Table of Contents
Volume 25, Number 17 · November 9, 1978
Robert Towers, Light Touch 
The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever
Wilfrid Sheed, Brass Bands and Raspberries
In Search of History: A Personal Adventure by Theodore H. White
Make-Believe Presidents: Illusions of Power from McKinley to Carter by Nicholas von Hoffman
Lewis Thomas, The Big C
Conquering Cancer by Lucien Israël, translated by Joan Pinkham
Stanley Hoffmann, Who Said No?
Resistance in Vichy France: A Study of Ideas and Motivation in the Southern Zone 1940-1942 by H.R. Kedward
Robert W. Gutman, Notes from Valhalla
Cosima Wagner's Diaries: Volume 1, 1869-1877 edited by Martin Gregor-Dellin, by Dietrich Mack, translated with an introduction by Geoffrey Skelton
Karl Miller, Ladies in Distress
Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym
The Bad Sister by Emma Tennant
Great Granny Webster by Caroline Blackwood
Robert Penn Warren, Better Than Counting Sheep (poem)
W.H.C. Frend, The Lost Cause
Julian the Apostate by G.W. Bowersock
Name Withheld, Getting Along in Czechoslovakia
A.J. Liehm, The Persecution of Jiri Grusa
George M. Fredrickson, A Founding Family
Chariot of Fire: Religion and the Beecher Family by Marie Caskey
Henry Ward Beecher: Spokesman for a Middle-Class America by Clifford E. Clark Jr.
Noel Annan, While England Sleeps
The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister Volume III, Secretary of State for Social Services, 1968-1970 by Richard Crossman
Sybille Bedford, On the Go
In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin
Frank Kermode, St. Mark on Broadway
St. Mark's Gospel a solo performance by Alec McCowen
Geoffrey Barraclough, The Struggle for the Third World
The Future of the World Economy by Wassily Leontief
The Evolution of the International Economic Order by W. Arthur Lewis
Rich and Poor Nations in the World Economy by Albert Fishlow, by Carlos Díaz-Alejandro, by Richard R. Fagen, by Rogert D. Hansen
The Editors, Short Reviews
A Just Measure of Pain: The Penitentiary in the Industrial Revolution 1750-1850 by Michael Ignatieff
Elusive Victory: The Arab-Israeli Wars, 1947-1974 by Trevor N. Dupuy
Letters
Paul Griffiths, Robert Craft, To Criticize the Critic
John Beverley, Blood and Jobs
Contributors
Noel Annan is the author of Leslie Stephen and Our Age, among other books. (October 1999)