Table of Contents

Volume 24, Number 4 · March 17, 1977

Robert Towers, Up the River

Falconer by John Cheever

A Place to Come To by Robert Penn Warren

Francis Haskell, The Uses and Abuses of Art History

Princes and Artists: Patronage and Ideology of Four Habsburg Courts 1517-1633 by Hugh Trevor-Roper

The Struggle for Stability in Early Modern Europe by Theodore K. Rabb

The Baroque Age in England by Judith Hook

Edmund Wilson, Edmund Wilson On Writers and Writing

Martin Gardner, Supergull

Mind-Reach: Scientists Look at Psychic Ability by Russell Targ, by Harold Puthoff

The Search for Superman by John L. Wilhelm

Richard Murphy, Care (poem)

Andre Gelinas, Life in the New Vietnam

Igor Stravinsky, Igor Stravinsky: Obiter Dicta

Christopher Hill, Hobbist Man

Wallenstein: His Life by Golo Mann, translated by Charles Kessler

Frank Kermode, Laboring Fabians

The Fabians by Norman MacKenzie, by Jeanne MacKenzie

V.S. Pritchett, Turgenev and 'Virgin Soil'

Seth Benardete, Glorifying the Archaic

Early Greek Poetry and Philosophy by Hermann Fränkel, translated by Moses Hadas, by James Willis

Victor Brombert, Marcel Ophuls, John Henry Raleigh, et al. 'The Memory of Justice': An Exchange

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Letters

Noam Chomsky, Protest from Israel

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Contributors

Martin Gardner is the author of The New Ambidextrous Universe, Fractal Music, Hypercards and More, and The Night is Large. His most recent book is a novel, Visitors from Oz. (September 1998)

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)

Frank Kermode lives in Cambridge, England. His most recent book is The Age of Shakespeare. (May 2008)

Richard Murphy's most recent books are Collected Poems and The Kick: A Life Among Writers. (February 2004)

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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