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November 28, 1974 • Volume 21, Number 19

  • V.S. Pritchett

    Nabokov’s Touch e-edition

    Look at the Harlequins! by Vladimir Nabokov

    Strong Opinions by Vladimir Nabokov

  • C.H. Waddington

    The Mystery of the Libidinous Molecule e-edition

    Life: The Unfinished Experiment by S.E. Luria

    Animal Architecture by Karl von Frisch, with the collaboration of Otto von Frisch, translated by Lisbeth Gombrich

    The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology-Watcher by Lewis Thomas

  • Alexander Cockburn

    Propaganda of the Victors e-edition

    The Senate Watergate Report with an introduction by Daniel Schorr

    The Great Cover-Up: Nixon and the Scandal of Watergate by Barry Sussman

    The Palace Guard by Dan Rather, by Gary Paul Gates

    The Fall of a President by the staff of the Washington Post

    Undercover: Memoirs of an American Secret Agent by E. Howard Hunt

    No Final Victories by Lawrence O'Brien

    Big Brother and the Holding Company: The World Behind Watergate edited by Steve Weissman, with introduction by Noam Chomsky

  • Francis Carney

    George Jackson and His Legend e-edition

    Angela Davis: An Autobiography by Angela Davis

    Comrade George by Eric Mann

    “The Dragon Has Come” by Gregory Armstrong

  • Noel Annan

    Bring Back the Birch! e-edition

    Swinburne: Portrait of a Poet by Philip Henderson

    The Year of the Wombat: England, 1857 by Francis Watson

  • Harold L. Kahn

    Sitting on Top of the World e-edition

    Emperor of China: Self-Portrait of K’ang-hsi by Jonathan D. Spence

  • Michael Wood

    Fiction in Extremis e-edition

    The Abbess of Crewe by Muriel Spark

    The Connoisseur by Evan S. Connell Jr.

    The Mystic Adventures of Roxie Stoner by Berry Morgan

  • John Ashbery

    Two Poems (poem) e-edition

  • Alfred Kazin

    Tolstoy and His Quaker e-edition

  • Susan Sontag

    Photography: The Beauty Treatment e-edition

    William H. Fox Talbot: Inventor of the Negative-Positive Process by André Jammes

    French Primitive Photography introduction by Minor White, commentaries by André Jammes, by Robert Sobieszek

    Paul Strand: A Retrospective Monograph, Vol. I, The Years 1915-1946; Vol. II, The Years 1950-1968 by Paul Strand

    The Daybooks of Edward Weston, Vol. I, Mexico by Edward Weston

    The Daybooks of Edward Weston, Vol. II, California by Edward Weston

  • Alison Lurie

    Happy Endings e-edition

    Waiting for the Party: The Life of Frances Hodgson Burnett by Ann Thwaite

  • Robert Mazzocco

    American Graffito e-edition

    Sinatra: The Main Event at Madison Square Garden, October 12 and 13

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.

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*.

Alexander Cockburn edits the newsletter CounterPunch and writes columns for the Los Angeles Times and The Nation.

Alfred Kazin (1915–1998) was a writer and teacher. Among his books are On Native Grounds, a study of American literature from Howells to Faulkner, and the memoirs A Walker in the Cityand New York Jew. In 1996, he received the first Lifetime Award in Literary Criticism from the Truman Capote Literary Trust.

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.

Jeri Laber, Senior Advisor to Human Rights Watch, was formerly executive director of its Helsinki division. She is the author, with Barnett R. Rubin, of ‘A Nation is Dying’: Afghanistan Under the Soviets, 1979—1987. (January 1997)

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

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.


Robert Mazzocco is an American poet and critic.

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.

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.

Susan Sontag (1933–2004) was a novelist, playwright, filmmaker, and one of the most influential critics of her generation. Her books include Against Interpretation, On Photography, Illness as Metaphor, and The Volcano Lover.

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.

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