Table of Contents
Volume 27, Number 13 · August 14, 1980
Lincoln Kirstein, The Animal Himself 
The Face of Lincoln compiled and edited by James Mellon
V.S. Pritchett, Displaced Person
Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography by Jean Rhys
Tom Wicker, The Elections: Why the System Has Failed
Robert O. Paxton, Did the Resistance Matter?
Soldiers of the Night: The Story of the French Resistance by David Schoenbrun
Stephen Spender, Issyvoo's Conversion
My Guru and His Disciple by Christopher Isherwood
Heberto Padilla, Two Poems by Heberto Padilla (poem)
David Biale, Gershom Scholem, The Threat of Messianism: An Interview with Gershom Scholem
Czeslaw Milosz, A Struggle Against Suffocation
A Part of Speech by Joseph Brodsky
Renata Adler, The Perils of Pauline
When the Lights Go Down by Pauline Kael
Irving Howe, Beyond Bitterness
Kolyma Tales by Varlam Shalamov, translated by John Glad
Ronald Steel, All in the Family
Jack: The Struggles of John F. Kennedy by Herbert S. Parmet
Kennedy and Roosevelt: The Uneasy Alliance by Michael R. Beschloss
Robert Towers, To the Greenhouse
The Second Coming by Walker Percy
Frederic Wakeman, Chinese Ghost Story
China Men by Maxine Hong Kingston
Neal Ascherson, The Uprooted
Unsettling Europe by Jane Kramer
Robert M. Adams, Moravia's Victims
Time of Desecration by Alberto Moravia, translated by Angus Davidson
Denis Donoghue, New York Poets
The Burning Mystery of Anna in 1951 by Kenneth Koch
The Morning of the Poem by James Schuyler
Sunrise by Frederick Seidel
Trader by Robert Mazzocco
Edmund Wilson, Notes from the Thirties
M.J. Fitzgerald, James Huffman, A.P. Martinich, et al. The Struggle Within the Church: An Exchange
Letters
Peter Singer, Right to Life?
Contributors
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. (November 2008)
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)
Czeslaw Milosz was born in Lithuania in 1911. Over the course of his long and prolific career he has published works in many genres, including criticism (The Captive Mind), fiction (The Issa Valley), memoir (Native Realm), and poetry (most recently New and Collected Poems, 1931-2001). He is a member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980.
Robert O. Paxton is Mellon Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus at Columbia. His latest book is The Anatomy of Fascism. He is also a Regional Editor of North American Birds magazine. (November 2008)
Gershom Scholem (1897-1982) was born in Berlin, educated at the universities of Jena and Bern, and emigrated to Palestine in 1923, where he devoted himself to the study
of the Jewish mystical tradition and the Kabbala. One of the greatest scholars of the twentieth century, admired both for his philological prowess and his philosophical insight, Scholem was the author of many books, including Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism, On the Kabbalah and Its Symbolism, Sabbatai Sevi: The Mystical Messiah, and On Jews and Judaism in Crisis, a collection of autobiographical writings and essays on Zionism. The Correspondence of Gershom Scholem and Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem: A Life in Letters were published posthumously.
Ronald Steel is Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California, a recent fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, and the author of biographies of Walter Lippmann and Robert Kennedy. (June 2006)
Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) is widely regarded as the preeminent American man of letters of the twentieth century. Over his long career, he wrote for Vanity Fair, helped edit The New Republic, served as chief book critic for The New Yorker, and was a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books. Wilson was the author of more than twenty books, including Axel's Castle, Patriotic Gore, and a work of fiction, Memoirs of Hecate County.
