Table of Contents

Volume 28, Number 11 · June 25, 1981

Mary McCarthy, Acts of Love

If on a winter's night a traveler by Italo Calvino, translated by William Weaver

Keith Thomas, A Working Girl

Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism by Marina Warner

Joan of Arc: The Legend and the Reality by Frances Gies

Andrei D. Sakharov, The Responsibility of Scientists

Roger Shattuck, Kilmartin's Way

Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust, translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff, by Terence Kilmartin, by Andreas Mayor

Marcel Proust's Grasset Proofs: Commentary and Variants (distributed by the University of North Carolina Press) by Douglas W. Alden

Proust dans la recherche littéraire by Sigbrit Swahn

Proust's Recherche: A Psychoanalytic Interpretation by Randolph Splitter

Proust and the Art of Love: The Aesthetics of Sexuality in the Life, Times, and Art of Marcel Proust by J.E. Rivers

Proust's Additions: The Making of 'A la recherche du temps perdu,' by Alison Winton

Sarah Plimpton, Poem (poem)

Edward Rothstein, The Revenge of the Vrai

Zuckerman Unbound by Philip Roth

Nicholas von Hoffman, Know Thy President

Reagan the Man, the President by Hedrick Smith, by Adam Clymer, by Leonard Silk, by Robert Lindsey, by Richard Burt

Ronald Reagan: A Political Biography by Lee Edwards

The Real Reagan: What He Believes, What He Has Accomplished, What We Can Expect From Him by Frank van der Linden

Reagan in Pursuit of the Presidency—1980 by Doug Wead, by Bill Wead

Ronald Reagan: His Life and Rise to the Presidency by Bill Boyarsky

Reaganomics: Supply Side Economics in Action by Bruce Bartlett

The Future Under President Reagan edited by Wayne Valis

Where's the Rest of Me? The Autobiography of Ronald Reagan by Richard G. Hubler

John Bayley, Return of the Native

The Issa Valley by Czeslaw Milosz, translated by Louis Iribarne

Native Realm: A Search for Self-Definition paperback edition by Czeslaw Milosz, translated by Catherine S. Leach

Emperor of the Earth: Modes of Eccentric Vision by Czeslaw Milosz

Bells in Winter translated by Czeslaw Milosz, translated by Lillian Vallee

The Captive Mind by Czeslaw Milosz, translated by Jane Zielonko. (with a new foreword by the author)

Ronald Blythe, The Way We Lived Then

Edwardian Childhoods by Thea Thompson

Roses in December: Edwardian Recollections by Amy Stewart Fraser

East End Underworld: Chapters in the Life of Arthur Harding edited by Raphael Samuel

The People's England by Alan Ereira

The Victorian Countryside edited by Gordon E. Mingay

The Gentleman's Country House and Its Plan 1835-1914 by Jill Franklin

Lawrence Sager, The Shortcut to Outlaw Abortion

Francis Haskell, Out of the Picture

Absorption and Theatricality: Painting and Beholder in the Age of Diderot by Michael Fried

Robert Towers, Comic Schemes

Loitering With Intent by Muriel Spark

Stanley Hoffmann, France: The Big Change?

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Letters

Catherine A. Fitzpatrick, A Soviet Feminist
Hans Jonas, Robert Craft, Chamberlain and the Jews

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Contributors

John Bayley has written two books about his wife, the novelist Iris Murdoch, Elegy for Iris and Iris and Her Friends. (July 2004)

Francis Haskell, formerly Professor of Art History at Oxford, is the author of Patrons and Painters, Rediscoveries in Art, Past and Present in Art and Taste, and History and Its Images: Art and the Interpretation of the Past. (February 1999)

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

Mary McCarthy (1912-1989) was a novelist, essayist, and critic. Her political and social commentary, literary essays, and drama criticism appeared in magazines such as Partisan Review, The New Yorker, Harper's, and The New York Review of Books, and were collected in On the Contrary (1961), Mary McCarthy's Theatre Chronicles 1937-1962 (1963), The Writing on the Wall (1970), Ideas and the Novel (1980), and Occasional Prose (1985). Her novels include The Company She Keeps (1942), The Oasis (1949), The Groves of Academe (1952), A Charmed Life (1955), The Group (1963), Birds of America (1971), and Cannibals and Missionaries (1971). She was the author of three works of autobiography, Memories of a Catholic Girlhood (1957), How I Grew (1987), and the unfinished Intellectual Memoirs (1992), and two travel books about Italy, Venice Observed (1956) and The Stones of Florence (1959). Her essays on the Vietnam War were collected in The Seventeenth Degree (1974); her essays on Watergate were collected in The Mask of State (1974).

Roger Shattuck is the author of Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography. He has most recently edited new editions of two books by Helen Keller. He is University Professor Emeritus at Boston University. (May 2005)

Keith Thomas is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. His books include Religion and the Decline of Magic, Man and the Natural World, and The Oxford Book of Work. (April 2007)

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