Table of Contents

Volume 28, Number 1 · February 5, 1981

Gabriele Annan, Before the Deluge

Badenheim 1939 by Aharon Appelfeld, translated by Dalya Bilu

V.S. Pritchett, Semi-Heroes

Personal Impressions by Isaiah Berlin

Robert Brustein, Brecht in Asphalt

Brecht's America by Patty Lee Parmalee

Bertolt Brecht in America by James K. Lyon

Joseph Brodsky, A Season (poem)

Emma Rothschild, Reagan and the Real America

John Keegan, Follow the Fleet

The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1805 by Alfred Thayer Mahan, abridged and edited, with an introduction, by Anthony Preston

Robert Craft, The New Liszt

The Letters of Franz Liszt to Olga von Meyendorff (1871-1886) Harvard University Press) translated by William R. Tyler, introduction and notes by Edward N. Waters

Robert M. Adams, The Cold Comedian

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera, translated by Michael Henry Heim

Eugenio Montale, After Palio (poem)

Xan Smiley, Zimbabwe: The Takeover

Clive James, Hit Parade

The Oxford Book of Satirical Verse chosen by Geoffrey Grigson

Bernard Avishai, Friends and Enemies

The Palestinians by Jonathan Dimbleby, photographs by Donald McCullin

Report and Recommendations of an Amnesty International Mission to the Government of the State of Israel, 3-7 June 1979

Arab Politics in Palestine 1917-1939: The Frustration of a National Movement by Ann Mosely Lesch

Lawrence Stone, Original Sins

Puritans and Adventurers: Change and Persistence in Early America by T.H. Breen

Inside the Great House: Planter Family Life in Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake Society by Daniel Blake Smith

In English Ways: The Movement of Societies and the Transferral of English Local Law and Custom to Massachusetts Bay in the Seventeenth Century by David Grayson Allen

"Myne Owne Ground": Race and Freedom on Virginia's Eastern Shore, 1640-1676 by T.H. Breen, by Stephen Innes

Gore Vidal, The Second American Revolution?

Cracks in the Constitution by Ferdinand Lundberg

Richard Lowenthal, Were These Revolutions Necessary?

States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China by Theda Skocpol

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Letters

Matthew Wilder, The Lights Go Down
Erhard K. Dortmund, Renata Adler, The Lights Go Down
Jennifer Dunning, The Lights Go Down
Arthur J. Cox, The Lights Go Down
Ira Brous, Robert L. Heilbroner, If Workers Were the Boss

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Contributors

Gabriele Annan is a book and film critic living in London. (March 2006)

Joseph Brodsky was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987. His Collected Poems in English will be published next spring. He died in 1996. (January 2000)

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

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)

Eugenio Montale was born in Genoa in 1896 and died in 1981. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1975. (November 2004)

Emma Rothschild is a fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and will be teaching history at Harvard next fall. Her latest book is Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet and the Enlightenment. (March 2004)

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

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