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 was published last year. 
(June 2009)

Elizabeth Hardwick (1916-2007) was a frequent contributor to 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 (NYRB Classics); the essay collections A View of My Own and Seduction and Betrayal (NYRB Classics).

Diane Johnson’s most recent novel is Lulu in Marrakech. (November 2009)

Alison Lurie is a former Professor of English at Cornell. Her most recent novel is Truth and Consequences.

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

Garry Wills is Professor of History Emeritus at Northwestern. His most recent book, What Jesus Meant, was published in 2006.

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