Table of Contents

Volume 23, Number 16 · October 14, 1976

John K. Fairbank, On the Death of Mao

Frank Kermode, A Successful Alchemist

The Abyss by Marguerite Yourcenar, translated in collaboration with the author by Grace Frick

John Kenneth Galbraith, Bananas

An American Company: The Tragedy of United Fruit by Thomas P. McCann, edited by Henry Scammell

Denis Donoghue, Drums Under the Window

The Damnable Question by George Dangerfield

Mother Ireland by Edna O'Brien

William H. Gass, Theatrical Sartre

Sartre on Theater by Jean-Paul Sartre, compiled and edited by Michel Contat, by Michel Rybalka

Robert Penn Warren, Sister Water (poem)

John Thompson, Old Campaigners

Sea Grapes by Derek Walcott

Leaping Clear and Other Poems by Irving Feldman

Hugh Trevor-Roper, The Customs of the Country

The I.G. in Peking: Letters of Robert Hart, Chinese Maritime Customs, 1868-1907 edited by John King Fairbank, by Katherine Frost Bruner, by Elizabeth MacLeod Matheson, with an introduction by L.K. Little

Garry Wills, Trumbull's Klutzy Triumph

Trumbull: The Declaration of Independence by Irma B. Jaffe

French Painting 1774-1830: The Age of Revolution

Maryland Heritage edited by John B. Boles

John Trumbull: Patriot-Artist of the American Revolution by Irma B. Jaffe

The Eye of Thomas Jefferson edited by William Howard Adams

Paul Revere's Boston: 1735-1818 Graphic Society by Walter M. Whitehill

C.B.A. Behrens, Which Side Was Clausewitz On?

Clausewitz and the State by Peter Paret

Robert Craft, The Paris Opéra in New York

The Marriage of Figaro by Mozart, libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte, directed by Giorgio Strehler, designed by Ezio Frijerio, conducted by Georg Solti

Otello by Verdi, libretto by Arrigo Boito, staged by Terry Hands, designed by Joseph Svoboda, conducted by Georg Solti

Faust by Gounod, libretto by Barbier and Carré, staged by Jorge Lavelli, designed by Max Bignen, conducted by Michel Plasson

Lincoln Kirstein, Pavilions (poem)

Frances A. Yates, The Mystery of Jean Bodin

Colloquium of the Seven about Secrets of the Sublime (Colloquium Heptaplomeres de Rerum Sublimium Arcanis Abditis) annotations, and critical readings by by Jean Bodin, translated with an introduction, Marion Leathers Daniels Kuntz

Anthony Cave Brown, Hugh Trevor-Roper, 'Bodyguard of Lies': An Exchange

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Letters

I.A. Mel'cuk, Letter from Moscow
C.D.B. Bryan, Diane Johnson, Friendly Fire
David P. Bancroft, Diane Johnson, An Expert's Obligation
Richard J. Gochal, Ananda Marga Replies
Harry L. Levy, David Jackson, Hellenic Things
Edgar Z. Friedenberg, The Smiles of Carter
E. Milton McDonald, Not a Broker
Leo A. Spiegel, Psycholanguage
Larry Blumsack, Carolyn Clay, et al. Silenced South Africans

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Contributors

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

Denis Donoghue is University Professor at NYU, where he holds the Henry James Chair of English and American Letters. He is the author of The Practice of Reading, Words Alone: The Poet T.S. Eliot, and, most recently, The American Classics. (October 2006)

Frank Kermode lives in Cambridge, England. His most recent book is The Age of Shakespeare. (May 2008)

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.

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