Table of Contents

Volume 25, Number 10 · June 15, 1978

Richard Ellmann, The Life of Sim Botchit

Samuel Beckett: A Biography by Deirdre Bair

Conor Cruise O'Brien, Martyr

Biko by Donald Woods

John Hollander, Sphinx

Saul Steinberg text by Harold Rosenberg

Saul Steinberg April 14 - July 9, 1978 an exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City

Stephen Spender, Hardy Hardy

Thomas Hardy After Fifty Years edited by Lance St John Butler

Thomas Hardy and the British Tradition by Donald Davie

The Complete Poems of Thomas Hardy edited by James Gibson

The Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy: Volume I, 1840-1892 edited by Richard Little Purdy, edited by Michael Millgate

Thomas Hardy's Later Years by Robert Gittings

An Essay on Hardy by John Bayley

Young Thomas Hardy by Robert Gittings

Garry Wills, The Party Isn't Over

The Parties: Republicans and Democrats in This Century by Henry Fairlie

Francis Haskell, The Ideal Director

Sir Charles Eastlake and the Victorian Art World by David Robertson

Helen Muchnic, The Undefeated

Russian Thinkers by Isaiah Berlin, edited by Aileen Kelly, by Henry Hardy

Luigi Barzini, The Bad Tooth

The First Duce: D'Annunzio at Fiume by Michael A. Ledeen

Quentin Skinner, The Flight from Positivism

The Restructuring of Social and Political Theory by Richard J. Bernstein

Robert Towers, Forced Marches

Airships by Barry Hannah

Detour by Michael Brodsky

Martin Gardner, The Charms of Catastrophe

Structural Stability and Morphogenesis: An Outline of a General Theory of Models by René Thom, translated by D.H. Fowler, with a foreword by C.H. Waddington

Catastrophe Theory: Selected Papers 1972-1977 by E.C. Zeeman

Catastrophe Theory by Alexander Woodcock, by Monte Davis

Catastrophe Theory and Its Applications by Tim Poston, by Ian Stewart

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Letters

Dexter Masters, H. Stuart Hughes, The Purge and the Bomb
David Caute, The Purge and the Bomb
Kent Bach, J.Z. Young, Do Animals Communicate?
Leo Hamalian, Karl Miller, Where's Mama?
Tommy Murtagh, Neal Ascherson, Are Ulstermen English?
James Baldwin, Claire Bloom, et al. Release Ngugi
S.L. Goldberg, Richard Ellmann, Mining 'Ulysses'
Martin Shockley, Diane Johnson, Unkind Cut
Jill Danzig, Coming of the Book

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Contributors

Martin Gardner is the author of The New Ambidextrous Universe, Fractal Music, Hypercards and More, and The Night is Large. His most recent book is a novel, Visitors from Oz. (September 1998)

Francis Haskell, formerly Professor of Art History at Oxford, is the author of Patrons and Painters, Rediscoveries in Art, Past and Present in Art and Taste, and History and Its Images: Art and the Interpretation of the Past. (February 1999)

John Hollander is Sterling Professor Emeritus of English at Yale. His new book of poems, A Draft of Light, will be published by Knopf in May. (March 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)

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)

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.

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