Table of Contents

Volume 26, Number 21 & 22 · January 24, 1980

Clifford Geertz, Sociosexology

The Evolution of Human Sexuality by Donald Symons

Virgil Thomson, A Good Writer

Janet Flanner's World: Uncollected Writings 1932-1975 edited by Irving Drutman, introduction by William Shawn

The Cubical City by Janet Flanner

Pétain: The Old Man of France by Janet Flanner

Paris Journal: Vol. II, 1965-1971 by Janet Flanner, edited by William Shawn

Paris Journal: Vol. I, 1944-1965 by Janet Flanner, edited by William Shawn

Men and Monuments by Janet Flanner

An American in Paris by Janet Flanner

Paris Was Yesterday, 1925-1939 by Janet Flanner, edited by Irving Drutman

London Was Yesterday, 1934-1939 by Janet Flanner, edited by Irving Drutman

Robert Craft, Notes from the Composer

Testimony: The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich as related to and edited by Solomon Volkov, translated by Antonina W. Bouis

Prokofiev by Prokofiev: A Composer's Memoir edited by David H. Appel, translated by Guy Daniels

O I.F. Stravinskom y ego Blizkikh by Kseniya Iur'evna Stravinskaya

Thomas Sheehan, Paris: Moses and Polytheism

Barbarism with a Human Face by Bernard-Henri Lévy, translated by George Holoch

Le testament de Dieu by Bernard-Henri Lévy

Vu de droite by Alain de Benoist

Les idées à l'endroit by Alain de Benoist

Millicent Bell, The Education of Clover Adams

Clover by Otto Friedrich

Abram Tertz, Beasts and Men

Faithful Ruslan: The Story of a Guard Dog by Georgi Vladimov, translated by Michael Glenny

William Shawcross, The End of Cambodia?

Frederick Seidel, Homage to Cicero (poem)

V.S. Pritchett, Shredded Novels

In Between the Sheets and Other Stories by Ian McEwan

From the Fifteenth District by Mavis Gallant

James Joll, The Old Diplomacy

The Decline of Bismarck's European Order: Franco-Russian Relations, 1875-1890 by George F. Kennan

Denis Donoghue, Sign Language

As We Know by John Ashbery

Quentin Skinner, Duellist

Reappraisals in History: New Views on History and Society in Early Modern Europe by J.H. Hexter

On Historians: Reappraisals of Some of the Masters of Modern History by J.H. Hexter

Phyllis Grosskurth, The Sad Years

The Letters of Virginia Woolf Volume V: 1932-1935 edited by Nigel Nicolson, edited by Joanne Trautmann

The Wise Virgins: A Story of Words, Opinions and a few Emotions by Leonard Woolf

Michael Wood, The Claims of Mischief

The Buenos Aires Affair by Manuel Puig, translated by Suzanne Jill Levine

In Evil Hour by Gabriel García Márquez, translated by Gregory Rabassa

Captain Pantoja and the Special Service by Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Gregory Kolovakos, by Ronald Christ

The Cubs and Other Stories by Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Gregory Kolovakos, by Ronald Christ

Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig, translated by Thomas Colchie

Stephen Jay Gould, The Middle Way

Advice to a Young Scientist by P.B. Medawar

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Letters

Alfred J. Ayer, Heinrich Boell, et al. The Flying University
Norman Dorsen, James Wolcott, Active Vonnegut
John Taft, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Kennan Vs. Bohlen?
Robert Hughes, He Was French

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Contributors

Millicent Bell is Professor of English Emerita at Boston University. She is the author of Meaning in Henry James and the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Edith Wharton. (May 1998)

Robert Craft was awarded the International Prix du Disque at the Cannes Music Festival for 2002.(May 2002)

Denis Donoghue is University Professor at NYU, where he holds the Henry James Chair of English and American Letters. He is the author of The Practice of Reading, Words Alone: The Poet T.S. Eliot, and, most recently, The American Classics. (October 2006)

Clifford Geertz is Professor Emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He is the author of, among other works, The Social History of an Indonesian Town and Negara: The Balinese State in the Nineteenth Century. (March 2006)

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)

Frederick Seidel’s Poems, 1959–2009 was published this year. (October 2009)

William Shawcross is the author of several books on Cambodia. (December 1996)

Thomas Sheehan is Professor of Religious Studies at Stanford University. (December 2001)

Quentin Skinner is Regius Professor of History at Cambridge University. His most recent books are Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes and Liberty Before Liberalism. (November 2000)

Michael Wood is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge. (September 2009)

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