Table of Contents

Volume 27, Number 17 · November 6, 1980

Nicholas von Hoffman, Seize the Day

Soon to be a Major Motion Picture by Abbie Hoffman

Ernest Nagel, Crises in Mathematics

Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty by Morris Kline

Nadine Gordimer, Letter from the 153rd State

Diane Johnson, Waiting for Righty

Loon Lake by E.L. Doctorow

Arthur Macy Cox, The CIA's Tragic Error

Clive James, Fannikins's Cunnikin

Fanny: Being the True History of the Adventures of Fanny Hackabout-Jones by Erica Jong

James Joll, The Weimar Review

Die Weltbühne Germany)

Alastair Reid, In Memoriam, Amada

Bernard Knox, Remembering Madrid

Miracle of November: Madrid's Epic Stand, 1936 by Dan Kurzman

The Spanish Revolution: The Left and the Struggle for Power During the Civil War by Burnett Bolloten

Beyond Death and Exile: The Spanish Republicans in France, 1939-1955 by Louis Stein

Frank Kermode, Alien Sages

Under the Sign of Saturn by Susan Sontag

Robert O. Keohane, A Populist Vision

The Lean Years: Politics in the Age of Scarcity by Richard J. Barnet

J.M. Wallace-Hadrill, The Ghost Goes West

The Plan of St. Gall by Walter Horn, by Ernest Born

Alexander Cockburn, Apocalypse for Everyone

The Devil's Alternative by Frederick Forsyth

The Fifth Horseman by Larry Collins, by Dominique Lapierre

The Spike by Arnaud de Borchgrave, by Robert Moss

Peter Singer, Revolution and Religion

Fire in the Minds of Men: Origins of the Revolutionary Faith by James H. Billington

A. James Gregor, Anthony James Joes, David D. Roberts, et al. An Exchange on Fascism

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Letters

Carlos Ripoll, Persecution of a Poet
Shane Hunt, S.M. Miller, et al. Trouble at B.U. (cont'd)

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Contributors

Alexander Cockburn edits the newsletter CounterPunch and writes columns for the Los Angeles Times and The Nation.

Clive James is the author of many books of criticism, autobiography, fiction, and poetry. His latest and longest book, Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts, will be published in the spring. (January 2007)

Diane Johnson’s new novel, Lulu in Marrakech, will be published this month. (October 2008)

Frank Kermode lives in Cambridge, England. His most recent book is The Age of Shakespeare. (October 2008)

Bernard Knox is director emeritus of Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC. Among his many books are The Heroic Temper, The Oldest Dead White European Males, and Backing into the Future: The Classical Tradition and Its Renewal. He is the editor of The Norton Book of Classical Literature and wrote the introductions and notes for Robert Fagles's translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey.

Alastair Reid received the PEN Kolovakos Award for Translation in 2001, along with Gregory Rabassa. (January 2004)

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

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