Table of Contents

Volume 24, Number 21 & 22 · January 26, 1978

Clifford Geertz, Stir Crazy

Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault, translated by Alan Sheridan

Kenneth Clark, The Master Builder

Leon Battista Alberti by Franco Borsi, translated by Rudolf G. Carpanini

Graham Greene, The Great Spectacular

Susan Sontag, Illness as Metaphor

Stephen Spender, The Mythical Life of D.H. Lawrence (poem)

Robert Towers, Below Suspicion

True Confessions by John Gregory Dunne

Transatlantic Blues by Wilfrid Sheed

Keith Thomas, Conspicuous Grandeur

The Courts of Europe: Politics, Patronage and Royalty 1400-1800 edited by A.G. Dickens

Martin Gardner, The Third Coming

Close Encounters of the Third Kind directed and written by Steven Spielberg, produced by Julia Phillips, by Michael Phillips. Released by Columbia Pictures

Close Encounters of the Third Kind by Steven Spielberg

The Hynek UFO Report by Dr. J. Allen Hynek

Aileen Kelly, A Victorian Heroine

Eleanor Marx by Yvonne Kapp

John K. Fairbank, Solving the China Problem

China and America: The Search for a New Relationship edited by William J. Barnds

China, Oil, and Asia: Conflict Ahead? a study from The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, by Selig S. Harrison

Stephen Spender, Traveling Light

A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor

Geoffrey Grigson, Cosa Nostra

Four Rossettis: A Victorian Biography by Stanley Weintraub

George Konrad, The Long Work of Liberty

Willie Lee Rose, A History of Endurance

Black Odyssey: The Afro-American Ordeal in Slavery by Nathan Irvin Huggins

Nathan P. Glazer, John Robertson, Louis B. Schwartz, et al. The Bakke Case: An Exchange

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Letters

Dore Ashton, Reza Baraheni, et al. Human Rights for Everybody
Richard Wilbur, Misanthrope Mishap
Harold E. Mahan, The Play's the Thing

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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)

Clifford Geertz is Professor Emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He is the author of, among other works, The Social History of an Indonesian Town and Negara: The Balinese State in the Nineteenth Century. (March 2006)

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)

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.

Keith Thomas is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. His books include Religion and the Decline of Magic, Man and the Natural World, and The Oxford Book of Work. (April 2007)

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