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February 20, 1975 • Volume 22, Number 2

  • Irvin Ehrenpreis

    A Misunderstood Genius e-edition

    Samuel Johnson by John Wain

    The Treasure of Auchinleck: The Story of the Boswell Papers by David Buchanan

  • I.F. Stone

    A New Solution for the CIA e-edition

  • Elsa First

    The New Wave in Psychiatry e-edition

    Techniques of Family Therapy by Jay Haley, by Lynn Hoffman

    Change: Principles of Problem Formation and Problem Resolution by Paul Watzlawick, by John Weakland, by Richard Fisch

    Families and Family Therapy by Salvador Minuchin

    I Think It’s Me—Difference Display as a Contextual Event, A Family With a Little Fire, The Open Door: A Structural Approach to a Family with an Anorectic Child Films available from the Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic

  • Clive James

    Sherlockology e-edition

    Sherlock Holmes Collected Edition by Arthur Conan Doyle

    A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle, with an introduction by Hugh Greene

    The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle, with an introduction by Graham Greene

    The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle, with an introduction by John Fowles

    The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle, with an introduction by Len Deighton

    The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle, with an introduction by Eric Ambler

    The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle, with an introduction by Kingsley Amis

    The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle, with an introduction by Angus Wilson

    His Last Bow by Arthur Conan Doyle, with an introduction by Julian Symons

    The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle, with an introduction by C. P. Snow

    Sherlock Holmes Detected by Ian McQueen

    The London of Sherlock Holmes by Michael Harrison

    In the Footsteps of Sherlock Holmes by Michael Harrison

    The Return of Moriarty by John Gardner

    The Seven-Per-Cent Solution: Being a Reprint from the Reminiscences of John H. Watson, MD as edited by Nicholas Meyer

    Naked Is the Best Disguise by Samuel Rosenberg

    The Sherlock Holmes Scrapbook edited by Peter Haining

  • Peter Brown,
    Sabine MacCormack

    Artifices of Eternity e-edition

    The Spirit of Eastern Christendom (600-1700): Vol. 2, The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine by Jaroslav Pelikan

    Venezia e Bizanzio by Sergio Bettini and others

    Icons and their History by David Talbot Rice, by Tamara Talbot Rice

    Armenian Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery by Sirarpie Der Nersessian

    The Celtic Churches: A History, AD 200 to 1200 by John T. McNeill

    Irish Medieval Figure Sculpture, 1200-1600 by John Hunt

    The Book of Kells with a study of the manuscript by Françoise Henry

  • Robert Coles

    What Children Know About Politics e-edition

  • Mary McCarthy

    Nicola Chiaromonte and the Theatre e-edition

  • Nicola Chiaromonte,
    Mary McCarthy,
    Ronald Strom

    On Pirandello’s ‘Clothing the Naked’ e-edition

  • J.H. Elliott

    Imperial Image Makers

    Astraea by Frances Yates

  • Thomas R. Edwards

    Academic Vaudeville e-edition

    The King’s Indian: Stories and Tales by John Gardner, illustrated by Herbert L. Fink

    The Shadow Knows by Diane Johnson

    The Odd Woman by Gail Godwin

    The Clockwork Testament or Enderby’s End by Anthony Burgess

LETTERS

Contributors

Peter Brown is Philip and Beulah Rollins Professor of History Emeritus at Princeton. His most recent book is Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350–550 AD, published in September. (December 2012)

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).

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

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.

Thomas R. Edwards (1928–2005) was Professor of English at Rutgers and editor of Raritan. His last book was Over Here: Criticizing America.

Irvin Ehrenpreis (1920–1985) was the Linden Kent Memorial Professor of English Literature at the University of Virginia. In 1984 he received the Christian Gauss Award from Phi Beta Kappa for the final volume of his trilogy, Swift: The Man, His Works, and the Age.

J. H. Elliott is Regius Professor Emeritus of Modern History at the University of Oxford. He is the author of History in the Making.

Clive James is the author of many books of criticism, autobiography, fiction, and poetry. Among his books are Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts, The Blaze of Obscurity, and A Point of View.

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.

H. R. Trevor-Roper (1914–2003) was a British historian and the author of The Last Days of Hitler. He taught at Oxford, where he was the Regius Professor Modern History.