Table of Contents
Volume 28, Number 12 · July 16, 1981
Conor Cruise O'Brien, Picture of Dorian Gray 
The Backbench Diaries of Richard Crossman edited by Janet Morgan
Robert Darnton, Poland Rewrites History
Murray Kempton, On Cardinal Wyszynski
V.S. Pritchett, Demon Lover
Memoirs of an Anti-Semite by Gregor von Rezzori
George F. Kennan, A Modest Proposal
Ada Louise Huxtable, Is Modern Architecture Dead?
Helen Vendler, Sociable Comets
Shadow Train by John Ashbery
Descending Figure by Louise Glück
Elizabeth Hardwick, Bartleby and Manhattan
Tomas Venclova, Two Poems by Tomas Venclova (poem)
Thomas R. Edwards, Stage Fret
Making Scenes: A Personal History of the Turbulent Years at Yale, 1966-1979 by Robert Brustein
The Camera Age: Essays on Television by Michael J. Arlen
Richard Cobb, The Great Bourgeois Bargain
The Bon Marché: Bourgeois Culture and the Department Store, 1869-1920 by Michael B. Miller
Robert Penn Warren, Minneapolis Story (poem)
John Thompson, Clubland
The Men's Club by Leonard Michaels
Christopher Ricks, Phew! Oops! Oof!
Forms of Talk by Erving Goffman
P.B. Medawar, Stretch Genes
Genes, Mind, and Culture: The Coevolutionary Process by Charles J. Lumsden, by Edward O. Wilson
Robert Coles, Growing Up East German
Twelve Years: An American Boyhood in East Germany by Joel Agee
Richard S. Kennedy, John Halberstadt, 'Crying Wolfe': An Exchange
Jonathan Dimbleby, Ann Mosely Lesch, Elia Zureik, et al. An Exchange on the Palestinians
Letters
Allen Harrison, Leftovers
Charlotte McNaughton, Leftovers
Barbara C. Sproul, Czech Crackdown
Robert Tracy, Rebecca Tracy, et al. Leftovers
Gerhard L. Weinberg, Norman Stone, What Hitler Told Goering
James Webster, Charles Rosen, It Can Happen
Contributors
Richard Cobb (1917-1996) fell in love
with France when he first visited in 1935. He went on to write many works of history—some
in French, some in English—about the French Revolution and occupied France.
Robert Darnton is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the University Library at Harvard. His latest book is George Washington’s False Teeth: An Unconventional Guide to the Eighteenth Century. (June 2008)
Thomas R. Edwards is Emeritus Professor of English at Rutgers and a former editor of Raritan. His most recent book is Over Here: Criticizing America, 1968–1989. (June 2004)
Elizabeth Hardwick (b. 1916) has been a frequent contributor to The Partisan Review, The New Yorker, and The New York Review of Books, which she helped found in 1963. Her books include the novels The Simple Truth, The Ghostly Lover, and Sleepless Nights, the essay collection A View of My Own, and The Selected Letters of William James, for which she acted as editor.
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.
George F. Kennan, Professor Emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, was Ambassador to the USSR in 1952, and Ambassador to Yugoslavia from 1961 to 1963. His most recent books are At a Century's Ending and An American Family. (April 2001)
Conor Cruise O'Brien's many books include God Land: Reflections on Religion and Nationalism and The Long Affair: Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution. His Memoir: My Life and Themes will be published in the US in May. (December 2000)
Christopher Ricks is William M. and Sara B. Warren Professor of the Humanities and Co-Director of the Editorial Institute at Boston University, and Professor of Poetry at Oxford. His most recent book is Dylan’s Visions of Sin. (March 2008)
Helen Vendler is the author, most recently, of Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form. She is preparing for publication her recent Mellon Lectures, entitled Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill. (June 2008)
