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
Letters
Laura (Riding) Jackson, Virgil Thomson, A Private Press
Katharine Strelsky, Aileen Kelly, Art and Life
Kingsley Widmer, Milton Viorst, San Diego Mayhem
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 new novel, Lulu in Marrakech, will be published this month. (October 2008)
Frank Kermode lives in Cambridge, England. His most recent book is The Age of Shakespeare. (October 2008)
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 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.
Michael Wood is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge. (April 2008)
