Table of Contents

Volume 25, Number 6 · April 20, 1978

H. Stuart Hughes, The Bad Old Days

The Great Fear: The Anti-Communist Purge Under Truman and Eisenhower by David Caute

Conflict and Crisis: The Presidency of Harry S Truman, 1945-1948 by Robert J. Donovan

John Kenneth Galbraith, A Hard Case

Two Cheers for Capitalism by Irving Kristol

Michael Wood, Nothing Sacred

Injury Time by Beryl Bainbridge

The World According to Garp by John Irving

An American Romance by John Casey

W.H.C. Frend, The Gnostic Secrets

The Laughing Savior: The Discovery and Significance of the Nag Hammadi Gnostic Library by John Dart

The Nag Hammadi Library in English edited by James M. Robinson

Noel Annan, Virginia Woolf Fever

The Pargiters: The Novel-Essay Portion of 'The Years' by Virginia Woolf, edited with an introduction by Mitchell A. Leaska

Books and Portraits: Some Further Selections from the Literary and Biographical Writings of Virginia Woolf edited by Mary Lyon

Sir Leslie Stephen's Mausoleum Book edited by Alan Bell

Moments of Being by Virginia Woolf, edited by Jeanne Schulkind

The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume I: 1915-1919 edited by Anne Olivier Bell

The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Volume III: 1923-1928 edited by Nigel Nicolson, edited by Joanne Trautmann

A Marriage of True Minds: An Intimate Portrait of Leonard and Virginia Woolf by George Spater, by Ian Parsons

Bulletin of the New York Public Library: Virginia Woolf Issue

Garry Wills, The Honor of Alger Hiss

Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case by Allen Weinstein

Clive James, Pensée Persons

Kalki by Gore Vidal

Leonard Schapiro, Two Cheers for Leskov

Nicolai Leskov: The Man and His Art by Hugh McLean

Stephen Jay Gould, Koestler's Solution

Janus: A Summing Up by Arthur Koestler

Monroe K. Spears, Immersed in America

Selected Poems 1923-1975 by Robert Penn Warren

Herbert Butterfield, Power in History

History: Choice and Commitment by Felix Gilbert

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Letters

Irving Singer, Joseph Kerman, Words & Music
Mark Helprin, Monkey Business
John L. Hess, Garry Wills, Schorr's Case
Gerald Graff, Michael Wood, What Joyce Meant
Richard Stern, Roger Sale, Monkey Business

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Contributors

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

Stephen Jay Gould teaches Geology, Biology, and the History of Science at Harvard and is the Vincent Astor Visiting Professor of Biology at NYU. His latest book is The Lying Stones of Marrakech. (October 2001)

Clive James is the author of many books of criticism, autobiography, fiction, and poetry. His latest and longest book, Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts, will be published in the spring. (January 2007)

Garry Wills was born in Atlanta, Georgia. One of our most distinguished historians and critics, he is the author of numerous books, including Saint Augustine, Papal Sin, and the Pulitzer Prize–winning Lincoln at Gettysburg. He has won many other awards, among them two National Book Critics Circle Awards and the 1998 National Medal for the Humanities. He is currently Professor of History Emeritus at Northwestern University. A regular contributor to the New York Review of Books, he lives in Evanston, Illinois.

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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