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Contents

January 1, 1970 • Volume 13, Number 12

  • Noam Chomsky

    After Pinkville e-edition

  • Yevgeny Yevtushenko,
    Joseph Barnes

    Introducing Andrei Platonov e-edition

  • Edmund R. Leach

    African Hitler e-edition

    Terror and Resistance by E.V. Walter

  • Ellen Willis

    See America First

    Easy Rider directed by Dennis Hopper. Columbia Pictures

    Alice’s Restaurant directed by Arthur Penn, produced by Hillard Elkins

  • Richard Sennett

    An Urban Anarchist e-edition

    The Economy of Cities by Jane Jacobs

  • D.A.N. Jones

    Village Voices e-edition

    Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village by Ronald Blythe

    Working Class Community by Brian Jackson

  • Peter Lloyd Jones

    Hausbroken e-edition

    The Bauhaus, Weimar, Dessau, Berlin, Chicago by Hans M. Wingler, translated by Wolfgang Jabs, translated by Basil Gilbert

    Painting, Photography, Film by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, translated by Janet Seligman

    Principles of Neo-Plastic Art by Theo Van Doesburg, translated by Janet Seligman, with an Introduction by Hans M. Wingler, Postscript by H.L.C. Jaffé

    Graphic Work from the Bauhaus by Hans M. Wingler, translated by Gerald Onn

    Painters of the Bauhaus by Eberhard Roters

  • D.J. Enright

    Saké in a Tumbler e-edition

    Face at the Bottom of the World and Other Poems by Hagiwara Sakutaro, translated by Graeme Wilson

  • C.B.A. Behrens

    Looking for the Ancien Régime e-edition

    Paris in the Age of Absolutism by Orest Ranum

    French Absolutism: The Crucial Phase 1620-1629 by A.D. Lublinskaya, translated by Brian Pearce, with a Foreword by J.H. Elliott

    L’Ancien Régime Vol. 1, La Société by Pierre Goubert

  • Alexander Wetmore

    A Good Trip e-edition

    History of the Birds of the Cape Verde Islands by David Armitage Bannerman, by W. Mary Bannerman, illustrated in color by D.M. Reid-Henry, by P.A. Clancey

    Hummingbirds and Their Flowers by Karen A. Grant, by Verne Grant

    Birds of the Eastern Forest—1 with paintings by J. Fenwick Lansdown, text by John A. Livingston

LETTERS

Contributors

Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) was a German political theorist who, over the course of many books, explored themes such as violence, revolution, and evil. Her major works include The Origins of Totalitarianism, The Human Condition, and the controversial Eichmann in Jerusalem, in which she coined the phrase “the banality of evil.”

C. B. A. Behrens (1904–1989) was a British historian of Europe. She was the author of The Ancien Régimeand Society, Government and The Enlightenment.

Noam Chomsky is an Institute Professor and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Linguistics at MIT.

D.J. Enright (1920–2002) was a British poet, novelist and critic. He held teaching positions in Egypt, Japan, Thailand, Singapore and the United Kingdom. In 1981 Enright was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry.

Edmund R. Leach (1910–1989) was a British anthropologist. He is widely credited with introducing Anglophone readers to the work of Claude Lévi-Strauss. Leach served as provost of King’s College, Cambridge from 1966 until 1979; he was made a Fellow of the British Academy in 1972 and knighted in 1975. A two-volume selection of his writings, The Essential Edmund Leach, was published by Yale University Press in 2001.

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.

Alan Ryan teaches at Princeton. His recent works include The Making of Modern Liberalism and On Politics: A History of Political Thought.