Table of Contents

Volume 29, Number 6 · April 15, 1982

Murray Kempton, The Kindly Stranger

FDR, 1882-1945: A Centenary Remembrance by Joseph Alsop

David McDuff, Poet of Sacrifice

Selected Poems of Marina Tsvetayeva translated by Elaine Feinstein

John Gregory Dunne, Elephant Man

The Kennedy Imprisonment: A Meditation on Power by Garry Wills

Nadine Gordimer, Mysterious Incest

Flaws in the Glass: A Self-Portrait by Patrick White

E.J. Hobsbawm, The Lowest Depths

Peasants, Rebels, and Outcastes: The Underside of Modern Japan by Mikiso Hane

A.J.P. Taylor, Glamour Boy

Anthony Eden: A Biography by David Carlton

Emma Rothschild, The Philosophy of Reaganism

Economic Report of the President transmitted to the Congress, February 1982

Stephen Jay Gould, Will Man Become Obsolete?

The Enchanted Loom: Mind in the Universe by Robert Jastrow

J.M. Cameron, A Good Read

The Great Code: The Bible and Literature by Northrop Frye

The Art of Biblical Narrative by Robert Alter

Francis Haskell, Famous but Unknown

French Sculptors of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: The Reign of Louis XIV by François Souchal

Michael Scammell, The Azadovsky Case

Robert Towers, Moby-Dad

The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux

Anne Hollander, Rags

The Language of Clothes by Alison Lurie, with illustrations assembled by Doris Palca

The Fashionable Mind: Reflections on Fashion, 1970-1981 by Kennedy Fraser

Richard C. Trexler, Felix Gilbert, Medici Florence: An Exchange

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Letters

Jay Presson Allen, Whitman Knapp, 'Prince of the City' cont'd
Robert Frazier, Peter Green, Not Soft on Communism
Irving Lavin, Robert M. Adams, Desegregation
Pete Camarata, Alexander Erlich, et al. Solidarity Support
Karl Reyman, A Fourth Time
Charles Schwartz, V.S. Pritchett, Smoke in the Smokies

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Contributors

John Gregory Dunne's new novel, Nothing Lost, will be published in May. (January 2004)

Stephen Jay Gould teaches Geology, Biology, and the History of Science at Harvard and is the Vincent Astor Visiting Professor of Biology at NYU. His latest book is The Lying Stones of Marrakech. (October 2001)

Francis Haskell, formerly Professor of Art History at Oxford, is the author of Patrons and Painters, Rediscoveries in Art, Past and Present in Art and Taste, and History and Its Images: Art and the Interpretation of the Past. (February 1999)

Anne Hollander's books include Seeing Through Clothes, Sex and Suits, and Feeding the Eye. Fabric of Vision: Dress and Drapery in Painting, a companion book for the upcoming exhibition at the National Gallery in London, will be published this spring. (February 2002)

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.

Emma Rothschild is a fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and will be teaching history at Harvard next fall. Her latest book is Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet and the Enlightenment. (March 2004)

Michael Scammell is Professor of Writing and Translation at Columbia. He is the author of Solzhenitsyn: A Biography, and has just completed a biography of Arthur Koestler. (November 2005)

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