Table of Contents

Volume 23, Number 11 · June 24, 1976

Karl Miller, Sylvia Plath's Apotheosis

Letters Home: Correspondence 1950-1963 by Sylvia Plath, selected and edited by Aurelia Schober Plath

Sylvia Plath: Method and Madness by Edward Butscher

Chapters in a Mythology: The Poetry of Sylvia Plath by Judith Kroll

Garry Wills, Singing 'Mammy' to Doris

Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream by Doris Kearns

LBJ: An Irreverent Chronicle by Booth Mooney

V.S. Naipaul, India: New Claim on the Land

Irvin Ehrenpreis, Swift's Sting

Jonathan Swift by A. L. Rowse

John H. Schaar, The American Amnesia

Nightmare: The Underside of the Nixon Years by J. Anthony Lukas

The Time of Illusion by Jonathan Schell

Emma Rothschild, Banks: The Politics of Debt

International Finance Financial Policies, Annual Report to the President and to the Congress The National Advisory Council on International Monetary and

Security Supporting Assistance for Zaire Committee on Foreign Relations Hearing, US Senate

Covert Action in Chile, 1963-73 Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities United States Senate, Staff Report of the Select Committee to Study

Report on Developing Countries' External Debt and Debt Relief Provided by the United States

J.M. Cameron, A Celestial Telephone Exchange

Evil and World Order by William Irwin Thompson, edited by Ruth Nanda Anshen

Stephen Spender, Two Poems (poem)

Richard Wollheim, Trouble in Freedonia

The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism by Daniel Bell

Michael Wood, Hitchcock Laughs

The Strange Case of Alfred Hitchcock by Raymond Durgnat

The Films of Alfred Hitchcock by Robert A. Harris, by Michael S. Lasky

Family Plot directed by Alfred Hitchcock

The Editors, Short Reviews

The Loyal Blacks by Ellen Gibson Wilson

Song of Protest by Pablo Neruda, translated by Miguel Algarin

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Letters

Ferdinand Lundberg, John Kenneth Galbraith, The Power of Property
Jeri Laber, Help Moroz
Garry Wills, At the Waldorf
Louis Jolyon West, No Charge

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Contributors

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.

Emma Rothschild is a fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and will be teaching history at Harvard next fall. Her latest book is Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet and the Enlightenment. (March 2004)

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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