Table of Contents

Volume 31, Number 4 · March 15, 1984

Roger Shattuck, Quanta

Pitch Dark by Renata Adler

V.S. Pritchett, Surviving in the Ruins

Cyril Connolly: Journal and Memoir by David Pryce-Jones

The Selected Essays of Cyril Connolly edited by Peter Quennell

The Unquiet Grave: A Word Cycle by Palinurus (Cyril Connolly)

Enemies of Promise by Cyril Connolly

The Rock Pool by Cyril Connolly

Liang Heng, Judith Shapiro, Marriage à la Mode

The White-Boned Demon: A Biography of Madame Mao Zedong by Ross Terrill

Bernard Knox, Closet Modern

A.E. Housman: A Critical Biography by Norman Page

Emma Rothschild, The Costs of Reaganism

Economic Report of the President transmitted to the Congress February 1984

Department of Defense Annual Report to the Congress, Fiscal Year 1985 by Caspar W. Weinberger

Lincoln Kirstein, Beliefs of a Master

Martin Gardner, Quiz Kids

The Great Mental Calculators: The Psychology, Methods, and Lives of Calculating Prodigies, Past and Present by Steven B. Smith

James Fenton, Aimez-Vous Brecht?

Brecht in Context: Comparative Approaches by John Willett

Brecht: A Biography by Ronald Hayman

Leo Marx, Closely Watched Trains

Metropolitan Corridor: Railroads and the American Scene by John R. Stilgoe

Daniel Albright, All the King's Men

The Land and Literature of England: A Historical Account by Robert M. Adams

Conor Cruise O'Brien, Israel in Embryo

The High Walls of Jerusalem: A History of the Balfour Declaration and the Birth of the British Mandate for Palestine by Ronald Sanders

Robert Craft, Death in the Family

A Tomb for Anatole by Stéphane Mallarmé, translated with an introduction by Paul Auster

Jonathan Lieberson, Interpreting the Interpreter

Local Knowledge: Further Essays in Interpretive Anthropology by Clifford Geertz

Richard Edes Harrison, MacGregor Knox, Theodore H. Draper, An Exchange on Dominoes

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Letters

Bertell Ollman, Andrzej Walicki, Marx and Freedom
Stanley Diamond, Dell Hymes, et al. Nuclear Policy
Vernon Young, Luc Sante, Satan Comes to Eden

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Contributors

Robert Craft was awarded the International Prix du Disque at the Cannes Music Festival for 2002.(May 2002)

James Fenton is the editor of The New Faber Book of Love Poems and D.H. Lawrence’s Selected Poems. (November 2008)

Martin Gardner is the author of The New Ambidextrous Universe, Fractal Music, Hypercards and More, and The Night is Large. His most recent book is a novel, Visitors from Oz. (September 1998)

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.

Leo Marx is the Kenan Professor of American Cultural History (Emeritus) at MIT and most recently the editor, with Bruce Mazlish, of Progress:Fact or Illusion? (July 1999)

Conor Cruise O'Brien's many books include God Land: Reflections on Religion and Nationalism and The Long Affair: Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution. His Memoir: My Life and Themes will be published in the US in May. (December 2000)

Emma Rothschild is a fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and will be teaching history at Harvard next fall. Her latest book is Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet and the Enlightenment. (March 2004)

Roger Shattuck is the author of Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography. He has most recently edited new editions of two books by Helen Keller. He is University Professor Emeritus at Boston University. (May 2005)

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