Table of Contents

Volume 25, Number 19 · December 7, 1978

Leonard Schapiro, A Shameful Story

The Secret Betrayal by Nikolai Tolstoy

Leon Wieseltier, The Revenge of I. B. Singer

Shosha by Isaac Bashevis Singer

Gimpel the Fool by Isaac Bashevis Singer

A Young Man in Search of Love by Isaac Bashevis Singer

Joseph Brodsky, Mexican Divertimento (poem)

J.H. Elliott, Global Vision

The Times Atlas of World History edited by Geoffrey Barraclough

Irvin Ehrenpreis, The Music of Suffering

The Composition of Four Quartets by Helen Gardner

Remembering Poets: Reminiscences and Opinions by Donald Hall

Kevin Buckley, Vietnam: The Defense's Case

America in Vietnam by Guenter Lewy

V.S. Pritchett, Contradictory Kipling

Rudyard Kipling by Lord Birkenhead

Alison Lurie, From Rags to Rags

The Woman's Dress for Success Book by John T. Molloy

Seeing Through Clothes by Anne Hollander

Mirror, Mirror: A Social History of Fashion by Michael Batterberry, by Ariane Batterberry

Avedon: Photographs 1947-1977 with an essay by Harold Brodkey

In Fashion: Dress in the Twentieth Century by Prudence Glynn, illustrated by Madeleine Ginsburg

C. Vann Woodward, A Dredful Decision

The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics by Don E. Fehrenbacher

Douglas Cooper, The Erratic Magpie

"The Noble Buyer": John Quinn, Patron of the Avant-Garde by Judith Zilczer

Irving Howe, Ragged Individualist

The Last Romantic: A Life of Max Eastman by William L. O'Neill

Christopher Hill, Scientists in Society

Robert Boyle and the English Revolution by J.R. Jacob

The Newtonians and the English Revolution: 1689-1720 by Margaret C. Jacob

Virginia Held, John L. Hess, Frederick F. Schauer, et al. The Rights of M.A. Farber: An Exchange


Letters

Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Lawrence Stone, Tuchman and History
Jose Luis Aranguren, Jose Maria Castellet, et al. In a Cuban Prison
Douglas J. Stewart, Frank Kermode, Jesus and Adam
Armistead M. Lee, Geoffrey Barraclough, The Congo Desk



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)

J. H. Elliott is Regius Professor Emeritus of Modern History at the University of Oxford. His books include The Count-Duke of Olivares and Spain and Its World. Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1492– 1830 has just been published. (June 2006)

Alison Lurie is the author of two collections of essays on children’s literature, Don’t Tell the Grownups and Boys and Girls Forever. She is a former professor of English at Cornell and has published nine novels, of which the most recent is Truth and Consequences. (May 2008)

C. Vann Woodward is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. His many books include Mary Chesnut's Civil War and The Old World's New World. (February 1998)


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