Table of Contents

Volume 26, Number 15 · October 11, 1979

Stephen Jay Gould, Dreamer

Disturbing the Universe by Freeman Dyson

Michael Walzer, Nervous Liberals

The Neoconservatives: The Men Who Are Changing America's Politics by Peter Steinfels

Diane Johnson, She Had It All

My Life by George Sand, translated and adapted by Dan Hofstadter

George Sand in Her Own Words translated and edited by Joseph Barry, introduction by Ellen Moers

The Double Life of George Sand, Woman and Writer by Renee Winegarten

The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters translated by A.L. McKenzie

Richard Murphy, Tony White (poem)

V.S. Naipaul, Argentine Terror: A Memoir

Amnesty International, Amnesty International on Argentina

Michael Wood, Bangs and Whimpers

Apocalypse Now directed by Francis Coppola

Peter Green, Tut-Tut-Tut

Treasures of Tutankhamun with commentary by I.E.S. Edwards, photographs by Lee Boltin

The Gold of Tutankhamun by Arnold C. Brackman, by Kamal El Mallakh, with a preface by William Kelly Simpson

Egyptian Treasures from the Collections of the Brooklyn Museum with commentaries by Robert S. Bianchi, photographs by Seth Jowel

Tutankhamun: His Tomb and His Treasures by I.E.S. Edwards

An Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary by E.A. Wallis Budge

Ramesses the Great, Master of the World by William MacQuitty, foreword by T.G.H. James

The Discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamen by Howard Carter, by A.C. Mace

The Ancient Egyptians: A Sourcebook of Their Writings by Adolf Erman

Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid by Piazzi Smyth

Ancient Egypt by Warner Hutchinson

Red Land, Black Land: Daily Life in Ancient Egypt by Barbara Mertz

Temples, Tombs and Hieroglyphs by Barbara Mertz

The Egyptian Gods: A Handbook by Alan W. Shorter

Egyptian Magic by E. A. Wallis Budge

Egyptian Religion: Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life by E.A. Wallis Budge

Ancient Egypt: A Cultural Topography by Hermann Kees

The Wisdom of the Ancient Egyptians by William MacQuitty

The Egypt Story: Its Art, Its Monuments, Its People, Its History with text by P.H. Newby, photographs by Fred J. Maroon

The Shrines of Tut-Ankh-Amon translated by Alexandre Piankoff, edited by N. Rambova

The First Practical Pyramid Book by Norman Stark

Serpent in the Sky: The High Wisdom of Ancient Egypt by John Anthony West

The Great Pyramid Decoded by Peter Lemesurier

Egypt Before the Pharaohs: The Prehistoric Foundations of Egyptian Civilization by Michael A. Hoffman

Tutankhamun: The Untold Story by Thomas Hoving

Egypt Observed by Henri Gougand, by Colette Gouvion

J.M. Cameron, Cheerful Chronicle

Confessions of a Conservative by Garry Wills

Peter Burke, Back to Burckhardt

Renaissance Man by Agnes Heller, translated by Richard E. Allen

Power and Imagination: City-States in Renaissance Italy by Lauro Martines

David Trainer, Nothing to Lose

Prick Up Your Ears: The Biography of Joe Orton by John Lahr

Richard Storry, Cult of the Sword

Some Japanese Portraits by Donald Keene

Giving Up the Gun: Japan's Reversion to the Sword, 1543-1879 by Noel Perrin

Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai by Tsunetomo Yamamoto, translated by William Scott Wilson

Christopher Logue, 30 out of 600 (poem)

Robert Towers, In the Trap

The Tree House Confessions by James McConkey

Ghost Images by Stephen Minot

Let the Lion Eat Straw by Ellease Southerland

Neal Ascherson, Upward to Defeat

Gladstone: A Progress in Politics by Peter Stansky

Stephen Spender, Meat Loaf

What's for Dinner? by James Schuyler

Paul Feyerabend, Daniel J. Kevles, David Joravsky, Science and Society: An Exchange

---

Letters

Victor Brombert, Hard Marker
Irving Howe, Sidney Morgenbesser, Help Peace Now
Randolph D. Pope, They'll Take Manhattan
Roger Hurwitz, They'll Take Manhattan
John Romano, Joan Didion, They'll Take Manhattan
Peter N. Dunn, Gore Vidal, Hard Marker
Irving Younger, Hard Marker
Nelson Algren, Michael Arlen, et al. Boycott Taba
Ernst Badian, Peter Green, Oracle (cont'd)

---

---

Contributors

Neal Ascherson is the author of The Struggles for Poland, The Black Sea, and Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland. He is the editor of the journal Public Archaeology at University College London. (November 2007)

Stephen Jay Gould teaches Geology, Biology, and the History of Science at Harvard and is the Vincent Astor Visiting Professor of Biology at NYU. His latest book is The Lying Stones of Marrakech. (October 2001)

Peter Green is Dougherty Centennial Professor Emeritus of Classics at the University of Texas at Austin and Adjunct Professor at the University of Iowa. His most recent book is The Hellenistic Age: A Short History. (May 2008)

Diane Johnson is the author, most recently, of Into a Paris Quartier: Reine Margot’s Chapel and Other Haunts of St. Germain. Her latest novel is L’Affaire. (February 2008)

Christopher Logue is the author of All Day Permanent Red: The First Battle Scenes of Homer's Iliad Rewritten, of which the poem in this issue is a part. The new book, just published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, is the latest installment of War Music, an adaptation of the Iliad. His other works include several volumes of poetry, a pornographic novel, and a memoir, Prince Charming. (May 2003)

Richard Murphy's most recent books are Collected Poems and The Kick: A Life Among Writers. (February 2004)

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.

Michael Walzer is Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., and co-editor of Dissent. He is the author of Just and Unjust Wars. (March 2003)

Michael Wood is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge. (April 2008)

Search the Review
Advanced search

---

---