Table of Contents

Volume 30, Number 3 · March 3, 1983

V.S. Pritchett, The Supreme Fairy Tale

Lectures on Don Quixote by Vladimir Nabokov, edited by Fredson Bowers, preface by Reynolds Price, introduction by Guy Davenport

Hugh Honour, From the House of Life

An Illustrated History of Interior Decoration: From Pompeii to Art Nouveau by Mario Praz, translated by William Weaver

Il mondo che ho visto by Mario Praz

Lester C. Thurow, From Infancy to Senility and Back

The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities by Mancur Olson

Ernst Gombrich, On Frances Yates

Istvan Deak, What Was Fascism?

Who Were the Fascists: Social Roots of European Fascism edited by Stein Ugelvik Larsen, edited by Bernt Hagtvet, edited by Jan Petter Myklebust

Who Voted for Hitler? by Richard F. Hamilton

Noel Annan, The Way They Lived Then

The English Terraced House by Stefan Muthesius

The Last Country Houses by Clive Aslet

Helen Vendler, On the Thread of Language

The Kingfisher by Amy Clampitt

Stephen Jay Gould, Utopia (Limited)

The Turning Point: Science, Society, and the Rising Culture by Fritjof Capra

James Merrill, If U Cn Rd Ths (poem)

Bernard Knox, Greece à la Française

Le Chasseur noir: Formes de pensée et formes de société dans le monde grec by Pierre Vidal-Naquet

C. Vann Woodward, Southern Exposure

The War Within: From Victorian to Modernist Thought in the South, 1919-1945 by Daniel Joseph Singal

Christopher Jencks, Discrimination and Thomas Sowell

Ethnic America by Thomas Sowell

Markets and Minorities by Thomas Sowell

Devaki Jain, Ashok Mitra, K.N. Raj, et al. 'How Is India Doing?' An Exchange

Peter B. Reddaway, The Attack on Anatoly Koryagin

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Contributors

Noel Annan is the author of Leslie Stephen and Our Age, among other books. (October 1999)

Istvan Deak is Seth Low Professor Emeritus at Columbia and the author most recently of Essays on Hitler’s Europe. (June 2008)

Professor Sir Ernst Gombrich OM was born in Vienna in 1909 and died in London on November 3, 2001, aged 92. He studied at the Theresianum and then at the Second Institute of Art History at the University of Vienna under Julius von Schlosser (1928-33). He then worked as a Research Assistant and collaborator with the museum curator and Freudian analyst Ernst Kris. He joined the Warburg Institute in London as a Research Assistant in 1936. During World War 2 he was employed by the BBC as a Radio Monitor. After the war he rejoined the Warburg Institute eventually becoming its Director in 1959. His major publications include The Story of Art (1950), Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation (1960), Aby Warburg: An Intellectual Biography (1970), The Sense of Order: A Study in the Psychology of Decorative Art. (Also see: www.gombrich.co.uk.)

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)

Hugh Honour is the author, with John Fleming, of The Visual Arts: A History, which has recently been published in its sixth expanded edition. (November 2002)

Christopher Jencks is the Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy at Harvard. He is working on a book about the social and political consequences of growing inequality. (September 2007)

Bernard Knox is director emeritus of Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC. Among his many books are The Heroic Temper, The Oldest Dead White European Males, and Backing into the Future: The Classical Tradition and Its Renewal. He is the editor of The Norton Book of Classical Literature and wrote the introductions and notes for Robert Fagles's translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey.

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)

Lester Thurow is Professor of Economics and Management at MIT and the former Dean of the Sloan School of Management. He is the author of The Zero-Sum Society, Head to Head, and The Future of Capitalism. (February 1998)

Helen Vendler is the author, most recently, of Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form. She is preparing for publication her recent Mellon Lectures, entitled Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill. (June 2008)

C. Vann Woodward is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. His many books include Mary Chesnut's Civil War and The Old World's New World. (February 1998)

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