Table of Contents

Volume 30, Number 5 · March 31, 1983

Hugh Trevor-Roper, Acts of the Apostles

After Long Silence by Michael Straight

Ian Hacking, Kiss and Don't Tell

Secrets: On the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation by Sissela Bok

John Ashbery, More Pleasant Adventures (poem)

Robert Towers, Violent Places

The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake foreword by James Alan McPherson, afterword by John Casey

Ironweed by William Kennedy

Diane Johnson, Ruskin Our Contemporary?

The Wider Sea: A Life of John Ruskin by John Dixon Hunt

The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and John Ruskin edited by George Allan Cate

The Ruskin Polygon edited by John Dixon Hunt, by Faith M. Holland

Studies in Ruskin: Essays in Honor of Van Akin Burd edited by Robert E. Rhodes, by Del Ivan Janik

Ruskin and the Art of the Beholder by Elizabeth K. Helsinger

Ruskinian Gothic: The Architecture of Deane and Woodward, 1845-1861 by Eve Blau

Ruskin's Maze: Mastery and Madness in His Art by Jay Fellows

The Poison Sky: Myth and Apocalypse in Ruskin by Raymond E. Fitch

Ruskin and Venice by Jeanne Clegg

Letters from the Continent 1858 edited by John Hayman

New Approaches to Ruskin: Thirteen Essays edited by Robert Hewison

Jeffrey Meyers, Wanted by the FBI!

Peter Partner, The Roman Spring of Clement VII

The Sack of Rome, 1527 by André Chastel, translated by Beth Archer

Eugene D. Genovese, Portrait of a Bounder

James Henry Hammond and the Old South: A Design for Mastery by Drew Faust

Josh Rubins, Growing Pains

The Breaks by Richard Price

Philip Gossett, Making a Comeback

Donizetti and His Operas by William Ashbrook

Tomas Venclova, The Game of the Soviet Censor

D.P. Walker, Which Side Was Rabelais On?

The Problem of Unbelief in the Sixteenth Century: The Religion of Rabelais by Lucien Febvre, translated by Beatrice Gottlieb

Murray Kempton, Tennessee Williams (1911–1983)

Alfred Kazin, Saving My Soul at the Plaza

Michel Foucault, Lawrence Stone, An Exchange with Michel Foucault

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Letters

James H. Hutson, Phyllis Grosskurth, The Freud Archives
Irving Howe, Susan Sontag, et al. The Case of Miklos Duray
Richard Pipes, Lord Zuckerman, Nuclear Sense & Nonsense

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Contributors

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.

Philip Gossett is the Robert W. Reneker Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. His reconstruction of Gustavo III, the original version of Verdi's Un ballo in maschera, had its première at the Göteborg Opera in Sweden this past September. (March 2003)

Ian Hacking holds the chair of Philosophy and History of Scientific Concepts at the Collège de France. His most recent book is Historical Ontology. (April 2005)

Diane Johnson is the author, most recently, of Into a Paris Quartier: Reine Margot’s Chapel and Other Haunts of St. Germain. Her latest novel is L’Affaire. (February 2008)

Alfred Kazin's most recent book is God and the American Writer. (April 1998)

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.

Peter Partner's books include Arab Voices and The Pope's Men: The Papal Service in the Renaissance. His new book, God of Battles: Holy Wars of Christianity and Islam, has been published in the United Kingdom. (February 1998)

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