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
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
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. (November 2007)
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. His books include The Count-Duke of Olivares and Spain and Its World. Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1492– 1830 has just been published. (June 2006)
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 (1971). 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 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.
