Table of Contents

Volume 24, Number 8 · May 12, 1977

Noel Annan, Hons and Huns

Unity Mitford: An Enquiry into Her Life and the Frivolity of Evil by David Pryce-Jones

George Zarnecki, The Spirit of Romanesque

Romanesque Art: Selected Papers by Meyer Schapiro

Lawrence Stone, Walking Over Grandma

Growing Old in America by David Hackett Fischer

"Age and Authority in Early Modern England" by Keith Thomas

Garry Wills, Carter and the End of Liberalism

America in Our Time by Godfrey Hodgson

Public Constraint and American Policy in Vietnam by Bruce Andrews

The Collapse of Liberal Empire: Science and Revolution in the Twentieth Century by Paul N. Goldstene

John K. Fairbank, Mrs. M. and the Masses

In the People's Republic by Orville Schell

Comrade Chiang Ch'ing by Roxane Witke

Conor Cruise O'Brien, The Anti-Politics of Simone Weil

Martin Gardner, Bang!

The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe by Steven Weinberg

Wilfrid Sheed, Desperate Character

How It Was by Mary Welsh Hemingway

By Force of Will: The Life and Art of Ernest Hemingway by Scott Donaldson

Papa: A Personal Memoir by Gregory H. Hemingway MD, with a preface by Norman Mailer

Neal Ascherson, The Age of Arsenic

Victorian Murderesses by Mary S. Hartman

John Hollander, Deja Vu (poem)

Michael Wood, Fortune Hunting

The Castle of Crossed Destinies by Italo Calvino, translated by William Weaver

Mortal Engines by Stanislaw Lem, translated by Michael Kandel

The Sunday of Life by Raymond Queneau, translated by Barbara Wright

Robert Lekachman, They Win Every Time

The Brotherhood of Oil: Energy Policy and the Public Interest by Robert Engler

Robert Craft, 'Lulu' at the Met

Lulu by Alban Berg, conducted by James Levine, directed by John Dexter

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Letters

Earl Martin, The New Vietnam: An Opposing View
Judith Kroll, Karl Miller, Not a Conspiracy
Dore Ashton, Guillermo Nunez, Inside Chile's Prisons
John Kenneth Galbraith, Help the Fabians
Mervyn Jones, Clive James, Crossman As Editor
Nasser Afshar, Joan Baez, et al. Let Him Go
Sumner M. Rosen, Luigi Barzini, Dolci and the Mafia
Dorothy Norman, Barbara Rose, The Stout Woman

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Contributors

Noel Annan is the author of Leslie Stephen and Our Age, among other books. (October 1999)

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. (November 2007)

Robert Craft was awarded the International Prix du Disque at the Cannes Music Festival for 2002.(May 2002)

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)

John Hollander is Sterling Professor Emeritus of English at Yale. His new book of poems, A Draft of Light, will be published by Knopf in May. (March 2008)

Conor Cruise O'Brien's many books include God Land: Reflections on Religion and Nationalism and The Long Affair: Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution. His Memoir: My Life and Themes will be published in the US in May. (December 2000)

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.

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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