Table of Contents

Volume 27, Number 19 · December 4, 1980

Clive James, Waugh's Last Stand

The Letters of Evelyn Waugh edited by Mark Amory

Daniel Aaron, Informing on the Informers

Naming Names by Victor S. Navasky

Gore Vidal, The Thinking Man's Novel

Ideas and the Novel by Mary McCarthy

Peacock Displayed: A Satirist in His Context by Marilyn Butler

Felix G. Rohatyn, The Coming Emergency and What Can Be Done About It

Keith Thomas, Rescuing Homosexual History

Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century by John Boswell

Robert Towers, Mississippi Myths

The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty

Robert L. Heilbroner, The Swedish Promise

Michael Wood, Children of Paradise

Theater and Revolution: The Culture of the French Stage by Frederick Brown

Thomas Sheehan, Caveat Lector: The New Heidegger

Gesamtausgabe (Collected Edition) projected 70-volume set by Martin Heidegger

Derek Walcott, Hurucan (poem)

Joseph Frank, His Jewish Problem

Wassily Leontief, The Situation Is Desperate But Not Critical

North-South, A Program for Survival Development Issues Under the Chairmanship of Willy Brandt The Report of the Independent Commission on International

Rich and Poor Nations in the World Economy by Albert Fishlow, by Carlos S. Diaz-Alejandro, by Roger D. Hansen, by Richard R. Fagen

Edmund S. Morgan, America's Garrison Government

The Governors-General: The English Army and the Definition of the Empire, 1569-1681 by Stephen Saunders Webb

Ronald Dworkin, Is the Press Losing the First Amendment?

Paul Alpers, Robert C. Solomon, Dorothea Tanning, et al. Deconstruction: An Exchange

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Letters

H.S. Terrace, More on Monkey Talk
Thomas A. Sebeok, Jean Umiker-Sebeok, More on Monkey Talk
Richard J. Bernstein, Gary Bertsch, et al. The New Plight of the Praxis Professors
Bernard Avishai, Terence Smith, Zionists & Palestinians
Paul A. Freund, The Sun's Bosom
Maxine Hong Kingston, China Myths

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Contributors

Ronald Dworkin is Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law and Philosophy at NYU and Jeremy Bentham Professor of Law and Philosophy at University College London. His books include Is Democracy Possible Here? (2006), Justice in Robes, Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality, and Freedom's Law. He is the 2007 winner of the Ludvig Holberg International Memorial Prize for "his pioneering scholarly work" of "worldwide impact."

Joseph Frank is Professor Emeritus of Slavic and Comparative Literature at Stanford. He is the author of Dostoyevsky: The Mantle of the Prophet, 1871–1881. (June 2008)

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)

Edmund S. Morgan is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. His most recent book, The Genuine Article: A Historian Looks at Early America, was published in 2004. (October 2008)

Felix Rohatyn is an investment banker and has been a governor of the New York Stock Exchange, Chairman of the New York Municipal Assistance Corporation, and US Ambassador to France. (October 2008)

Thomas Sheehan is Professor of Religious Studies at Stanford University. (December 2001)

Keith Thomas is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. His latest book is The Ends of Life: Roads to Fulfillment in Early Modern England. (December 2009)

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

Derek Walcott won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1992. His latest collection of poems, White Egrets, will be published next year. (November 2009)

Michael Wood is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge. (September 2009)

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