Table of Contents
Volume 23, Number 21 & 22 · January 20, 1977
V.S. Naipaul, India: Renaissance or Continuity? 
George F. Kennan, A Different Approach to the World: An Interview
Ernst Gombrich, Talking of Michelangelo
Michelangelo's Last Paintings: The Conversion of St. Paul and the Crucifixion of St. Peter in the Cappella Paolina, Vatican Palace by Leo Steinberg
Garry Wills, Imprisoned in the Sixties
Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine by Tom Wolfe
Winners and Losers: Battles, Retreats, Gains, Losses and Ruins from a Long War by Gloria Emerson
Emma Rothschild, The Arms Boom and How to Stop It
The Game of Disarmament by Alva Myrdal
Controlling the Conventional Arms Race by the United Nations Association
US Military Sales to Iran Committee on Foreign Relations, US Senate A Staff Report to the Subcommittee on Foreign Assistance of the
Nigel Dennis, Mad About the Boy
Remembered Laughter: The Life of Noel Coward by Cole Lesley
Kenneth Koch, I Never Told Anybody Teaching Poetry Writing in a Nursing Home
Harold Rosenberg, The Shadow of the Furies
The Memory of Justice directed by Marcel Ophuls
Robert Craft, Edvard Munch: Self-Portraitist (Notes from a Diary)
Edvard Munch by Thomas Messer
Edvard Munch: The Scream by Reinhold Heller
Munch by Jean Selz, translated by Eileen Hennessy
The Graphic Art of Edvard Munch by Werner Timm, translated by Ruth Michaelis-Jena, by Patrick Murray
Edvard Munch catalogue of the Arts Council of Great Britain, with forewords by Sir Kenneth Clark, by Knut Berg
Edvard Munch a film directed by Peter Watkins
Susan Sontag, Photography in Search of Itself
Looking at Photographs: 100 Pictures from the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art by John Szarkowski
Michael Wood, The Not-So-Light Fantastic
Falstaff by Robert Nye
October Light by John Gardner
Terra Nostra by Carlos Fuentes, translated by Margaret Sayers Peden
Daniel Bell, Wlodzimierz Brus, Robert Conquest, et al. The Polish Resistance
Letters
Mark Amory, Waugh Letters
Derwent May, 'Will Not Come Back' Returns
Contributors
Robert Conquest, a Fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, is the author of The Great Terror. (March 1997)
Robert Craft was awarded the International Prix du Disque at the Cannes Music Festival for 2002.(May 2002)
Professor Sir Ernst Gombrich OM was born in Vienna in 1909 and died in London on November 3, 2001, aged 92. He studied at the Theresianum and then at the Second Institute of Art History at the University of Vienna under Julius von Schlosser (1928-33). He then worked as a Research Assistant and collaborator with the museum curator and Freudian analyst Ernst Kris. He joined the Warburg Institute in London as a Research Assistant in 1936. During World War 2 he was employed by the BBC as a Radio Monitor. After the war he rejoined the Warburg Institute eventually becoming its Director in 1959. His major publications include The Story of Art (1950), Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation (1960), Aby Warburg: An Intellectual Biography (1970), The Sense of Order: A Study in the Psychology of Decorative Art. (Also see: www.gombrich.co.uk.)
George F. Kennan, Professor Emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, was Ambassador to the USSR in 1952, and Ambassador to Yugoslavia from 1961 to 1963. His most recent books are At a Century's Ending and An American Family. (April 2001)
Kenneth Koch died on July 6. He was Professor of English at Columbia. During his lifetime, he published at least thirty volumes of poetry and plays. He was also the author of a novel, The Red Robins; two books on teaching poetry writing to children, Wishes, Lies, and Dreams and Rose, Where Did You Get That Red?; and I Never Told Anybody: Teaching Poetry Writing in a Nursing Home. A new collection of his poetry, A Possible World, and Sun Out: Selected Poems 1952–54, will be published this fall. (August 2002)
Mary McCarthy (1912-1989) was a novelist, essayist, and critic. Her political and social commentary, literary essays, and drama criticism appeared in magazines such as Partisan Review, The New Yorker, Harper's, and The New York Review of Books, and were collected in On the Contrary (1961), Mary McCarthy's Theatre Chronicles 1937-1962 (1963), The Writing on the Wall (1970), Ideas and the Novel (1980), and Occasional Prose (1985). Her novels include The Company She Keeps (1942), The Oasis (1949), The Groves of Academe (1952), A Charmed Life (1955), The Group (1963), Birds of America (1971), and Cannibals and Missionaries (1971). She was the author of three works of autobiography, Memories of a Catholic Girlhood (1957), How I Grew (1987), and the unfinished Intellectual Memoirs (1992), and two travel books about Italy, Venice Observed (1956) and The Stones of Florence (1959). Her essays on the Vietnam War were collected in The Seventeenth Degree (1974); her essays on Watergate were collected in The Mask of State (1974).
Adam Michnik is Editor in Chief of the Warsaw daily newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza. He spent six years in prisons in Communist Poland. In 1989, he participated in the Round Table agreements that led to establishing the first non-Communist government in the Soviet bloc. He is the author of several books, including Letters from Prison and Letters from Freedom.
(July 2008)
Czeslaw Milosz was born in Lithuania in 1911. Over the course of his long and prolific career he has published works in many genres, including criticism (The Captive Mind), fiction (The Issa Valley), memoir (Native Realm), and poetry (most recently New and Collected Poems, 1931-2001). He is a member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980.
V. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932 and emigrated to England in 1950, when he won a scholarship to University College, Oxford. He is the author of many novels, including A House for Mr. Biswas, A Bend in the River, and In a Free State, which won the Booker Prize. He has also written several nonfiction works based on his travels, including India: A Million Mutinies Now and Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples. He was knighted in 1990 and in 1993 was the first recipient of the David Cohen British Literature Prize.
Emma Rothschild is a fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and will be teaching history at Harvard next fall. Her latest book is Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet and the Enlightenment. (March 2004)
Susan Sontag (1933-2004) was the author of four novels, The Benefactor, Death Kit, The Volcano Lover, and In America, which won the 2000 National Book Award for Fiction; a collection of stories, I, Etcetera; several plays, including Alice in Bed and Lady from the Sea; and seven works of nonfiction, among them Where the Stress Falls and Regarding the Pain of Others. Her books have been translated into thirty-two languages. In 2001, she was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the body of her work; in 2003, she received the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade.
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)
