Table of Contents

Volume 25, Number 2 · February 23, 1978

V.S. Pritchett, The Incurable

Letters to Friends, Family, and Editors by Franz Kafka, translated by Richard Winston, by Clara Winston

Noel Annan, The View from the Inglenook

Sweetness and Light: The "Queen Anne" Movement 1860-1900 by Mark Girouard

Edmund S. Morgan, Three Temperaments

The Protestant Temperament: Patterns of Child-Rearing, Religious Experience, and the Self in Early America by Philip Greven

Karl Miller, Edith Wharton's Secret

A Feast of Words: The Triumph of Edith Wharton by Cynthia Griffin Wolff

Mattityahu Peled, Leon Wieseltier, The Chances for Peace: An Interview with General Peled

Susan Sontag, Disease as Political Metaphor

Robert Craft, The First Universal Composer

Josquin des Prez: Proceedings of the International Festival Conference, Lincoln Center, June 21-25, 1971 edited by E.E. Lowinsky, in collaboration with Bonnie J. Blackburn

Josquin Desprez: Missa La Sol Fa Re Mi and Motets, Chansons, and Instrumental Music capella antiqua (München), conducted by Konrad Ruhland. two records, Philips 6775 005

Robert Penn Warren, Not Quite like a Top (poem)

David Brion Davis, The Invasion of the Family

Haven in a Heartless World: The Family Besieged by Christopher Lasch

Michael Wood, Buñuel's Private Lessons

That Obscure Object of Desire a film directed by Luis Buñuel

Roger Sale, Picking Up the Pieces

Refiner's Fire: The Life and Adventures of Marshall Pearl, a Foundling by Mark Helprin

In Such Dark Places by Joseph Caldwell

I Heard My Sister Speak My Name by Thomas Savage

Natural Shocks by Richard Stern

Peter B. Reddaway, More Psychiatric Terror

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Letters

Richard M. Weiss, The Payoff
Robert Conquest, Helen Muchnic, A Matter of Taste
Murat W. Williams, Renata Adler, The Payoff
Donald M. Frame, Gabriel Josipovici, The Rabelais Story
Richard Arens, The Slaves of Paraguay

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Contributors

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

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

David Brion Davis is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale and Director Emeritus of Yale’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. His most recent book is Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World. (May 2007)

Edmund S. Morgan is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. His most recent book, The Genuine Article: A Historian Looks at Early America, was published in 2004. (October 2008)

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.

Michael Wood is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge. (April 2008)

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