Table of Contents

Volume 23, Number 7 · April 29, 1976

W.H.C. Frend, Frustrated Father

Jerome: His Life, Writings and Controversies by J.N.D. Kelly

Garry Wills, The Real Reason Chappaquiddick Disqualifies Kennedy

The Last Kennedy by Robert Sherrill

Edward Kennedy and the Camelot Legacy by James MacGregor Burns

Senator Ted Kennedy: The Career Behind the Image by Theo Lippman Jr.

Diane Johnson, The People v. Patty Hearst

V.S. Naipaul, India: A Wounded Civilization

Philip Levine, Bring Us out of Egypt (poem)

Michael Wood, Passions in Politics

1876 by Gore Vidal

Bernard Knox, Dogs and Heroes in Homer

Nature and Culture in the Iliad: The Tragedy of Hector by James M. Redfield

A Companion to the Iliad (Based on the Translation by Richmond Lattimore) by Malcolm M. Willcock

Paul Auster, Man of Pain

Selected Poems of Giuseppe Ungaretti translated and edited by Allen Mandelbaum

Roger Sale, Murder, she says.

Curtain by Agatha Christie

The Dangerous Edge by Gavin Lambert

Frank Kermode, Fighting Freud

Out of My System: Psychoanalysis, Ideology, and Critical Method by Frederick Crews

E.H. Carr, The War No One Won

The Eastern Front, 1914-1917 by Norman Stone

A.J.P. Taylor, Boyish Masters

A Matter of Honour: An Account of the Indian Army, Its Officers and Men by Philip Mason

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Letters

Laura (Riding) Jackson, Virgil Thomson, A Private Press
Katharine Strelsky, Aileen Kelly, Art and Life
Kingsley Widmer, Milton Viorst, San Diego Mayhem

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Contributors

Paul Auster is the author of ten novels, most recently The Book of Illusions. He lives with his wife and daughter in Brooklyn, NY.

Diane Johnson’s most recent novel is Lulu in Marrakech. (November 2009)

Frank Kermode lives in Cambridge, England. His latest book, ConcerningE.M. Forster, will be published in December.
 (October 2009)

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.

V. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932 and emigrated to England in 1950, when he won a scholarship to University College, Oxford. He is the author of many novels, including A House for Mr. Biswas, A Bend in the River, and In a Free State, which won the Booker Prize. He has also written several nonfiction works based on his travels, including India: A Million Mutinies Now and Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples. He was knighted in 1990 and in 1993 was the first recipient of the David Cohen British Literature Prize.

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

Michael Wood is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge. (March 2010)

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