Table of Contents

Volume 26, Number 6 · April 19, 1979

Diane Johnson, Heart of Darkness

The Suicide Cult: The Inside Story of the Peoples Temple Sect and the Massacre in Guyana by Marshall Kilduff, by Ron Javers

Guyana Massacre: The Eyewitness Account by Charles A. Krause, with Lawrence M. Stern, by Richard Harwood, by Frank Johnston

Six Years With God: Life Inside Reverend Jim Jones' Peoples Temple by Jeannie Mills

Hold Hands and Die!: The Incredibly True Story of the People's Temple and the Reverend Jim Jones by John Maguire, by Mary Lee Dunn

V.S. Pritchett, Explosions of Conscience

Lovers of Their Time and Other Stories by William Trevor

Roger Shattuck, Master Classes

Modern Art: 19th and 20th Centuries, Selected Papers, Volume II by Meyer Schapiro

Rosemary Dinnage, No Surrender

Surviving and Other Essays by Bruno Bettelheim

Isaiah Berlin, 'A Revolutionary Without Fanaticism'

Xan Smiley, South Africa: What Is Black?

Black Power in South Africa: The Evolution of an Ideology by Gail M. Gerhart

I Write What I Like by Steve Biko, edited by Aelred Stubbs C.R.

Steve Biko: Black Consciousness in South Africa edited by Millard Arnold

John Richardson, The Sitwell Show

The Sitwells by John Pearson

P.F. Strawson, Take the B Train

Martin Heidegger by George Steiner

On Difficulty and Other Essays by George Steiner

Staughton Lynd, The Fight to Save the Steel Mills

Lawrence Stone, Goodbye to Nearly All That

The Origins of English Individualism: The Family, Property and Social Transition by Alan Macfarlane

Nick Eberstadt, Women and Education in China: How Much Progress?

China as a Model of Development by Al Imfeld

China's Economy and the Maoist Strategy by John G. Gurley

China's Economic Revolution by Alexander Eckstein


Letters

Hilde Bruch, Anorexia
Wolfram F. Hanrieder, Felix Gilbert, The German Problem
David L. Fogelson, Rosemary Dinnage, Anorexia



Contributors

Isaiah Berlin was born in Riga in 1909. In 1916 his family moved to Petrograd, where he witnessed the Russian Revolution, and in 1921 he emigrated to England. He was educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and became a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, where he was later appointed Professor of Social and Political Theory. He served as the first president of Wolfson College, Oxford, and as president of the British Academy. He died in 1997. For more information, see the Isaiah Berlin Virtual Library.

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

Diane Johnson’s new novel, Lulu in Marrakech, will be published this month. (October 2008)

John Richardson's A Life of Picasso, Volume Two, was published in December. Volume One won the Whitbread Prize in England in 1991. (March 1997)

Roger Shattuck is the author of Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography. He has most recently edited new editions of two books by Helen Keller. He is University Professor Emeritus at Boston University. (May 2005)


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