Table of Contents
Volume 42, Number 8 · May 11, 1995
Gore Vidal, Love on the Hudson 
Closest Companion: The Unknown Story of the Intimate Friendship Between Franklin Roosevelt and Margaret Suckley edited and annotated by Geoffrey C. Ward
Theodore H. Draper, McNamara's Peace
In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam by Robert S. McNamara, by Brian VanDeMark
Michael Wood, Stumbles and Mumbles
Brando: Songs My Mother Taught Me by Marlon Brando, by Robert Lindsey
Brando: The Biography by Peter Manso
Don Juan DeMarco a film written and directed by Jeremy Leven
Czeslaw Milosz, Adders and Other Reptiles
Reptile Journalism: The Official Polish-Language Press under the Nazis, 1939–1945 by Lucjan Dobroszycki, translated by Barbara Harshav
'Jews in the Polish Underground Press, 1939–1945' in Poland by Lucjan Dobroszycki
Biedni Polacy Patrza Na Getto by Jan Blonski
Ingrid D. Rowland, Feast of Pliny
The Villas of Pliny from Antiquity to Posterity by Pierre de la Ruffinière du Prey
Alan Ryan, The Women in the Cowshed
An Inquiry into Well-Being and Destitution by Partha Dasgupta
Darryl Pinckney, Aristocrats
Daughters: On Family and Fatherhood by Gerald Early
No Day of Triumph by J. Saunders Redding
Dust Tracks on a Road in Folklore, Memoirs, and Other Writing by Zora Neale Hurston
Black Bourgeoisie: The Rise of a New Middle Class in the United States by E. Franklin Frazier
Pushed Back to Strength: A Black Woman's Journey Home by Gloria Wade-Gayles
Coming Up Down Home: A Memoir of a Southern Childhood by Cecil Brown
The Negro Family: A Study of Family Origins Before the Civil War by E. Franklin Frazier
The Big Sea by Langston Hughes
The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study by W. E. B. Du Bois
Fatheralong: A Meditation on Fathers and Sons, Race and Society by John Edgar Wideman
Colored People: A Memoir by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Luc Sante, Low Lifes
American Tabloid by James Ellroy
Andrew Hacker, Who Should Go to College?
City on a Hill: Testing the American Dream at City College by James Traub
Brad Leithauser, A Small Country's Great Book
Helen Vendler, Chronicles of Love and Loss
A Scattering of Salts by James Merrill
James Merrill, An Upward Look (poem)
Norman Mailer, The Amateur Hit Man
Murray Kempton, Business as Usual
Letters
Lionel Abel, Tony Judt, 'Eichmann in Jerusalem'
M.L. Rosenthal, Denis Donoghue, Praising Yeats
Robert Greer Cohn, Mallarme's Prolongation
Jeffrey L. Sammons, Mallarme's Prolongation
Contributors
Theodore Draper's books include The Roots of American Communism and A Struggle for Power: The American Revolution. He is at work on a book about the nineteenth century in the US. (September 1999)
Andrew Hacker teaches political science at Queens College. He is currently writing a book on higher education in collaboration with Claudia Dreifus. (September 2008)
Murray Kempton (1917-1997) was a columnist
for Newsday, as well as a regular contributor to The New York Review of
Books. His books include Rebellions, Perversities, and Main Events
and The Briar Patch, as well as Part of Our Time. He won the Pulitzer
Prize in 1985.
Brad Leithauser is a novelist, poet, and essayist. He lives in
Massachusetts.
Norman Mailer (1923-2007) was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. In 1955 he co-founded The Village Voice. He is the author of more than thirty books, including The Naked and the Dead; The Armies of the Night, for which he won a National Book
Award and the Pulitzer Prize; The Executioner's Song, for which he won his second Pulitzer Prize; Harlot's Ghost; Oswald's Tale; The Gospel According to the Son; and The
Castle in the Forest.
James Merrill died in 1995. The poem in this issue appears in Last Poems, a collection of previously unpublished work, just published by Thornwillow Press. (December 1998)
Czeslaw Milosz was born in Lithuania in 1911. Over the course of his long and prolific career he has published works in many genres, including criticism (The Captive Mind), fiction (The Issa Valley), memoir (Native Realm), and poetry (most recently New and Collected Poems, 1931-2001). He is a member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980.
Darryl Pinckney is the author of a novel, High Cotton, and Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature.
Ingrid D. Rowland is a professor, based in Rome, at the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture. A frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, she is the author of The Culture of the High Renaissance: Ancients and Moderns in Sixteenth-Century Rome and The Scarith of Scornello: A Tale of Renaissance Forgery. She has published a translation of Vitruvius' Ten Books of Architecture. Her latest books are a biography of Giordano Bruno and a translation of Bruno's dialogue On the Heroic Frenzies.
Alan Ryan is Warden of New College, Oxford, and the author of intellectual biographies of John Stuart Mill, Bertrand Russell, and John Dewey. (November 2007)
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.
Helen Vendler is the author, most recently, of Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form. She is preparing for publication her recent Mellon Lectures, entitled Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill. (June 2008)
Gore Vidal's most recent novel is The Golden Age. (February 2002)
Michael Wood is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge. (April 2008)
