Table of Contents

Volume 28, Number 16 · October 22, 1981

Aileen Kelly, Justice to Mrs. Tolstoy

Sonya: The Life of Countess Tolstoy by Anne Edwards

Eugenio Montale, Three Poems by Eugenio Montale (poem)

Richard C. Lewontin, The Inferiority Complex

The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould

Neal Ascherson, Unspeakable News

Auschwitz and the Allies by Martin Gilbert

The Terrible Secret: Suppression of the Truth about Hitler's "Final Solution" by Walter Laqueur

John M. Crewdson, Borderline Cases

On the Border: Portraits of America's Southwestern Frontier by Tom Miller

The Border Economy: Regional Development in the Southwest by Niles Hansen

Victoria Hamilton, Something for Your Entire Family

Foundations of Family Therapy: A Conceptual Framework for Systems Change by Lynn Hoffman

Murray Kempton, Mark Chapman's Family

Denis Donoghue, The Hunger Strikers

Robert M. Adams, Just Plain Will

What Shakespeare Read-and Thought by A.L. Rowse

Shakespeare and Tragedy by John Bayley

Jonathan Lieberson, The Silent Majority

The Moral Economy of the Peasant: Rebellion and Subsistence in Southeast Asia by James C. Scott

The Rational Peasant: The Political Economy of Rural Society in Vietnam by Samuel L. Popkin

Alison Lurie, Sex and Fashion

C. Vann Woodward, Good Housekeeping

The Hammonds of Redcliffe edited by Carol Bleser

Ernst Badian, The Bitter History of Slave History

Ancient Slavery and Modern Ideology by M.I. Finley

Greek and Roman Slavery by Thomas Wiedemann

Michael Wood, In the Latino Americano Mirror

Macho Camacho's Beat by Luis Rafael Sánchez, translated by Gregory Rabassa

The Emperor of the Amazon by Márcio Souza, translated by Thomas Colchie

Burnt Water by Carlos Fuentes, translated by Margaret Sayers Peden

On Heroes and Tombs by Ernesto Sábato, translated by Helen R. Lane

Murray Kempton, The Young Pretender

Prince of the City directed by Sidney Lumet, screenplay by Sidney Lumet, by Jay Presson Allen

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Letters

Robert W. Creamer, Gore Vidal, Verifying Genocide
Azadeh Esteglal, The Unpalatable
Louis Seidman, Lawrence Sager, Abortion and the Law

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Contributors

Neal Ascherson is the author of The Struggles for Poland, The Black Sea, and Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland. He is the editor of the journal Public Archaeology at University College London. (November 2007)

Denis Donoghue is University Professor at NYU, where he holds the Henry James Chair of English and American Letters. He is the author of The Practice of Reading, Words Alone: The Poet T.S. Eliot, and, most recently, The American Classics. (October 2006)

Aileen Kelly, a fellow of King’s College, Cambridge, is the author of Toward Another Shore: Russian Thinkers Between Necessity and Chance and, most recently, Views from the Other Shore: Essays on Herzen, Chekhov, and Bakhtin. (April 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.

Richard C. Lewontin is Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Professor of Biology at Harvard University. He is the author of The Genetic Basis of Evolutionary Change and Biology as Ideology, and the co-author of The Dialectical Biologist (with Richard Levins) and Not in Our Genes (with Steven Rose and Leon Kamin).

Alison Lurie is the author of two collections of essays on children’s literature, Don’t Tell the Grownups and Boys and Girls Forever. She is a former professor of English at Cornell and has published nine novels, of which the most recent is Truth and Consequences. (May 2008)

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

Michael Wood is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge. (April 2008)

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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