Table of Contents

Volume 25, Number 1 · February 9, 1978

Irvin Ehrenpreis, Mr. Eliot's Martyrdom

Eliot's Early Years by Lyndall Gordon

T.S. Eliot's Personal Waste Land: Exorcism of the Demons by James E. Miller Jr.

T.S. Eliot: The Longer Poems by Derek Traversi

Gore Vidal, Rich Kids

Privileged Ones Volume V of "Children of Crisis" Robert Coles

Bernard Knox, A Four Handkerchief Tragedy

Euripides: Iphigeneia at Aulis translated by W.S. Merwin, translated by George E. Dimock Jr.

Iphigenia a film directed by Michael Cacoyannis

Irving Howe, What Trotsky Thought

The Life and Death of Trotsky by Robert Payne

The Social and Political Thought of Leon Trotsky by Baruch Knei-Paz

Susan Sontag, Images of Illness

Joseph Kerman, Reading Opera

Romantic Opera and Literary Form by Peter Conrad

Mozart and Beethoven: The Concept of Love in Their Operas by Irving Singer

Literature as Opera by Gary Schmidgall

John Updike, Walt Whitman: Ego and Art

Robert L. Heilbroner, Getting Down to Business

The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business by Alfred D. Chandler Jr.

America by Design: Science, Technology, and the Rise of Corporate Capitalism by David F. Noble

Captains of Consciousness: Advertising and the Social Roots of the Consumer Culture by Stuart Ewen

Seamus Heaney, On Robert Lowell

Thomas R. Edwards, Troubling Comedian

Rockinghorse by Yoram Kaniuk, translated by Richard Flantz

Adam Resurrected by Yoram Kaniuk, translated by Seymour Simckes

Garry Wills, Benevolent Adam Smith

The Glasgow Edition of the Works and Correspondence of Adam Smith, I. The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith, edited by D.D. Raphael, by A.L. Macfie.

The Glasgow Edition of the Works and Correspondence of Adam Smith, II. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, edited by R.H. Campbell, edited by A.S. Skinner, textual editor W.B. Todd

Essays on Adam Smith edited by A.S. Skinner, edited by Thomas Wilson

The Market and the State: Essays in Honour of Adam Smith edited by Thomas Wilson, edited by Andrew S. Skinner

Andrei D. Sakharov, The Death Penalty

Francis J. Galbraith, Martin Ennals, What Happened in Indonesia? An Exchange

The Editors, Short Reviews

The Lowell Offering: Writings by New England Mill Women, 1840-1845 edited by Benita Eisler

Twilight of the Old Order by Claude Manceron

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Letters

Henry M. Pachter, John Kenneth Galbraith, Reluctant Resistance?
Desmond Stewart, Nigel Dennis, Snuggling with Lawrence

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Contributors

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)

Seamus Heaney's first poetry collection, Death of a Naturalist, appeared forty years ago. Since then he has published poetry, criticism, and translations that have established him as one of the leading poets of his generation. In 1995 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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).

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.

Susan Sontag (1933-2004) is 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.

John Updike was born in 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania. In 1954 he began to publish in The New Yorker, where he continued to contribute short stories, poems, and criticism until his death in 2009. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, among other awards. His last books were the novel The Widows of Eastwick and Due Considerations, a collection of his essays and criticism.

Gore Vidal's most recent novel is The Golden Age. (February 2002)

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

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