Table of Contents

Volume 24, Number 2 · February 17, 1977

Edmund Wilson, Edmund Wilson's Letters: To and About F. Scott Fitzgerald

Graham Greene, The Country with Five Frontiers

A.J.P. Taylor, Imperial Germany's Jewish Banker

Gold and Iron: Bismarck, Bleichröder, and the Building of the German Empire by Fritz Stern

Vladimir Bukovsky, Vladimir Bukovsky: An Interview

Vladimir Bukovsky, Leonid Plyushch, An Appeal for Vasyl Fedorenko

H. Stuart Hughes, A Question of Confidence

Roosevelt and Churchill 1939-1941: The Partnership That Saved the West by Joseph P. Lash

Roosevelt and Churchill: Their Secret Wartime Correspondence edited by Francis L. Loewenheim, edited by Harold D. Langley, edited by Manfred Jonas

Joseph Brodsky, On Cavafy's Side

Cavafy's Alexandria: Study of a Myth in Progress by Edmund Keeley

Constantine Cavafy, Three Poems by Constantine Cavafy (poem)

Jason Epstein, Capitalism & Socialism: Declining Returns

The Twilight of Capitalism by Michael Harrington

The Unseen Revolution: How Pension Fund Socialism Came to America by Peter F. Drucker

Equality and Efficiency: The Big Trade-off by Arthur M. Okun

"The Falling Share of Profits," by William D. Nordhaus. in Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, edited by Arthur M. Okun, by George L. Perry

V.S. Pritchett, Turgenev in Baden

Garry Wills, Machines for Sentiment

Jean-Baptiste Greuze: 1725-1805 1976-January 23, 1977 (Also at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, March 5-May 1, 1977, and at the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon, June 4-July 31, 1977) Selection and catalogue by Edgar Munhall. For exhibit at the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, December 1,

Luigi Barzini, The Society of Friends

Mafioso: A History of the Mafia from Its Origins to the Present Day by Gaia Servadio

David Jackson, Dragtime

Black Sun: The Brief Transit and Violent Eclipse of Harry Crosby by Geoffrey Wolff

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Letters

Thomas R. Moore, Reza Baraheni, Iran's "Progress"
Theodor Rosebury, Christopher Hill, Syphilis & Pineapples
Paul Mankin, Out of Print
Kenneth Koch, William Ross's Poem

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Contributors

Joseph Brodsky was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987. His Collected Poems in English will be published next spring. He died in 1996. (January 2000)

Constantine Cavafy was born in Alexandria in 1863 and died there in 1933. He wrote most of his poems while employed in the Third Circle of Irrigation of the Ministry of Public Works. (June 2005)

Jason Epstein was for many years editorial director of Random House and has written on food for various publications. (March 2008)

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.

Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) is widely regarded as the preeminent American man of letters of the twentieth century. Over his long career, he wrote for Vanity Fair, helped edit The New Republic, served as chief book critic for The New Yorker, and was a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books. Wilson was the author of more than twenty books, including Axel's Castle, Patriotic Gore, and a work of fiction, Memoirs of Hecate County.

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