Table of Contents

Volume 26, Number 7 · May 3, 1979

Robert Towers, Flannery O'Connor's Gifts

The Habit of Being letters by Flannery O'Connor, edited and with an introduction by Sally Fitzgerald

Robert Mazzocco, Ceremony (poem)

Jane Kramer, Timely Griefs

A Dangerous Place by Daniel Patrick Moynihan, with Suzanne Weaver

James Merrill, Helen Vendler, James Merrill's Myth: An Interview

James Merrill, A Sample Seance: the Excursion to Ephesus (poem)

J.M. Cameron, Where the New Pope Stands

The Year of Three Popes by Peter Hebblethwaite

Voices of Authority by Nicholas Lash

The Dilemmas of Contemporary Religion by David Martin

Illustrissimi: Letters from Pope John Paul I by Albino Luciani, translated by William Weaver

The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine Vol. III: The Growth of Medieval Theology (600-1300) by Jaroslav Pelikan

Easter Vigil and Other Poems by Karol Wojtyla, translated by Jerzy Peterkiewicz

Sign of Contradiction by Karol Wojtyla

Julian Symons, Gissing and the Cruelty of Life

London and the Life of Literature in Late Victorian England: The Diary of George Gissing, Novelist edited by Pierre Coustillas

Andrew Hacker, Divorce à la Mode

Husbands and Wives: A Nation-wide Survey of Marriage by Anthony Pietropinto, by Jacqueline Simenauer

The Extra-Sex Factor: Why Over Half of America's Married Men Play Around by Lewis Yablonsky

Current Population Reports: Series P-20 Bureau of the Census No.323: Marital Status and Living Arrangements

Current Population Reports: Series P-20 Bureau of the Census Characteristics No.312: Marriage, Divorce, Widowhood and Remarriage by Family

Current Population Reports: Series P-20 Bureau of the Census United States No.297: Number, Timing and Duration of Marriages and Divorces in the

V.S. Naipaul, The Flight from the Fire

David Brion Davis, Marlboro Country

History of the Westward Movement by Frederick Merk

Caroline Blackwood, Liverpool: Notes from Underground

John Bayley, The Broken Spine

Andrei Platonov: Collected Works

Chevengur by Andrei Platonov, translated by Anthony Olcott

Isaac Babel: The Forgotten Prose translated by Nicholas Stroud

Nick Eberstadt, China: How Much Success?

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

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Letters

Peter R. Moody, John K. Fairbank, China Watching
James D. Seymour, John K. Fairbank, China Watching
Richard Pipes, Hard Lines
Cushing Strout, Peter Singer, 'The Paradox of Cause'
Kenneth Koch, Edward W. Said, et al. Memorial for F.W. Dupee
Dan E. Moldea, Hoffa and JFK

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Contributors

John Bayley has written two books about his wife, the novelist Iris Murdoch, Elegy for Iris and Iris and Her Friends. (July 2004)

Caroline Blackwood (1931-1996) was born into a rich Anglo-Irish aristocratic family. She rebelled against her background at an early age and led a hectic and bohemian life, which included marriages to the painter Lucian Freud, the pianist and composer Israel Citkowitz, and the poet Robert Lowell. In the 1970s Blackwood began to write. Among her books are several novels, including Great Granny Webster and Corrigan (both available as NYRB Classics); On the Perimeter, an account of the women's anti-nuclear protest at Greenham Common; and The Last of the Duchess, about the old age of the Duchess of Windsor.

David Brion Davis is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale and Director Emeritus of Yale’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. His most recent book is Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World. (May 2007)

Andrew Hacker teaches political science at Queens College. He is currently writing a book on higher education in collaboration with Claudia Dreifus. (September 2008)

James Merrill died in 1995. The poem in this issue appears in Last Poems, a collection of previously unpublished work, just published by Thornwillow Press. (December 1998)

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.

Helen Vendler is the author, most recently, of Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form. She is preparing for publication her recent Mellon Lectures, entitled Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill. (June 2008)

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