Table of Contents

Volume 26, Number 12 · July 19, 1979

V.S. Pritchett, The Ten-Year-Old Man

Dickens: A Life by Norman MacKenzie, by Jeanne MacKenzie

John Kenneth Galbraith, How to Get Ahead: From an Address to the Yale Graduating Class

Leonard Schapiro, Rewriting the Russian Rules

How the Soviet Union Is Governed by Jerry F. Hough, by Merle Fainsod

Leonard Schapiro, Max Hayward (1924–1979)

Robert Towers, Stingo's Story

Sophie's Choice by William Styron

Noel Annan, Victorian Swish

For Queen and Country: Britain in the Victorian Age by Margaret Drabble

George Eliot and the Novel of Vocation by Alan Mintz

The Healthy Body and Victorian Culture by Bruce Haley

The English Vice: Beating, Sex and Shame in Victorian England and After by lan Gibson

Robert Penn Warren, Trips to California (poem)

Xan Smiley, Rhodesia: Can the Bishop Win?

Nicholas von Hoffman, Red Flannel Days

A Time to Heal: The Autobiography of Gerald R. Ford

Confession and Avoidance: A Memoir by Leon Jaworski, with Mickey Herskowitz

A Time for Truth by William E. Simon

To Set the Record Straight: The Break-in, the Tapes, the Conspirators, the Pardon by John J. Sirica

Martha: The Life of Martha Mitchell by Winzola McLendon

Edmund S. Morgan, The Chosen People

Intellectual Life in the Colonial South, 1585-1763 by Richard Beale Davis

The American Jeremiad by Sacvan Bercovitch

Kenneth Koch, The Simplicity of the Unknown Past (poem)

Harry Levin, A Contest Between Conjurors

The Nabokov-Wilson Letters: Correspondence Between Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson, 1940-1971 edited, annotated, and with an introductory essay by Simon Karlinsky

Frank Kermode, The Lattimore Version

The Four Gospels and the Revelation translated by Richmond Lattimore

Raymond Carr, The Red and the White

Blood of Spain: An Oral History of the Spanish Civil War by Ronald Fraser

Thomas R. Edwards, Feeding on Fantasy

Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien

Incandescence by Craig Nova

Mulligan Stew by Gilbert Sorrentino

Marc Blecher, Charles J. Coe, Werner Cohn, et al. Has China Failed? An Exchange


Letters

Carl Faith, Lev Lifshitz-Losev, A Satisfied Author
Mihajlo Mihajlov, The Yugoslav Dissidents
Darina Silone, Silone's Archive



Contributors

Noel Annan is the author of Leslie Stephen and Our Age, among other books. (October 1999)

Raymond Carr was Warden of St. Antony's College, Oxford, and has written extensively on modern Spanish history. (April 2003)

Thomas R. Edwards is Emeritus Professor of English at Rutgers and a former editor of Raritan. His most recent book is Over Here: Criticizing America, 1968–1989. (June 2004)

Frank Kermode lives in Cambridge, England. His most recent book is The Age of Shakespeare. (May 2008)

Kenneth Koch died on July 6. He was Professor of English at Columbia. During his lifetime, he published at least thirty volumes of poetry and plays. He was also the author of a novel, The Red Robins; two books on teaching poetry writing to children, Wishes, Lies, and Dreams and Rose, Where Did You Get That Red?; and I Never Told Anybody: Teaching Poetry Writing in a Nursing Home. A new collection of his poetry, A Possible World, and Sun Out: Selected Poems 1952–54, will be published this fall. (August 2002)

Edmund S. Morgan is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. His most recent book, The Genuine Article: A Historian Looks at Early America, was published in 2004. (September 2007)


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