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Volume 26, Number 19 · December 6, 1979

Diane Johnson, Death for Sale

The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer

James Merrill, Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)

Bruce Chatwin, Variations on an Idée Fixe

The Year of the Greylag Goose by Konrad Lorenz, translated by Robert Martin, photographs by Sybille Kalas, by Klaus Kalas

Irving Howe, Last Exit to LA

The Apathetic Bookie Joint by Daniel Fuchs

Neal Ascherson, The War that Made South Africa

The Boer War by Thomas Pakenham

Stanley Hoffmann, The Case of Dr. Kissinger

White House Years by Henry Kissinger

Darryl Pinckney, Blues for Mr. Baldwin

Just Above My Head by James Baldwin

Edward Rothstein, The Dream of Mind and Machine

Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter

Harry Levin, I. A. Richards (1893–1979)

Nigel Dennis, Smiles in the Dark

Darkness Visible by William Golding

Elaine H. Pagels, The Defeat of the Gnostics

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Letters

Adam B. Ulam, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Dubious Battles
Burton Raffel, Kill the Killers?
John Arsenian, Graham Hughes, Kill the Killers?
Morris Philipson, Vive Leroy
Edward Albee, Christian Anfinsen, et al. Free the Czechs

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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)

Stanley Hoffmann is Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor at Harvard. His forthcoming book is Chaos and Violence. (August 2006)

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)

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 The poem in this issue appears in Last Poems, a collection of previously unpublished work, just published by Thornwillow Press.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)

Darryl Pinckney is the author of a novel, High Cotton, and Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature.

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