Table of Contents
Volume 26, Number 9 · May 31, 1979
Hugh Trevor-Roper, The Papal Papers 
Catholicism and History: The Opening of the Vatican Archives by Owen Chadwick
John Thompson, Bankruptcy and Revolt
A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul
Michael Wood, Forbidden Fruit
Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille, translated by Joachim Neugroschel
Blue of Noon by Georges Bataille, translated by Harry Mathews
Charles Rosen, Too Much Opera?
The Operas of Alessandro Scarlatti, Vol. I: Eraclea edited by Donald Jay Grout
The Operas of Alessandro Scarlatti, Vol. II: Marco Attilio Regolo edited by Donald Jay Grout, edited by Joscelyn Godwin
The Operas of Alessandro Scarlatti, Vol. IV: The Faithful Princess edited by Donald Jay Grout
The Operas of Alessandro Scarlatti, Vol. V: Massimo Puppieno edited by Donald Jay Grout, edited by H. Colin Slim
The Operas of Alessandro Scarlatti, Vol. III: Griselda edited by Donald Jay Grout
Italian Opera 1640-1770 edited by Howard M. Brown
Nicholas von Hoffman, The Solid Gold Cornflake
Empire: The Life, Legend and Madness of Howard Hughes by Donald L. Barlett, by James B. Steele
Robert Darnton, The Rise of the Writer
Writer and Public in France: From the Middle Ages to the Present Day by John Lough
Le Siècle des lumières en province: Académies et académiciens provinciaux, 1680-1789 by Daniel Roche
Lev Lifshitz-Losev, Books as Vodka
Robert Mazzocco, Embracing Adversity
The Star-Apple Kingdom by Derek Walcott
Bernard Avishai, Begin vs. Begin
Ellen Moers, Mr. Right
The George Eliot Letters: Volume VIII: 1840-1870, Supplementary Letters Volume IX: 1871-1881, Supplementary Letters, Agenda and Corrigenda, Indexes to Volumes 1-9 edited by Gordon S. Haight
Sherry Turkle, Richard Wollheim, Lacan: An Exchange
Letters
Joseph Alper, Jon Beckwith, et al. The Politics of Sociobiology
W.W. Bartley III, Jonathan Lieberson, Deep-Est
Contributors
Charles Rosen's most recent book is Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist. (February 2008)