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March 23, 1972 • Volume 18, Number 5

  • I.F. Stone

    I.F. Stone Reports: The Pentagon and Peking e-edition

  • V.S. Pritchett

    Late Starter e-edition

  • Neville Maxwell

    A Passage to Pakistan e-edition

    Pakistan Crisis by David Loshak

    Calcutta by Geoffrey Moorhouse

    India’s Green Revolution: Economic Gains and Political Costs by Francine R. Frankel

    The Government and Politics of India by W.H. Morris-Jones

    Soft State by Bernard D. Nossiter

    Under Two Masters by N.B. Bonarjee

  • Lewis Mumford

    The Scholar as Activist e-edition

    J.E. Spingarn by Marshall Van Deusen

  • Wilfrid Sheed

    I Am a Cabaret e-edition

    Cabaret directed by Bob Fosse, screenplay by Jay Allen

  • Emma Rothschild

    GM in More Trouble e-edition

  • Richard Ellmann

    Why Molly Bloom Menstruates

  • Martin Bernal

    Who’s Who in China e-edition

    In Search of Wealth and Power: Yen Fu and the West by Benjamin Schwartz

    Hu Shih and the Chinese Renaissance by Jerome Greider

    Ting Wen-chiang: Science and China’s New Culture by Charlotte Furth

    Kuo Mo-jo: The Early Years by David Roy

    Eminent Chinese of the Ch’ing Period by Arthur Hummel

    Biographical Dictionary of Republican China, Volume 1: Ai-Ch’u edited by Howard Boorman, edited by Richard Howard

    Biographical Dictionary of Republican China, Volume 2: Dalai-Ma edited by Howard Boorman, edited by Richard Howard

    Biographical Dictionary of Republican China, Volume 3: Mao-Wu edited by Howard Boorman, edited by Richard Howard

    Biographical Dictionary of Republican China, Volume 4: Yang-Bibliography edited by Howard Boorman, edited by Richard Howard

    Ku Chieh-kang and China’s New History: Nationalism and the Quest for Alternative Traditions by Laurence A. Schneider

    Biographic Dictionary of Chinese Communism, 1921-1965 by Donald Klein, by Anne B. Clark

    Who’s Who in Communist China compiled by Union Research Institute (Hong Kong)

  • Kenneth Koch

    First Trip to China (poem) e-edition

  • Helen Muchnic

    Art in spite of Polemics e-edition

    Zinaida Hippius: An Intellectual Profile by Temira Pachmuss

    The Life of a Useless Man by Maxim Gorki, translated by Moura Budberg

    The Commissariat of Enlightenment: Soviet Organization of Education and the Arts under Lunacharsky by Sheila Fitzpatrick

    The White Guard by Mikhail Bulgakov, translated by Michael Glenny, with an Epilogue by Viktor Nekrasov

  • Herbert R Kohl

    Out Our Way e-edition

    9226 Kercheval: The Storefront That Did Not Burn by Nancy Milio

    Neighborhood Government: The Local Foundations of Political Life by Milton Kotler

LETTERS

Contributors

Kenneth Koch (1925–2002) was Professor of English at Columbia. During his lifetime, Koch published at least thirty volumes of poetry and plays. He was also the author of a novel, The Red Robins; two books on teaching poetry writing to children, Wishes, Lies, and Dreams and Rose, Where Did You Get That Red?; and I Never Told Anybody: Teaching Poetry Writing in a Nursing Home.

Martin Bernal is Professor Emeritus of Government at Cornell. His controversial study of Ancient Greece, Black Athena, explores the origins of Hellenic culture and, in particular, the influence of Egypt and Phoenicia on the development of Ancient Greece.

Richard Ellmann (1918–1987) was an American critic and biographer. He taught at Northwestern, Oxford and Emory, where he was named Robert W. Professor in 1980. He won the National Book Award for Nonfiction for James Joycein 1959; a revised edition was awarded the James Tate Black Memorial Prize in 1982.

Noel Annan (1916–2000) was a British military intelligence officer and scholar of European history. His works include Leslie Stephen and Our Age, Changing Enemies: The Defeat and Regeneration of Germany, and The Curious Strength of Positivism in English Political Thought.

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

I.F. Stone (1907–1989) was an American journalist and publisher whose self-published newsletter, I.F. Stone’s Weekly, challenged the conservatism of American journalism in the midcentury. A Noncomformist History of Our Times (1989) is a six-volume anthology of Stone’s writings.

V.S. Pritchett (1900–1997) was a British essayist, novelist and short story writer. He worked as a foreign correspondent for the The Christian Science Monitorand as a literary critic forNew Statesman. In 1968 Pritchett was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire; he was knighted in 1975. His body of work includes many collections of short stories, in addition to travelogues, reviews, literary biographies and novels.

A.J.P. Taylor (1906–1990) was a British diplomatic historian.

Emma Rothschild is Director of the Joint Centre for History and Economics at King’s College, Cambridge and Harvard, and Professor of History at Harvard. She is the author of Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet and the Enlightenment.

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