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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 was formerly Chief Art Critic of The New York Times, to which he continues to be a contributor. He is at work on a short history of the museum since 1800. (March 2003)

Bernard Williams is Deutsch Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. His most recent book is Making Sense of Humanity. The article in this issue is a revised version of the Orr Lecture given in the Music Faculty of Cambridge University, May 2000. An earlier draft was given at the Nexus Institute, Tilburg, Holland. (November 2000)

Garry Wills is Professor of History Emeritus at Northwestern. The article in the Review‘s November 24, 2011 issue is drawn from his new book, Verdi’s Shakespeare: Men of the Theater (Viking).

John Hollander is Sterling Professor Emeritus of English at Yale. His new book of poems, A Draft of Light, will be published by Knopf in May. (March 2008)

Alfred Kazin’s most recent book is God and the American Writer. (April 1998)

Jean Stafford (1915–1979) was an award-winning American short-story writer and novelist, whose works were published in *The New Yorker* and various other literary magazines. Her first novel, *Boston Adventure*, was a bestseller, and she won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her *Collected Stories*. She had marriages to three prominent writers: Robert Lowell, Oliver Jensen, and A. J. Liebling.

John Updike was born in 1932 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 in 2009. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, among other awards. His last books were the novel The Widows of Eastwick and Due Considerations, a collection of his essays and criticism.

Andrew Hacker teaches at Queens College. His books include Money: Who Has How Much and Why, Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal, and, most recently, Higher Education, written with Claudia Dreifus. (February 2012)

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

Gore Vidal’s most recent novel is The Golden Age. (February 2002)

Michael Wood teaches at Princeton and is the author, most recently, of Yeats and Violence. -