Table of Contents

Volume 25, Number 4 · March 23, 1978

Diane Johnson, Ah, Wilderness!

The Last Cowboy by Jane Kramer

Coming into the Country by John McPhee

Quentin Skinner, Milton, Satan, and Subversion

Milton and the English Revolution by Christopher Hill

Ronald Steel, Rough Passage

The Panama Canal: The Crisis in Historical Perspective by Walter LaFeber

Surrender in Panama: The Case Against the Treaty by Philip M. Crane

The Truth about the Panama Canal by Denison Kitchel

Robert Towers, The Delmore File

Delmore Schwartz: The Life of an American Poet by James Atlas

In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Stories by Delmore Schwartz, foreword by Irving Howe, introduction by James Atlas

Ken Auletta, Wonderful Town!

The Ungovernable City by Douglas Yates

Bum Rap on America's Cities: The Real Causes of Urban Decay by Richard S. Morris

Alison Lurie, To the Sideshow

Animals and Men: Their Relationship as Reflected in Western Art from Prehistory to the Present Day by Kenneth Clark

A Fiedler Reader by Leslie Fiedler

Freaks: Myths and Images of the Secret Self by Leslie Fiedler

Conor Cruise O'Brien, The Theater of Southern Africa

Roger Shattuck, Poet in the Wings

Houseboat Days by John Ashbery

Robert Craft, Evviva Vivaldi! A Consumer's Report for the Tercentenary

Robert Craft, The Vivaldi Numbers Game

E.J. Hobsbawm, Should the Poor Organize?

Poor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail by Frances Fox Piven, by Richard A. Cloward

John Clive, Hello to All That

Julian Grenfell: His Life and the Times of His Death 1888-1915 by Nicholas Mosley

The Cousins: The Friendships, Opinions and Activities of Wilfrid Scawen Blunt and George Wyndham by Max Egremont

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Letters

Budd Hopkins, Martin Gardner, Close Encounters
L.E. Phillabaum, The Rossettis
Stanley Weintraub, Geoffrey Grigson, The Rossettis
Mary Martin McLauglin, Accessible Alberti
Leonid Tarassuk, Nicolas Nabokov, Cranberry Jello

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Contributors

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

Diane Johnson is the author, most recently, of Into a Paris Quartier: Reine Margot’s Chapel and Other Haunts of St. Germain. Her latest novel is L’Affaire. (February 2008)

Alison Lurie is the author of two collections of essays on children’s literature, Don’t Tell the Grownups and Boys and Girls Forever. She is a former professor of English at Cornell and has published nine novels, of which the most recent is Truth and Consequences. (May 2008)

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)

Roger Shattuck is the author of Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography. He has most recently edited new editions of two books by Helen Keller. He is University Professor Emeritus at Boston University. (May 2005)

Quentin Skinner is Regius Professor of History at Cambridge University. His most recent books are Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes and Liberty Before Liberalism. (November 2000)

Ronald Steel is Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California, a recent fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, and the author of biographies of Walter Lippmann and Robert Kennedy. (June 2006)

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