Table of Contents

Volume 25, Number 12 · July 20, 1978

Anna Akhmatova, Alone (poem)

Jacques Julliard, For a New 'Internationale'

Hugh Honour, What Chateaubriand Saw

Chateaubriand: A Biography Volume I (1768-1793) The Longed-for Tempests by George D. Painter

F.W. Bateson, Let There Be Light

The New Oxford Book of English Light Verse chosen and edited by Kingsley Amis

Frederic Wakeman, The Real China

The Execution of Mayor Yin and Other Stories from the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution by Chen Jo-hsi, translated by Nancy Ing, by Howard Goldblatt, with an introduction by Simon Leys

Nigel Dennis, Infirmary Blues

Illness as Metaphor by Susan Sontag

Garry Wills, A Guy Like I

Wheeling and Dealing: Confessions of a Capitol Hill Operator by Bobby Baker, by Larry L. King

The Senate Nobody Knows by Bernard Asbell

I.F. Stone, Carter, Africa, & Salt

International Institute for Strategic Studies, The Technological Trap Beyond SALT

Robert Towers, Good Grief!

On Moral Fiction by John Gardner

Henry Gifford, Witnesses to Calamity

Dans le carnaval de I'histoire: mémoires Carnival in the spring of 1979) by Léonide Pliouchtch, translated by Simone Vincent

Notes of a Non-Conspirator by Efim Etkind, translated by Peter France

The Challenge of the Spirit by Boris Shragin, translated by P.S. Falla

John Bayley, Pioneers and Phantoms

The Hill of Evil Counsel by Amos Oz, translated by Nicholas de Lange

Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass by Bruno Schulz, translated by Celina Wieniewska

Mary Gordon, The Predicament

The Ambivalence of Abortion by Linda Bird Francke

Abortion in America: The Origins and Evolution of National Policy, 1800-1900 by James C. Mohr

Michael Walzer, Must Democracy Be Capitalist?

Politics and Markets: The World's Political-Economic Systems by Charles E. Lindblom

Harry Levin, The Private Life of F.O. Matthiessen

Rat & the Devil: Journal Letters of F.O. Matthiessen and Russell Cheney edited by Louis Hyde

Martha Duffy, Women in Love

Violet Clay by Gail Godwin

I Sent a Letter to My Love by Bernice Rubens

David Greene, David H. Wright, 'Treasures of Early Irish Art': An Exchange

Gareth Porter, William Shawcross, An Exchange on Cambodia


Letters

Ned O'Gorman, Help Wanted
A. David Wunsch, Robert Towers, Steerage



Contributors

John Bayley has written two books about his wife, the novelist Iris Murdoch, Elegy for Iris and Iris and Her Friends. (July 2004)

Hugh Honour is the author, with John Fleming, of The Visual Arts: A History, which has recently been published in its sixth expanded edition. (November 2002)

I.F. Stone was an American journalist, publisher of I.F. Stone's Weekly, and a regular contributor to the Review. For more about him please visit www.ifstone.org.

Michael Walzer is Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., and co-editor of Dissent. He is the author of Just and Unjust Wars. (March 2003)

Garry Wills is Professor of History Emeritus at Northwestern. His most recent book, What Jesus Meant, was published in 2006.


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