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Contents

July 15, 1976 • Volume 23, Number 12

  • John Bayley

    Cinderella in Reverse e-edition

    Freshwater: A Comedy by Virginia Woolf, edited by Lucio P. Ruotolo

    The Letters of Virginia Woolf Volume I: 1888-1912 edited by Nigel Nicolson, edited by Joanne Trautman

    Virginia Woolf and Her World by John Lehmann

  • Tiziano Terzani

    Vietnam: The First Year e-edition

  • Harold Bloom

    Driving Out Demons e-edition

    The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales by Bruno Bettelheim

  • Edmund S. Morgan

    The American Revolution: Was There “A People”? e-edition

    A New Age Now Begins: A People’s History of the American Revolution by Page Smith

    1776, Year of Illusions by Thomas Fleming

    Empire or Independence, 1770-1776: A British-American Dialogue on the Coming of the American Revolution by Ian R. Christie, by Benjamin W. Labaree

    A People Numerous and Armed: Reflections on the Military Struggle for American Independence by John Shy

    In the Common Cause: American Response to the Coercive Acts of 1774 by David Ammerman

    The Politics of Command in the American Revolution by Jonathan G. Rossie

    Party Politics in the Continental Congress by H. James Henderson

    The Spirit of ‘76: The Growth of American Patriotism Before Independence by Carl Bridenbaugh

    A Cultural History of the American Revolution by Kenneth Silverman

    American Art 1750-1800: Towards Independence Yale University Art Gallery and Victoria and Albert Museum, by Charles F. Montgomery, by Patricia E. Kane general editors

    The Enlightenment in America by Henry May

  • Neal Ascherson

    South Africa’s White War e-edition

    The Great Anglo-Boer War by Byron Farwell

  • Leon Wieseltier

    Only in America e-edition

    World of Our Fathers by Irving Howe

  • John Berryman

    Two Poems (poem) e-edition

  • Michael Wood

    Hi ho, Silver! e-edition

    Six Guns and Society: A Structural Study of the Western by Will Wright

    The Missouri Breaks directed by Arthur Penn

    Buffalo Bill and the Indians directed by Robert Altman

  • Gore Vidal

    American Plastic: The Matter of Fiction e-edition

    Writing Degree Zero and Elements of Semiology by Roland Barthes

    S/Z by Roland Barthes, translated by Richard Miller

    The Pleasure of the Text by Roland Barthes, translated by Richard Miller

    The New Fiction: Interviews with Innovative American Writers by Joe David Bellamy

    Come Back, Dr. Caligari by Donald Barthelme

    Snow White by Donald Barthelme

    Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts by Donald Barthelme

    City Life by Donald Barthelme

    Sadness by Donald Barthelme

    Guilty Pleasures by Donald Barthelme

    The Dead Father by Donald Barthelme

    The Little Disturbances of Man: Stories of Men and Women at Love by Grace Paley

    Enormous Changes at the Last Minute by Grace Paley

    Omensetter’s Luck by William Gass

    In the Heart of the Heart of the Country by William Gass

    The Floating Opera by John Barth

    The End of the Road by John Barth

    The Sot-Weed Factor by John Barth

    Giles Goat-Boy by John Barth

    Lost in the Funhouse by John Barth

    Chimera by John Barth

    V. by Thomas Pynchon

    The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon

    Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

  • Robert Craft

    Musical Rx for a Political Season e-edition

    Francesco Landini by Thomas Binkley director and lutenist, by Andrea von Ramm soprano, by Richard Levitt countertenor, by Sterling Jones stringed instruments

    Guillaume de Machaut: Chansons I and Chansons II (2 records) by Thomas Binkley director and lutenist, by Andrea von Ramm soprano, by Richard Levitt countertenor, by Sterling Jones stringed instruments. Studio for Early Music, Cologne. EMI Records

  • Reza Baraheni,
    Pavel Litvinov,
    Martin Sostre

    Free Mustafa Dzhemilev e-edition

  • Frank Kermode

    Coming Up for Air e-edition

    Sweet William by Beryl Bainbridge

    Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

    Selected Stories by Nadine Gordimer

    Jill by Philip Larkin

  • Michael Winger,
    Glen W. Bell,
    Ronald Dworkin

    The DeFunis Case: An Exchange

LETTERS

Contributors

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.


John Bayley is a critic and novelist. His books include Elegy for Iris and The Power of Delight: A Lifetime in Literature.

Harold Bloom’s most recent books are The Anatomy of Influence: Literature as a Way of Life and The Shadow of a Great Rock: A Literary Appreciation of the King James Bible. He teaches at Yale and is at work on a play, To You Whoever You are: A Pageant Celebrating Walt Whitman.
 (February 2012)

Frank Kermode (1919–2010) was a British critic and literary theorist. Born on the Isle of Man, he taught at University College London, Cambridge, Columbia and Harvard. Adapted from a series of lectures given at Bryn Mawr College, Kermode’s Sense of An Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction remains one of the most influential works of twentieth-century literary criticism.

Edmund S. Morgan is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. His most recent book is The Genuine Article: A Historian Looks at Early America. (June 2011)

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*.

Gore Vidal (1925–2012) was an American novelist, essayist, and playwright. His many works include the memoirs Point to Point Navigation and Palimpsest, the novels The City and the Pillar, Myra Breckinridge, and Lincoln, and the collection United States: Essays 1952–1992.

Robert Craft is a conductor and writer. Craft’s close working friendship with Igor Stravinsky is the subject of his memoir, An Improbable Life. In 2002 he was awarded the International Prix du Disque at the Cannes Music Festival.

Ronald Dworkin (1931–2013) was Professor of Philosophy and Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law at NYU. His books include Is Democracy Possible Here?, Justice in Robes, Freedom’s Law, and Justice for Hedgehogs. He was the 2007 winner of the Ludvig Holberg International Memorial Prize for “his pioneering scholarly work” of “worldwide impact” and he was recently awarded the Balzan Prize for his “fundamental contributions to Jurisprudence.”


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

Christopher Ricks teaches at Boston University and is a former president of the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers. From 2004 to 2009 he was Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford. His recent books include True Friendship: Geoffrey Hill, Anthony Hecht, and Robert Lowell Under the Sign of Eliot and Pound and Decisions and Revisions in T.S. Eliot.