Table of Contents

Volume 24, Number 7 · April 28, 1977

William L. Langer, What Caused the Explosion?

The Modern Rise of Population by Thomas McKeown

Diane Johnson, Hard Hit Women

How to Save Your Own Life by Erica Jong

A Book of Common Prayer by Joan Didion

Lover by Bertha Harris

Irvin Ehrenpreis, The Moral World of Robinson Crusoe

The World of Defoe by Peter Earle

Garry Wills, Reading the Carter Riddle

The Search for Jimmy Carter by Tom Collins

We Almost Made It by Malcolm D. MacDougall

The Natural Superiority of Southern Politicians: A Revisionist History by David Leon Chandler

Convention by Richard Reeves

Running for President 1976: The Carter Campaign by Martin Schram

How Jimmy Won: The Victory Campaign from Plains to the White House by Kandy Stroud

Sigmund Diamond, Veritas at Harvard

Education and Politics at Harvard by Seymour Martin Lipset, by David Riesman

Gabriel Josipovici, The Temptations of Chaucer

The Life and Times of Chaucer by John Gardner

England in the Age of Chaucer by William Woods

Chaucer: Sources and Backgrounds edited by Robert P. Miller

The Idea of The Canterbury Tales by Donald R. Howard

The Poetry of Chaucer by John Gardner

The Strumpet Muse: Art and Morals in Chaucer's Poetry by Alfred David

Kenneth Koch, Our Hearts (poem)

Christopher Lasch, The Corruption of Sports

Stephen Spender, Melancholic and Magic History

History: A Novel by Elsa Morante, translated by William Weaver

Charles Douglas Lummis, Korea: The Trial of a Revolutionary Prophet

Jan Kulka, Two Poems by Jan Kulka (poem)

Paul Auster, Story of a Scream

The Book of Questions by Edmond Jabès, translated by Rosmarie Waldrop

Neal Ascherson, News from the Workshop

History Workshop: A Journal of Socialist Historians Issues One and Two

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Letters

Michael F. Atiyah, Hyman Bass, et al. Wound to Soviet Science
Jeffery Paul Chan, Diane Johnson, The Mysterious West
William E. Harkins, Nicolas Nabokov, Tea with Plums
Jonathan Kooperstein, Frank Kermode, No Wonder

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Contributors

Neal Ascherson is the author of The Struggles for Poland, The Black Sea, and Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland. He is the editor of the journal Public Archaeology at University College London.
 (December 2009)

Paul Auster is the author of ten novels, most recently The Book of Illusions. He lives with his wife and daughter in Brooklyn, NY.

Diane Johnson’s most recent novel is Lulu in Marrakech. (November 2009)

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)

Garry Wills is Professor of History Emeritus at Northwestern. His most recent book, What Jesus Meant, was published in 2006.

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