Table of Contents

Volume 28, Number 2 · February 19, 1981

Ronald Dworkin, Dissent on Douglas

Independent Journey: The Life of William O.Douglas by James F. Simon

The Court Years, 1939 to 1975: The Autobiography of William O. Douglas by William O. Douglas

Murray Kempton, The Curse of the Guthries

Woody Guthrie: A Life by Joe Klein

Bound for Glory by Woody Guthrie

"Woody Guthrie, The Library of Congress Recordings" recorded by Alan Lomax

Alfred Kazin, Restoring 'Sister Carrie'

Denis Donoghue, Secret Sharer

Ways of Escape by Graham Greene

Bernard Avishai, Do Israel's Arabs Have a Future?

The Palestinians in Israel: A Study in Internal Colonialism by Elia T. Zureik

Arab Education in Israel by Sami Khalil Mar'i

Arabs in the Jewish State: Israel's Control of a National Minority by Ian Lustick

Beyond the Gunsights: One Arab Family in the Promised Land by Yoella Har-Shefi

John Ashbery, Qualm (poem)

Garry Wills, Embers of Guilt

The Sea and Poison (Umi to Dokuyaku, 1958) translated by Michael Galagher

Wonderful Fool (Obaka San, 1959) translated by Francis Mathy

The Golden Country (Ogon no Kuni, 1966) translated by Francis Mathy

When I Whistle (Kuchibue o fuku toki, 1974) translated by Van C. Gessel

A Life of Jesus (Iesu no Shogai, 1973) translated by Richard Schuchert

Silence (Chinmoku, 1966) translated by William Johnston

Volcano (Kazan, 1959) translated by Richard A. Schuchert

Nick Eberstadt, The Health Crisis in the USSR

Rising Infant Mortality in the USSR in the 1970s by Christopher Davis, by Murray Feshbach

P.A. Vyazemsky, The Russian God (poem)

Helen Vendler, A Room of Her Own

Women Writers and Poetic Identity: Dorothy Wordsworth, Emily Brontë, and Emily Dickinson by Margaret Homans

William Alfred, To a Friend in Fall (poem)

P.B. Medawar, Back to Evolution

The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould

The Evolutionary Synthesis: Perspectives on the Unification of Biology edited by Ernst Mayr, edited by William Provine

Tamar Jacoby, No Place for Heroes

A Lesson From Aloes by Athol Fugard. at the Playhouse Theatre, New York City

Tsotsi by Athol Fugard

Istvan Deak, A Radical Field Marshal

The Survival of the Habsburg Empire: Radetzky, the Imperial Army, and the Class War, 1848 by Alan Sked

Frances A. Yates, In the Cards

The Game of Tarot from Ferrara to Salt Lake City by Michael Dummett

Twelve Tarot Games by Michael Dummett

Raymond Carr, The Spanish Style

The Centralist Tradition of Latin America by Claudio Véliz

Public Policy in a No-Party State: Spanish Planning and Budgeting in the Twilight of the Franquist Era by Richard Gunther

Dexter Masters, Geoffrey C. Ward, Joseph W. Alsop, et al. Was Hiroshima Necessary? Another Exchange

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Letters

Rogers Albritton, George Boolos, et al. Repression in Latin America
C.L.R. James, Leonard Schapiro, Appointment in Samara
Alexander Nehamas, J.M. Cameron, No Sage
Charles T. Tart, Martin Gardner, Claims for ESP

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Contributors

John Ashbery is the author of twenty books of poetry, including Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (1975), which received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the National Book Award; and Some Trees (1956), which was selected by W. H. Auden for the Yale Younger Poets Series. He has also published art criticism, plays, and a novel. Ashbery is currently the Charles P. Stevenson, Jr., Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard College.

Raymond Carr was Warden of St. Antony's College, Oxford, and has written extensively on modern Spanish history. (April 2003)

Istvan Deak is Seth Low Professor Emeritus at Columbia and the author most recently of Essays on Hitler’s Europe. (June 2008)

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)

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."

Alfred Kazin's most recent book is God and the American Writer. (April 1998)

Murray Kempton (1917-1997) was a columnist for Newsday, as well as a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books. His books include Rebellions, Perversities, and Main Events and The Briar Patch, as well as Part of Our Time. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1985.

Helen Vendler is the author, most recently, of Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form. She is preparing for publication her recent Mellon Lectures, entitled Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill. (June 2008)

Garry Wills was born in Atlanta, Georgia. One of our most distinguished historians and critics, he is the author of numerous books, including Saint Augustine, Papal Sin, and the Pulitzer Prize–winning Lincoln at Gettysburg. He has won many other awards, among them two National Book Critics Circle Awards and the 1998 National Medal for the Humanities. He is currently Professor of History Emeritus at Northwestern University. A regular contributor to the New York Review of Books, he lives in Evanston, Illinois.

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