Table of Contents

Volume 22, Number 11 · June 26, 1975

Hannah Arendt, Home to Roost: A Bicentennial Address

Francis Carney, An American Army

This Soldier Still at War by John Bryan

Patty/Tania by Jerry Belcher, by Don West

Christopher Ricks, Fathers and Children

The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer

The Little Hotel by Christina Stead

The Surface of Earth by Reynolds Price

Jean Starobinski, The Dominant Doctor

Galenism: Rise and Decline of a Medical Philosophy by Owsei Temkin

V.S. Naipaul, A New King for the Congo

Barbara Rose, Wolfeburg

The Painted Word by Tom Wolfe

Gene Lyons, In the Promised Land

Emma Rothschild, How Doomed Are We?

Mankind at the Turning Point: The Second Report to the Club of Rome by Mihajlo Mesarovic, by Eduard Pestel

Two Cheers for the Affluent Society: A Spirited Defense of Economic Growth by Wilfred Beckerman

Boris Shragin, Escapes From Freedom

From Under the Rubble by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, by Mikhail Agursky, by A.B., by Evgeny Barabanov, by Vadim Borisov, by F. Korsakov, by Igor Shafarevich, translated by A. M. Brock, by Milada Haigh, by Marita Sapiets, by Hilary Sternberg, by Harry Willetts, under the direction of Michael Scammell

Roger Sale, Typing It Up

A Fan's Notes by Frederick Exley

Pages from a Cold Island by Frederick Exley


Letters

Donald H. Reiman, Charles Rosen, Did Wordsworth Kill Lucy?



Contributors

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)

Jean Starobinski is Professor Emeritus of French literature at the University of Geneva. Blessings in Disguise and Largesse are among his works in English. A translation of his recent Action et réaction is to appear later this year. (May 2003)


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