Table of Contents

Volume 24, Number 17 · October 27, 1977

Harry Levin, Being Strong: Edmund Wilson's Letters

Letters on Literature and Politics: 1912-1972 by Edmund Wilson, edited by Elena Wilson, introduction by Daniel Aaron, foreword by Leon Edel

Anthony Lewis, A Matter of Character

Uncertain Greatness: Henry Kissinger and American Foreign Policy by Roger Morris

Robert Towers, One-Man Band

The Professor of Desire by Philip Roth

John Thompson, Robert Lowell 1917–1977

P.B. Medawar, Fear and DNA

Playing God: Genetic Engineering and the Manipulation of Life by June Goodfield

The Ultimate Experiment: Man-made Evolution by Nicholas Wade

Biohazard by Michael Rogers

William Empson, Compacted Doctrines

Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society by Raymond Williams

Robert Coles, Victims of Soviet Psychiatry: A Report from Honolulu

Psychiatric Terror: How Soviet Psychiatry Is Used to Suppress Dissent by Sidney Bloch, by Peter Reddaway

Clive James, Go Back to the Cold!

The Honourable Schoolboy by John le Carré

Charles Rosen, The Ruins of Walter Benjamin

The Origin of German Tragic Drama by Walter Benjamin, translated by John Osborne

Noel Annan, The Shadow of the Great Betrayal

Ramsay MacDonald by David Marquand

Nigel Dennis, Smilin' Through

Essays of E.B. White by E.B. White

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Letters

Ralph Colp, W.W. Bartley III, Darwin's Complaint
Susan Sontag, Richard Ellmann, Vautrin's Cigar
David L. Morell, Police Power in Thailand

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Contributors

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

William Empson (1906—1984) was the author of Seven Types of Ambiguity and Some Versions of Pastoral. His Complete Poems were recently published. (June 2001)

Clive James is the author of many books of criticism, autobiography, fiction, and poetry. His latest and longest book, Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts, will be published in the spring. (January 2007)

Anthony Lewis, a former columnist for The New York Times, has twice won the Pulitzer Prize. His book Freedom for the Thought We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment was published this year. (May 2008)

Charles Rosen's most recent book is Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist. (February 2008)

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