Table of Contents

Volume 31, Number 8 · May 10, 1984

Janet Malcolm, The Game of Lights

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera, translated by Michael Henry Heim

D.S. Carne-Ross, Horacescope

The Complete Works of Horace translated by Charles E. Passage

The Essential Horace: Odes, Epodes, Satires, and Epistles translated by Burton Raffel, foreword and afterword by W.R. Johnson

Harold Pinter, One for the Road

Luc Sante, The Invisible Man

The Place of Dead Roads by William S. Burroughs

Naked Lunch: The Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition by William S. Burroughs

Burroughs a film directed by Howard Brookner

Letters to Allen Ginsberg, 1953–1957 by William S. Burroughs

William Shawcross, The Burial of Cambodia

Keith Thomas, Excelsior!

The Discoverers by Daniel J. Boorstin

Thomas R. Edwards, An American Education

Democracy by Joan Didion

Hal Draper, Pie in the Sky

The Heyday of American Communism: The Depression Decade by Harvey Klehr

Stephen Spender, Forster's Shadow

Selected Letters of E.M. Forster Vol. I: 1879–1920 edited by Mary Lago, edited by P.N. Furbank

Shaul Bakhash, The Outcasts of Iran

Pier Paolo Pasolini, The Bells of Orvieto (poem)

M.H. Abrams, The Keenest Critic

Hazlitt: The Mind of a Critic by David Bromwich

Jane Jacobs, Why TVA Failed

Irving B. Harrison, Jack Zipes, Robert Darnton, An Exchange on Mother Goose

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Letters

Edward I. Koch, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., The Guiding Light
Robert M. Adams, Daniel Albright, Royalty and Genius

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Contributors

Shaul Bakhash is Robinson Professor of History at George Mason University and the author of The Reign of the Ayatollahs: Iran and the Islamic Revolution. (September 2005)

Thomas R. Edwards is Emeritus Professor of English at Rutgers and a former editor of Raritan. His most recent book is Over Here: Criticizing America, 1968–1989. (June 2004)

Jane Jacobs's most recent book is The Nature of Economies. Her essay in this issue is the introduction to the Modern Library edition of Hard Times, which is being published later this month. (July 2001)

Janet Malcolm was born in Prague. She was educated at the High School of Music and Art, in New York, and at the University of Michigan. Along with In the Freud Archives, her books include Diana and Nikon: Essays on Photography, Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession, The Journalist and the Murderer, The Purloined Clinic: Selected Writings, The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, The Crime of Sheila McGough, and Reading Chekhov: A Critical Journey. She lives in New York with her husband, Gardner Botsford.

Harold Pinter was born in London in 1930. His many plays include The Caretaker, The Birthday Party, and Moonlight. Please also see haroldpinter.org.

Luc Sante is the author of Low Life, Evidence, The Factory of Facts, and, most recently, Kill All Your Darlings: Pieces 1990–2005. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and teaches writing and the history of photography at Bard College.

William Shawcross is the author of several books on Cambodia. (December 1996)

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)

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