Table of Contents

Volume 23, Number 10 · June 10, 1976

Nicholas von Hoffman, Unasked Questions

The Final Days by Bob Woodward, by Carl Bernstein

Michael Wood, Crying for Attention

Ordinary People by Judith Guest

The 400 Eels of Sigmund Freud by A.G. Mojtabai

The Geek by Craig Nova

The Comatose Kids by Seymour Simckes

Garry Wills, Anti-Papa Politics

Hugh Trevor-Roper, An Imperialist's Progress

The Correspondence of G. E. Morrison, Volume I, 1895-1912 edited by Lo Hui-min

Murray Kempton, Witnesses

Scoundrel Time by Lillian Hellman

V.S. Naipaul, Bombay: The Skyscrapers and the Chawls

Robert Craft, 'Elektra'and Richard Strauss

David Jackson, Gifts to Greeks

The Greek Adventure: Lord Byron and Other Eccentrics in the War of Independence by David Howarth

Byron's Greece by Elizabeth Longford, photographs by Jorge Lewinski

John Gardner, Big Deals

JR by William Gaddis

The Editors, Short Reviews

A New Life of Anton Chekhov by Ronald Hingley

The Lives of Roger Casement by B. L. Reid

Penguins: Past and Present, Here and There by George Gaylord Simpson

The Year the Big Apple Went Bust by Fred Ferretti

The Search for J.F.K. by Joan Blair, by Clay Blair Jr.

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Letters

Robert Craft, Michael Wood, Eliot's English Usage
Joseph R. Hixson, A Better Mouse Trap
Irwin D.J. Bross, P.B. Medawar, A Better Mouse Trap
Robert S. Schwartz, A Better Mouse Trap
Fred A. Crane, Gore Vidal, Freedom When?
Harrison E. Salisbury, Allen Weinstein, The Hiss Case (cont'd)
John H.F. Shattuck, Allen Weinstein, The Hiss Case (cont'd)
Reuben Shiffman, Terror in Argentina

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Contributors

Robert Craft was awarded the International Prix du Disque at the Cannes Music Festival for 2002.(May 2002)

Murray Kempton (1917-1997) was a columnist for Newsday, as well as a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books. His books include Rebellions, Perversities, and Main Events and The Briar Patch, as well as Part of Our Time. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1985.

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)

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