Table of Contents

Volume 26, Number 3 · March 8, 1979

John K. Fairbank, The New Two China Problem

Chinese Economy Post-Mao, A Compendium of Papers Volume 1: Policy and Performance States, November 9, 1978. printed for the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United

The Future of China: After Mao by Ross Terrill

China: The People's Republic, 1949-1976 by Jean Chesneaux, translated by Paul Auster, by Lydia Davis

The Case of the Gang of Four: With First Translation of Teng Hsiao-ping's "Three Poisonous Weeds" by Chi Hsin

China Since Mao by Charles Bettelheim, by Neil G. Burton

Teng Hsiao-ping: A Political Biography by Chi Hsin

Opposition and Dissent in Contemporary China by Peter R. Moody

Feminism and Socialism in China by Elisabeth Croll

Political Imprisonment in the People's Republic of China An Amnesty International Report

Mary McCarthy, F. W. Dupee 1904–1979

Robert Towers, In Extremis

Birdy by William Wharton

The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Hoover Makes a Comeback

Herbert Hoover: A Public Life by David Burner

George W. Norris: The Triumph of a Progressive, 1933-1944 by Richard Lowitt

"Young Bob" La Follette: A Biography of Robert M. La Follette, Jr. 1895-1953 by Patrick J. Maney

Alison Lurie, Braking for Elves

The World Guide to Gnomes, Fairies, Elves, and Other Little People by Thomas Keightley

A Field Guide to the Little People by Nancy Arrowsmith, by George Moore

The Fairies in Tradition and Literature by Katharine Briggs

Faeries described and illustrated by Brian Froud, by Alan Lee, edited and designed by David Larkin

Gnomes by Wil Huygen, with illustrations by Rien Poortvliet

The Vanishing People: Fairy Lore and Legends by Katharine Briggs

Fairy Tales and After: From Snow White to E.B. White by Roger Sale

An Encyclopedia of Fairies: Hobgoblins, Brownies, Bogies and Other Supernatural Creatures by Katharine Briggs

Michael Wood, Vulgar Marxism

Groucho by Hector Arce

D.S. Carne-Ross, Lowell and the Furies

The Oresteia of Aeschylus translated by Robert Lowell

Albert Hourani, The Road to Morocco

Orientalism by Edward Said

Christopher Middleton, Neighing in the Wind

Hermann Hesse: Biography and Bibliography by Joseph Mileck

Hermann Hesse: Pilgrim of Crisis, A Biography by Ralph Freedman

John Phillips, Dear Parrot

John Pope-Hennessy, A Revolutionary Artist

Antonio and Piero Pollaiuolo: Complete Edition with a Critical Catalogue by Leopold D. Ettlinger

Bernard Avishai, In Cold Blood

A Time of Terror: How Democratic Societies Respond to Revolutionary Violence by J. Bowyer Bell

The Ultimate Weapon: Terrorists and World Order by Jan Schreiber

The Gun and the Olive Branch: The Roots of Violence in the Middle East by David Hirst

Lawrence K. Karlton, Marjorie Brown Roy, Raphael Sealey, et al. Criminal Violence: An Exchange

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Letters

Bernard F. Dick, Peter Green, Waxing Lyric
Edward Mendelson, John Bayley, Spender & Auden
Jessica Mitford, Julian Symons, Foiled

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Contributors

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)

Mary McCarthy (1912-1989) was a novelist, essayist, and critic. Her political and social commentary, literary essays, and drama criticism appeared in magazines such as Partisan Review, The New Yorker, Harper's, and The New York Review of Books, and were collected in On the Contrary (1961), Mary McCarthy's Theatre Chronicles 1937-1962 (1963), The Writing on the Wall (1970), Ideas and the Novel (1980), and Occasional Prose (1985). Her novels include The Company She Keeps (1942), The Oasis (1949), The Groves of Academe (1952), A Charmed Life (1955), The Group (1963), Birds of America (1971), and Cannibals and Missionaries (1971). She was the author of three works of autobiography, Memories of a Catholic Girlhood (1957), How I Grew (1987), and the unfinished Intellectual Memoirs (1992), and two travel books about Italy, Venice Observed (1956) and The Stones of Florence (1959). Her essays on the Vietnam War were collected in The Seventeenth Degree (1974); her essays on Watergate were collected in The Mask of State (1974).

Christopher Middleton (b. 1926) is a poet, essayist, and translator. He teaches Germanic languages and literature at the University of Texas at Austin and has translated numerous works, including Jakob von Gunten by Robert Walser.

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., the author of numerous books on American history, served as adviser to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. He died this year. His Journals: 1952– 2000, from which an excerpt appears in this issue, will be published in October by Penguin. (October 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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