Table of Contents
Volume 29, Number 12 · July 15, 1982
John Russell, The Return of Meyerhold 
Meyerhold the Director by Konstantin Rudnitsky, translated by George Petrov, edited by Sydney Schultze
Meyerhold at Work edited by Paul Schmidt, translated by Paul Schmidt, by Ilya Levin, by Vern McGee
Howard Moss, Good Poems, Sad Lives
Poets in Their Youth: A Memoir by Eileen Simpson
George M. Fredrickson, Lincoln and His Legend
Lincoln's Quest for Union: Public and Private Meanings by Charles B. Strozier
Abraham Lincoln: The Quest for Immortality by Dwight G. Anderson
James Wolcott, R.I.P.
Edie: An American Biography by Jean Stein, edited with George Plimpton
Noel Annan, Mrs. Thatcher's Case
Murray Kempton, General Galtieri's Case
Kenneth J. Arrow, Why People Go Hungry
Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation by Amartya Sen
Stephen Spender, Changeling
Continuous: 50 Sonnets from "The School of Eloquence" by Tony Harrison
Thomas R. Edwards, Good Morning, America
Hometown by Peter Davis
American Journey: Traveling with Tocqueville in Search of "Democracy in America" by Richard Reeves
Irving Howe, Breaking Away
Prophecy and Politics: Socialism, Nationalism and the Russian Jews, 1862-1917 by Jonathan Frankel
A.J.P. Taylor, Excelsior!
Churchill: Young Man in a Hurry, 1874-1915 by Ted Morgan
Theodore H. Draper, How Not to Think About Nuclear War
"Nuclear Weapons and the Atlantic Alliance," by McGeorge Bundy, by George F. Kennan, by Robert S. McNamara, by Gerard Smith
The Fate of the Earth by Jonathan Schell
Nuclear Illusion and Reality by Solly Zuckerman
Mary McCarthy, Watergate Over the Dam
Letters
Stanley Burnshaw, J.M. Cameron, Refusing
Charles Cairns, Helen Cairns, et al. Free Boguslawski
Suzy Hallock-Butterworth, Andrew Hacker, The High Cost of Living
Contributors
Noel Annan is the author of Leslie Stephen and Our Age, among other books. (October 1999)
Theodore Draper's books include The Roots of American Communism and A Struggle for Power: The American Revolution. He is at work on a book about the nineteenth century in the US. (September 1999)
Thomas R. Edwards is Emeritus Professor of English at Rutgers and a former editor of Raritan. His most recent book is Over Here: Criticizing America, 1968–1989. (June 2004)
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)
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.
Mary McCarthy (1912-1989) was a novelist, essayist, and critic. Her political and social commentary, literary essays, and drama criticism appeared in magazines such as Partisan Review, The New Yorker, Harper's, and The New York Review of Books, and were collected in On the Contrary (1961), Mary McCarthy's Theatre Chronicles 1937-1962 (1963), The Writing on the Wall (1970), Ideas and the Novel (1980), and Occasional Prose (1985). Her novels include The Company She Keeps (1942), The Oasis (1949), The Groves of Academe (1952), A Charmed Life (1955), The Group (1963), Birds of America (1971), and Cannibals and Missionaries (1971). She was the author of three works of autobiography, Memories of a Catholic Girlhood (1957), How I Grew (1987), and the unfinished Intellectual Memoirs (1992), and two travel books about Italy, Venice Observed (1956) and The Stones of Florence (1959). Her essays on the Vietnam War were collected in The Seventeenth Degree (1974); her essays on Watergate were collected in The Mask of State (1974).
John Russell was formerly Chief Art Critic of The New York Times, to which he continues to be a contributor. He is at work on a short history of the museum since 1800. (March 2003)
