Table of Contents

Volume 23, Number 18 · November 11, 1976

Willie Lee Rose, An American Family

Roots by Alex Haley

V.S. Pritchett, The Dostoevsky Labyrinth

Dostoevsky: The Seeds of Revolt by Joseph Frank

Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics by Mikhail Bakhtin, translated by R. W. Rotsel

Dostoevsky and His Devils by Václav Cerny, translated by F. W. Galan, with an afterword by Josef Skvorecky

Keith Thomas, The Virgin in History

Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary by Marina Warner

The Virgin by Geoffrey Ashe

Robert Craft, 'Winnie' and 'Uncle Wolf'

Winifred Wagner a film directed by Hans Jürgen Syberberg

The Wagner Family Albums by Wolf Siegfried Wagner, translated by Susanne Flatauer

Richard Wagner in Bayreuth by Hans Mayer, translated by Jack Zipes

Wagner: A Documentary Study edited by Herbert Barth, by Dietrich Mack, by Egon Voss, translated by P.R.J. Ford, by Mary Whittall

Roger Shattuck, Artaud Possessed

Antonin Artaud: Selected Writings edited, and with an introduction, by Susan Sontag, translated by Helen Weaver

Garry Wills, The Founders' Virtues

The Challenge of the American Revolution by Edmund S. Morgan

The Meaning of Independence: Adams, Washington and Jefferson by Edmund S. Morgan

The Character of John Adams by Peter Shaw

George Washington: A Biography by Washington Irving, edited by Charles Neider

Jefferson: A Revealing Biography by Page Smith

The Life of George Washington by Washington Irving, edited by Jess Stein

Adams and Jefferson: A Revolutionary Dialogue by Merrill D. Peterson

Michael Wood, Endangered Species

The Takeover by Muriel Spark

Sleep It Off, Lady by Jean Rhys

Lovers and Tyrants by Francine du Plessix Gray

Arnaldo Momigliano, On the Pioneer Trail

Vico and Herder: Two Studies in the History of Ideas by Isaiah Berlin

David Wise, The Campaign to Destroy Martin Luther King

Bernard Williams, Where Chomsky Stands

Reflections on Language by Noam Chomsky

On Noam Chomsky: Critical Essays edited by Gilbert Harman

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Letters

Thomas A. Shannon, Peter Singer, Embryonic "Bioethics"
Paul Ramsey, Embryonic "Bioethics"

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Contributors

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

Roger Shattuck is the author of Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography. He has most recently edited new editions of two books by Helen Keller. He is University Professor Emeritus at Boston University. (May 2005)

Keith Thomas is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. His books include Religion and the Decline of Magic, Man and the Natural World, and The Oxford Book of Work. (April 2007)

Bernard Williams is Deutsch Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. His most recent book is Making Sense of Humanity. The article in this issue is a revised version of the Orr Lecture given in the Music Faculty of Cambridge University, May 2000. An earlier draft was given at the Nexus Institute, Tilburg, Holland. (November 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.

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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