Table of Contents

Volume 27, Number 14 · September 25, 1980

The Editors, Letter from a Chinese College

Gore Vidal, This Critic and This Gin and These Shoes

The Thirties: From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period by Edmund Wilson, edited by Leon Edel

John Updike, Professor Nabokov

Nicholas von Hoffman, Morning of the Jackal

Assassination on Embassy Row by John Dinges, by Saul Landau

A.J.P. Taylor, His Uncle's Nephew

Napoleon III and Eugénie by Jasper Ridley

Richard Sennett, Power to the People

Thunder on the Right: The "New Right" and the Politics of Resentment by Alan Crawford

V.S. Pritchett, Laughter in the Dark

The History of a Town by M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin, translated by I.P. Foote

Murray Kempton, Winners and Losers at the 'Times'

Without Fear or Favor: The New York Times and Its Times by Harrison E. Salisbury

James Wolcott, Tiny Coffins

Music for Chameleons by Truman Capote

Susan Sontag, Mind as Passion

The Tongue Set Free: Remembrance of a European Childhood by Elias Canetti, translated by Joachim Neugroschel

The Conscience of Words by Elias Canetti, translated by Joachim Neugroschel

Earwitness: Fifty Characters by Elias Canetti, translated by Joachim Neugroschel

The Human Province by Elias Canetti, translated by Joachim Neugroschel

Crowds and Power by Elias Canetti, translated by Carol Stewart

Auto-da-Fé by Elias Canetti, translated by C.V. Wedgwood

The Voices of Marrakesh: A Record of a Visit by Elias Canetti, translated by J.A. Underwood

Robert Towers, He Had What It Takes

Kipling, Auden & Co. Essays and Reviews, 1935-1964 by Randall Jarrell

Ronald Steel, Seduction and Betrayal

C. Vann Woodward, The Cult of the Lost Cause

The Imperiled Union: Essays on the Background of the Civil War by Kenneth M. Stampp

Peter Singer, Dictator Marx?

Marxism After Marx by David McLellan

The Two Marxisms: Contradictions and Anomalies in the Development of Theory by Alvin W. Gouldner

Marx on the Choice between Socialism and Communism by Stanley Moore

Karl Marx and the Anarchists by Paul Thomas

Marxism: For and Against by Robert L. Heilbroner

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Letters

John S. Bowman, Jonathan Lieberson, The Hedgehog and the Fox
Michael M.J. Fischer, Shaul Bakhash, What Happened in Iran?

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Contributors

Murray Kempton (1917-1997) was a columnist for Newsday, as well as a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books. His books include Rebellions, Perversities, and Main Events and The Briar Patch, as well as Part of Our Time. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1985.

Peter Singer is Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University.

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.

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)

John Updike was born in 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania. In 1954 he began to publish in The New Yorker, where he continues to contribute short stories, poems, and criticism. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, among other awards. His most recent books are the novel Terrorist and Due Considerations, a collection of his essays and criticism.

Gore Vidal's most recent novel is The Golden Age. (February 2002)

C. Vann Woodward is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. His many books include Mary Chesnut's Civil War and The Old World's New World. (February 1998)

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