Table of Contents

Volume 24, Number 10 · June 9, 1977

Stephen Toulmin, Back to Nature

The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence by Carl Sagan

V.S. Pritchett, Nabokov's Game

Nabokov: His Life in Part by Andrew Field

P.B. Medawar, The Crab

The Unseen Fight Against Cancer by Thelma Brumfield Dunn MD.

The Cancer Connection: And What We Can Do About It by Larry Agran

You Can Fight For Your Life: Emotional Factors in the Causation of Cancer by Lawrence LeShan

X-Rays: More Harm Than Good by Priscilla Laws

You Can Fight Cancer and Win by Jane E. Brody, by Arthur I. Holleb MD.

Karl Miller, Goodbye to Britain

The Auden Generation: Literature and Politics in England in the 1930s by Samuel Hynes

Simon Leys, Chinese Shadows: Bureaucracy, Happiness, History

Michael Wood, RSVP

Geography III by Elizabeth Bishop

Charles Wilson, Velvet Revolution?

Patriots and Liberators: Revolution in the Netherlands 1780-1813 by Simon Schama

Joseph Brodsky, The Art of Montale

New Poems by Eugenio Montale, translated and introduced by G. Singh

Poet in Our Time by Eugenio Montale, translated by Alastair Hamilton

Eugenio Montale, Three Poems by Eugenio Montale (poem)

Christopher Hill, Political Animal

Cromwell by Roger Howell Jr.

Richard Ellmann, The Politics of Joyce

Martha G. Krow-Lucal, Alexander Rabinowitch, Michael H. Scrivener, et al. An Exchange on the Russian Revolution


Letters

Richard Sennett, Sheldon S. Wolin, Breaking the Code
Seymour Martin Lipset, Sigmund Diamond, 'Veritas' Cont.
Noel Annan, Undeviating
Garry Wills, 'Running for President'
James D. Seymour, Reza Baraheni, Political Prisoners in Iran



Contributors

Joseph Brodsky was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987. His Collected Poems in English will be published next spring. He died in 1996. (January 2000)

Simon Leys is the author of a dozen books, mostly on Chinese art, culture, and politics. His latest work is The Wreck of the Batavia: A True Story. (December 2007)

Eugenio Montale was born in Genoa in 1896 and died in 1981. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1975. (November 2004)

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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