Table of Contents

Volume 26, Number 20 · December 20, 1979

Gore Vidal, Paradise Regained

Shikasta by Doris Lessing

Rosemary Dinnage, Re-creating Eve

The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination by Sandra M. Gilbert, by Susan Gubar

Robert O. Paxton, Web-Footed Gentry

The Birds of Paradise and Bower Birds by William T. Cooper, by Joseph M. Forshaw

The Herons of the World by James Hancock, by Hugh Elliott, paintings by Robert Gillmor, by Peter Hayman

Eleanora's Falcon: Adaptations to Prey and Habitat in a Social Raptor by Hartmut Walter

Manual of Neo-Tropical Birds, Volume I by Emmett Reid Blake

Rails of the World by S. Dillon Ripley, paintings by J. Fenwick Lansdowne

The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Birds: Eastern Region by John Bull, by John Farrand Jr.

Western Region by Miklos D.F. Udvardy

Joseph Brodsky, From a Part of Speech (poem)

C. Vann Woodward, Playing Hooky

America Revised: History Schoolbooks in the Twentieth Century by Frances FitzGerald

Robert Hughes, Only in America

Bernard Berenson: The Making of a Connoisseur by Ernest Samuels

Being Bernard Berenson by Meryle Secrest

Robert Towers, Return to Sender

Letters by John Barth

Peter Huchel, Weeds (poem)

M.F.K. Fisher, The Indigestible

Ronald Dworkin, How to Read the Civil Rights Act

J.H. Plumb, Un-Kinglike King

Royal Charles: Charles II and the Restoration by Antonia Fraser

Peter Singer, On Your Marx

Marx and History: From Primitive Society to the Communist Future by D. Ross Gandy

Marx's Interpretation of History by Melvin Rader

Karl Marx's Theory of History: A Defence by G.A. Cohen

Marx's Theory of History by William H. Shaw

Irvin Ehrenpreis, The Powers of Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope: The Poet in the Poems by Dustin H. Griffin

Alexander Pope and the Arts of Georgian England by Morris R. Brownell

Bernard Avishai, Whose Peace Now?

Ernst Badian, Alexander's Mules

Alexander the Great and the Logistics of the Macedonian Army by Donald W. Engels

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Letters

William O. McCagg, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Bizarre Behavior
John Anthony West, Peter Green, The Secrets of the Pyramids
Allan Solomonow, In Egypt's Prisons
Walter L. Arnstein, Neal Ascherson, The Bullet of Devolution
Norris Smith, Still in Print

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Contributors

Joseph Brodsky was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987. His Collected Poems in English will be published next spring. He died in 1996. (January 2000)

Rosemary Dinnage's books include The Ruffian on the Stair, One to One: Experiences of Psychotherapy, and Annie Besant.

Ronald Dworkin is Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law and Philosophy at NYU and Jeremy Bentham Professor of Law and Philosophy at University College London. His books include Is Democracy Possible Here? (2006), Justice in Robes, Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality, and Freedom's Law. He is the 2007 winner of the Ludvig Holberg International Memorial Prize for "his pioneering scholarly work" of "worldwide impact."

Robert Hughes's most recent book, Things I Didn’t Know, a memoir, was published last fall. (September 2007)

Robert O. Paxton is Mellon Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus at Columbia. His latest book is The Anatomy of Fascism. (March 2008)

Peter Singer is Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University.

Gore Vidal's most recent novel is The Golden Age. (February 2002)

C. Vann Woodward is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. His many books include Mary Chesnut's Civil War and The Old World's New World. (February 1998)

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