Table of Contents
Volume 23, Number 14 · September 16, 1976
Lewis Thomas, Rx for Illich 
Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health by Ivan Illich
Garry Wills, Dead Heat Dumb-Out
Jonathan Miller, The Call of the Wild
The Wild Boy of Aveyron by Harlan Lane
V.S. Naipaul, India: Synthesis and Mimicry
Roger Sale, A Family Matter
The Lardners: My Family Remembered by Ring Lardner Jr.
The Story of a Wonder Man by Ring Lardner
Some Champions by Ring Lardner, edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli, by Richard Layman
Denis Hills, Horror in Uganda I: Amin's Subjects
Politics and Class Formation in Uganda by Mahmood Mamdani
David Martin, Horror in Uganda II: Amin's Butchery
Stephen Spender, The Cult of Joe
The Letters of J.R. Ackerley edited by Neville Braybrooke
The Secret Orchard of Roger Ackerley by Diana Petre
Mark Crispin Miller, Slim Pickens
The Oxford Companion to Film edited by Liz-Anne Bawden
The Filmgoer's Companion edited by Leslie Halliwell
David Pryce-Jones, The Second Oswald
Oswald Mosley by Robert Skidelsky
Conor Cruise O'Brien, Reflections on Terrorism
On Revolt: Strategies of National Liberation by J. Bowyer Bell
Vigilante Politics edited by H. Jon Rosenbaum, edited by Peter C. Sederberg
Revolutionary Guerrilla Warfare edited by Sam C. Sarkesian
Transnational Terror DC/Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University by J. Bowyer Bell
Terrorists and Terrorism by Edward Hyams
D.J. Enright, The Disenchanted
The Farewell Party by Milan Kundera, translated by Peter Kussi
Robert Craft, The Battle of Lenox Hill
Peter H. Irons, Stephen W. Salant, Allen Weinstein, The Hiss Case: Another Exchange!
Contributors
Robert Craft was awarded the International Prix du Disque at the Cannes Music Festival for 2002.(May 2002)
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)
Jonathan Miller has directed operas and plays throughout the world, most recently Pelléas and Mélisande at the Metropolitan Opera. His many books include The Body in Question, States of Mind, On Reflection, and Nowhere in Particular. The article that appears in this issue is based on a talk given at the New York Public Library. (May 2000)
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.
Conor Cruise O'Brien's many books include God Land: Reflections on Religion and Nationalism and The Long Affair: Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution. His Memoir: My Life and Themes will be published in the US in May. (December 2000)
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.
