Table of Contents

Volume 25, Number 9 · June 1, 1978

Conor Cruise O'Brien, Greene's Castle

The Human Factor by Graham Greene

J.M. Cameron, Truth or Consequences

Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life by Sissela Bok

Garry Wills, Panama: A New Peril

J.Z. Young, The Ape Who Never Grows Up

Ontogeny and Phylogeny by Stephen Jay Gould

Wilfrid Sheed, The Defector's Secrets

Final Payments by Mary Gordon

Sheldon S. Wolin, Carter and the New Constitution

Hugh Trevor-Roper, Hitler's Impresario

Michael Wood, Calculated Risks

Spectral Emanations: New and Selected Poems by John Hollander

The Selected Poems: 1951-1977 by A. R. Ammons

A Call in the Midst of the Crowd by Alfred Corn

Denis Donoghue, Five Hundred Years of the King's English

The Oxford University Press and the Spread of Learning: An Illustrated History by Nicolas Barker

A History of the Oxford University Press Volume I: To the Year 1780 by Harry Carter

The Oxford University Press: An Informal History by Peter Sutcliffe

Caught in the Web of Words: James Murray and the Oxford English Dictionary by K.M. Elisabeth Murray

The Coming of the Book: The Impact of Printing 1450-1800 by Lucien Febvre, by Henri-Jean Martin, translated by David Gerard

J.H. Elliott, Strangers and Brothers

Lost Tribes and Promised Lands: The Origins of American Racism by Ronald Sanders

The Church Militant and Iberian Expansion, 1440-1770 by C.R. Boxer

Barrington Moore, On Moral Outrage

D.W. Harding, Leavis's Way

The Living Principle: "English" as a Discipline of Thought by F.R. Leavis

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Letters

William Empson, Milton's God
Benedict R. Anderson, Ruth McVey, What Happened in Indonesia?

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Contributors

Denis Donoghue is University Professor at NYU, where he holds the Henry James Chair of English and American Letters. He is the author of The Practice of Reading, Words Alone: The Poet T.S. Eliot, and, most recently, The American Classics. (October 2006)

J. H. Elliott is Regius Professor Emeritus of Modern History at the University of Oxford. His books include The Count-Duke of Olivares and Spain and Its World. Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1492– 1830 has just been published. (June 2006)

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)

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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