Table of Contents

Volume 23, Number 20 · December 9, 1976

Nadine Gordimer, Letter from South Africa

Gore Vidal, Art, Sex and Isherwood

Christopher and His Kind: 1929-1939 by Christopher Isherwood

Sheldon S. Wolin, Consistent Kissinger

The Arabs, Israelis, and Kissinger: A Secret History of American Diplomacy in the Middle East by Edward R.F. Sheehan

Henry Kissinger: The Anguish of Power by John G. Stoessinger

On Watch by Elmo R. Zumwalt Jr.

John Richardson, Art for Christmas

"Two Worlds of Andrew Wyeth: Kuerners and Olsons" Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 1976-February 1977

Two Worlds of Andrew Wyeth: Kuerners and Olsons

Wyeth at Kuerners by Betsy James Wyeth

Neal Ascherson, Goodbye to All That

The Face of Battle by John Keegan

On the Psychology of Military Incompetence by Norman F. Dixon

The Social History of the Machine Gun by John Ellis

Kenneth Clark, The Genius of Aubrey Beardsley

Robert Craft, Elegy for 'Mary Hartman'

Francis Haskell, The Not-So-Innocent Eye

Landscape into Art by Kenneth Clark

Le Paysage français au XIX siècle, 1824-1874: L'École de la nature by Pierre Miquel

Michael Wood, Unhappy Dictators

The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel García Márquez, translated by Gregory Rabassa

Reasons of State by Alejo Carpentier, translated by Frances Partridge

William Shawcross, How Tyranny Returned to Thailand


Letters

Henry R. Huttenbach, Leon Wieseltier, Appointment in Khazaria



Contributors

Neal Ascherson is the author of The Struggles for Poland, The Black Sea, and Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland. He is the editor of the journal Public Archaeology at University College London. (November 2007)

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

Francis Haskell, formerly Professor of Art History at Oxford, is the author of Patrons and Painters, Rediscoveries in Art, Past and Present in Art and Taste, and History and Its Images: Art and the Interpretation of the Past. (February 1999)

John Richardson's A Life of Picasso, Volume Two, was published in December. Volume One won the Whitbread Prize in England in 1991. (March 1997)

William Shawcross is the author of several books on Cambodia. (December 1996)

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

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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