Table of Contents

Volume 28, Number 5 · April 2, 1981

Michael Walzer, Life with Father

Wealth and Poverty by George Gilder

Diane Johnson, Colette in Pieces

Letters from Colette selected and translated by Robert Phelps

Alexander Pushkin, Poem (poem)

Irvin Ehrenpreis, All-American Bard

Walt Whitman: A Life by Justin Kaplan

Joseph Kerman, Vissi d'arte

Maria Callas: The Woman Behind the Legend by Arianna Stassinopoulos

Diva: The Life and Death of Maria Callas by Steven Linakis

The Callas Legacy by John Ardoin

Maria Callas: A Tribute by Pierre-Jean Rémy, translated by Catherine Atthill

Callas: Les Images d'une Voix by Sergio Segalini

Gordon S. Wood, Heroics

Explaining America: The Federalist by Garry Wills

A.J.P. Taylor, God Save Our Old Nobility

The Persistence of the Old Regime: Europe to the Great War by Arno J. Mayer

James Chace, Insolvent America

James Wolcott, On the Beat

First Reactions: Critical Essays 1968-1979 by Clive James

Unreliable Memoirs by Clive James

John Hollander, A Walk with You (poem)

Gerard Chaliand, Bargain War

John Weightman, The French Complaint

The Horror of Life by Roger L. Williams

Morton White, An Honest Man

Moore: G.E. Moore and the Cambridge Apostles by Paul Levy

Frederick Seidel, Our Gods (poem)

H.W. Janson, Collaborators

Donatello and Michelozzo: An Artistic Partnership and Its Patrons in the Early Renaissance Philadelphia) by R. W. Lightbown

Viola Hopkins Winner, An Unfinished Man

Henry Adams by R. P. Blackmur

Henry Adams: The Myth of Failure by William Dusinberre

Francine Patterson, S.L. Washburn, Martin Gardner, More On Ape Talk

David Shipman, Dwight MacDonald, Keaton and Lubitsch


Letters

Ursula Enters Copely, Daring to Speak Its Name
Stanley Diamond, Edward J. Nell, et al. Freedom in Turkey
Ronald Steel, Lippmann & Schwimmer
Peter L. Thorslev, Daring to Speak Its Name
Stanley Cavell, Hubert L. Dreyfus, et al. Being True to Heidegger
Willis Domingo, Thomas Sheehan, Being True to Heidegger
T.H. Breen, Credit for Innes



Contributors

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)

John Hollander is Sterling Professor Emeritus of English at Yale. His new book of poems, A Draft of Light, will be published by Knopf in May. (March 2008)

Diane Johnson is the author, most recently, of Into a Paris Quartier: Reine Margot’s Chapel and Other Haunts of St. Germain. Her latest novel is L’Affaire. (February 2008)

Joseph Kerman is emeritus professor of music at the University of California, Berkeley. He began writing music criticism for The Hudson Review in the 1950s, and is a longtime contributor to The New York Review of Books and many other journals. His books include Opera as Drama (1956; new and revised edition 1988), The Beethoven Quartets (1967), Contemplating Music (1986), Concerto Conversations (1999), and The Art of Fugue (2005).

Frederick Seidel's latest collection, Ooga-Booga, received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for poetry. (September 2007)

Michael Walzer is Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., and co-editor of Dissent. He is the author of Just and Unjust Wars. (March 2003)

John Weightman, Professor Emeritus of the University of London, is the author of The Concept of the Avant-Garde. He will soon publish The Cat Sat on the Mat: Language and the Absurd. (October 2002)

Gordon Wood is the Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History at Brown. A collection of his essays, The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History, was published in March. (May 2008)


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