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Contents

October 19, 1972 • Volume 19, Number 6

  • V.S. Naipaul

    Comprehending Borges

  • W.H. Auden

    An Odd Couple e-edition

    Munby, Man of Two Worlds: The Life and Diaries of Arthur J. Munby 1828-1910 by Derek Hudson

  • John K. Fairbank

    To China and Back e-edition

    The Long Revolution by Edgar Snow

    The Morning Deluge: Mao Tsetung and the Chinese Revolution 1893-1954 by Han Suyin

  • I.F. Stone

    The Education of Henry Kissinger e-edition

    Metternich by Alan Palmer

    Dear Henry by Danielle Hunebelle

    Kissinger: The Uses of Power by David Landau

  • John Bayley

    Them and Us e-edition

    We: A Novel of the Future by Yevgeny Zamyatin, translated by Mirra Ginsburg

    A Soviet Heretic: Essays by Yevgeny Zamyatin edited and translated by Mirra Ginsburg

  • Frances FitzGerald

    The Invisible Country e-edition

    Vietnamese Anticolonialism 1885-1925 by David G. Marr

    Hô Chi Minh, le Viêtnam, l’Asie by Paul Mus, edited by Annie Nguyen Nguyet Hô

    War Comes to Long An: Revolutionary Conflict in a Vietnamese Province by Jeffrey Race

  • Alan Lelchuk,
    Philip Roth

    On The Breast: An Interview e-edition

  • D.W. Harding

    Single Mind, Double Bind e-edition

    Steps to an Ecology of Mind by Gregory Bateson

  • Michael Wood

    New Fall Fiction e-edition

    House of All Nations by Christina Stead

    Chimera by John Barth

    The Sunlight Dialogues by John Gardner. originally scheduled for October; now to be published December 6

  • Geoffrey Barraclough

    Mandarins and Nazis: Part I e-edition

    The Place of Fascism in European History edited by Gilbert Allerdyce

    The Scientific Origins of National Socialism by Daniel Gasman

    The Decline of the German Mandarins: The German Academic Community, 1890-1933 by Fritz K. Ringer

    Hitler: The Man and the Military Leader by Percy Ernst Schramm, translated by Donald S. Detwiler

    A History of Modern Germany, 1840-1945 by Hajo Holborn

    The German Dictatorship by Karl Dietrich Bracher, translated by Jean Steinberg

  • Ronald Steel

    Cooling It e-edition

    Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis by Graham T. Allison

    The Cuban Missile Crisis edited with commentary by Robert A. Divine

    Cold War and Counter-revolution: The Foreign Policy of John F. Kennedy by Richard J. Walton

    The Kennedy Doctrine by Louise Fitzsimons

    The Limits of Coercive Diplomacy by Alexander George, by David Hall, by William Simons

LETTERS

Contributors

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.

John Bayley is a critic and novelist. His books include Elegy for Iris and The Power of Delight: A Lifetime in Literature.

John K. Fairbank (1907–1991) was an American sinologist. His final book was China: A New History.

D. W. Harding (1906–1993) was a British psychologist and literary critic. In1933 he joined FR Leavis as an editor of Scrutiny, where much of his literary criticism appeared, but also work, notably on aggression, that led to The Impulse to Dominate and Social Psychology and Individual Values.

Philip Roth was born in Newark, New Jersey, which has served as the setting for many of his novels. He won the National Book Award for his first book, Goodbye, Columbus, and for Sabbath’s Theater, the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral, and three PEN/Faulkner awards, for Operation Shylock, The Human Stain, and Everyman.

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.

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.

Geoffrey Barraclough (1908–1984) was a British historian.

Michael Wood is the Charles Barnwell Straut Class of 1923 Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton. His books include Literature and the Taste of Knowledge and Yeats and Violence

Frances FitzGerald’s books include Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars, and the End of the Cold War. (November 2008)

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.