Table of Contents, April 16, 1981 - The New York Review of Books

Cosima Wagner's Diaries Vol. II: 1878-1883 additional notes by edited and annotated by Martin Gregor-Dellin, by Dietrich Mack, translated, with an introduction, postscript, and Geoffrey Skelton

Cosima Wagner by George R. Marek

In Search of Wagner by Theodore Adorno, translated by Rodney Livingstone

The Dream of Self-Destruction: Wagner's "Ring" and the Modern World by L.J. Rather

Bayreuth: The Early Years compiled, edited, and introduced by Robert Hartford

Quentin Skinner, The World as a Stage

Negara: The Theatre State in Nineteenth-Century Bali by Clifford Geertz

Richard Storry, Tears on the Kimono

A Tale of Flowering Fortunes: Annals of Japanese Aristocratic Life in the Heian Period translated with an introduction and notes by William H. McCullough, by Helen Craig McCullough

S.L. Washburn, Designer Genes

Human Nature and History: A Response to Sociobiology by Kenneth Bock

William Herrick, Bernard Knox, The Spanish Anarchists: An Exchange

Letters

Barry Commoner, Hal Draper, et al. For 'Solidarity'
J.P. Stern, Milan Kundera, Judging the Czechs
Thomas Roeper, The Chomsky Experiments
Iring Fetscher, Bruce Chatwin, Correcting Jünger
Morris Rabinowitz, Correcting Jünger

Contributors

Noel Annan is the author of Leslie Stephen and Our Age, among other books. (October 1999)

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

Stanley Hoffmann is Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor at Harvard. His forthcoming book is Chaos and Violence. (August 2006)

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

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

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. (June 2008)

Felix Rohatyn has been a governor of the New York Stock Exchange, Chairman of the New York Municipal Authority, and US Ambassador to France. (November 2002)

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)