Table of Contents

Volume 24, Number 6 · April 14, 1977

John K. Fairbank, The Confidence Man

Hermit of Peking: The Hidden Life of Sir Edmund Backhouse by Hugh Trevor-Roper

V.S. Pritchett, Comic Genius

The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz, translated by Celina Wieniewska, with an introduction by Jerzy Ficowski

Aleksandr Nekrich, Inside the Leviathan

Ziyayushchiye vysoty (The Yawning Heights) by Aleksandr Zinoviev

Alexander Zinoviev, From 'The Yawning Heights'

William H. Gass, Three Photos of Colette

The Complete Claudine: "Claudine at School," "Claudine in Paris," "Claudine Married," "Claudine and Annie" by Colette, translated by Antonia White

Chéri / The Last of Chéri by Colette, translated by Roger Senhouse

The Retreat From Love by Colette, translated by Margaret Crosland

The Evening Star by Colette, translated by David Le Vay

My Mother's House / Sido by Colette, translated by Una V. Troubridge, by Enid McLeod

The Pure and the Impure by Colette, translated by Herma Briffault

The Vagabond by Colette, translated by Enid McLeod

Mitsou / Music-Hall Sidelights by Colette, translated by Raymond Postgate, by Anne-Marie Callimachi

Break of Day by Colette, translated by Enid McLeod

The Blue Lantern by Colette, translated by Roger Senhouse

Sheldon S. Wolin, The Rise of Private Man

The Fall of Public Man by Richard Sennett

Leon Wieseltier, Gershom Scholem and the Fate of the Jews

On Jews and Judaism in Crisis: Selected Essays by Gershom Scholem, edited by Werner J. Dannhauser

Bernard D. Nossiter, Outcasts of the Island

Michael Wood, A Fine Romance

The Secular Scripture by Northrop Frye

The Sovereign Ghost by Denis Donoghue

Spiritus Mundi by Northrop Frye

The Uses of Division by John Bayley

A.J.P. Taylor, Who Shot Aunt Sally?

The Politics of Deference: A Study of the Mid-Nineteenth Century English Political System by David Cresap Moore

Eric Foner, Get a Lawyer!

The Transformation of American Law, 1780-1860 by Morton J. Horwitz

The Editors, Short Reviews

The Fox of the North: The Life of Kutuzov—General of War and Peace by Roger Parkinson

Joseph Smith: The First Mormon by Donna Hill


Letters

Bruce H. Thomson, Graham Greene, Danger Zone?
Carolyn Porter, Mark Crispin Miller, Declining Rock?
Ned Rorem, Robert Craft, Words & Music



Contributors

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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