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Contents

January 30, 1969 • Volume 12, Number 2

  • Mary McCarthy

    The Writing on the Wall

    The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell edited by Sonia Orwell, edited by Ian Angus

  • Barrington Moore Jr.

    Revolution in America? e-edition

  • John Gross

    Poverty Program e-edition

    Charles Booth’s London selected and edited by Albert Fried, by Richard M. Elman

    Charles Booth and the City edited with an Introduction by Harold W. Pfautz

  • Allan Silver

    Who Cares for Columbia? e-edition

    Crisis at Columbia: Report of the Fact-Finding Commission Appointed to Investigate the Disturbances at Columbia University in April and May, 1968

    Up Against the Ivy Wall by Jerry L. Avorn. Other Members of the Staff of the Columbia Daily Spectator

    The Closed Corporation: American Universities in Crisis by James Ridgeway

  • Morton White

    The Power of Positive Pragmatism e-edition

    The Origins of Pragmatism: Studies in the Philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce and William James by A.J. Ayer

  • D.P. Walker

    The Pope’s Horoscope e-edition

    Reflections on Men and Ideas by Giorgio de Santillana

  • Frank Kermode

    The IBM Shakespeare e-edition

    A Complete and Systematic Concordance to the Works of Shakespeare by Marvin Spevack

  • George Lichtheim

    A New Twist in the Dialectic e-edition

    Pour Marx by Louis Althusser

    Lire Le Capital Tome I by Louis Althusser, by Jacques Rancière, by Pierre Macherey

    Lire Le Capital Tome II by Louis Althusser, by Etienne Balibar, by Roger Establet

    Pouvoir Politique et Classes Sociales de l’Etat Capitaliste by Nicos Poulantzas

    Stratégie et Révolution en France en 1968 by André Glucksmann

    Peut-on être communiste aujourd’hui? by Roger Garaudy

LETTERS

Contributors

John Gross (1935–2011) was an English editor and critic. From 1974 to 1981, he was editor of The Times Literary Supplement; he also served as senior book editor and critic at The New York Times. His memoir, A Double Thread, was published in 2001.

Frank Kermode (1919–2010) was a British critic and literary theorist. Born on the Isle of Man, he taught at University College London, Cambridge, Columbia and Harvard. Adapted from a series of lectures given at Bryn Mawr College, Kermode’s Sense of An Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction remains one of the most influential works of twentieth-century literary criticism.

George Lichtheim (1912–1973) was a scholar of Marx and Marxism. Lichtheim was a regular contributor to The Review and a contributing editor of Commentary. His books include From Marx to Hegeland Europe in the Twentieth Century.

Mary McCarthy (1912-1989) was a novelist, essayist, and critic. Her political and social commentary, literary essays, and drama criticism appeared in magazines such as Partisan Review, The New Yorker, Harper’s, and The New York Review of Books, and were collected in On the Contrary (1961), Mary McCarthy’s Theatre Chronicles 1937-1962 (1963), The Writing on the Wall (1970), Ideas and the Novel (1980), and Occasional Prose (1985). Her novels include The Company She Keeps (1942), The Oasis (1949), The Groves of Academe (1952), A Charmed Life (1955), The Group (1963), Birds of America (1971), and Cannibals and Missionaries (1979). She was the author of three works of autobiography, Memories of a Catholic Girlhood (1957), How I Grew (1987), and the unfinished Intellectual Memoirs (1992), and two travel books about Italy, Venice Observed (1956) and The Stones of Florence (1959). Her essays on the Vietnam War were collected in The Seventeenth Degree (1974); her essays on Watergate were collected in The Mask of State (1974).