Table of Contents

Volume 27, Number 1 · February 7, 1980

Anthony Lewis, Supreme Court Confidential

The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court by Bob Woodward, by Scott Armstrong

Helen Vendler, Poet's Gallery

Dreams in the Mirror: A Biography of E.E. Cummings by Richard S. Kennedy

Frank O'Hara: Poet Among Painters by Marjorie Perloff

Richard Cobb, The Assassination of Paris

Paris: A Century of Change, 1878-1978 by Norma Evenson

V.S. Pritchett, A Spy Romance

Smiley's People by John le Carré

Aeneid II, 3-56 (poem)

Robert Towers, Fair Play

On the Edge of the Cliff by V.S. Pritchett

Peter Matthiessen, How to Kill a Valley

Rosemary Dinnage, Regina Pinxit

Queen Victoria's Sketchbook by Marina Warner

Thomas Sheehan, Quo Vadis, Wojtyla?

Declaration on Some Major Points in the Theological Doctrine of Professor Hans Küng by the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith

Jesus, An Experiment in Christology by Edward Schillebeeckx, translated by Hubert Hoskins

Kirche-Gehalten in der Wahrheit? [The Church-Maintained in Truth?] Hans Küng

J.Z. Young, Evolution Toward What?

The Beagle Record: Selections from the Original Pictorial Records and Written Accounts of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle edited by Richard Darwin Keynes

Darwin and the Beagle by Alan Moorehead

Charles Darwin and the Problem of Creation by Neal C. Gillespie

Somatic Selection and Adaptive Evolution by E. J. Steele

Patterns of Evolution edited by Arthur Hallam

The Darwinian Revolution by Michael Ruse

Luigi Barzini, Una Grande Calamità

Four Days of Naples by Aubrey Menen

Naples '44 by Norman Lewis

J.M. Roberts, Enlightenment on the Market

The Business of Enlightenment: A Publishing History of the Encyclopédie, 1775-1800 by Robert Darnton

T.H. Irwin, Thomas Nagel, M.F. Burnyeat, An Exchange on Plato


Letters

Ronald T. Takaki, C. Vann Woodward, America the Bad?
Martin Shockley, C. Vann Woodward, The Right Eagle
Gordon Feller, Release Wesolowksa
Renee Winegarten, Diane Johnson, The Talk of Nohant



Contributors

Richard Cobb (1917-1996) fell in love with France when he first visited in 1935. He went on to write many works of history—some in French, some in English—about the French Revolution and occupied France.

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

Anthony Lewis, a former columnist for The New York Times , has twice won the Pulitzer Prize. His book Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment was published this year. (September 2008)

Peter Matthiessen's most recent book is End of the Earth: Voyages to Antarctica. His novel Shadow Country will be published in the spring. The Nation Institute Investigative Fund provided assistance for his article in this issue. (November 2007)

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

Helen Vendler is the author, most recently, of Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form. She is preparing for publication her recent Mellon Lectures, entitled Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill. (June 2008)


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