Table of Contents

Volume 27, Number 3 · March 6, 1980

Graham Hughes, The Plight of the Victim

The Invisible Victim by Robert Reiff

John Russell, Hostess with the Mostest

Misia: The Life of Misia Sert by Arthur Gold, by Robert Fizdale

G.W. Bowersock, The Emperor of Roman History

Roman Papers by Ronald Syme, edited by E. Badian

Ammianus and the Historia Augusta by Ronald Syme

Emperors and Biography: Studies in the Historia Augusta by Ronald Syme

The Historia Augusta: A Call for Clarity by Ronald Syme

The Roman Revolution by Ronald Syme

Sallust by Ronald Syme

History in Ovid by Ronald Syme

Neal Ascherson, Love and Revolution

Comrade and Lover: Rosa Luxemburg's Letters to Leo Jogiches edited and translated by Elzbieta Ettinger

Al Alvarez, A Fine Way With the Language

Field Work by Seamus Heaney

Stanley Hoffmann, Reflections on the Present Danger

James Wolcott, Lightly Toasted

Show People: Profiles in Entertainment by Kenneth Tynan

Arnold Hottinger, Who Held the Grand Mosque Hostage?

Rosemary Dinnage, In the Shadow

Clementine Churchill: The Biography of a Marriage by Mary Soames

Jonathan Lieberson, Sidney Morgenbesser, The Questions of Isaiah Berlin

Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas by Isaiah Berlin

Thomas R. Edwards, It's Love!

Endless Love by Scott Spencer

The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose by Alice Munro

Black Tickets by Jayne Anne Phillips

Vernon Young, Molière Imaginaire

Molière Television, January 1980 written and directed by Ariane Mnouchkine, photography by Bernard Zitzermann. New York Film Festival, October 4 and October 6, 1979; Public

Harry Levin, The Great Good Place

Utopian Thought in the Western World by Frank E. Manuel, by Fritzie P. Manuel

Mattityahu Peled, Bernard Avishai, The Palestinian Position: An Exchange

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Letters

Anne C. Garrison, Robert O. Paxton, Not a Chaser
Jose Pertierra, Terror in Guatemala
J.Z. Young, News about Darwin
Nina Auerbach, Sandra Zagarell, et al. Men, Women, and Lit.
John H. Felts, Irvin Ehrenpreis, Pope's "Problem"
Lev Loseff, Peter France, Translating Pasternak
Lynn E. Rose, Martin Gardner, Velikovsky's Deluge
Lipman Bers, Liberal Milyukov
Warren Button, How High the Hand?
Rosalind Van Praag, Jane Austen Society

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Contributors

Al Alvarez's most recent book is Risky Business, a selection of essays, many of which first appeared in The New York Review of Books.

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.
(July 2009)

G.W. Bowersock is Professor Emeritus of Ancient History at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Among his recent books are Mosaics as History: The Near East from Late Antiquity to Islam and From Gibbon to Auden: Essays on the Classical Tradition.
 (September 2009)

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

Thomas R. Edwards is Emeritus Professor of English at Rutgers and a former editor of Raritan. His most recent book is Over Here: Criticizing America, 1968–1989. (June 2004)

Stanley Hoffmann is Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor at Harvard. He also wrote Chaos and Violence.

John Russell was formerly Chief Art Critic of The New York Times, to which he continues to be a contributor. He is at work on a short history of the museum since 1800. (March 2003)

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