Table of Contents

Volume 27, Number 16 · October 23, 1980

John Bayley, A Poet's Tragedy

The Demesne of the Swans by Marina Tsvetaeva, translated and edited by Robin Kemball

Tsvetaeva: A Pictorial Biography edited by Ellendea Proffer, translated by J. Marin King

A Captive Spirit: Selected Prose by Marina Tsvetaeva, translated and edited by J. Marin King

Czeslaw Milosz, Campo di Fiori (poem)

Jason Epstein, Is the Party Over?

Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America by Bertram Gross

Crisis Investing: Opportunities and Profits in the Coming Great Depression by Douglas R. Casey

Michael Field, Cambodia, C'est Moi

War and Hope: The Case for Cambodia by Prince Norodom Sihanouk, translated by Mary Feeney

Rosemary Dinnage, The Great Mystifier

The Harmonious Circle: The Lives and Work of G.I. Gurdjieff, P.D. Ouspensky, and Their Followers by James Webb

Who Are You, Monsieur Gurdjieff? by René Zuber

Gurdjieff and Mansfield by James Moore

Eugene Victor Thaw, Lust for Life

Robert Graham, The Middle Eastern Muddle

Ropes of Sand: America's Failure in the Middle East by Wilbur Crane Eveland

Arabia, the Gulf and the West: A Critical View of the Arabs and Their Oil Policy by J.B. Kelly

Richard Ellmann, Getting to Know You

W.H. Auden: The Life of a Poet by Charles Osborne

Joseph W. Alsop, David Joravsky, David Joravsky, Was the Hiroshima Bomb Necessary? An Exchange

J.M. Cameron, Take Me to Your Leader

Authority by Richard Sennett

Radical Principles: Reflections of an Unreconstructed Democrat by Michael Walzer

P.B. Medawar, Comet With a Cold

Diseases from Space by Fred Hoyle, by Chandra Wickramasinghe

John Thompson, Perilous Relations

A Soldier's Embrace by Nadine Gordimer

Ian Hacking, Chomsky and His Critics

Rules and Representations by Noam Chomsky

Language and Learning: The Debate between Jean Piaget and Noam Chomsky edited by Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini

Joseph Kerman, Theme and Variations

Sonata Forms by Charles Rosen

H.J. Eysenck, Nathan P. Glazer, Stephen Jay Gould, Jensen and Bias: An Exchange

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Letters

Ernest Mandel, Leonard Schapiro, Making the Classless Society
Samuel McCracken, Trouble at BU
Edward Rothstein, 'The Scar of Sigmund Freud'

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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)

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

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

Ian Hacking holds the chair of Philosophy and History of Scientific Concepts at the Collège de France. His most recent book is Historical Ontology. (April 2005)

Joseph Kerman is emeritus professor of music at the University of California, Berkeley. He began writing music criticism for The Hudson Review in the 1950s, and is a longtime contributor to The New York Review of Books and many other journals. His books include Opera as Drama (1956; new and revised edition 1988), The Beethoven Quartets (1967), Contemplating Music (1986), Concerto Conversations (1999), and The Art of Fugue (2005).

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.

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