Table of Contents

Volume 25, Number 15 · October 12, 1978

V.S. Pritchett, Character

E.M. Forster: A Life by P.N. Furbank

Joseph Brodsky, Lithuanian Divertissement (poem)

John K. Fairbank, Digging Out Doug

American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880-1964 by William Manchester

Ronald Dworkin, Soulcraft

The Pursuit of Happiness, and Other Sobering Thoughts by George F. Will

Lawrence Stone, Death and Its History

L'Homme devant la mort fall of 1979) by Philippe Ariès

Western Attitudes toward Death: From the Middle Ages to the Present by Philippe Ariès, translated by Patricia M. Ranum

Julian Symons, Compulsion

The Iron Staircase by Georges Simenon, translated by Eileen Ellenbogen

The Girl with the Squint by Georges Simenon, translated by Helen Thomson

Maigret's Pipe by Georges Simenon, translated by Jean Stewart

Maigret and the Hotel Majestic by Georges Simenon, translated by Caroline Hillier

The Family Lie by Georges Simenon, translated by Isabel Quigly

David Joravsky, The Scientist as Conformist

Soviet Science by Zhores A. Medvedev

Scientists under Hitler: Politics and the Physics Community in the Third Reich by Alan D. Beyerchen

Proletarian Science? The Case of Lysenko by Dominique Lecourt, translated by Ben Brewster

Marshall Frady, The Transformation of Bobby Kennedy

Robert Kennedy and His Times by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

Keith Thomas, The Wizard of Oc

Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, translated by Barbara Bray

Life in Renaissance France by Lucien Febvre, edited and translated by Marian Rothstein

The Community of the Village: A Study in the History of the Family and Village Life in Fourteenth-Century England by Edward Britton

Francis Haskell, Yesterday's Today Show

The Shows of London: A Panoramic History of Exhibitions 1600-1862 by Richard D. Altick

Quentin Skinner, The Lesson of Thomas More

The Complete Works of St. Thomas More, Volume 2: The History of King Richard III edited by Richard S. Sylvester

Utopia by Thomas More, translated and edited by Robert M. Adams

The Complete Works of St. Thomas More, Volume 14 (Parts I and I): De Tristitia Christi edited by Clarence H. Miller

The Complete Works of St. Thomas More, Volume 13: Treatise on the Passion; Treatise on the Blessed Body; Instructions and Prayers edited by Garry E. Haupt

The Complete Works of St. Thomas More, Volume 12: A Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation edited by Louis L. Martz, edited by Frank Manley

The Complete Works of St. Thomas More, Volume 8: The Confutation of Tyndale's Answer edited by Louis A. Schuster, edited by Richard C. Marius, edited by James P. Lusardi, edited by Richard J. Schoeck

The Complete Works of St. Thomas More, Volume 5: Responsio ad Lutherum edited by John M. Headley, translated by Sister Scholastica Mandeville

The Complete Works of St. Thomas More, Volume 4: Utopia edited by Edward Surtz, edited by S. J. and J. H. Hexter

The Complete Works of St. Thomas More, Volume 3 (Part I): Translations of Lucian edited by Craig R. Thompson

Michael Wood, The Not So Light Fantastic

Innocent Eréndira and Other Stories by Gabriel García Márquez, translated by Gregory Rabassa

A Manual for Manuel by Julio Cortázar, translated by Gregory Rabassa

Stuart Hampshire, The Illusion of Sociobiology

On Human Nature by Edward O. Wilson

Peter B. Reddaway, K G B Psychiatry

John Kenneth Galbraith, The Strategic Mind

In Search of Enemies: A CIA Story by John Stockwell

Decent Interval by Frank Snepp

Honorable Men: My Life in the CIA by William Colby, by Peter Forbath

Susan Sontag, The Last Intellectual

Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings by Walter Benjamin, edited by Peter Demetz, translated by Edmund Jephcott

The Editors, Short Reviews

The Crime and Punishment of I.G. Farben by Joseph Borkin

Of Wolves and Men by Barry Holstun Lopez


Letters

Hal Draper, Robert L. Heilbroner, Could Marx Answer Acton?
John McMurtry, Robert L. Heilbroner, Could Marx Answer Acton?
Richard Karz, Looking for Livy
Robert Wohl, Luigi Barzini, Looking for Livy



Contributors

Joseph Brodsky was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987. His Collected Poems in English will be published next spring. He died in 1996. (January 2000)

Ronald Dworkin is Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law and Philosophy at NYU and Jeremy Bentham Professor of Law and Philosophy at University College London. His books include Is Democracy Possible Here? (2006), Justice in Robes, Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality, and Freedom's Law. He is the 2007 winner of the Ludvig Holberg International Memorial Prize for "his pioneering scholarly work" of "worldwide impact."

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)

Stuart Hampshire, formerly Warden of Wardham College, Oxford, is the author of Spinoza and Justice Is Conflict.(October 2002)

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)

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)

Susan Sontag (1933-2004) was the author of four novels, The Benefactor, Death Kit, The Volcano Lover, and In America, which won the 2000 National Book Award for Fiction; a collection of stories, I, Etcetera; several plays, including Alice in Bed and Lady from the Sea; and seven works of nonfiction, among them Where the Stress Falls and Regarding the Pain of Others. Her books have been translated into thirty-two languages. In 2001, she was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the body of her work; in 2003, she received the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade.

Keith Thomas is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. His books include Religion and the Decline of Magic, Man and the Natural World, and The Oxford Book of Work. (April 2007)

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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