Table of Contents

Volume 28, Number 13 · August 13, 1981

Stuart Hampshire, The Gambler's Throw

Early Auden by Edward Mendelson

Gordon S. Wood, The Disappointments of Jefferson

The Sage of Monticello Volume Six of "Jefferson and His Time" by Dumas Malone

Lincoln Kirstein, Lincoln Shelter

Lincoln Center: The Building of an Institution by Edgar B. Young, with a foreword by Frank Stanton

X, Fall of a House

July's People by Nadine Gordimer

Gore Vidal, An American Sissy

Mornings on Horseback by David McCullough

William Styron, In the Southern Camp

Mary Chesnut's Civil War edited by C. Vann Woodward

John Kenneth Galbraith, Up from Monetarism and Other Wishful Thinking

Jonathan D. Spence, China: How Much Dissent?

A Madman of Ch'u: The Chinese Myth of Loyalty and Dissent by Laurence A. Schneider

Dissent in Early Modern China: Ju-lin Wai-Shih and Ch'ing Social Criticism by Paul S. Ropp

Beijing Street Voices: The Poetry and Politics of China's Democracy Movement by David S.G. Goodman

China's Intellectuals: Advise and Dissent by Merle Goldman

Martin Gardner, Is Mathematics for Real?

The Mathematical Experience by Philip J. Davis, by Reuben Hersh

Stephen Spender, The Glow of Irreality

Sounds by Wassily Kandinsky, translated by Elizabeth R. Napier

"Kandinsky: The Improvisations" 1981 The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. April 26-September 7,

Roger Sale, Life With Father

Dad by William Wharton

Bernard Avishai, The Victory of the New Israel

James Wolcott, Striking Out

Bea Friedland, Roger Scruton, Charles Rosen, An Exchange on the New Grove

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Letters

Tom Hayden, David Vogel, The New American Dream
Steven Kovacs, Michael Wood, It's the Argument
Walter Abish, Eqbal Ahmad, et al. Death in Iran

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Contributors

Martin Gardner is the author of The New Ambidextrous Universe, Fractal Music, Hypercards and More, and The Night is Large. His most recent book is a novel, Visitors from Oz. (September 1998)

Stuart Hampshire, formerly Warden of Wardham College, Oxford, is the author of Spinoza and Justice Is Conflict.(October 2002)

Jonathan Spence, author of The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci, teaches the history of modern China at Yale. His book Return to Dragon Mountain: Memories of a Late Ming Man will be published this autumn. (June 2007)

Gore Vidal's most recent novel is The Golden Age. (February 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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