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Volume 23, Number 1 · February 5, 1976

Michael Wood, "No, but I read the book."

Barry Lyndon directed by Stanley Kubrick

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest directed by Miloš Forman

The Story of Adèle H directed by François Truffaut

Sheldon S. Wolin, The New Conservatives

Twilight of Authority by Robert Nisbet

"The American Commonwealth, 1976," Tenth Anniversary Issue

Bernard Knox, Greek for the Greekless

The Oresteia by Aeschylus, translated by Robert Fagles

The Bacchae of Euripides, A Communion Rite by Wole Soyinka

Gore Vidal, Selected Memories of the Glorious Bird and the Golden Age

Memoirs by Tennessee Williams

Peter B. Reddaway, The Relentless KGB

Noel Annan, The Possessed

Evelyn Waugh: A Biography by Christopher Sykes

Evelyn Waugh's Officers, Gentlemen & Rogues: The Fact Behind His Fiction by Gene D. Phillips

Neal Ascherson, Room at the Bottom

A Seventh Man: Migrant Workers in Europe text by John Berger, photographs by Jean Mohr

Immigrant Workers and Class Structure in Western Europe by Stephen Castles, by Godula Kosack

Lawrence Stone, Whigs, Marxists, and Poachers

Albion's Fatal Tree: Crime and Society in Eighteenth-Century England by Douglas Hay, by Peter Linebaugh, by John G. Rule, by E. P. Thompson, by Cal Winslow

Whigs and Hunters: The Origins of the Black Act by E. P. Thompson

Richard Ellmann, Love in the Catskills

Ronald Dworkin, The DeFunis Case: The Right to Go to Law School

DeFunis versus Odegaard and the University of Washington: The University Admissions Case, The Record edited by Ann Fagan Ginger

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Letters

Robert Mollinger, Frederick C. Crews, High Tide

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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. (November 2008)

Ronald Dworkin is Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law and Philosophy at NYU and Jeremy Bentham Professor of Law and Philosophy at University College London. His books include Is Democracy Possible Here? (2006), Justice in Robes, Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality, and Freedom's Law. He is the 2007 winner of the Ludvig Holberg International Memorial Prize for "his pioneering scholarly work" of "worldwide impact."

Bernard Knox is director emeritus of Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC. Among his many books are The Heroic Temper, The Oldest Dead White European Males, and Backing into the Future: The Classical Tradition and Its Renewal. He is the editor of The Norton Book of Classical Literature and wrote the introductions and notes for Robert Fagles's translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey.

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

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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