Table of Contents

Volume 22, Number 15 · October 2, 1975

Michael Wood, Coffee Break for Sisyphus

Structural Fabulation by Robert Scholes

Alternate Worlds by James Gunn

Sign of the Unicorn by Roger Zelazny

The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

Emma Rothschild, The Boom in the Death Business

Arms Uncontrolled Research Institute by prepared for the Stockholm International Peace Frank Barnaby, by Ronald Huisken

The Arms Trade with the Third World by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute

World Armaments and Disarmament: SIPRI Yearbook, 1975

John Ashbery, Valentine (poem)

Francis Haskell, Perplexing Painters

El Greco: The Expressionism of His Final Years by Enrique Lafuente Ferrari, with an Appendix by José Manuel Pita Andrade, translated by Robert Erich Wolf

Zurbarán by Jonathan Brown

Velázquez by José Gudiol

Goya: 67 Drawings Introduction and comments by A. Hyatt Mayor

The Changing Image: Prints by Francisco Goya by Eleanor A. Sayre. the Department of Prints and Drawings

Robert Darnton, Poverty, Crime & Revolution

Laboring Classes and Dangerous Classes in Paris During the First Half of the Nineteenth Century by Louis Chevalier, translated by Frank Jellinek

The Names of Kings: The Parisian Laboring Poor in the Eighteenth Century by Jeffry Kaplow

The French Revolution, 1787-1799: From the Storming of the Bastille to Napoleon by Albert Soboul, translated by Alan Forrest, by Colin Jones

The Poor of Eighteenth-Century France 1750-1789 by Olwen H. Hufton

E.J. Hobsbawm, Dictatorship with Charm

Adrienne Rich, The Theft of Childbirth

Immaculate Deception: A New Look at Women and Childbirth in America by Suzanne Arms

Birth Without Violence by Frederick Leboyer

Donald Davie, Gifts of the Gab

Tales Told of the Fathers by John Hollander

Vision and Resonance: Two Senses of Poetic Form by John Hollander

John Hollander, Collected Novels (poem)

Thomas L. Haskell, The True & Tragical History of 'Time on the Cross'

Slavery and the Numbers Game: A Critique of Time on the Cross by Herbert G. Gutman

"A Symposium on Time on the Cross" edited by Gary M. Walton

Reckoning with Slavery: Critical Essays in the Quantitative History of American Negro Slavery by Paul A. David, by Herbert G. Gutman, by Richard Sutch, by Peter Temin, by Gavin Wright, with an introduction by Kenneth M. Stampp

N.A. Straight, Girl Crazy

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Letters

Laura (Riding) Jackson, Paul Auster, Telling
J.L. Dillard, Monroe K. Spears, Black English
Stephen R. Weissman, Shaky Mobutu
Robert C. Solomon, Anthony Quinton, Absolutely Yours, Hegel
Richard Gram, Absolutely Yours, Hegel

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Contributors

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.

Robert Darnton is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the University Library at Harvard. His latest book is George Washington’s False Teeth: An Unconventional Guide to the Eighteenth Century. (June 2008)

Francis Haskell, formerly Professor of Art History at Oxford, is the author of Patrons and Painters, Rediscoveries in Art, Past and Present in Art and Taste, and History and Its Images: Art and the Interpretation of the Past. (February 1999)

Thomas Haskell is the McCann Professor of History at Rice University and the author of Objectivity is Not Neutrality: Explanatory Schemes in History. (December 1997)

John Hollander is Sterling Professor Emeritus of English at Yale. His new book of poems, A Draft of Light, will be published by Knopf in May. (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)

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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