Table of Contents

Volume 22, Number 14 · September 18, 1975

J.M. Cameron, The Outcast Cardinal

Memoirs by József Cardinal Mindszenty

Gore Vidal, The Grants

The Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant edited by John Y. Simon

Neal Ascherson, Taping Friday

Longing for Darkness: Kamante's Tales From Out of Africa collected by Peter Beard

Oriana Fallaci, Indira's Coup

Roger Shattuck, A Higher Selfishness?

Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow

Helen Muchnic, Prosecution Witnesses

Alexander Dolgun's Story: An American in the Gulag by Alexander Dolgun, by Patrick Watson

The Education of Lev Navrozov by Lev Navrozov

Garry Wills, Yale Enlightened

D.J. Enright, Divine Wind

Shogun: A Novel of Japan by James Clavell

The Nobility of Failure: Tragic Heroes in the History of Japan by Ivan Morris

Willie Lee Rose, Off the Plantation

Slaves Without Masters: The Free Negro in the Antebellum South by Ira Berlin

They Who Would Be Free: Blacks' Search for Freedom, 1830-1861 by Jane H. Pease, by William H. Pease

The Emancipation of Angelina Grimké by Katherine DuPre Lumpkin

Robert Craft, Two Modern Masters

Style and Idea: Selected Writings of Arnold Schoenberg edited by Leonard Stein, with translations by Leo Black

Arnold Schoenberg by Charles Rosen

Thomas Nagel, Sin and Significance

The Message in the Bottle: How Queer Man Is, How Queer Language Is, and What One Has to Do with the Other by Walker Percy

Michael Wood, Shaken Men

The Impossible Proof by Hans Erich Nossack, translated by Michael Lebeck

The D'Arthez Case by Hans Erich Nossack, translated by Michael Lebeck

To the Unknown Hero by Hans Erich Nossack, translated by Ralph Manheim

Mark Strand, Exiles (poem)

David B. Hinton, Susan Sontag, An Exchange on Leni Riefenstahl


Letters

Graham Greene, Odd Sound
Harold Rosenberg, Douglas Cooper, Taken for a Ride
Hunter Hannum, Hildegarde Hannum, Notice Taken
Alan Ryan, Anthony Quinton, Wrong Suburb
Gil Carl AlRoy, Kissingerizing



Contributors

Neal Ascherson is the author of The Struggles for Poland, The Black Sea, and Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland. He is the editor of the journal Public Archaeology at University College London. (November 2007)

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

D. J. Enright's books include The Alluring Problem, Fields of Vision, Collected Poems 1948—1998, and, most recently, Interplay: A Kind of Commonplace Book. (August 2000)

Thomas Nagel is University Professor at New York University. His most recent book is Concealment and Exposure and Other Essays. (May 2006)

Roger Shattuck is the author of Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography. He has most recently edited new editions of two books by Helen Keller. He is University Professor Emeritus at Boston University. (May 2005)

Mark Strand teaches in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia. His most recent book is New Selected Poems. (March 2008)

Gore Vidal's most recent novel is The Golden Age. (February 2002)

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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