Table of Contents

Volume 24, Number 11 · June 23, 1977

William Styron, A Farewell to Arms

A Rumor of War by Philip Caputo

V.S. Pritchett, Pleasures of Malice

Make Way for Lucia: The Complete Lucia by E.F. Benson

Aileen Kelly, Good for the Populists

In the Name of the People: Prophets and Conspirators in Prerevolutionary Russia by Adam B. Ulam

Diary of a Russian Censor by Aleksandr Nikitenko, abridged, edited, and translated by Helen Satz Jacobson

Robert Lowell, For John Berryman (poem)

Bernard Avishai, A New Israel

Michael Wood, Play It Again, Franz

Nonsense and Happiness by Peter Handke, translated by Michael Roloff

A Moment of True Feeling by Peter Handke, translated by Ralph Manheim

Three by Peter Handke by Peter Handke

Susan Sontag, Photography Unlimited

John William Ward, Tumult in the Clouds

Lindbergh Alone by Brendan Gill

Ernst Badian, In Defense of Empire

Empire Without End by Lidia Storoni Mazzolani, translated by Joan McConnell, by Mario Pei, foreword by Mario Pei

The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire From the First Century A.D. to the Third by Edward N. Luttwak, foreword by J.F. Gilliam

Robert M. Adams, Wandering in Wayes Unknowne

The Analogy of The Faerie Queene by James Nohrnberg

Spenser's Allegory: The Anatomy of Imagination by Isabel G. MacCaffrey

Roger Sale, In Hardy Country


Letters

P.B. Medawar, Unnatural Science, cont'd.
Leo Panitch, Frank Kermode, Sticking to the Union
Richard G. Wilkinson, William L. Langer, Readings in Infanticide



Contributors

Aileen Kelly, a fellow of King’s College, Cambridge, is the author of Toward Another Shore: Russian Thinkers Between Necessity and Chance and, most recently, Views from the Other Shore: Essays on Herzen, Chekhov, and Bakhtin. (April 2007)

Robert Lowell died in 1977. His Collected Poems was published this summer. The letters in this issue will be included in The Letters of Robert Lowell, edited by Saskia Hamilton, to be published next year by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC. (November 2003)

Susan Sontag (1933-2004) was the author of four novels, The Benefactor, Death Kit, The Volcano Lover, and In America, which won the 2000 National Book Award for Fiction; a collection of stories, I, Etcetera; several plays, including Alice in Bed and Lady from the Sea; and seven works of nonfiction, among them Where the Stress Falls and Regarding the Pain of Others. Her books have been translated into thirty-two languages. In 2001, she was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the body of her work; in 2003, she received the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade.

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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