Table of Contents

Volume 28, Number 17 · November 5, 1981

Leonard Schapiro, A Good Man

Righteous Gentile: The Story of Raoul Wallenberg, Missing Hero of the Holocaust by John Bierman

Hugh Trevor-Roper, Born Again

Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey by V.S. Naipaul

Robert Towers, Reservations

The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving

Francis Russell, America's Dreyfus Case

The Black Flag: A Look at the Strange Case of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti by Brian Jackson

Yannis Ritsos, Return (poem)

Mary McCarthy, The Rake's Progress

Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden by Eleanor Perényi

Alfred Kazin, One of Us?

Conor Cruise O'Brien, How Long Can They Last?

Why South Africa Will Survive: A Historical Analysis by L.H. Gann, by Peter Duignan

The Crisis in South Africa: Class Defense, Class Revolution by John S. Saul, by Stephen Gelb

South Africa: Time Running Out Africa. The Report of the Study Commission on US Policy Toward Southern

Jacques Barzun, The Wasteland of American Education

Wilfrid Sheed, No Need for Names

The Last Laugh by S.J. Perelman

David Brion Davis, Out of the Shadows

The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume One: From the Pharaohs to the Fall of the Roman Empire general editor Ladislas Bugner, by Jean Vercoutter, by Jean Leclant, by Frank M. Snowden Jr., by Jehan Desanges, translated by William Granger Ryan

The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume Two: From the Early Christian Era to the "Age of Discovery" Part 1, From the Demonic Threat to the Incarnation of Sainthood general editor Ladislas Bugner, by Jean Devisse, with a preliminary essay by Jean Marie Courtès, translated by William Granger Ryan

The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume Two: From the Early Christian Era to the "Age of Discovery" Part 2, Africans in the Christian Ordinance of the World (Fourteenth to the Sixteenth Centuries) general editor Ladislas Bugner, by Jean Devisse, by Michel Mollat, translated by William Granger Ryan

Geoffrey Grigson, In the Crab Pots

The Book of Ebenezer Le Page by G.B. Edwards, introduced by John Fowles

J.M. Cameron, Can We Live the Good Life?

After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory by Alasdair MacIntyre

George Konrad, Peter B. Reddaway, Barbara C. Sproul, The East: Three Reports

Robert L. Heilbroner, The Missing Link

Intellectual and Manual Labour: A Critique of Epistemology by Alfred Sohn-Rethel

D.P. Walker, Closet Believers

The Family of Love by Alastair Hamilton

Alastair Reid, Climbing Macchu Picchu

Translating Neruda: The Way to Macchu Picchu by John Felstiner

The Editors, Short Reviews

Indian Running by Peter Nabokov

Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment by James H. Jones

Russian Journal by Andrea Lee

Albert Szymanski, Nick Eberstadt, The Health Crisis in the USSR: An Exchange

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Letters

Roger L. Lewis, Peter Green, The Battle for Macedonia
Robert R. Sullivan, Quentin Skinner, Not Greek to Them
John B. Anderson, Which Catastrophe?

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Contributors

David Brion Davis is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale and Director Emeritus of Yale’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. His most recent book is Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World. (May 2007)

Alfred Kazin's most recent book is God and the American Writer. (April 1998)

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).

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)

Alastair Reid received the PEN Kolovakos Award for Translation in 2001, along with Gregory Rabassa. (January 2004)

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