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Contents

February 8, 1973 • Volume 20, Number 1

  • Stephen Spender

    Poetry of the Unspeakable e-edition

    Winning Hearts and Minds: War Poems by Vietnam Veterans edited by Larry Rottmann, edited by Jan Barry, edited by Basil T. Paquet

    Obscenities by Michael Casey

  • Michael Wood

    Ezra Pound e-edition

    The Pound Era by Hugh Kenner

    A ZBC of Ezra Pound by Christine Brooke-Rose

  • Murray Kempton

    Blue Collar Blues e-edition

    Where Have All the Robots Gone?: Worker Dissatisfaction in the 70s by Harold L. Sheppard, by Neal Q. Herrick

    The Hidden Injuries of Class by Richard Sennett, by Jonathan Cobb

    The Company and the Union: The “Civilized Relationship” of the General Motors Corporation and the United Auto Workers by William Serrin

    Bitter Wages: Ralph Nader’s Study Group Report on Disease and Injury on the Job by Joseph A. Page, by Mary-Win O'Brien

    Work in America: Report of a Special Task Force to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare

  • Elizabeth Hardwick

    Bloomsbury and Virginia Woolf e-edition

    Virginia Woolf: A Biography by Quentin Bell

    Lytton Strachey: The Really Interesting Question and Other Papers edited by Paul Levy

  • Stanley Hoffmann

    After the Fall e-edition

    Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order, 1940-1944 by Robert O. Paxton

  • Roger Sale

    A Dirty Dean and a Brazen Head e-edition

    American Mischief by Alan Lelchuk

    The Manticore by Robertson Davies

    Fifth Business by Robertson Davies

  • Anthony Lewis

    Walt’s Faults e-edition

    The Diffusion of Power: An Essay in Recent History by W.W. Rostow

  • Noel Annan

    Nancy e-edition

    Nancy: The Life of Lady Astor by Christopher Sykes

  • Benjamin Schwartz

    Thoughts of Mao Tse-tung e-edition

  • W.H.C. Frend

    Success Story e-edition

    Augustus to Constantine: The Thrust of Christianity into the Roman World by Robert M. Grant

    Religion and Society in the Age of Saint Augustine by Peter Brown

LETTERS

Contributors

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.

Elizabeth Hardwick (1916-2007) was born in Lexington, Kentucky, and educated at the University of Kentucky and Columbia University. A recipient of a Gold Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she is the author of three novels, a biography of Herman Melville, and four collections of essays. She was a co-founder and advisory editor of The New York Review of Books and contributed more than one hundred reviews, articles, reflections, and letters to the magazine. NYRB Classics publishes Sleepless Nights, a novel, and Seduction and Betrayal, a study of women in literature.

Stanley Hoffmann is Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor at Harvard. His most recent books are Chaos and Violence: What Globalization, Failed States, and Terrorism Mean for US Foreign Policy and Rousseau and Freedom, coedited with Christie McDonald.


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.

Anthony Lewis, a former columnist for The New York Times, has twice won the Pulitzer Prize. His latest book is Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment.

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

Roger Sale is a critic and journalist. Until 1999, he was Professor of English at the University of Washington. His books include Modern Heroism: Essays on D. H. Lawrence, William Empson and J.R.R. Tolkien and On Not Being Good Enough: Writings of a Working Critic.

Stephen Spender (1909–1995) was an English poet and essayist. As a young man, he became friends with W.H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, Cecil Day-Lewis, and Christopher Isherwood, a loose collection often referred to as “the Auden Group” or “MacSpaunday.” He published many collections of poems, including The Still Centre and Ruins and Visions, and numerous volumes of nonfiction and other works, including Learning Laughterand Love-Hate Relations.

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

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).