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Contents

March 4, 1976 • Volume 23, Number 3

  • Elizabeth Hardwick

    Billie Holiday

  • Bernard Williams

    The Passions of Bertrand Russell e-edition

    The Life of Bertrand Russell by Ronald W. Clark

    The Tamarisk Tree: My Quest for Liberty and Love by Dora Russell

    My Father Bertrand Russell by Katharine Tait

    Bertrand Russell by A.J. Ayer

  • John Russell

    The Malraux Show e-edition

    André Malraux by Jean Lacouture, translated by Alan Sheridan

    Malraux’s Heroes and History by James W. Greenlee

    Hôtes de Passage by André Malraux

    Lazare by André Malraux

    La Tête d’obsidienne by André Malraux

  • Andrew Hacker

    Cutting Classes e-edition

    The Political Economy of Social Class by Charles H. Anderson

    Ethnicity: Theory and Experience edited by Nathan Glazer, edited by Daniel P. Moynihan

    Ethnicity in the United States by Andrew Greeley

  • J.M. Cameron

    Living through Hell e-edition

    The Survivor: An Anatomy of Life in the Death Camps by Terrence Des Pres

  • Garry Wills

    Cato’s Gang e-edition

    The Hard Years: A Look at Contemporary America and American Institutions by Eugene J. McCarthy

    If Men Were Angels: A View from the Senate by James L. Buckley

    Charles Percy: A Political Perspective by Robert E. Hartley

    Scoop: The Life and Politics of Henry M. Jackson by Peter J. Ognibene

  • William Shawcross

    Cambodia Under Its New Rulers e-edition

  • Joan Robinson

    Michal Kalecki: A Neglected Prophet e-edition

    The Intellectual Capital of Michal Kalecki: A Study in Economic Theory and Policy by George R. Feiwel

    Selected Essays on the Dynamics of the Capitalist Economy, 1933-1970 by Michal Kalecki

    “Political Aspects of Full Employment” by Michal Kalecki in Political Quarterly

    Collected Economic Papers, Volume 4 by Joan Robinson

    The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money by J.M. Keynes

  • Michael Wood

    Rules of the Game e-edition

    Sade, Fourier, Loyola by Roland Barthes, translated by Richard Miller

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

    L’Empire des signes by Roland Barthes

    S/Z by Roland Barthes, translated by Richard Miller

    Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes

  • Douglas Cooper

    How John Got On e-edition

    Augustus John: A Biography by Michael Holroyd

LETTERS

Contributors

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.

John Russell (1919–2008) was Chief Art Critic at The New York Times from 1982 until 1990. He was the author of many art-historical studies, including Matisse, Father & Son and The Meanings of Modern Art.

Bernard Williams (1929–2003) was Deutsch Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. His books include *Problems of the Self*, *Moral Luck*, *Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy*, and *Truth and Truthfulness*.

Garry Wills is Professor of History Emeritus at Northwestern. His study of Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1993. His latest book, Why Priests? A Failed Tradition, was published in February 2013.

John Hollander is Sterling Professor Emeritus of English at Yale.

Irving Howe (1920–1993) was an American literary and social critic. His history of Eastern-European Jews in America, World of Our Fathers, won the 1977 National Book Award in History.

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.

Jean Stafford (1915–1979) was a novelist and short story writer. Her Collected Stories won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1970.

William Styron (1925–2006) was the author of several novels, including Sophie’s Choice and The Confessions of Nat Turner.

John Thompson is an English sociologist. He has published several studies of the media and communication in modern societies, including The Media and Modernity: A Social Theory of the Mediaand Political Scandal: Power and Visibility in the Media Age.

John Updike (1932–2009) was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania. In 1954 he began to publish in The New Yorker, where he continued to contribute short stories, poems, and criticism until his death. His major work was the set of four novels chronicling the life of Harry “Rabbit: Angstrom, he two of which, Rabbit is Richand Rabbit at Rest, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His last books were the novel The Widows of Eastwick and Due Considerations, a collection of his essays and criticism.

Robert Penn Warren (1936–2011) was an American novelist, poet and critic. From 1944 until 1945 he served as Consultant in Poetry—the position would later become Poet Laureate—to the Library of Congress.

Andrew Hacker teaches political science at Queens College. He is currently working on a book on mathematics with Claudia Dreifus.
 (January 2013)

William Shawcross is the author of several books on Cambodia. (December 1996)

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.

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