Table of Contents

Volume 27, Number 8 · May 15, 1980

Robert Darnton, Hunting for Humanity

The Forbidden Experiment: The Story of the Wild Boy of Aveyron by Roger Shattuck

P.B. Medawar, In Defense of Doctors

The Role of Medicine by Thomas McKeown

Diane Johnson, Not Right for Our Rose

John Ruskin and Rose La Touche: Her Unpublished Diaries of 1861 and 1867 introduced and edited by Van Akin Burd

Michael Wood, Taking Brecht's Measure

Brecht: A Biography by Klaus Völker, translated by John Howell

Diaries 1920-1922 by Bertolt Brecht, edited by Herta Ramthun, translated by John Willett

Poems 1913-1956 by Bertolt Brecht, edited by John Willett, edited by Ralph Manheim, with the cooperation of Erich Fried

Susan Sontag, Remembering Barthes

Arnold Hottinger, The Rich Arab States in Trouble

H.L.A. Hart, Death and Utility

Practical Ethics by Peter Singer

Robert Towers, Period Fiction

Falling in Place by Ann Beattie

The Passion Artist by John Hawkes

The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard

Juan Goytisolo, The Case of General Seregni

Amnesty International, Five Prisoners of Conscience

Claire Tomalin, Katherine Mansfield's Secrets

The Life of Katherine Mansfield by Antony Alpers

James Wolcott, In Like Flynn

Errol Flynn: The Untold Story by Charles Higham

Quentin Bell, Designing Women

Women Artists of the Arts and Crafts Movement, 1870-1914 by Anthea Callen

Martin Gardner, An Expense of Spirit

Henry Glickman, Barry R. Gross, Orrin G. Hatch, et al. How to Read the Civil Rights Act: An Exchange

Alvin W. Gouldner, Michael Walzer, The New Masters

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Letters

M.I. Assheton-Smith, M.K. Bacchus, et al. The Kazepides Case
Robert Tracy, Al Alvarez, Kesh & Loaning
William A. Williams, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Cagney & the Cold War
Brian Moore, Kesh & Loaning
Arthur J. Knodel, John Weightman, A Mysterious Man?
Joann McQuiston, Peter Green, Egyptian Erudition
Gordon Douglas, John Weightman, A Mysterious Man?

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Contributors

Robert Darnton is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the University Library at Harvard. His latest book is George Washington’s False Teeth: An Unconventional Guide to the Eighteenth Century. (April 2008)

Martin Gardner is the author of The New Ambidextrous Universe, Fractal Music, Hypercards and More, and The Night is Large. His most recent book is a novel, Visitors from Oz. (September 1998)

Juan Goytisolo was born in Barcelona in 1931 and now lives in Marrakesh. He is the author of many novels, including Marks of Identity, Count Julian, Juan the Landless, and The Garden of Secrets, as well as two volumes of autobiography.

Diane Johnson is the author, most recently, of Into a Paris Quartier: Reine Margot’s Chapel and Other Haunts of St. Germain. Her latest novel is L’Affaire. (February 2008)

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.

Michael Wood is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge. (April 2008)

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