Table of Contents

Volume 32, Number 6 · April 11, 1985

Conor Cruise O'Brien, Odd Man Out

Breaking with Moscow by Arkady N. Shevchenko

Helen Vendler, Dear Delmore,

Letters of Delmore Schwartz selected and edited by Robert Phillips, foreword by Karl Shapiro

Robert Craft, B-flat Movie

Amadeus a film written by Peter Shaffer, directed by Milos Forman

Nora Beloff, Progress of a Revolutionary

Rise and Fall by Milovan Djilas, Translated from the Serbo-Croatian by John Fiske Loud

Al Alvarez, Working in the Dark

The Anatomy Lesson by Philip Roth

God Knows by Joseph Heller

Tough Guys Don't Dance by Norman Mailer

Jonathan Lieberson, Lovely to Look At

The CIVIL warS a tree is best measured when it is down by Robert Wilson, by Heiner Müller

Lawrence Stone, Only Women

The Weaker Vessel by Antonia Fraser

Women in English Society, 1500–1800 edited by Mary Prior

Pierre Schneider, All that Jazz

Fernand Léger by Peter de Francia

Jazz by Henri Matisse, translated by Sophie Hawkes

Robert M. Adams, Hero of the Word

Using Biography by William Empson

Collected Poems by William Empson

Sir William Empson: An Annotated Bibliography by Frank Day

Robert Towers, Uprooted

Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich

Continental Drift by Russell Banks

George W. Ball, The War for Star Wars


Letters

Abby Mann, Murray Kempton, 'The Atlanta Child Murders'
Herbert R. Lottman, Vichy & Petain
Rose Weil, Good News



Contributors

Al Alvarez's most recent book is Risky Business, a selection of essays, many of which first appeared in The New York Review of Books.

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

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)

Helen Vendler's recent Mellon Lectures, entitled Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill, will be published later this year. (March 2009)


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