Table of Contents

Volume 31, Number 13 · August 16, 1984

Elizabeth Hardwick, Somebody Out There

Something Out There by Nadine Gordimer

Joseph Brodsky, A Commencement Address

Jonathan Lieberson, Snapshots of the Photographer

Diane Arbus: A Biography by Patricia Bosworth

Roger Rosenblatt, Who Cares?

The Quality of Mercy: Cambodia, Holocaust and Modern Conscience by William Shawcross

Rosemary Dinnage, Comic, Sad, Indefinite

A Very Private Eye: An Autobiography in Diaries and Letters by Barbara Pym, edited by Hazel Holt, by Hilary Pym

Derek Walcott, Elsewhere (poem)

John Gregory Dunne, The Secret of Danny Santiago

Famous All Over Town by Danny Santiago

Irina Ratushinskaya, Lost Years

Stephen Jay Gould, Between You and Your Genes

Not in Our Genes: Biology, Ideology, and Human Nature by R.C. Lewontin, by Steven Rose, by Leon J. Kamin

Edmund G. Brown, Walter Dean Burnham, Kevin Phillips, et al. The Election and After

V.S. Pritchett, 'A Roaring Positive Fellow'

The Letters of Anthony Trollope; Volume I, 1835–1870 Volume II, 1871–1882 edited by N. John Hall

Roger Shattuck, Not Swann's Way

Swann in Love directed by Volker Schlöndorff, screenplay by Peter Brook, by Jean-Claude Carrière, by Marie-Hélène Estienne, based on "Un Amour de Swann" by Marcel Proust

Scott MacLeod, A Dangerous Occupation

Michael Wood, Haunted Places

A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr

Waterland by Graham Swift

Noam Chomsky, Edward W. Said, Michael Walzer, et al. Chomsky's 'Fateful Triangle': An Exchange

Harry Mathews, Histoire (poem)

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Letters

Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, 'Assault on Truth'
MacGregor Knox, Theodore H. Draper, Rhineland

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Contributors

Joseph Brodsky was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987. His Collected Poems in English will be published next spring. He died in 1996. (January 2000)

Rosemary Dinnage's books include The Ruffian on the Stair, One to One: Experiences of Psychotherapy, and Annie Besant.

John Gregory Dunne's new novel, Nothing Lost, will be published in May. (January 2004)

Stephen Jay Gould teaches Geology, Biology, and the History of Science at Harvard and is the Vincent Astor Visiting Professor of Biology at NYU. His latest book is The Lying Stones of Marrakech. (October 2001)

Elizabeth Hardwick (b. 1916) has been a frequent contributor to The Partisan Review, The New Yorker, and The New York Review of Books, which she helped found in 1963. Her books include the novels The Simple Truth, The Ghostly Lover, and Sleepless Nights, the essay collection A View of My Own, and The Selected Letters of William James, for which she acted as editor.

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., the author of numerous books on American history, served as adviser to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. He died this year. His Journals: 1952– 2000, from which an excerpt appears in this issue, will be published in October by Penguin. (October 2007)

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)

Derek Walcott won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992. His most recent book is Selected Poems. (May 2008)

Michael Wood is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge. (April 2008)

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