Table of Contents

Volume 25, Number 16 · October 26, 1978

Mihajlo Mihajlov, The Truth About Yugoslavia

The Yugoslavs by Dusko Doder

J.H. Plumb, Easy Living

Life in the English Country House: A Social and Architectural History by Mark Girouard

Frank Kermode, The Quest for the Magical Jesus

Jesus the Magician by Morton Smith

I.F. Stone, The Hope

Alfred J. Ayer, Know Yourself

Programs of the Brain by J.Z. Young

Frederick Seidel, 1968 (poem)

Diane Johnson, Home Remedies

Families by Jane Howard

Sheldon S. Wolin, Stopping to Think

The Life of the Mind; Volume 1, Thinking; Volume 2, Willing by Hannah Arendt

Hannah Arendt, Hannah Arendt: From an Interview

Robert Mazzocco, On Apollinaire

Rosemary Dinnage, Downtown

The Child in the City by Colin Ward

Xan Smiley, Rhodesia: The Coming Chaos

Roger Sale, Portrait of the Artist

Fools Die by Mario Puzo

Ronald Dworkin, The Rights of Myron Farber

Leo Marx, The Two Thoreaus

Young Man Thoreau by Richard Lebeaux

Lawrence Stone, Death in New England

The Puritan Way of Death: A Study in Religion, Culture, and Social Change by David E. Stannard

Geoffrey Barraclough, Waiting for the New Order

The Vast Majority: A Journey to the World's Poor by Michael Harrington

1980s Project of the Council on Foreign Relations: Rich and Poor Nations in the World Economy by Albert Fishlow, by Carlos Diaz-Alejandro, by Richard R. Fagen, by Roger D. Hansen

Reducing Global Inequalities by W. Howard Wriggins, by Gunnar Adler-Karlsson

The Evolution of the International Economic Order by W. Arthur Lewis

The Editors, Short Reviews

The Dionne Years: A Thirties Melodrama by Pierre Berton

Visions of Glory: A History and a Memory of Jehovah's Witnesses by Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

The Horse of Pride: Life in a Breton Village by Pierre-Jakez Hélias, translated and abridged by June Guicharnaud

The Pesticide Conspiracy by Robert van den Bosch


Letters

Lore Henlein, Catastrophe Publishers
Robert S. McElvaine, Garry Wills, Hyperopia



Contributors

Rosemary Dinnage's books include The Ruffian on the Stair, One to One: Experiences of Psychotherapy, and Annie Besant.

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."

Diane Johnson’s new novel, Lulu in Marrakech, will be published this month. (October 2008)

Frank Kermode lives in Cambridge, England. His most recent book is The Age of Shakespeare. (October 2008)

Leo Marx is the Kenan Professor of American Cultural History (Emeritus) at MIT and most recently the editor, with Bruce Mazlish, of Progress:Fact or Illusion? (July 1999)

Frederick Seidel's latest collection, Ooga-Booga, received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for poetry. (September 2007)

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.


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