Table of Contents

Volume 28, Number 20 · December 17, 1981

Lester C. Thurow, Death by a Thousand Cuts

Making America Work: Productivity and Responsibility by James O'Toole

Elizabeth Hardwick, Back Issues

Joseph Brodsky, The Berlin Wall Tune (poem)

Janet Malcolm, Wolfe in Wolfe's Clothing

From Bauhaus to Our House by Tom Wolfe

Noel Annan, The Triumph of Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold: A Life by Park Honan

Luc Sante, Relic

Elvis by Albert Goldman

Private Elvis photographs by Rudolf Paulini, edited by Diego Cortez

James Fallows, The Trap of Rearmament

The Baroque Arsenal by Mary Kaldor

The East-West Strategic Balance by T.B. Millar

Soviet Military Power by the US Department of Defense

Helen Vendler, All Too Real

Work, for the Night Is Coming by Jared Carter

A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far: Poems 1978-1981 by Adrienne Rich

One for the Rose by Philip Levine

Clive James, That Old Black and White Magic

Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography by Roland Barthes, translated by Richard Howard

Before Photography: Painting and the Invention of Photography by Peter Galassi

The Autochromes of J.H. Lartigue, 1912-1927

Feininger's Chicago, 1941

American Photographers and the National Parks by Robert Cahn, by Robert Glenn Ketchum

Don McCullin: Hearts of Darkness introduction by John Le Carré

William Klein: Photographs profile by John Heilpern

The Russians by Vladimir Sichov

Visions of China: Photographs by Marc Riboud, 1957-1980 introduction by Orville Schell

Nicaragua: June 1978-July 1979 by Susan Meiselas

Falkland Road: Prostitutes of Bombay by Mary Ellen Mark

Rajasthan: India's Enchanted Land, introduction and photographs by Raghubir Singh, foreword by Satyajit Ray

Man as Art: New Guinea photographs by Malcolm Kirk, text by Andrew Strathern

New England Reflections, 1882-1907 photographs by the Howes Brothers, edited by Alan B. Newman, foreword by Richard Wilbur, introduction by Gerald McFarland

A Century of Japanese Photography by the Japan Photographers Association, introduction by John W. Dower

Hollywood Color Photographs by John Kobal

Bill Brandt: Nudes 1945-1980 introduction by Michael Hiley

Sam Haskins/Photographics

John Pfahl: Altered Landscapes

Robert Rauschenberg Photographs

Herbert List: Photographs 1930-1970 by Günter Metken, introduction by Stephen Spender

Cole Weston: Eighteen Photographs foreword by Ben Maddow, introduction by Charis Wilson

The Photography of Max Yavno text by Ben Maddow

The Work of Atget, Vol. 1: Old France edited by John Szarkowski, edited by Maria Morris Hambourg

Photography in Print: Writings from 1816 to the Present edited by Vicki Goldberg

Rudolf Peierls, One Culture

The Physicists by C.P. Snow

Mary Gordon, Poem for the End of the Year (poem)

Virgil Thomson, Music Does Not Flow

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Washington at War

Washington Despatches 1941-1945: Weekly Political Reports from the British Embassy edited by H. G. Nicholas, introduction by Isaiah Berlin

Lincoln Kirstein, Uncle Wiz the Wizard

W.H. Auden: A Biography by Humphrey Carpenter

Richard Cobb, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

Ladies of the Leisure Class: The Bourgeoises of Northern France in the Nineteenth Century by Bonnie G. Smith

John Keegan, Empire Building

Revolutionary Empire: The Rise of the English-Speaking Empires from the Fifteenth Century to the 1780s by Angus Calder

Alan Pryce-Jones, The Clowning Victim

Edith Sitwell: A Unicorn Among Lions by Victoria Glendinning

Edith Sitwell: A Biography by Geoffrey Elborn

Richard Wollheim, The Professor Knows

Is There a Text in This Class? The Authority of Interpretive Communities by Stanley Fish

The Editors, Short Reviews

Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman by Marjorie Shostak

Science in Traditional China: A Comparative Perspective by Joseph Needham

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Letters

Edward Abbey, John M. Crewdson, Holes in the Fence
Jay Presson Allen, Murray Kempton, 'Prince of the City'
John M. Gates, Death in the Philippines
Russell Roth, Death in the Philippines
David Nielsen, Gore Vidal, Death in the Philippines
Aaron Asher, Dore Ashton, et al. Missing Person

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Contributors

Noel Annan is the author of Leslie Stephen and Our Age, among other books. (October 1999)

Joseph Brodsky was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987. His Collected Poems in English will be published next spring. He died in 1996. (January 2000)

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.

James Fallows is National Correspondent for The Atlantic and author, most recently, of Free Flight. (March 2002)

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.

Clive James is the author of many books of criticism, autobiography, fiction, and poetry. His latest and longest book, Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts, will be published in the spring. (January 2007)

Janet Malcolm was born in Prague. She was educated at the High School of Music and Art, in New York, and at the University of Michigan. Along with In the Freud Archives, her books include Diana and Nikon: Essays on Photography, Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession, The Journalist and the Murderer, The Purloined Clinic: Selected Writings, The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, The Crime of Sheila McGough, and Reading Chekhov: A Critical Journey. She lives in New York with her husband, Gardner Botsford.

Luc Sante is the author of Low Life, Evidence, The Factory of Facts, and, most recently, Kill All Your Darlings: Pieces 1990–2005. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and teaches writing and the history of photography at Bard College.

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., the author of numerous books on American history, served as adviser to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. He died this year. His Journals: 1952– 2000, from which an excerpt appears in this issue, will be published in October by Penguin. (October 2007)

Lester Thurow is Professor of Economics and Management at MIT and the former Dean of the Sloan School of Management. He is the author of The Zero-Sum Society, Head to Head, and The Future of Capitalism. (February 1998)

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)

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