Table of Contents
Volume 28, Number 4 · March 19, 1981
C. Vann Woodward, The Enigma of U.S. Grant 
Grant: A Biography by William S. McFeely
Robert Towers, Reconciliations
The Company of Women by Mary Gordon
Thom Gunn, Slow Waker (poem)
Tom J. Farer, Reagan's Latin America
Graham Hughes, A Mixed Bane
Lawyers on Trial by Philip M. Stern
No Access to Law: Alternatives to the American Judicial System edited by Laura Nader
Lawsuit by Stuart M. Speiser
Clive James, Laughter in the Dark
The Radiant Future by Alexander Zinoviev, translated by Gordon Clough
Sans Illusions by Alexander Zinoviev, translated by Wladimir Berelowitch
James Chace, Insolvent America
Aileen Kelly, Mr. Possessed
Sergei Nechaev by Philip Pomper
Patricia Craig, Thin Ice
Other People's Worlds by William Trevor
The State of Ireland: Seventeen Stories and a Novella by Benedict Kiely
Amnesty International, Guatemala: A Government Program of Political Murder: The Amnesty Report
John Updike, On Hawthorne's Mind
John Ashbery, Caesura (poem)
Michael Wood, In the Museum of Strangeness
The Autobiography of Surrealism edited by Marcel Jean
From Enchantment to Rage: The Story of Surrealist Cinema by Steven Kovács
Quentin Skinner, The End of Philosophy?
Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature by Richard Rorty
Marc Raeff, Was Peter All That Great?
Peter the Great: His Life and World by Robert K. Massie
Letters
John Halberstadt, Who Wrote Thomas Wolfe's Last Novels?
D.L. Olmsted, Not Heaven
Harrison E. Salisbury, Not Heaven
P.B. Medawar, Gould Was Right
Edith Wynner, Lippmann and the Schwimmer Case
William Walton, A Center for Lincoln
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.
James Chace is the Paul W. Williams Professor of Government and Public Law at Bard College. He is the author of Acheson and, most recently, 1912: The Election That Changed the Country. He is now working on a biography of Lafayette. (October 2004)
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)
Aileen Kelly, a fellow of King’s College, Cambridge, is the author of Toward Another Shore: Russian Thinkers Between Necessity and Chance and, most recently, Views from the Other Shore: Essays on Herzen, Chekhov, and Bakhtin. (April 2007)
Quentin Skinner is Regius Professor of History at Cambridge University. His most recent books are Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes and Liberty Before Liberalism. (November 2000)
John Updike was born in 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania. In 1954 he began to publish in The New Yorker, where he continues to contribute short stories, poems, and criticism. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, among other awards. His most recent books are the novel Terrorist and Due Considerations, a collection of his essays and criticism.
Michael Wood is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge. (April 2008)
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)
