Table of Contents

Volume 30, Number 9 · June 2, 1983

John Kenneth Galbraith, The Wealth of the Nation

Beyond the Waste Land: A Democratic Alternative to Economic Decline by Samuel Bowles, by David Gordon, by Thomas E. Weisskopf

David H. Wright, Art for Whose Sake?

The Vatican Collections: The Papacy and Art

Manet and Modern Paris by Theodore Reff

Raphael and America by David Alan Brown

Aryeh Neier, Extermination in Guatemala

John Ashbery, The Strayed Reveller (poem)

Stuart Hampshire, On the Trail of Nature

Man and the Natural World: A History of the Modern Sensibility by Keith Thomas

Alison Lurie, Skin Deep

American Beauty by Lois W. Banner

Skin to Skin: Eroticism in Dress by Prudence Glynn

David Holloway, How Tough Is the Red Army?

The Threat: Inside the Soviet Military Machine by Andrew Cockburn

Inside the Soviet Army by Viktor Suvorov

Richard Murphy, Letterfrack Industrial School (poem)

John Bayley, Byron and the 'Lively Life'

Byron's Letters and Journals edited by Leslie A. Marchand

Lord Byron: Selected Letters and Journals edited by Leslie A. Marchand

Byron by Frederic Raphael

Byron: A Poet Before His Public by Philip W. Martin

Geoffrey Barraclough, Return of the Natives

Europe and the People Without History by Eric R. Wolf

Roger Sale, Two-Eyed Jacks

The Biggest Game in Town by A. Alvarez

Abraham Brumberg, The Ghost in Poland

Poland: Communism, Nationalism, Anti-Semitism by Michael Checinski, translated in part by Tadeusz Szafar

Robert Towers, Closing Time

An Ice-Cream War by William Boyd

The London Embassy by Paul Theroux

Bernard Avishai, Can Begin Be Stopped?

Robert Fizdale, Arthur Gold, George Balanchine (1904–1983)

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Letters

Matthew Mestrovic, Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi, et al. What Was Fascism?
Diana Riviere, The Freud Archives
Beth Archer, Peter Partner, Translation
Barbara B. Lamb, It's Available

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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.

John Bayley has written two books about his wife, the novelist Iris Murdoch, Elegy for Iris and Iris and Her Friends. (July 2004)

Stuart Hampshire, formerly Warden of Wardham College, Oxford, is the author of Spinoza and Justice Is Conflict.(October 2002)

Alison Lurie is the author of two collections of essays on children’s literature, Don’t Tell the Grownups and Boys and Girls Forever. She is a former professor of English at Cornell and has published nine novels, of which the most recent is Truth and Consequences. (May 2008)

Richard Murphy's most recent books are Collected Poems and The Kick: A Life Among Writers. (February 2004)

Aryeh Neier, former Executive Director of Human Rights Watch, is President of the Open Society Institute. His most recent book is Taking Liberties: Four Decades in the Struggle for Rights. (November 2007)

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