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Contents

March 7, 1974 • Volume 21, Number 3

  • Karl Miller

    Fear and Fang e-edition

    Selected Poems 1957-1967 by Ted Hughes, drawings by Leonard Baskin

    The Iron Giant: A Story in Five Nights by Ted Hughes, drawings by Robert Nadler

  • Anthony Lewis

    Torture in Hanoi e-edition

    They Wouldn’t Let Us Die: The Prisoners of War Tell Their Story by Stephen A. Rowan

    The Passing of the Night: My Seven Years as a Prisoner of the North Vietnamese by Colonel Robinson Risner

  • Mary McCarthy

    On Colonel Risner e-edition

  • Virgil Thomson

    Wickedly Wonderful Widow e-edition

    Staying on Alone: Letters of Alice B. Toklas edited by Edward Burns, with an introduction by Gilbert A. Harrison

  • Nicholas von Hoffman

    As Good As They Come e-edition

    Many Battles: The Autobiography of Ernest Gruening by Ernest Gruening

  • Wilfrid Sheed

    America’s Catholics e-edition

    Catholics by Brian Moore

    Aphrodite in Mid-Century: Growing Up Female and Catholic in Postwar America by Caryl Rivers

    The Last Catholic in America by John R. Powers

    The Seduction of the Spirit: The Use and Misuse of People’s Religion by Harvey Cox

    Bare Ruined Choirs: Doubt, Prophecy, and Radical Religion by Garry Wills

    The Rise of the Unmeltable Ethnics: Politics and Culture in the Seventies by Michael Novak

    Catholic America by John Cogley

    Fragments of the Century by Michael Harrington

    The New Agenda by Andrew M. Greeley

  • V.S. Pritchett

    Saint of Inertia e-edition

    Oblomov and His Creator: The Life and Art of Ivan Goncharov by Milton Ehre

  • Alan B. Morrison

    Can Nixon Afford to Resign? e-edition

  • Alasdair MacIntyre

    Durkheim’s Call to Order e-edition

    Emile Durkheim: His Life and Work by Steven Lukes

  • Les Aspin

    The Oil Company Blues e-edition

  • The Editors

    Short Reviews

    My Belief: Essays on Life and Art by Hermann Hesse, translated by Denver Lindley

    Three Faces of Marxism: The Political Concepts of Soviet Ideology, Maoism, and Humanist Marxism by Wolfgang Leonhard, translated by Ewald Oser

    The Invisible China: The Overseas Chinese and the Politics of Southeast Asia by Garth Alexander

    Xingu: The Indians, Their Myths by Orlando Villas Boas, by Claudio Villas Boas, edited by Kenneth S. Brecher, translated by Susana Hertelendy Rudge

LETTERS

Contributors

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.

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).

Karl Miller is a British editor and critic. In 1979 he founded the London Review of Books.

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.

Virgil Thomson (1896–1989) was a composer and critic. He collaborated extensively with Gertrude Stein, who wrote the libretti for his operas Four Saints in Three Actsand The Mother of Us All. In 1988 he was awarded the National Medal of Arts.

Nicholas von Hoffman is a columnist for The Huffington Post.

Aryeh Neier, former Executive Director of Human Rights Watch, is President of the Open Society Institute. He is the author of Taking Liberties: Four Decades in the Struggle for Rights.

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