Table of Contents

Volume 31, Number 19 · December 6, 1984

Stephen Toulmin, The Evolution of Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead: A Life by Jane Howard

With a Daughter's Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson by Mary Catherine Bateson

Michael Wood, A Traveling Man

D.W. Griffith: An American Life by Richard Schickel

Oliver Taplin, Difficult Daughter

Antigones by George Steiner

Richard M. Morse, Embarrassing Colony

Puerto Rico: A Colonial Experiment by Raymond Carr

Robert Hughes, On Art and Money

George M. Fredrickson, Panic in the South

The Crucible of Race: Black–White Relations in the American South Since Emancipation by Joel Williamson

Brigid Brophy, Sons and Lovers

H.G. Wells: Aspects of a Life by Anthony West

Robert Towers, Light and Lively

Difficult Loves by Italo Calvino

Lives of the Poets: A Novella and Six Stories by E.L. Doctorow

R.C. Smail, Parfit Gentil Knights

Chivalry by Maurice Keen

Alistair Horne, King in a Corner

Western Sahara: The Roots of a Desert War by Tony Hodges

Bernard Avishai, Israel: The Divisions of 'Unity'

Jerzy Popieluszko, 'I Am Prepared for Anything'

Elmer A. Benson, Robert Claiborne, Hal Draper, American Communism: An Exchange

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Letters

Samuel Farber, In a Cuban Prison
Ellen Handler Spitz, Leo Steinberg, Shrinking Michelangelo
Bernard Knox, The Editors, Shrinking Michelangelo
Gabriele Annan, Correction
Richard J. Bernstein, Norman Birnbaum, et al. Crackdown in Yugoslavia

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Contributors

George M. Fredrickson is Edgar E. Robinson Professor of US History Emeritus at Stanford. His most recent books are Racism: A Short History and Not Just Black and White, a collection co-edited with Nancy Foner. (August 2006)

Alistair Horne is the author of eighteen books, including The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916, How Far from Austerlitz?: Napoleon 1805–1815, and the official biography of British prime minister Harold Macmillan. He is a fellow at St. Antony's College, Oxford, and lives in Oxfordshire. In 1993 Horne was awarded the French Légion d'Honneur and in 2003 received a knighthood for his work in the history of France. He lives in England.

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

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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