Table of Contents
Volume 30, Number 8 · May 12, 1983
George F. Kennan, Zero Options 
Keith Thomas, Back to Utopia
Gender by Ivan Illich
A.J.P. Taylor, A Great Place to Visit
The Intelligent Traveller's Guide to Historic Britain: England, Wales, the Crown Dependencies by Philip A. Crowl, foreword by John Julius Norwich
Gore Vidal, The Collector
Voices: A Memoir by Frederic Prokosch
John K. Fairbank, Blind Obedience
Son of the Revolution by Liang Heng, by Judith Shapiro
Francis Haskell, Secrets of Caravaggio
Circa 1600:A Revolution of Style in Italian Painting by S.J. Freedberg
Caravaggio by Alfred Moir
Caravaggio by Howard Hibbard
Thomas Powers, The Underground Entrepreneur
The Last Hero: Wild Bill Donovan by Anthony Cave Brown
The Shadow Warriors: OSS and the Origins of the CIA by Bradley F. Smith
Donovan and the CIA: A History of the Establishment of the Central Intelligence Agency by Thomas F. Troy
Donovan: America's Master Spy by Richard Dunlop
Italo Calvino, The Written and the Unwritten Word
Robert M. Adams, Mulligan Stew
A Colder Eye: The Modern Irish Writers by Hugh Kenner
Christopher Hill, Jolly Rogers
Sodomy and the Perception of Evil: English Sea Rovers in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean by B.R. Burg
Gert Schiff, The Man Who Wasn't There
Marbot: Eine Biographie Crampton, will be published in September by Braziller.) by Wolfgang Hildesheimer
Mark Kuchment, Joshua Rubenstein, Forbidden History
Renounce Fear: Memoirs of a Historian (Otreshis ot Straha) by Aleksandr Nekrich
Mary McCarthy, Novel, Tale, Romance
Eugene D. Genovese, Samuel Lipman, John O'Sullivan, et al. Saving the Free World: An Exchange
Rosemary Rinder, Peter G. Peterson, Saving the Economy
Letters
David J. Depew, Ian Hacking, Getting Goedel Straight
Victor F. Weisskopf, Getting Goedel Straight
Robert H. Whealey, Hugh Trevor-Roper, If Franco Lost
Philip Selznick, Ronald Dworkin, Equality First
Contributors
Italo Calvino (1923–1985) was an Italian writer and novelist. His works include The Road to San Giovanni, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, Invisible Cities, Marcovaldo, and Mr. Palomar.
Francis Haskell, formerly Professor of Art History at Oxford, is the author of Patrons and Painters, Rediscoveries in Art, Past and Present in Art and Taste, and History and Its Images: Art and the Interpretation of the Past. (February 1999)
George F. Kennan, Professor Emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, was Ambassador to the USSR in 1952, and Ambassador to Yugoslavia from 1961 to 1963. His most recent books are At a Century's Ending and An American Family. (April 2001)
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).
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), 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.
Keith Thomas is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. His books include Religion and the Decline of Magic, Man and the Natural World, and The Oxford Book of Work. (April 2007)
Gore Vidal's most recent novel is The Golden Age. (February 2002)
