Table of Contents

Volume 29, Number 8 · May 13, 1982

D.M. Thomas, A Fine Romance

A Secret Symmetry: Sabina Spielrein between Jung and Freud by Aldo Carotenuto, translated by Arno Pomerans, by John Shepley, by Krishna Winston

James Merrill, The House Fly (poem)

Robert Darnton, The Art of Dying

Death and the Enlightenment: Changing Attitudes to Death among Christians and Unbelievers in Eighteenth-century France by John McManners

McGeorge Bundy, The Missed Chance to Stop the H-Bomb

Al Alvarez, Flushed with Ideas

Levitation: Five Fictions by Cynthia Ozick

Waking by Eva Figes

Norman Stone, Pillars of the Third Reich

Infiltration by Albert Speer, translated by Joachim Neugroschel

The Hitler State: The Foundation and Development of the Internal Structure of the Third Reich by Martin Broszat, translated by John W. Hiden

Operation Valkyrie: The German Generals' Plot Against Hitler by Pierre Galante, translated by Mark Howsen, by Cary Ryan

The Wehrmacht and German Rearmament by Wilhelm Deist

The Third Reich and the Christian Churches by Peter Matheson

Reinhard Heydrich: A Biography by Günther Deschner, translated by Sandra Bance, by Brenda Woods, by David Ball

Kevin Phillips, Post-Conservative America

David S. Nivison, Emperor of China Studies

Chinabound: A Fifty-Year Memoir by John King Fairbank

David Hamilton, Electronic Maestros

On and Off the Record: A Memoir of Walter Legge by Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

Putting the Record Straight by John Culshaw

Frederick Brown, Letters from Zola

Correspondance d'Émile Zola, Volume I: 1858-1867 edited under the direction of B.H. Bakker, edited by Colette Becker

Correspondance d'Émile Zola, Volume II: 1868-mai 1877 edited under the direction of B.H. Bakker, edited by Colette Becker

Correspondance d'Émile Zola, Volume III: juin 1877-mai 1880 edited under the direction of B.H. Bakker, edited by Albert J. Salvan, by Alain Pagès

John Maynard Smith, Storming the Fortress

The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance by Ernst Mayr

The Possible and the Actual by François Jacob

Firuz Kazemzadeh, The Terror Facing the Bahais

M.F. Burnyeat, Message from Heraclitus

The Art and Thought of Heraclitus: An Edition of the Fragments with Translation and Commentary by Charles H. Kahn

Patricia Craig, Playing to Empty Pockets

An Duanaire: An Irish Anthology 1600-1900: Poems of the Dispossessed presented by Seán Ó Tuama, with verse translations by Thomas Kinsella


Letters

Steve J. Heims, Rudolf Peierls, Scientists and Life
Norman Fruman, John Bayley, In Defense of Wordsworth
Fernando Arrabal, Alexandre Astruc, et al. Help Save "Que Me"
Jonas Barish, On Stage
Norman Turner, Henri Zerner, Detaching the Retina



Contributors

Al Alvarez's most recent book is Risky Business, a selection of essays, many of which first appeared in The New York Review of Books.

M.F. Burnyeat is Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy at All Souls College, Oxford. He is the author of The Theaetetus of Plato and A Map of Metaphysics Zeta. (November 2001)

Robert Darnton is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor at Harvard. His latest book is George Washington's False Teeth: An Unconventional Guide to the Eighteenth Century. (February 2009)

John Maynard Smith, Professor of Biology at the University of Sussex, is the author of On Evolution, The Evolution of Sex, Evolution and the Theory of Games, and, with Eörs Szathmáry, The Major Transitions in Evolution. (December 2000)

James Merrill died in 1995. The poem in this issue appears in Last Poems, a collection of previously unpublished work, just published by Thornwillow Press. (December 1998)


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