Table of Contents

Volume 24, Number 19 · November 24, 1977

Alison Lurie, The Round Table in Ruins

The Book of Merlyn: The Unpublished Conclusion to "The Once and Future King" by T.H. White, prologue by Sylvia Townsend Warner, illustrations by Trevor Stubley

Garry Wills, A Hard Case

Clearing the Air by Daniel Schorr

Helen Vendler, The Wonder Man

I Never Told Anybody: Teaching Poetry Writing in a Nursing Home by Kenneth Koch

The Duplications by Kenneth Koch

Christopher Lasch, The Siege of the Family

All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure by Kenneth Keniston. the Carnegie Council on Children

James Merrill, The School Play (poem)

Conor Cruise O'Brien, 'Elusive Mr. P.'

Charles Stewart Parnell by F.S.L. Lyons

Robert M. Adams, The Hobbit Habit

The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien

Robert Craft, Astrology, Hockney, Schubert: A Musical Diary

J.H. Plumb, The Rise of Love

The Family, Sex and Marriage in England: 1500-1800 by Lawrence Stone

Kenneth Clark, Stories of Art

Norm and Form: Studies in the Art of the Renaissance I

Symbolic Images: Studies in the Art of the Renaissance II

The Heritage of Apelles: Studies in the Art of the Renaissance

Michael Wood, The Lorca Murder Case

García Lorca: Playwright and Poet by Mildred Adams

Federico García Lorca: Murder in Granada directed by Humberto Lopez y Guerra

García Lorca, Asesinado: Toda la verdad by José Luis Vila-San-Juan

Lincoln Kirstein, Mind and Body

Afterimages by Arlene Croce

Theodore Zeldin, The Destruction of the Peasants

Peasants into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France 1870-1914 by Eugen Weber

Jorge Luis Borges, Four Poems by Jorge Luis Borges (poem)

Hugh Trevor-Roper, The Good & Great Works of Richard Hooker

Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity laws, a volume of sermons and tractates, and a volume of contemporary commentary on the laws—will be published in 1978) Preface and Books I-V by Richard Hooker. The Folger Library Edition of the Works of Richard Hooker, edited by W. Speed Hill

David Hinkley, Huang Wen-hsien, In Indonesian Prisons


Letters

Leonid Tarassuk, Cranberry Sauce
Gleb Struve, Leonid Tarassuk, et al. Cranberry Sauce
Bella Abzug, Frank Allaun, et al. Words for the Shah



Contributors

Robert Craft was awarded the International Prix du Disque at the Cannes Music Festival for 2002.(May 2002)

Alison Lurie is a former Professor of English at Cornell. Her most recent novel is Truth and Consequences.

James Merrill died in 1995. The poem in this issue appears in Last Poems, a collection of previously unpublished work, just published by Thornwillow Press. (December 1998)

Conor Cruise O'Brien's many books include God Land: Reflections on Religion and Nationalism and The Long Affair: Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution. His Memoir: My Life and Themes will be published in the US in May. (December 2000)

Helen Vendler's recent Mellon Lectures, entitled Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill, will be published later this year. (March 2009)

Garry Wills is Professor of History Emeritus at Northwestern. His most recent book, What Jesus Meant, was published in 2006.

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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