Table of Contents

Volume 26, Number 4 · March 22, 1979

A.J.P. Taylor, War in Our Time

Munich: The Price of Peace by Telford Taylor

V.S. Naipaul, Indian Art and Its Illusions

Much Maligned Monsters: The History of European Reactions to Indian Art by Partha Mitter

The Classical Tradition in Rajput Painting by Pratapaditya Pal

Coomaraswamy Vol.3: His Life and Work by Roger Lipsey. (Reviewed by Philip Rawson The New York Review, February 22, 1979)

Room for Wonder: Indian Painting During the British Period, 1760-1880 by Stuart Cary Welch

A Historical Atlas of South Asia edited by Joseph E. Schwartzberg

Indian Painting by Toby Falk, by Robert Skelton

Imperial Mughal Painting by Stuart Cary Welch

Indian Medieval Sculpture by Aschwin de Lippe

Quentin Skinner, Taking Off

World Accumulation, 1492-1789 by Andre Gunder Frank

Kings or People: Power and the Mandate to Rule by Reinhard Bendix

The General Crisis of the Seventeenth Century edited by Geoffrey Parker, edited by Lesley M. Smith

Juan Goytisolo, 20 Years of Castro's Revolution

The Unsuspected Revolution: The Birth and Rise of Castroism by Mario Llerena

Diary of the Cuban Revolution Seaver/Viking Press book next fall) by Carlos Franqui

Cuba: Order and Revolution by Jorge I. Domínguez

Edgar Johnson, Dickens on the Barricades

Dickens and Charity by Norris Pope

The Supernatural Short Stories of Charles Dickens edited by Michael Hayes

Dickens on America and the Americans edited by Michael Slater

Frederick Seidel, Men and Woman (poem)

Peter Singer, Human Prospecting

The Arrogance of Humanism by David Ehrenfeld

The Paradox of Cause and Other Essays by John William Miller

The Illusion of Technique: A Search for Meaning in a Technological Civilization by William Barrett

George B. Kistiakowsky, False Alarm: The Story Behind Salt II

Vernon Young, A Drowned Talent

The Collected Poems of Weldon Kees edited by Donald Justice

Robert Craft, From the Vedas to Wagner: Short Reviews

Samavedic Chant by Wayne Howard

Wagner's "Rienzi": A Reappraisal Based on a Study of Sketches and Drafts by John Deathridge

Bruckner Box 327, Totowa, New Jersey 07511) by Derek Watson

The Harmonic Organization of "The Rite of Spring" by Allen Forte

Jean-Baptiste Lully: The Founder of French Opera by R.H.F. Scott

Vivaldi by Michael Talbot

Tchaikovsky by John Warrack

Tchaikovsky: The Early Years, 1840-1874 by David Brown

Jonathan D. Spence, Why Confucius Counts

Escape from Predicament: Neo-Confucianism and China's Evolving Political Culture by Thomas A. Metzger

W. Arens, Marshall Sahlins, Cannibalism: An Exchange

Vaclav Havel, Kicking the Door


Letters

Perry T. Rathbone, Edmund S. Morgan, The Witch Trials
Steven Gould Axelrod, Helen Vendler, Lowell Criticism
L.C. Breunig, Robert Mazzocco, The Source of Sur-Realism



Contributors

Robert Craft was awarded the International Prix du Disque at the Cannes Music Festival for 2002.(May 2002)

Juan Goytisolo was born in Barcelona in 1931 and now lives in Marrakesh. He is the author of many novels, including Marks of Identity, Count Julian, Juan the Landless, and The Garden of Secrets, as well as two volumes of autobiography.

Vaclav Havel, one of the six signers of the statement “Tibet: The Peace of the Graveyard,” is former president of the Czech Republic. (May 2008)

V. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932 and emigrated to England in 1950, when he won a scholarship to University College, Oxford. He is the author of many novels, including A House for Mr. Biswas, A Bend in the River, and In a Free State, which won the Booker Prize. He has also written several nonfiction works based on his travels, including India: A Million Mutinies Now and Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples. He was knighted in 1990 and in 1993 was the first recipient of the David Cohen British Literature Prize.

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

Peter Singer is Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University.

Quentin Skinner is Regius Professor of History at Cambridge University. His most recent books are Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes and Liberty Before Liberalism. (November 2000)

Jonathan Spence teaches modern Chinese history at Yale. His latest book is Return to Dragon Mountain: Memories of a Late Ming Man. He gave this year’s Reith Lectures for the BBC. (August 2008)


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