Table of Contents

Volume 28, Number 10 · June 11, 1981

Christopher Hill, Tiptoe Through the Tudors

The Lisle Letters edited by Muriel St. Clare Byrne

Murray Kempton, Saving a Whale

A Choice of Days: Essays from "Happy Days," "Newspaper Days," and "Heathen Days," by H.L. Mencken, selected and introduced by Edward L. Galligan

The Young Mencken: The Best of His Work collected by Carl Bode

The American Scene: A Reader by H.L. Mencken, edited by Huntington Cairns

On Mencken edited by John Dorsey

H.L. Mencken on Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe edited by Malcolm Moos

A Mencken Chrestomathy edited and annotated by H.L. Mencken

Letters of H.L. Mencken edited by Guy J. Forgue

Norman Mailer, Discovering Jack H. Abbott

Jack Henry Abbott, Two Notes by Jack H. Abbott

Herbert Scoville, Indefensible!

National Defense by James Fallows

Anne Barton, Was Shakespeare a Chauvinist?

Shakespeare's Division of Experience by Marilyn French

Man's Estate: Masculine Identity in Shakespeare by Coppélia Kahn

Shakespeare and the Problem of Meaning by Norman Rabkin

Julian Symons, Thrillernik

Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith

Bernard Knox, The Greek Conquest of Britain

The Victorians and Ancient Greece by Richard Jenkyns

The Greek Heritage in Victorian Britain by Frank M. Turner

David Vogel, How to Put Humpty Together Again

Revitalizing America: Politics for Prosperity by Ronald E. Müller

The American Future: New Visions Beyond Old Frontiers by Tom Hayden

C. Vann Woodward, Spaghetti West

Land of Savagery, Land of Promise: The European Image of the American Frontier in the Nineteenth Century by Ray Allen Billington

Stephen Spender, Elbe Swans and Other Poets

The Meeting at Telgte by Günter Grass, translated by Ralph Manheim

Robert L. Heilbroner, The Demand for the Supply Side

H.W. Janson, Fallen Idols

Taste and the Antique: The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500-1900 by Francis Haskell, by Nicholas Penny

People of Iran, An Appeal in Iran

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Letters

Paul Edwards, The Heidegger Question
William Herrick, Stalin and Spain
Willis Domingo, Thomas Sheehan, The Heidegger Question
Carlton Lake, Finder
Richard Stern, James Wolcott, Friendship

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Contributors

Anne Barton is a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. She is the author of Essays, Mainly Shakespearean. (March 2007)

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.

Bernard Knox is director emeritus of Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC. Among his many books are The Heroic Temper, The Oldest Dead White European Males, and Backing into the Future: The Classical Tradition and Its Renewal. He is the editor of The Norton Book of Classical Literature and wrote the introductions and notes for Robert Fagles's translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey.

Norman Mailer (1923-2007) was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. In 1955 he co-founded The Village Voice. He is the author of more than thirty books, including The Naked and the Dead; The Armies of the Night, for which he won a National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize; The Executioner's Song, for which he won his second Pulitzer Prize; Harlot's Ghost; Oswald's Tale; The Gospel According to the Son; and The Castle in the Forest.

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)

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