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Contents

February 22, 1973 • Volume 20, Number 2

  • John Ashbery

    In the American Grain

    Collected Poems of John Wheelwright edited by Alvin H. Rosenfeld

    Collected Poems, 1951-1971 by A.R. Ammons

    Tape for the Turn of the Year by A.R. Ammons

  • E.J. Hobsbawm

    Passionate Witness e-edition

    Frantz Fanon: A Critical Study by Irene L. Gendzier

  • V.S. Pritchett

    Balzac at Thirty e-edition

  • Frances FitzGerald

    Can the War End? e-edition

  • Robert Coles

    Shrinking History—Part One e-edition

    Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of His Childhood by Sigmund Freud, translated by Alan Tyson, edited by James Strachey, edited by Alix Strachey, edited by Anna Freud, edited by Alan Tyson

    Thomas Woodrow Wilson: A Psychological Study by Sigmund Freud, by William C. Bullitt

    Leonardo da Vinci: Psychoanalytic Notes on the Enigma by Kurt Eissler

    The Dynamics of Creation by Anthony Storr

    Psychoanalysis and History edited by Bruce Mazlich

    Psychoanalytic Explorations in Art by Ernst Kris

    Wilson and Colonel House: A Personality Study by Alexander George, by Juliette George

    Psychoanalysis and the Social Sciences, Vol. 4 edited by Warner Muensterberger, edited by Sidney Axelrad

  • Francine du Plessix Gray

    Old Times e-edition

  • Richard Murphy

    Seals at High Island (poem) e-edition

  • Charles Rosen

    One Easy Piece

    Quartet No. 1 by Elliott Carter

    Eight Etudes and a Fantasy by Elliott Carter

    Sonata for flute, oboe, cello and harpsichord by Elliott Carter

    Variations for Orchestra by Elliott Carter

    Quartet No. 2 by Elliott Carter

    Double concerto for harpsichord, piano and two chamber orchestras Orchestra by Elliott Carter

    Piano Concerto by Elliott Carter

    Concerto for Orchestra by Elliott Carter

    Quartet No. 3 by Elliott Carter

  • Peter Westen

    Threat to the Supreme Court e-edition

    Report on the Case Load of the Supreme Court by a Study Group of the Federal Judicial Center

  • F.W. Bateson

    Byron’s Baby e-edition

    Byron’s Hebrew Melodies edited by Thomas L. Ashton

    Byron’s Daughter by Catherine Turney

    Byron by John D. Jump

  • W.H. Auden

    Veni, Vici, VD e-edition

    The Dark Fields of Venus: From a Doctor’s Logbook by Basile Yanovsky MD

  • Eric Foner

    Battle Over the Revolution e-edition

    From Resistance to Revolution: Colonial Radicals and the Development of American Opposition to Britain, 1765-1776 by Pauline Maier

    Revolutionary Politics in Massachusetts: The Boston Committee of Correspondence and the Towns, 1772-1774 by Richard D. Brown

    The British-Americans: The Loyalist Exiles in England, 1774-1789 by Mary Beth Norton

    Securing the Revolution: Ideology in American Politics, 1789-1815 by Richard Buel Jr.

LETTERS

Contributors

John Ashbery is the author of several books of poetry, including Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (1975), which received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the National Book Award. His first collection, Some Trees (1956), was selected by W. H. Auden for the Yale Younger Poets Series. He has also published art criticism, plays, and a novel. From 1990 until 2008 Ashbery was the Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard College.

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.

Robert Coles is a psychiatrist and writer. Until recently, he was the Agee Professor of Social Ethics at Harvard. His many books include The Moral Intelligence of Children and Bruce Springsteen’s America: The People Listening, a Poet Singing. Coles received a Pulitzer Prize in 1973 for Children of Crisis, a MacArthur Award in 1981, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1998, and the National Humanities Medal in 2001.

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

John R. Searle is Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. His most recent book is Making the Social World.
 (January 2013)

Francine du Plessix Gray received the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2006 for her memoir Them: A Memoir of Parents.

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.

E. J. Hobsbawm (1918–1987) was a British historian. Born in Egypt, he was educated at Cambridge; he taught at Birkbeck College and The New School. His works include The Age of Extremes; Globalisation, Democracy and Terrorism; and On Empire.

Richard Murphy’s Collected Poems were published in 2001.

Charles Rosen is a pianist and music critic. In 2011 he was awarded a National Humanities Medal.