Table of Contents

Volume 24, Number 3 · March 3, 1977

J.M. Cameron, The Life and Death of Simone Weil

Simone Weil: A Life by Simone Pétrement, translated by Raymond Rosenthal

Frederick C. Crews, Stuttering Giant

Genius and Lust: A Journey Through the Major Writings of Henry Miller by Norman Mailer

Robert L. Heilbroner, The False Promise of Growth

Social Limits to Growth by Fred Hirsch

Robert Penn Warren, Orphanage Boy (Octosyllabics) (poem)

Edmund Wilson, Edmund Wilson: Letters to John Dos Passos

C.B.A. Behrens, The Ideal Grand Bourgeois

Les Idées de Necker by Henri Grange

Necker by Jean Egret

Denis Donoghue, The Snow Man

Souvenirs and Prophecies: The Young Wallace Stevens by Holly Stevens

William Phillips, Socialist Celebrity

Norman Thomas: The Last Idealist by W.A. Swanberg

Michael Wood, Deconstructing Derrida

Of Grammatology by Jacques Derrida, translated by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Glas by Jacques Derrida

Thomas R. Edwards, Getting Away from It All

The Alteration by Kingsley Amis

The Children of Dynmouth by William Trevor

A Dream Journey by James Hanley

Garry Wills, Martyrdom at the Met

Dialogues of the Carmelites an opera in three acts by Francis Poulenc, libretto drawn by the composer from a text by Georges Bernanos

Nicolas Nabokov, Under the Cranberry Tree

In the Russian Style edited by Jacqueline Onassis. with the cooperation of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, introduction by Audrey Kennett, designed by Bryan Holme

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Letters

Marion L. Kuntz, Frances A. Yates, Bodin's Demons
Thomas McCann, John Kenneth Galbraith, Bananas

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Contributors

Frederick Crews's most recent book is Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays. (December 2007)

Denis Donoghue is University Professor at NYU, where he holds the Henry James Chair of English and American Letters. He is the author of The Practice of Reading, Words Alone: The Poet T.S. Eliot, and, most recently, The American Classics. (October 2006)

Thomas R. Edwards is Emeritus Professor of English at Rutgers and a former editor of Raritan. His most recent book is Over Here: Criticizing America, 1968–1989. (June 2004)

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.

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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