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Contents

June 14, 1973 • Volume 20, Number 10

  • Neal Ascherson

    Intolerable Memories e-edition

    Judenrat by Isaiah Trunk

    Hunter and Hunted: Human History of the Holocaust selected and edited by Gerd Korman

    October ‘43 by Aage Bertelsen, translated by Milly Lindholm

    The Destiny of Europe’s Gypsies by Donald Kenrick, by Grattan Puxon

  • Elizabeth Hardwick

    Seduction and Betrayal II e-edition

  • Philip Roth

    The President Addresses the Nation e-edition

  • Charles Rosen

    Isn’t It Romantic? e-edition

    Natural Supernaturalism: Tradition and Revolution in Romantic Literature by M.H. Abrams

    Coleridge’s Verse: A Selection edited by William Empson, edited by David Pirie

  • Alison Lurie

    Wise-Women e-edition

    The Summer Before the Dark by Doris Lessing

    The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch

  • Joseph Buttinger

    Thieu’s Prisoners e-edition

    Hostages of War: Saigon’s Political Prisoners by Holmes Brown, by Don Luce

    Rescapés des Bagnes de Saigon: Nous Accusons by Jean-Pierre Debris, by André Menras

  • D.W. Harding

    Crazy Mixed-up Kids e-edition

    Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber

    Soul Murder: Persecution in the Family by Morton Schatzman

  • Geoffrey Barraclough

    Watch Out for Japan e-edition

    Black Star Over Japan by Albert Axelbank

    Japanese Imperialism Today by Jon Halliday, by Gavan McCormack

    The Fragile Blossom: Crisis and Change in Japan by Zbigniew Brzezinski

    The Weary and the Wary: US and Japanese Security Policies in Transition by Robert E. Osgood

  • Anthony Blunt

    Looking Back on Picasso e-edition

    Picasso: Birth of a Genius by Juan-Eduardo Cirlot

    Picasso: The Artist of the Century by Jean Leymarie, translated by James Emmons

    Picasso on Art by Dore Ashton

    Henri Matisse: Ecrits et propos sur l’art edited by Dominique Fourcade

    Henri Matisse by Louis Aragon, translated by Jean Stewart

  • Ronald Steel

    The Good Old Days e-edition

    Peace in the Balance by Eugene V. Rostow

    Power and Equilibrium in the 1970s by Alistair Buchan

    The New Left and the Origins of the Cold War by Robert James Maddox

    The United States and the Origins of the Cold War by John Lewis Gaddis

LETTERS

Contributors

Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) was a German political theorist who, over the course of many books, explored themes such as violence, revolution, and evil. Her major works include The Origins of Totalitarianism, The Human Condition, and the controversial Eichmann in Jerusalem, in which she coined the phrase “the banality of evil.”

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

Günter Grass, a recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, is a novelist, poet, playwright, sculptor, and artist. (April 2012)

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.

Angus Wilson (1913–1991) worked as a deputy superintendent of the British Museum Reading Room before establishing a reputation with a collection of short stories, The Wrong Set. A novel, Hemlock and After, one of the first English books to describe the lives of gay men, brought more success, and Wilson began a prolific career as a writer of fiction, criticism, and reviews. He was a professor of English at the University of East Anglia and spent his last years in France.

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.


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

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.

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.

Alison Lurie is a former Professor of English at Cornell. She is the author of two collections of essays on children’s literature, Don’t Tell the Grownups and Boys and Girls Forever, and the editor of The Oxford Book of Fairy Tales. Her most recent novel is Truth and Consequences.


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

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.

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

Peter Singer is the Ira W. Decamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, and Laureate Professor at the University of Melbourne. He is the author of *Animal Liberation*, the editor of *In Defense of Animals: The Second Wav*, and, with Paola Cavalieri, co-editor of *The Great Ape Project*.

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.