Table of Contents

Volume 31, Number 10 · June 14, 1984

Diane Johnson, Warlock

The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike

Eugenio Montale, Two Poems by Eugenio Montale (poem)

Lord Zuckerman, Nuclear Fantasies

The Abolition by Jonathan Schell

Weapons and Hope by Freeman Dyson

The Illogic of American Nuclear Strategy by Robert Jervis

Gabriele Annan, Breaking Up in Haifa

A Late Divorce by A.B. Yehoshua, Translated from the Hebrew by Hillel Halkin

Alfred Kazin, 'Not One of Us'

Darryl Pinckney, The Fire Last Time

The Autobiography of Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka

Christopher Dickey, The Saving of El Salvador

Weakness and Deceit: US Policy and El Salvador by Raymond Bonner

Rift and Revolution: The Central American Imbroglio edited by Howard J. Wiarda

Violent Neighbors: El Salvador, Central America and the United States by Tom Buckley

Situación Revolucionaria y Escalada Intervencionista en la Guerra Salvadoreña DF, CP 06700) by Comandancia General del FMLN

The Morass: United States Intervention in Central America by Richard Alan White

Helen Vendler, Making It New

A Wave by John Ashbery

John Ashbery, Ditto, Kiddo (poem)

Thomas Sheehan, Revolution in the Church

Eternal Life? Life After Death as a Medical, Philosophical, and Theological Problem by Hans Küng, translated by Edward Quinn

G.R. Elton, Happy Families

When Fathers Ruled: Family Life in Reformation Europe by Steven Ozment

P.F. Strawson, The Parfit Connection

Reasons and Persons by Derek Parfit

Glen Bowersock, Junius Q. Publicus

The World of the Citizen in Republican Rome by Claude Nicolet, translated by P.S. Falla

The Noblest Roman: Marcus Brutus and His Reputation by M.L. Clarke

Jeanne Guillemin, Jim Stone, Gordon Tullock, An Exchange on Baby Doe

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Letters

Richard Pipes, George W. Ball, The Maginot Mentality
Alan Bell, Housman at Work & Play
G.F.C. Plowden, Bernard Knox, Housman at Work & Play
Donald Greene, Anthony West, Savage & His Mother
Hugh Lloyd-Jones, Housman at Work & Play
Jane Morley, It Was September
Ronald Sanders, Conor Cruise O'Brien, Backing for Balfour

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Contributors

Gabriele Annan is a book and film critic living in London. (March 2006)

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.

Glen Bowersock is Professor Emeritus of Ancient History at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. His most recent book is Mosaics as History: The Near East from Late Antiquity to Islam. (June 2007)

Diane Johnson is the author, most recently, of Into a Paris Quartier: Reine Margot’s Chapel and Other Haunts of St. Germain. Her latest novel is L’Affaire. (February 2008)

Alfred Kazin's most recent book is God and the American Writer. (April 1998)

Eugenio Montale was born in Genoa in 1896 and died in 1981. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1975. (November 2004)

Darryl Pinckney is the author of a novel, High Cotton, and Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature.

Thomas Sheehan is Professor of Religious Studies at Stanford University. (December 2001)

Helen Vendler's new book, Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form, was published last autumn. She is preparing for publication her recent Mellon Lectures, entitled Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill. (March 2008)

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