Table of Contents

Volume 22, Number 20 · December 11, 1975

Karl Miller, In Scorn and Pity

Guerrillas by V.S. Naipaul

Kirkpatrick Sale, Laying the Dust

Final Report by the Watergate Special Prosecution Force

Robert Craft, 'A Prodigy of Nature'

Neville Maxwell, The Short Good-bye

Freedom at Midnight by Larry Collins, by Dominique Lapierre

Clifford Geertz, Mysteries of Islam

The Venture of Islam: Conscience and History in a World Civilization, Vol. 1: The Classical Age of Islam by Marshall G.S. Hodgson

The Venture of Islam: Conscience and History in a World Civilization, Vol. 2: The Expansion of Islam in the Middle Periods by Marshall G.S. Hodgson

The Venture of Islam: Conscience and History in a World Civilization, Vol. 3: The Gunpowder Empire and Modern Times by Marshall G.S. Hodgson

Alison Lurie, A Tail of Terror

Alexander Cockburn, The Psychopathology of Journalism

Hope and Fear in Washington (The Early Seventies): The Story of the Washington Press Corps by Barney Collier, with photographs by Maggi Castelloe

We're Going to Make You a Star by Sally Quinn

The First Casualty: From the Crimea to Vietnam—The War Correspondent as Hero, Propagandist, and Myth Maker by Phillip Knightley

The First Time by Karl Fleming, by Anne Taylor Fleming

Veronica Geng, The Current Cinema

Nigel Dennis, Keeping the Secret

Trollope: His Life and Art by C.P. Snow

Diane Johnson, The War Between Men and Women

Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape by Susan Brownmiller

Rape: The Bait and the Trap by Jean MacKellar, with the collaboration of Dr. Menachem Amir

Rape and Its Victims: A Report for Citizens, Health Facilities and Criminal Justice Agencies Enforcement Assistance Administration, Washington, DC. Criminal Justice Reference Service, PO Box 24036, Southwest Post Office, Washington, DC 20024 by the Center for Women Policy Studies et al., funded by the Law

Carl E. Schorske, Cultural Hothouse

The Sacred Spring: The Arts in Vienna 1898-1918 by Nicolas Powell, with an introduction by Adolf Opel

Egon Schiele's Portraits by Alessandra Comini

Gustav Klimt illustrations by Alessandra Comini

Gustav Klimt by Werner Hofmann

Art in Vienna, 1898-1918: Klimt, Kokoschka, Schiele and Their Contemporaries by Peter Vergo

The Art of Egon Schiele by Erwin Mitsch, translated by W. Keith Haughan

Egon Schiele: Paintings, Watercolours, Drawings by Rudolf Leopold, translated by Alexander Lieven

Francine Gray, Coco's Closet

Chanel by Edmonde Charles-Roux

Martin Gardner, Strawberry Shortcut

Powers of Mind by Adam Smith

John Ashbery, Street Musicians (poem)

Hide Ishiguro, Writer, Rightist or Freak?

Mishima: A Biography by John Nathan

The Life and Death of Yukio Mishima by Henry Scott Stokes

Christopher Lasch, What the Doctor Ordered

The Making of Modern Society by Edward Shorter

Thomas R. Edwards, Barthelme the Scrivener

The Dead Father by Donald Barthelme

Philip Levine, The Secret of Their Voices (poem)

Moshe Safdie, Joy in Mudville

Architecture for the Poor by Hassan Fathy

John Thompson, Lionel Trilling (1905–1975)

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Letters

Kenneth Maxwell, From a Portuguese Prison
Edward O. Wilson, For Sociobiology
Noam Chomsky, From Husak's Castle
William N. Parker, Thomas L. Haskell, Funds for Clio
Ned O'Gorman, Help Wanted

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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.

Alexander Cockburn edits the newsletter CounterPunch and writes columns for the Los Angeles Times and The Nation.

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

Thomas R. Edwards is Emeritus Professor of English at Rutgers and a former editor of Raritan. His most recent book is Over Here: Criticizing America, 1968–1989. (June 2004)

Martin Gardner is the author of The New Ambidextrous Universe, Fractal Music, Hypercards and More, and The Night is Large. His most recent book is a novel, Visitors from Oz. (September 1998)

Clifford Geertz is Professor Emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He is the author of, among other works, The Social History of an Indonesian Town and Negara: The Balinese State in the Nineteenth Century. (March 2006)

Diane Johnson is the author, most recently, of Into a Paris Quartier: Reine Margot’s Chapel and Other Haunts of St. Germain. Her latest novel is L’Affaire. (February 2008)

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)

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