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September 2, 1971 • Volume 17, Number 3

  • Mary McCarthy

    The American Revolution of Jean-François Revel e-edition

  • W.H. Auden

    Talking to Mice (poem) e-edition

  • Edgar Z. Friedenberg

    Southern Discomfort e-edition

    Confessions of a White Racist by Larry L. King

    Yazoo: Integration in a Deep-Southern Town by Willie Morris

  • David Craig

    The Too Well Known e-edition

    Sir Walter Scott: The Great Unknown by Edgar Johnson

  • Neal Ascherson

    Rebirth and Death in Czechoslovakia e-edition

    Dubcek by William Shawcross

    The Czechoslovak Experiment 1968-1969 by Ivan Sviták

    Prague Notebook: The Strangled Revolution by Michel Salomon, translated by Helen Eustis

    A Year Is Eight Months: Czechoslovakia 1968 Journalist M.

    Czechoslovakia Since World War II by Tad Szulc

    Journal d’un contre-révolutionnaire (to be published in November by McGraw-Hill as Diary of a Counter Revolutionary, translated by Ruth Willard (256 pp., $6.95)) by Pavel Kohout

    The Confession by Artur London, translated by Alastair Hamilton

    Stalinism in Prague: The Loebl Story by Eugen Loebl, translated by Maurice Michael

    The Czechoslovak Political Trials, 1950-1954: The Suppressed Report of the Dubcek Government’s Commission of Inquiry, 1968 edited by Jirí Pelikán

  • Ralph Nader

    A Citizen’s Guide to the American Economy e-edition

  • John Willett

    The Quest for East Germany e-edition

    The Quest for Christa T. by Christa Wolf, translated by Christopher Middleton

    Postwar German Literature by Peter Demetz

    The Literature of East Germany by Theodore Huebener

    Poetry in East Germany: Adjustments, Visions, and Provocations 1945-1970 by John Flores

  • Ronald Steel

    Did Anyone Start the Cold War? e-edition

    Condemned to Freedom by William Pfaff

    The Radical Left and American Foreign Policy by Robert W. Tucker

    Promises to Keep by Chester Bowles

    Architects of Illusion by Lloyd Gardner

    Yalta by Diane Shaver Clemens

    America and Russia in a Changing World by W. Averell Harriman

    From Trust to Terror by Herbert Feis

    The Yalta Myths by Athan Theoharis

    The Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy Since 1938 by Stephen E. Ambrose

  • W.H.C. Frend

    2500 Years of Human History—in Five Books e-edition

    The Harvest of Hellenism by F.E. Peters

    Constantine the Great by J. Holland Smith

    The Emergence of the Catholic Tradition, 100-600 The Christian Tradition: Vol. One by Jaroslav Pelikan

    Judaism and the Early Christian Mind by Robert L. Wilken

    Jesus and Israel by Jules Isaac, translated by Sally Gran, edited and with a Foreword by Claire Hucket Bishop

  • Wilfrid Sheed

    Chesterbelloc and the Jews e-edition

LETTERS

Contributors

Neal Ascherson is the author of The Struggles for Poland, The Black Sea, and Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland. He is an Honorary Professor at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London.


Edgar Z. Friedenberg (1927-2000) was an American social critic and scholar of education. His books include Coming of Age in America and Growth and Acquiescence.

W.H. Auden (1907–1973) was an English poet, playwright, and essayist who lived and worked in the United States for much of the second half of his life. His work, from his early strictly metered verse, and plays written in collaboration with Christopher Isherwood, to his later dense poems and penetrating essays, represents one of the major achievements of twentieth-century literature.

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).

Ronald Steel is Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California, a recent fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, and the author of biographies of Walter Lippmann and Robert Kennedy.

Betty Jean Lifton discovered a passion for Japanese culture and folklore while living in Japan with her husband, the psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton, in the early 1960s. Out of that interest came many children’s books, including Kap the Kappa, Joji and the Dragon, The Rice-cake Rabbit, and The Dwarf Pine Tree. After the publication of Taka-chan and I, Lifton and Eikoh Hosoe collaborated on three more books: A Dog’s Guide to Tokyo, A Place Called Hiroshima, and Return to Hiroshima. In 1975 she published Twice Born: Memoirs of an Adopted Daughter, which marked the start of her second career as an adoption writer, counselor, and adoptee-rights advocate. She died in 2010, after many years living in New York City, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Wellfleet, Cape Cod.

Richard A. Falk is Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton and the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories.

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

Wilfrid Sheed (1915–2011) was a British-American novelist and critic.