Table of Contents

Volume 23, Number 19 · November 25, 1976

Elizabeth Hardwick, Sense of the Present

Speedboat by Renata Adler

Nicholas von Hoffman, Leakage

Blind Ambition: The White House Years by John W. Dean III.

Chief Counsel: Inside the Ervin Committee—The Untold Story of Watergate by Samuel Dash

The Right and the Power: The Prosecution of Watergate by Leon Jaworski

Harry Levin, Faust: Still Striving and Straying

Goethe's Faust: Part I translated by Randall Jarrell

Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, translated by Walter Arndt, edited by Cyrus Hamlin

Leonard Schapiro, Russia: The Pursuit of the Extreme

The Shadow of the Winter Palace: Russia's Drift to Revolution 1825-1917 by Edward Crankshaw

Alison Lurie, The Dress Code

On Human Finery by Quentin Bell

Dress and Society, 1560-1970 by Geoffrey Squire

Hollywood Costume—Glamour! Glitter! Romance! by Dale McConathy, with Diana Vreeland

Leon Wieseltier, In a Universe of Ghosts

New Lives: Survivors of the Holocaust Living in America by Dorothy Rabinowitz

Peter Brown, Violence in Olympia

The Olympic Games: The First Thousand Years by M. I. Finley, by H. W. Pleket

Robert Towers, So It Went

Slapstick by Kurt Vonnegut

Garry Wills, Carter on His Own

Gore Vidal, Who Makes the Movies?

Some Time in the Sun by Tom Dardis

A Biographical Dictionary of Film by David Thomson

Diane Johnson, Justice to Charlotte Brontë

Charlotte Brontë: The Self Conceived by Helene Moglen

Christopher Hill, Caliban's Gift

First Images of America: The Impact of the New World on the Old edited by Fredi Chiappelli

Columbus: His Enterprise by Hans Koning

Gregg E. Gorton, Reza Baraheni, Iran Boycott; An Exchange

The Editors, Short Review

The Man Who Lost China by Brian Crozier, with the collaboration of Eric Chou

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Letters

Saul Bellow, Heinrich Boell, et al. Support for the Polish Workers
Constance A. Sullivan, Irvin Ehrenpreis, Lowell's Irony
Eugene D. Genovese, George M. Fredrickson, Disclaimer
D.L. Abramovitch, John Thompson, Mended
Michael Howard, He Can't Lose
John Chabot Smith, On Alger Hiss
Barbara Sicherman, Notable American Women

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Contributors

Peter Brown is Philip and Beulah Rollins Professor of History at Princeton. The twentieth-anniversary edition of his book The Body and Society: Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity will be published in June. (April 2008)

Elizabeth Hardwick (b. 1916) has been a frequent contributor to The Partisan Review, The New Yorker, and The New York Review of Books, which she helped found in 1963. Her books include the novels The Simple Truth, The Ghostly Lover, and Sleepless Nights, the essay collection A View of My Own, and The Selected Letters of William James, for which she acted as editor.

Diane Johnson’s new novel, Lulu in Marrakech, will be published this month. (October 2008)

Alison Lurie is the author of two collections of essays on children’s literature, Don’t Tell the Grownups and Boys and Girls Forever. She is a former professor of English at Cornell and has published nine novels, of which the most recent is Truth and Consequences. (May 2008)

Gore Vidal's most recent novel is The Golden Age. (February 2002)

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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