Table of Contents

Volume 26, Number 1 · February 8, 1979

Helen Vendler, Pudding Stone

Robert Lowell: Life and Art by Steven Gould Axelrod

Nicholas von Hoffman, I'll Take My Stans

The Terrors of Justice: The Untold Side of Watergate by Maurice H. Stans

Peter Green, The Masks of Mary Renault

The Praise Singer by Mary Renault

Frederic Wakeman, Lost China

The Face of China as Seen by Photographers and Travelers, 1860-1912 preface by L. Carrington Goodrich, commentary by Nigel Cameron

China in Old Photographs, 1860-1910 by Burton F. Beers

Garry Wills, How Carter Hangs On

Rosemary Dinnage, The Corruption of Love

The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch

Praxis by Fay Weldon

Jerome Karabel, The Reasons Why

Why Is There No Socialism in the United States? by Werner Sombart, translated by Patricia M. Hocking, by C.T. Husbands

John Russell, Life Studies

The Three Worlds of Leonid by Leonid Berman, preface by Virgil Thomson, translated by Olivier Bernier

Abraham Brumberg, The Open Political Struggle in Poland

Thomas R. Edwards, Terror in Freedonia

Cartel by Edward Jay Epstein

The Carlos Contract: A Novel of International Terrorism by David Atlee Phillips

Death of a Politician by Richard Condon

Smoke: Another Jimmy Carter Adventure by Alexander Cockburn, by James Ridgeway

Irvin Ehrenpreis, Jane Austen and Heroism

Lee Seldes, Harriet Van Horne, Robert Hughes, Mark Rothko: An Exchange

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Letters

Peter Wirth, Frederick C. Crews, Partisans
Morton Smith, Frank Kermode, Under the Sheet

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Contributors

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

Thomas R. Edwards is Emeritus Professor of English at Rutgers and a former editor of Raritan. His most recent book is Over Here: Criticizing America, 1968–1989. (June 2004)

Peter Green is Dougherty Centennial Professor Emeritus of Classics at the University of Texas at Austin and Adjunct Professor at the University of Iowa. His most recent book is The Hellenistic Age: A Short History. (May 2008)

John Russell was formerly Chief Art Critic of The New York Times, to which he continues to be a contributor. He is at work on a short history of the museum since 1800. (March 2003)

Helen Vendler’s recent Mellon Lectures, entitled Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill, will be published in 2009. (November 2008)

Garry Wills was born in Atlanta, Georgia. One of our most distinguished historians and critics, he is the author of numerous books, including Saint Augustine, Papal Sin, and the Pulitzer Prize–winning Lincoln at Gettysburg. He has won many other awards, among them two National Book Critics Circle Awards and the 1998 National Medal for the Humanities. He is currently Professor of History Emeritus at Northwestern University. A regular contributor to the New York Review of Books, he lives in Evanston, Illinois.

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