Table of Contents

Volume 23, Number 6 · April 15, 1976

V.S. Pritchett, Suntan

Children of the Sun by Martin Green

P.B. Medawar, The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice

The Patchwork Mouse by Joseph Hixson

Andrei Sinyavsky, The Jews and the Devil

D.J. Enright, History of World Languages (poem)

Robert L. Heilbroner, Sentimental Education

Schooling in Capitalist America by Samuel Bowles, by Herbert Gintis

Peter Brown, In Gibbon's Shade

Roman Social Relations, 50 BC to AD 284 by Ramsay MacMullen

Christianity in the Roman World by R.A. Markus

Symbols of Church and Kingdom: A Study in Early Syriac Tradition by Robert Murray

The Fall of the Roman Empire: A Reappraisal by Michael Grant

John Ashbery, Wet Casements (poem)

Alexander Cockburn, James Ridgeway, Energy and the Politicians

Rosemary Dinnage, Jung and God

C.G. Jung: Letters Volume 2 1951-1961 selected and edited by Gerhard Adler, in collaboration with Aniela Jaffé, translated by R.F.C. Hull

C.G. Jung: His Myth in Our Time by Marie-Louise von Franz, translated by William H. Kennedy

Jung on Elementary Psychology: A Discussion Between C.G. Jung and Richard Evans by C.G. Jung, by Richard Evans

Jung and the Story of Our Time by Laurens van der Post

John Bayley, Paleface

Rudyard Kipling and His World by Kingsley Amis

Kipling: The Glass, the Shadow and the Fire by Philip Mason

Wilfrid Sheed, Milking the Elk

America in the Movies by Michael Wood

The Silent Clowns by Walter Kerr

The Men Who Made the Movies by Richard Schickel

Life Goes to the Movies

Robert Craft, Nijinsky and 'Le Sacre'

Nijinsky Dancing by Lincoln Kirstein

Diaghilev Observed by Critics in England and the United States, 1911-1929 by Nesta Macdonald


Letters

Justus George Lawler, Leon Wieseltier, Kabbalah Anyone?
Thomas B. Hess, Kabbalah Anyone?
Gerald M. Platt, Fred Weinstein, et al. Family Theory
Peter du Sautoy, Eliot's Request
Guy Daniels, Carl R. Proffer, The Good Rasputin



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.

John Bayley has written two books about his wife, the novelist Iris Murdoch, Elegy for Iris and Iris and Her Friends. (July 2004)

Peter Brown is Philip and Beulah Rollins Professor of History at Princeton. The twentieth-anniversary edition of his book The Body and Society: Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity was published last year. 
(June 2009)

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)

Rosemary Dinnage's books include The Ruffian on the Stair, One to One: Experiences of Psychotherapy, and Annie Besant.

D. J. Enright's books include The Alluring Problem, Fields of Vision, Collected Poems 1948—1998, and, most recently, Interplay: A Kind of Commonplace Book. (August 2000)


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