Table of Contents

Volume 22, Number 21 & 22 · January 22, 1976

Irvin Ehrenpreis, The State of Poetry

Collected Poems by George Oppen

Somewhere Is Such a Kingdom: Poems 1952-1971 by Geoffrey Hill

Turtle Island by Gary Snyder

Mary McCarthy, Saying Good-by to Hannah

J.H. Elliott, Américainerie

The New Golden Land: European Images of America from the Discoveries to the Present Time by Hugh Honour

The European Vision of America by Hugh Honour

The European Vision of America 1976 The National Gallery, Washington, DC, December 7, 1975-February 14,

Neal Ascherson, The Good War

The Second World War: An Illustrated History by A.J.P. Taylor

WW II: A Chronicle of Soldiering by James Jones, by Art Weithas

Jean Starobinski, Gazing at Death

The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception by Michel Foucault, translated by A.M. Sheridan Smith

Garry Wills, The CIA from Beginning to End

Robert Mazzocco, In Chekhov's Spell

The Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov. The Acting Company, directed by Boris Tumarin

Treemonisha by Scott Joplin, directed by Frank Corsara

Travesties by Tom Stoppard, directed by Peter Wood

Robert Craft, 'Figaro' at the Met: A Marriage on the Rocks

Le Nozze di Figaro by W.A. Mozart, by Lorenzo da Ponte. The Metropolitan Opera, directed by Günther Rennert, designed by Robert O'Hearn, and conducted by Steuart Bedford

Robert M. Adams, A Cosmic and Practical Man

Findings and Keepings: Analects for an Autobiography by Lewis Mumford

Aileen Kelly, The Fatal Charm of the Millennium

Michael Bakunin by E.H. Carr

Michael Bakunin: Selected Writings edited by Arthur Lehning, translated by Stephen Cox, by Olive Stevens

Bakunin: The Father of Anarchism by Anthony Masters

Noel Annan, All in the Family

Edward VIII by Frances Donaldson

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Letters

Hugh Lloyd-Jones, Arnaldo Momigliano, Bearing Gifts
Vladimir Maramzin, On Being Free
Gleb Struve, Before & After Solzhenitsyn
Adam Smith, Martin Gardner, Pioneer
David N. Stern, Leonard Schapiro, Before and After Solzhenitsyn
Richard Ashley, Norman E. Zinberg, No Cause for Optimism
Carl N. Degler, Prejudice & Slavery
Earl Miner, Bernard Knox, Dryden & Oedipus

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Contributors

Noel Annan is the author of Leslie Stephen and Our Age, among other books. (October 1999)

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.
(July 2009)

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

J. H. Elliott is Regius Professor Emeritus of Modern History at the University of Oxford. He has just published a new volume of essays, Spain, Europe and the Wider World, 1500–1800. (August 2009)

Aileen Kelly, a fellow of King's College, Cambridge, is the author of Toward Another Shore: Russian Thinkers Between Necessity and Chance and, most recently, Views from the Other Shore: Essays on Herzen, Chekhov, and Bakhtin. (April 2007)

Mary McCarthy (1912-1989) was a novelist, essayist, and critic. Her political and social commentary, literary essays, and drama criticism appeared in magazines such as Partisan Review, The New Yorker, Harper's, and The New York Review of Books, and were collected in On the Contrary (1961), Mary McCarthy's Theatre Chronicles 1937-1962 (1963), The Writing on the Wall (1970), Ideas and the Novel (1980), and Occasional Prose (1985). Her novels include The Company She Keeps (1942), The Oasis (1949), The Groves of Academe (1952), A Charmed Life (1955), The Group (1963), Birds of America (1971), and Cannibals and Missionaries (1979). She was the author of three works of autobiography, Memories of a Catholic Girlhood (1957), How I Grew (1987), and the unfinished Intellectual Memoirs (1992), and two travel books about Italy, Venice Observed (1956) and The Stones of Florence (1959). Her essays on the Vietnam War were collected in The Seventeenth Degree (1974); her essays on Watergate were collected in The Mask of State (1974).

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)

Garry Wills is Professor of History Emeritus at Northwestern. His most recent book, What Jesus Meant, was published in 2006.

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