Table of Contents

Volume 29, Number 7 · April 29, 1982

John R. Searle, The Myth of the Computer

The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul composed and arranged by Douglas R. Hofstadter, by Daniel C. Dennett

Robert M. Adams, Chance-taker

Oh What a Paradise It Seems by John Cheever

Gore Vidal, The Ruins of Washington

Roger Sale, Our Town

Nuclear Culture: Living and Working in the World's Largest Atomic Complex by Paul Loeb

Stanley Hoffmann, The Return of Henry Kissinger

Years of Upheaval by Henry Kissinger

Stanley M. Elkins, How to Understand Slavery

Slavery and Freedom by Willie Lee Rose, edited by William W. Freehling

Felix G. Rohatyn, A Raw Deal

Denis Donoghue, Bright and Silly

The Enemy: A Biography of Wyndham Lewis by Jeffrey Meyers

Fables of Aggression: Wyndham Lewis, the Modernist as Fascist by Fredric Jameson

Conor Cruise O'Brien, Ireland: The Shirt of Nessus

Irish Nationalism: A History of Its Roots and Ideology by Sean Cronin

Rudolf Peierls, Quantum Squabbles

The Rise of Robert Millikan: Portrait of a Life in American Science by Robert H. Kargon

Night Thoughts of a Classical Physicist by Russell McCormmach

Murray Kempton, A Guide to El Salvador

Enemy Colleagues: A Reading of the Salvadoran Tragedy by Gabriel Zaid

Harry Mathews, Queen Story

Progress of Stories by Laura Riding

Vernon Shetley, Ask the Fact

The Revisionist by Douglas Crase

The Everlastings by Norman Dubie

Robert Fink, Alan M. Milner, Rabbi Ephraim Rubinger, et al. Begin and the Jews: An Exchange

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Letters

David Burnham, Howard Kohn, et al. The Silkwood Case
The Editors, Correction

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Contributors

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)

Stanley Hoffmann is Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor at Harvard. His forthcoming book is Chaos and Violence. (August 2006)

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.

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)

Felix Rohatyn has been a governor of the New York Stock Exchange, Chairman of the New York Municipal Authority, and US Ambassador to France. (November 2002)

John R. Searle is Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. His most recent books are Mind: A Brief Introduction and Freedom and Neurobiology. (November 2006)

Gore Vidal's most recent novel is The Golden Age. (February 2002)

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