Table of Contents

Volume 27, Number 18 · November 20, 1980

V.S. Pritchett, Temperament of Genius

The Letters of Virginia Woolf: Vol. VI, 1936-1941 edited by Nigel Nicolson, edited by Joanne Trautmann

The Diary of Virginia Woolf: Vol. III, 1925-1930 edited by Anne Olivier Bell, with Andrew McNeillie

Stanley Hoffmann, The Unhappy Choice

Noel Annan, The Sage of Sex

Havelock Ellis: A Biography by Phyllis Grosskurth

Eminent Edwardians by Piers Brendon

Shaul Bakhash, Why the War Will Get Worse

Denis Donoghue, You Better Believe It

The Middle Ground by Margaret Drabble

Setting the World on Fire by Angus Wilson

Stephen Jay Gould, In an Evolutionary Crucible

Galapagos: Islands Lost in Time by Tui De Roy Moore

Isaiah Berlin, Conversations with Akhmatova and Pasternak

Edgar Z. Friedenberg, Splitting Up

The Question of Separatism: Quebec and the Struggle Over Sovereignty by Jane Jacobs

Robert Craft, An 'Unheard of Intensity'

The Operas of Alban Berg Vol. I: Wozzeck by George Perle

Alexander Cockburn, Andrew Cockburn, The Myth of Missile Accuracy

John Pope-Hennessy, A Misfit Master

Duccio: Tuscan Art and the Medieval Workshop by John White

Duccio di Buoninsegna and His School by James H. Stubblebine

Graham Hughes, Should Alfie Be Let Off?

Criminals and Victims: A Trial Judge Reflects on Crime and Punishment by Lois G. Forer

C. Vann Woodward, Birth of a Nation

Retreat From Reconstruction, 1869-1879 by William Gillette

Reconstruction and Redemption in the South edited by Otto H. Olsen

The Editors, Short Review

Army Brat by William J. Smith

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Letters

David Neal, Lawrence Stone, The Two Thompsons
Eldon Kenworthy, Robert L. Heilbroner, Free to Choose?
J. Kipp Tenenbaum, Free to Choose?
Catherine A. Fitzpatrick, Free Selic

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Contributors

Noel Annan is the author of Leslie Stephen and Our Age, among other books. (October 1999)

Shaul Bakhash is Robinson Professor of History at George Mason University and the author of The Reign of the Ayatollahs: Iran and the Islamic Revolution. (September 2005)

Isaiah Berlin was born in Riga in 1909. In 1916 his family moved to Petrograd, where he witnessed the Russian Revolution, and in 1921 he emigrated to England. He was educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and became a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, where he was later appointed Professor of Social and Political Theory. He served as the first president of Wolfson College, Oxford, and as president of the British Academy. He died in 1997. For more information, see the Isaiah Berlin Virtual Library.

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

Robert Craft was awarded the International Prix du Disque at the Cannes Music Festival for 2002.(May 2002)

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)

Stephen Jay Gould teaches Geology, Biology, and the History of Science at Harvard and is the Vincent Astor Visiting Professor of Biology at NYU. His latest book is The Lying Stones of Marrakech. (October 2001)

Stanley Hoffmann is Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor at Harvard. His forthcoming book is Chaos and Violence. (August 2006)

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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