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January 29, 1970 • Volume 14, Number 1 & 2

  • Virgil Thomson

    Berlioz, Boulez, and Piaf e-edition

    The Memoirs of Hector Berlioz translated by David Cairns

    Baudelaire-Berlioz Adam International Review

    Berlioz and the Romantic Century by Jacques Barzun

    Berlioz and the Romantic Imagination catalog of an exhibition organized by the Arts Council and the Victoria and Albert Museum on behalf of the Berlioz Centenary Committee in co-operation with the French Government

    Pelléas et Mélisande drame lyrique en 5 actes de Maurice Maeterlinck et Claude Debussy, partition d'orchestre, Durand (Paris, 1904), first performance by the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Dec. 1, 1969, Pierre Boulez, conductor

    Piaf by Simone Berteaut

  • Conor Cruise O’Brien

    America First e-edition

  • Murray Kempton

    A Narodnik from Lynbrook e-edition

    Odyssey of a Friend: Letters to William F. Buckley, Jr., 1954-1961 by Whittaker Chambers, edited with Notes by William F. Buckley Jr., Foreword by Ralph De Toledano

  • Richard J. Barnet

    How Hanoi Sees Nixon e-edition

  • Wylie Sypher

    Magical Mystery Tour e-edition

    Theatre of the World by Frances A. Yates

  • Chester Kallman

    From the African Ambassador (poem) e-edition

  • Peter Dale Scott

    Tonkin Bay: Was There a Conspiracy? e-edition

    Truth Is the First Casualty: The Gulf of Tonkin Affair—Illusion and Reality by Joseph C. Goulden

  • Simon Watson Taylor

    Liberation Then e-edition

    Manifestoes of Surrealism by André Breton, translated by Richard Seaver, translated by Helen R. Lane

    Selected Poems by André Breton, translated by Kenneth White

    A Bibliography of the Surrealistic Revolution in France by Herbert S. Gershman

    The Surrealist Revolution in France by Herbert S. Gershman

    The Philosophy of Surrealism by Ferdinand Alquié, translated by Bernard Waldrop

    Surrealist Poetry in France by J.H. Matthews

    An Anthology of French Surrealist Poetry by J.H. Matthews

  • Robert M. Adams

    Breakdowns e-edition

    A Family Romance by Richard Wollheim

    Camden’s Eyes by Austin Wright

    Sick Friends by Ivan Gold

    T Zero by Italo Calvino, translated by William Weaver

  • David Joravsky

    Cracked Wheat e-edition

    The Rise and Fall of T.D. Lysenko by Zhores A. Medvedev, translated by I. Michael Lerner, with the editorial assistance of Lucy G. Lawrence

  • M.I. Finley

    A Profitable Empire e-edition

    Roman Imperialism in the Late Republic by E. Badian

    The Roman Empire and Its Neighbours by Fergus Millar

    The Climax of Rome by Michael Grant

    The Decline of Rome by Joseph Vogt, translated by Janet Sondheimer

LETTERS

Contributors

Robert M. Adams (1915-1996) was a founding editor of the Norton Anthology of English Literature. He taught at the University of Wisconsin, Rutgers, Cornell and U.C.L.A. His scholarly interested ranged from Milton to Joyce, and his translations of many classic works of French literature continue to be read to this day.

M. I. Finley (1912-1986), the son of Nathan Finkelstein and Anna Katzellenbogen, was born in New York City. He graduated from Syracuse University at the age of fifteen and received an MA in public law from Columbia, before turning to the study of ancient history. During the Thirties Finley taught at Columbia and City College and developed an interest in the sociology of the ancient world that was shaped in part by his association with members of the Frankfurt School who were working in exile in America. In 1952, when he was teaching at Rutgers, Finley was summoned before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee and asked whether he had ever been a member of the Communist Party. He refused to answer, invoking the Fifth Amendment; by the end of the year he had been fired from the university by a unanimous vote of its trustees. Unable to find work in the US, Finley moved to England, where he taught for many years at Cambridge, helping to redirect the focus of classical education from a narrow emphasis on philology to a wider concern with culture, economics, and society. He became a British subject in 1962 and was knighted in 1979. Among Finley’s best-known works are The Ancient Economy, Ancient Slavery and Modern Ideology, and The World of Odysseus.

John Thompson is an English sociologist. He has published several studies of the media and communication in modern societies, including The Media and Modernity: A Social Theory of the Mediaand Political Scandal: Power and Visibility in the Media Age.

David Joravsky is Professor Emeritus of History at Northwestern. His books include The Lysenko Affairand Russian Psychology: A Critical History.

Conor Cruise O’Brien (1917–2009) was an Irish historian and politician. He was elected to the Irish parliament in 1969 and served as a Minister from 1973 until 1977. His works include States of Ireland, The Great Melody and Memoir: My Life and Themes.

Virgil Thomson (1896–1989) was a composer and critic. He collaborated extensively with Gertrude Stein, who wrote the libretti for his operas Four Saints in Three Actsand The Mother of Us All. In 1988 he was awarded the National Medal of Arts.

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.

Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) is widely regarded as the preeminent American man of letters of the twentieth century. Over his long career, he wrote for Vanity Fair, helped edit The New Republic, served as chief book critic for The New Yorker, and was a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books. Wilson was the author of more than twenty books, including Axel’s Castle, Patriotic Gore, and a work of fiction, Memoirs of Hecate County.