Table of Contents

Volume 24, Number 12 · July 14, 1977

Willie Lee Rose, American Women in Their Place

The Bonds of Womanhood: "Woman's Sphere" in New England, 1780-1835 by Nancy F. Cott

The Feminization of American Culture by Ann Douglas

Robert Towers, India's Long Night

India: A Wounded Civilization by V.S. Naipaul

V.S. Pritchett, The Romantic Camera

Nadar by Nigel Gosling

Furio Colombo, Italy: The Politics of Culture

Bernard Knox, Chez Atreus

Agamemnon by Aeschylus, directed by Andrei Serban. at the Vivian Beaumont Theater, New York

Ronald Steel, Russia, the West, and the Rest

The Cloud of Danger: Current Realities of American Foreign Policy by George F. Kennan

Revolution in the Third World by Gerard Chaliand

Robert Lowell, Executions (poem)

Geoffrey Grigson, Mining Morris

William Morris: Romantic to Revolutionary by E.P. Thompson

William Morris and the Art of the Book edited by Paul Needham, with essays by Paul Needham, by Joseph Dunlap, by John Dreyfus

Jack Richardson, An Oppressed Group

Dolphins, Whales and Porpoises: An Encyclopedia of Sea Mammals by David J. Coffey

Robert Mazzocco, Brothers (poem)

J.Z. Young, That's Life

The Life Science: Current Ideas of Biology by P.B. Medawar, by J.S. Medawar

William Shawcross, The Precarious Country

British Policy Towards Wartime Resistance in Yugoslavia and Greece edited by Phyllis Auty, edited by Richard Clogg

R.W. Seton-Watson and the Yugoslavs, Correspondence 1906-1941

Nations in Arms: The Theory and Practice of Territorial Defense by Adam Roberts

The Yugoslav Experiment 1948-1974 by Dennison Rusinow

Tito, Mihailovic and The Allies, 1941-1945 by Walter R. Roberts

Wartime by Milovan Djilas

LX: Memoirs of a Jugoslav by Vane Ivanovic

The Legitimation of a Revolution, The Yugoslav Case by Bogdan Denis Denitch

British Policy in South-East Europe in the Second World War by Elisabeth Barker

Martin Gardner, ESP at Random

Robert N. Bellah, McGeorge Bundy, Marshall Cohen, et al. 'Veritas' at Harvard: Another Exchange

The Editors, Short Review

The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 by David McCullough

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Letters

Robert Lowell, Denis Donoghue, Yeats's Vision
Nikki Stiller, Lawrence Stone, Old People's Progress
Elisabeth Sifton, Correcting 'Chinese Shadows'
Gore Vidal, For the Record

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Contributors

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)

Bernard Knox is director emeritus of Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC. Among his many books are The Heroic Temper, The Oldest Dead White European Males, and Backing into the Future: The Classical Tradition and Its Renewal. He is the editor of The Norton Book of Classical Literature and wrote the introductions and notes for Robert Fagles's translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey.

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)

William Shawcross is the author of several books on Cambodia. (December 1996)

Ronald Steel is Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California, a recent fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, and the author of biographies of Walter Lippmann and Robert Kennedy. (June 2006)

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