Table of Contents

Volume 29, Number 4 · March 18, 1982

Joan Didion, Sentimental Education

Every Secret Thing by Patricia Campbell Hearst, with Alvin Moscow

Stephen Spender, Guilty Secrets

The Royal Game and Other Stories by Stefan Zweig, translated by Jill Sutcliffe, with an introduction by John Fowles

ValÉRy: Palme (poem)

Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, Advice from Admiral Rickover

Alison Lurie, The World of the Pied Piper

Kate Greenaway: A Biography by Rodney Engen

Nicholas von Hoffman, The Fly on Nixon's Wall

Witness to Power: The Nixon Years by John Ehrlichman

Martin Malia, Poland: The Winter War

Peter Green, Tough Act to Follow

Funeral Games by Mary Renault

Andrew Hacker, Farewell to the Family?

Marriage Divorce Remarriage by Andrew J. Cherlin

Singled Out: A Civilized Guide to Sex and Sensibility for the Suddenly Single Man or Woman by Richard Schickel

The Futility of Family Policy by Gilbert Y. Steiner

The Inner American: A Self-Portrait from 1957 to 1976 by Joseph Veroff, by Elizabeth Douvan, by Richard Kulka

America Now: The Anthropology of a Changing Culture by Marvin Harris

What's Happening to the American Family by Sar A. Levitan, by Richard S. Belous

Friends as Family by Karen Lindsey

Money Income and Poverty Status of Families and Persons Bureau of the Census, Current Population Reports Series P-60, No. 127

Household and Family Characteristics Bureau of the Census, Current Population Reports Series P-20, No. 366

Marital Status and Living Arrangements Bureau of the Census, Current Population Reports Series P-20, No. 365

Veronica Geng, Good at Games

Personal Best written and directed by Robert Towne

D.J. Enright, Hangovers

Headbirths, or The Germans Are Dying Out by Günter Grass, translated by Ralph Manheim

The Safety Net by Heinrich Böll, translated by Leila Vennewitz

Felix Gilbert, Prussia Lives!

"Prussia: Attempt at a Balance" a Berlin Festival Exhibition, August-December, 1981

George M. Fredrickson, Settlers and 'Savages' on Two Frontiers

The Frontier in History: North America and Southern Africa Compared edited by Howard Lamar, edited by Leonard Thompson

The Shaping of South African Society, 1652-1820 edited by Richard Elphick, edited by Hermann Giliomee

Economy and Society in Pre-Industrial South Africa edited by Shula Marks, edited by Anthony Atmore

Peter B. Reddaway, An Appeal to Psychiatrists

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Letters

Susanne P. Schad-Somers, Jane Alpert's Defense
Judith Weissman, Jane Alpert's Defense
Jane Alpert, Murray Kempton, Jane Alpert's Defense
Daniel Barenboim, Donald Barthelme, et al. An Appeal to General Jaruzelski
John J. Nangle, Robert B. Reich, Not in the Chips?
Alaiya, Michael Arlen, et al. The Parajanov Case

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Contributors

Joan Didion is the author of The Year of Magical Thinking and We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction. (February 2008)

D. J. Enright's books include The Alluring Problem, Fields of Vision, Collected Poems 1948—1998, and, most recently, Interplay: A Kind of Commonplace Book. (August 2000)

George M. Fredrickson is Edgar E. Robinson Professor of US History Emeritus at Stanford. His most recent books are Racism: A Short History and Not Just Black and White, a collection co-edited with Nancy Foner. (August 2006)

Peter Green is Dougherty Centennial Professor Emeritus of Classics at the University of Texas at Austin and Adjunct Professor at the University of Iowa. His most recent book is The Hellenistic Age: A Short History. (May 2008)

Andrew Hacker teaches political science at Queens College. He is currently writing a book on higher education in collaboration with Claudia Dreifus. (October 2007)

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)

Martin Malia is Professor of History Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author, most recently, of Russia Under Western Eyes, from the Bronze Horseman to the Lenin Mausoleum. (November 2001)

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