Table of Contents

Volume 30, Number 16 · October 27, 1983

D.S. Carne-Ross, The Return of Virgil

The Aeneid by Virgil, translated by Robert Fitzgerald

James Merrill, The Parnassians (poem)

Theodore H. Draper, Falling Dominoes

Mary McCarthy, On F. W. Dupee (1904 - 1979)

Isaiah Berlin, The Gentle Genius

Turgenev's Letters selected, translated, and edited by A.V. Knowles

Charles Rosen, Verdi Victorious

The Works of Giuseppe Verdi edited by Philip Gossett

Rigoletto: Melodrama in Three Acts by Francesco Maria Piave, edited by Martin Chusid

Murray Kempton, Dishonorably Discharged

The Rosenberg File: A Search for the Truth by Ronald Radosh, by Joyce Milton

Gore Vidal, 'The Peculiar American Stamp'

Novels, 1875-1886 by William Dean Howells

V.S. Pritchett, The Humming Poet

The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Volume X, Companion edited by Robert Latham, by William Matthews, compiled and edited by Robert Latham

The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Volume XI, Index edited by Robert Latham, by William Matthews, compiled and edited by Robert Latham

Joseph Weizenbaum, The Computer in Your Future

The Fifth Generation: Artificial Intelligence and Japan's Computer Challenge to the World by Edward A. Feigenbaum, by Pamela McCorduck

Robert Hughes, There's No Geist like the Zeitgeist

James Fallows, Reagan: The Fruits of Success

The Reagan Presidency: An Early Assessment edited by Fred I. Greenstein

Gambling with History: Ronald Reagan in the White House by Laurence I. Barrett

Reagan's Ruling Class: Portraits of the President's Top One Hundred Officials by Ronald Brownstein, by Nina Easton

John R. Searle, The Word Turned Upside Down

On Deconstruction: Theory and Criticism after Structuralism by Jonathan Culler

Marshall Frady, Prophet with Honor

Let the Trumpet Sound: The Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Stephen B. Oates

Jerome S. Bruner, State of the Child

Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences by Howard Gardner

Siblings: Love, Envy and Understanding by Judy Dunn, by Carol Kendrick

The Erosion of Childhood by Valerie Polakow Suransky

The Mental and Social Life of Babies: How Parents Create Persons by Kenneth Kaye

Noel Annan, Can Conservatism Work?

The Squandered Peace: The World, 1945-1975 by John Vaizey

Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Eighties by Paul Johnson

The British Political Tradition, Vol. I: The Rise of Collectivism by W.H. Greenleaf

The British Political Tradition, Vol. II: The Ideological Heritage by W.H. Greenleaf

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Letters

Janusz Anderman, Stanislaw Baranczak, et al. An Appeal for Solidarity with Polish Writers

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Contributors

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

Isaiah Berlin was born in Riga in 1909. In 1916 his family moved to Petrograd, where he witnessed the Russian Revolution, and in 1921 he emigrated to England. He was educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and became a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, where he was later appointed Professor of Social and Political Theory. He served as the first president of Wolfson College, Oxford, and as president of the British Academy. He died in 1997. For more information, see the Isaiah Berlin Virtual Library.

Jerome Bruner is University Professor at New York University. His newest book, Making Stories, appeared in the spring. (September 2003)

Theodore Draper's books include The Roots of American Communism and A Struggle for Power: The American Revolution. He is at work on a book about the nineteenth century in the US. (September 1999)

James Fallows is National Correspondent for The Atlantic and author, most recently, of Free Flight. (March 2002)

Marshall Frady's books include Wallace, Billy Graham, Southerners, Jesse: The Life and Pilgrimage of Jesse Jackson, and, most recently, Martin Luther King, Jr. He is currently writing a biography of Fidel Castro. (February 2004)

Robert Hughes's most recent book, Things I Didn’t Know, a memoir, was published last fall. (September 2007)

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.

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).

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)

Charles Rosen's most recent book is Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist. (February 2008)

John R. Searle is Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. His most recent books are Mind: A Brief Introduction and Freedom and Neurobiology. (November 2006)

Gore Vidal's most recent novel is The Golden Age. (February 2002)

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