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Volume 25, Number 8 · May 18, 1978

John Updike, Saint of the Mundane

Elizabeth Hardwick, Wives and Mistresses

Tolstoy Remembered by Tatyana Tolstoy, translated by Derek Coltman

Ada, Countess of Lovelace: Byron's Legitimate Daughter by Doris Langley Moore

A Captive of Time: My Years with Pasternak by Olga Ivinskaya, translated by Max Hayward

Frederic Wakeman, The Lower Depths

The Death of Woman Wang by Jonathan Spence

V.S. Pritchett, Live Souls

Russia in Original Photographs 1860-1920 by Marvin Lyons, edited by Andrew Wheatcroft

Marshall Frady, Why He's Not the Best

Dasher: The Roots and the Rising of Jimmy Carter by James Wooten

Veronica Geng, James at an Awkward Age

Sheldon S. Wolin, The State of the Union

Robert Towers, Tales of Manhattan

New York Jew by Alfred Kazin

Guido Goldman, Why Israel Should Settle Now

Serge Lang, The Professors: A Survey of a Survey

E.H. Carr, Marriage of Inconvenience

The United Front: The TUC and the Russians 1923-1928 by Daniel F. Calhoun

Ladislav Hejdanek, Will I Be on Television?

Bernard Avishai, D.D. Raphael, Garry Wills, An Exchange on Adam Smith

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Contributors

Marshall Frady's books include Wallace, Billy Graham, Southerners, Jesse: The Life and Pilgrimage of Jesse Jackson, and, most recently, Martin Luther King, Jr. He is currently writing a biography of Fidel Castro. (February 2004)

Elizabeth Hardwick (b. 1916) has been a frequent contributor to The Partisan Review, The New Yorker, and The New York Review of Books, which she helped found in 1963. Her books include the novels The Simple Truth, The Ghostly Lover, and Sleepless Nights, the essay collection A View of My Own, and The Selected Letters of William James, for which she acted as editor.

John Updike was born in 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania. In 1954 he began to publish in The New Yorker, where he continues to contribute short stories, poems, and criticism. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, among other awards. His most recent books are the novel Terrorist and Due Considerations, a collection of his essays and criticism.

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