Table of Contents

Volume 24, Number 13 · August 4, 1977

Nicholas von Hoffman, Winner Take Nothing

Marathon: The Pursuit of the Presidency, 1972-1976 by Jules Witcover

A Government As Good As Its People by Jimmy Carter

Richard Ellmann, A Late Victorian Love Affair

Tom Stoppard, Prague: The Story of the Chartists

Joseph Kerman, Follow the Lieder

Schubert's Songs: A Biographical Study by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, translated by Kenneth S. Whitton

The Fischer-Dieskau Book of Lieder translated by George Bird, translated by Richard Stokes

Mark Crispin Miller, What Happened in the Sixties?

Gates of Eden: American Culture in the Sixties by Morris Dickstein

Nigel Dennis, How Not to Be a Critic

Transatlantic Patterns: Cultural Comparisons of England with America by Martin Green

John Womack, An American in Cuba

Four Men: Living the Revolution, An Oral History of Contemporary Cuba by Oscar Lewis, by Ruth M. Lewis, by Susan M. Rigdon

George Plimpton, The Last Laugh

Michael Wood, Writing from a Deceptive Continent

The Borzoi Anthology of Latin American Literature selected and edited by Emir Rodríguez Monegal, with the assistance of Thomas Colchie

The Boom in Spanish American Literature Inter-American Relations by José Donoso, translated by Gregory Kolovakos

Darryl Pinckney, The Black Upper Class

Certain People: America's Black Elite by Stephen Birmingham

Thomas R. Edwards, Temptations

The Morley Mythology by Austin Wright

Kingkill by Thomas Gavin

Barbara Probst Solomon, Spain: Who Really Won?

Martin Garbus, South Africa: The Death of Justice

Breyten Breytenbach, How Apartheid Works

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Letters

Noam Chomsky, Andrzej Grzegorczyk, The Right to Help
John B. Myers, Karl Miller, Auden and Vietnam

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Contributors

Breyten Breytenbach is the author of, among other books, True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist, which details his years in the prisons of the apartheid regime in South Africa. (November 1997)

Thomas R. Edwards is Emeritus Professor of English at Rutgers and a former editor of Raritan. His most recent book is Over Here: Criticizing America, 1968–1989. (June 2004)

Joseph Kerman is emeritus professor of music at the University of California, Berkeley. He began writing music criticism for The Hudson Review in the 1950s, and is a longtime contributor to The New York Review of Books and many other journals. His books include Opera as Drama (1956; new and revised edition 1988), The Beethoven Quartets (1967), Contemplating Music (1986), Concerto Conversations (1999), and The Art of Fugue (2005).

Darryl Pinckney is the author of a novel, High Cotton, and Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature.

Tom Stoppard's most recent play, The Invention of Love, will have its first American productions in January at the American Conservatory Theater, San Francisco, and in February at the Wilma Theater, Philadelphia. (September 1999)

Michael Wood is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge. (September 2009)

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