Table of Contents
Volume 30, Number 1 · February 3, 1983
G.R. Elton, The Myth of More 
Thomas More: History and Providence by Alistair Fox
Robert Brustein, Ciao! Manhattan
A Margin of Hope: An Intellectual Biography by Irving Howe
Noel Annan, How Should a Gent Behave?
The Gentleman in Trollope: Individuality and Moral Conduct by Shirley Robin Letwin
Thomas Powers, The Ears of America
The Puzzle Palace: A Report on America's Most Secret Agency by James Bamford
Gordon S. Wood, This Land Is Our Land
The Fall of the First British Empire: Origins of the War of American Independence by Robert W. Tucker, by David C. Hendrickson
Prodigals and Pilgrims: The American Revolution Against Patriarchal Authority, 1750-1800 by Jay Fliegelman
A People in Revolution: The American Revolution and Political Society in New York, 1760-1790 by Edward Countryman
Luc Sante, Was Cain Able?
Cain by Roy Hoopes
Seweryn Bialer, The Andropov Succession
John Ashbery, Things As They Are
Ronald Dworkin, Why Liberals Should Believe in Equality
John Bayley, Looking in on Pushkin
Harry Maurer, The Invisible Veterans
Steele Commager, Honest Eggs?
Profile of Horace by D.R. Shackleton Bailey
Letters
Graham Greene, Civil Defense
Ernst Badian, Correction
Frank R. Hartman, Phyllis Grosskurth, The Bonaparte Papers
Eddie Oshins, The Case of Yuri Orlov
Ludmilla Thorne, Human Rights in Chile
Contributors
Noel Annan is the author of Leslie Stephen and Our Age, among other books. (October 1999)
John Ashbery is the author of twenty books of poetry, including Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (1975), which received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the National Book Award; and Some Trees (1956), which was selected by W. H. Auden for the Yale Younger Poets Series. He has also published art criticism, plays, and a novel. Ashbery is currently the Charles P. Stevenson, Jr., Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard College.
John Bayley has written two books about his wife, the novelist Iris Murdoch, Elegy for Iris and Iris and Her Friends. (July 2004)
Steele Commager was for many years a professor of classics at Columbia. His works include the still-definitive study The Odes of Horace (1965).
Ronald Dworkin is Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law and Philosophy at NYU and Jeremy Bentham Professor of Law and Philosophy at University College London. His books include Is Democracy Possible Here? (2006), Justice in Robes, Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality, and Freedom's Law. He is the 2007 winner of the Ludvig Holberg International Memorial Prize for "his pioneering scholarly work" of "worldwide impact."
Thomas Powers is the author of The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA (1979), Heisenberg's War: The Secret History of the German Bomb (1993), Intelligence Wars: American Secret History from Hitler to al-Qaeda (2002; revised and expanded edition, 2004), and The Confirmation (2000), a novel. He won a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1971 and has contributed to The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, Harper's, The Nation, The Atlantic, and Rolling Stone.
Luc Sante is the author of Low Life, Evidence, The Factory of Facts, and, most recently, Kill All Your Darlings: Pieces 1990–2005. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and teaches writing and the history of photography at Bard College.
Gordon Wood is the Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History at Brown. A collection of his essays, The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History, was published in March. (May 2008)
