Table of Contents

Volume 27, Number 2 · February 21, 1980

Robert Lowell, Epics

Jason Epstein, Help!

How to Prosper During the Coming Bad Years by Howard J. Ruff

The Pritikin Program for Diet and Exercise by Nathan Pritikin, by Patrick M. McGrady Jr.

The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet by Herman Tarnower, by Samm Sinclair Baker

Firuz Kazemzadeh, Afghanistan: The Imperial Dream

John Bayley, Windows on Russia

The Russian Empire: A Portrait in Photographs by Chloe Obolensky, with an introduction by Max Hayward

Windows on the River Neva: A Memoir Books, Wellfleet, Massachusetts 026677) by Paul Grabbe

John Weightman, Ego, Prince of Id

St. John Perse: Letters translated and edited by Arthur J. Knodel

Robert L. Heilbroner, The New Economics

A Guide to Post-Keynesian Economics edited by Alfred S. Eichner

John Richardson, Ghost Story

The Windsor Story by J. Bryan III, by Charles J.V. Murphy

Prince Charles by Anthony Holden

Irvin Ehrenpreis, The Long and the Short of It

Brother to Dragons: A Tale in Verse and Voices (A New Version) by Robert Penn Warren

Now and Then: Poems, 1976-1978 by Robert Penn Warren

Frances A. Yates, A Magical Critic

Form and Meaning: Essays on the Renaissance and Modern Art by Robert Klein, translated by Madeline Jay, by Leon Wieseltier, with a foreword by Henri Zerner

Russell Davies, Who Murdered Lady Ashbrooke?

A Coat of Varnish by C.P. Snow

Tetsuo Najita, Must We Copy Japan?

Japan As Number One: Lessons for America by Ezra F. Vogel

The Japanese Challenge: The Success and Failure of Economic Success by Herman Kahn, by Thomas Pepper

Susan Sontag, Eye of the Storm

Hitler, A Film from Germany directed by Hans-Jürgen Syberberg

Hitler, ein Film aus Deutschland Giroux later this year) by Hans-Jürgen Syberberg

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Letters

G.A. Cohen, Peter Singer, Marx and the Giraffe
Diane Johnson, Correction and Clarification
Melvin Rader, Peter Singer, Marx and the Giraffe
Ramsay Wood, Gore Vidal, The Wisdom of the East

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Contributors

John Bayley has written two books about his wife, the novelist Iris Murdoch, Elegy for Iris and Iris and Her Friends. (July 2004)

Jason Epstein was for many years editorial director of Random House and has written on food for various publications. (March 2008)

Robert Lowell died in 1977. His Collected Poems was published this summer. The letters in this issue will be included in The Letters of Robert Lowell, edited by Saskia Hamilton, to be published next year by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC. (November 2003)

John Richardson's A Life of Picasso, Volume Two, was published in December. Volume One won the Whitbread Prize in England in 1991. (March 1997)

Susan Sontag (1933-2004) was the author of four novels, The Benefactor, Death Kit, The Volcano Lover, and In America, which won the 2000 National Book Award for Fiction; a collection of stories, I, Etcetera; several plays, including Alice in Bed and Lady from the Sea; and seven works of nonfiction, among them Where the Stress Falls and Regarding the Pain of Others. Her books have been translated into thirty-two languages. In 2001, she was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the body of her work; in 2003, she received the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade.

John Weightman, Professor Emeritus of the University of London, is the author of The Concept of the Avant-Garde. He will soon publish The Cat Sat on the Mat: Language and the Absurd. (October 2002)

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