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August 10, 1972 • Volume 19, Number 2

  • V.S. Naipaul

    The Corpse at the Iron Gate e-edition

  • Gore Vidal

    Homage to Daniel Shays e-edition

    Fat Cats and Democrats: The Role of the Big Rich in the Party of the Common Man by G. William Domhoff

    Bella! Ms. Abzug Goes to Washington by Bella Abzug

    The Washington Pay-off: An Insider’s View of Corruption in Government by Robert Winter-Berger

  • Charles Rycroft

    Doctoring Freud e-edition

    Freud: Living and Dying by Max Schur

  • Michael Wood

    Squish e-edition

    To Smithereens by Rosalyn Drexler

    The Adventures of Mao on the Long March by Frederic Tuten

    The Taxi by Violette Leduc, translated by Helen Weaver

  • Neal Ascherson

    After the Earthquake e-edition

    Die Meerschweinchen (The Guinea Pigs) by Ludvík Vaculík

    Das Beil (The Axe) by Ludvík Vaculík

    The Politics of Culture by Antonín J. Liehm

    The Czechoslovak Reform Movement by Galia Golan

    The Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia: Its Effects on Eastern Europe edited by E. Czerwinski, edited by J. Piekalkiewicz

  • Gloria Emerson

    Voices No One Wants to Hear e-edition

    Voices from the Plain of Jars: Life under an Air War compiled with an Introduction and Preface by Fred Branfman

  • Gerald Brenan

    True Grit e-edition

    In Hiding: The Life of Manuel Cortes by Ronald Fraser

  • Jean Stafford

    Living It Out e-edition

    Piaf by Simone Berteaut

    Coco Chanel: Her Life, Her Secrets by Marcel Haedrich, translated by Charles Lam Markmann

    Paris Was Yesterday by Janet Flanner

  • I.F. Stone

    I.F. Stone Reports: The Morning After e-edition

  • Jane Mayhall

    Stephen Crane to the Rescue e-edition

    The Works of Stephen Crane, Volume I, Bowery Tales edited by Fredson Bowers, Introduction by James B. Colvert

    The Works of Stephen Crane, Volume IV, The O’Ruddy edited by Fredson Bowers, Introduction by J.C. Levenson

    The Works of Stephen Crane, Volume V, Tales of Adventure edited by Fredson Bowers, Introduction by J.C. Levenson

    The Works of Stephen Crane, Volume VI, Tales of War edited by Fredson Bowers, Introduction by James B. Colvert

    The Works of Stephen Crane, Volume VII, Tales of Whilomville edited by Fredson Bowers, Introduction by J.C. Levenson

    The Works of Stephen Crane, Volume IX, Reports of War edited by Fredson Bowers, Introduction by James B. Colvert

  • Paul Goodman

    Politics Within Limits e-edition

  • Paul Goodman

    From La Gaya Scienza——Aging and Sick (poem) e-edition

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. (November 2011)

Paul Goodman (1911–1972) was an American social critic, psychologist, poet, novelist, and anarchist, whose writings appeared in Politics, Partisan Review, The New Republic, Commentary, The New Leader, Dissent, and The New York Review of Books. He published several well-regarded but little-known books in a variety of fields—including city planning, Gestalt therapy, educational reform, literary criticism, and politics—before Growing Up Absurd, cancelled by its original publisher and turned down by a further eighteen, was brought out by Random House in 1960 and became an instant bestseller. Its author became an influential leader of the New Left and anti-war movements and a model for a new generation of critics like Susan Sontag, who wrote: “There is no living American writer for whom I have left the same simple curiosity to read as quickly as possible anything he wrote on any subject.” “Paul Goodman Changed My Life,” a 2011 documentary directed by Jonathan Lee and distributed by Zeitgeist Films, continues to play at film festivals and independent cinemas. The film received excellent reviews in such publications as The New York Times, Variety, The New York Post, Village Voice, and Time Out New York.

V. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932 and emigrated to England in 1950, when he won a scholarship to University College, Oxford. He is the author of many novels, including A House for Mr. Biswas, A Bend in the River, and In a Free State, which won the Booker Prize. He has also written several nonfiction works based on his travels, including India: A Million Mutinies Now and Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples. He was knighted in 1990 and in 1993 was the first recipient of the David Cohen British Literature Prize.

Charles Rycroft is a psychoanalyst practicing in London. His books include A Critical Dictionary of Psychoanalysis, Anxiety and Neurosis, The Innocence of Dreams, and Psychoanalysis and Beyond. (May 1997)

Jean Stafford (1915–1979) was an award-winning American short-story writer and novelist, whose works were published in *The New Yorker* and various other literary magazines. Her first novel, *Boston Adventure*, was a bestseller, and she won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her *Collected Stories*. She had marriages to three prominent writers: Robert Lowell, Oliver Jensen, and A. J. Liebling.

I.F. Stone was an American journalist, publisher of I.F. Stone’s Weekly, and a regular contributor to the Review. For more about him please visit www.ifstone.org.

Gore Vidal’s most recent novel is The Golden Age. (February 2002)

Michael Wood teaches at Princeton and is the author, most recently, of Yeats and Violence. -