Letter to Tito
Steven Abbot, Thom Willenbecher, et al. Myra, Myron, & Gore
Anthony West, Frank Kermode, A Disagreement



Contributors

Paul Auster is the author of ten novels, most recently The Book of Illusions. He lives with his wife and daughter in Brooklyn, NY.

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

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)

Charles Rosen's most recent book is Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist. (February 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.

I.F. Stone was an American journalist, publisher of I.F. Stone's Weekly, and a regular contributor to the Review. For more about him please visit www.ifstone.org.


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