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March 18, 1976 • Volume 23, Number 4

  • Neal Ascherson

    The Homecoming e-edition

    Spandau: The Secret Diaries by Albert Speer, translated by Richard Winston, by Clara Winston

  • Michael Wood

    All Mixed Up e-edition

    Seven Beauties directed by Lina Wertmüller

    Swept Away by an Unusual Destiny in the Blue Sea of August directed by Lina Wertmüller

    All Screwed Up directed by Lina Wertmüller

  • John Kenneth Galbraith

    Into the Sunset e-edition

    The Rockefellers: An American Dynasty by Peter Collier, by David Horowitz

    The Rockefeller Syndrome by Ferdinand Lundberg

  • Robert Craft

    A ‘Beautiful Coloured, Musical Thing’ e-edition

  • Gore Vidal

    Adamses: The ‘Best’ People I e-edition

    The Adams Chronicles: Four Generations of Greatness by Jack Shepherd

    John Adams: A Biography in His Own Words edited by James Bishop Peabody

    The Character of John Adams American History and Culture by Peter Shaw

    Adams: An American Dynasty by Francis Russell

    The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family 1762-1784 edited by L. H. Butterfield, edited by Marc Friedlaender, edited by Mary-Jo Kline

  • Milton Viorst

    FBI Mayhem e-edition

  • Helen Vendler

    News from the Muse e-edition

    Divine Comedies by James Merrill

  • Charles Rosen,
    Henri Zerner

    The Revival of Official Art e-edition

    Le Musée du Luxembourg en 1874: Peintures November 18, 1974, by Geneviève Lacambre, with Jacqueline de Rohan-Chabot Catalogue of the exhibition at the Grand-Palais, Paris May 31 to

    The Absolute Bourgeois: Artists and Politics in France, 1848-1851 by T.J. Clark

    Image of the People: Gustave Courbet and the Second French Republic, 1848-1851 by T.J. Clark

    Academy and French Painting in the Nineteenth Century by Albert Boime

    William-Adolphe Bouguereau December 13, 1974 to February 2, 1975, by Robert Isaacson Catalogue of the exhibition at The New York Cultural Center,

    French Painting 1774-1830: The Age of Revolution Delacroix” at the Grand-Palais, Paris, The Detroit Institute of Arts, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1975 Catalogue of the exhibition "French Painting from David to

  • John K. Fairbank

    The New Order in Asia e-edition

    Asia and the Road Ahead: Issues for the Major Powers by Robert A. Scalapino

  • Norman Mailer

    Set Theory (poem) e-edition

  • Robert M. Adams

    Ancient Incas and Modern Revolution e-edition

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 K. Fairbank (1907–1991) was an American sinologist. His final book was China: A New History.

Robert M. Adams (1915-1996) was a founding editor of the Norton Anthology of English Literature. He taught at the University of Wisconsin, Rutgers, Cornell and U.C.L.A. His scholarly interested ranged from Milton to Joyce, and his translations of many classic works of French literature continue to be read to this day.

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.

John Kenneth Galbraith (1908–2006) was a Canadian economist and politician. He taught at Princeton and Harvard. His works include The Affluent Society, The Age of Uncertainty and Economics and the Public Purpose. Galbraith’s many honors include the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Lomonosov Gold Medal, the Order of Canada, and the Padma Vibhushan, India’s second highest civilian award.

Norman Mailer (1923-2007) was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. In 1955 he co-founded The Village Voice. He is the author of more than thirty books, including The Naked and the Dead; The Armies of the Night, for which he won a National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize; The Executioner’s Song, for which he won his second Pulitzer Prize; Harlot’s Ghost; Oswald’s Tale; The Gospel According to the Son; and The Castle in the Forest.

Charles Rosen is a pianist and music critic. In 2011 he was awarded a National Humanities Medal.

Henri Zerner, Professor of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard, is the author of Renaissance Art in France: The Invention of Classicism and Écrire l’histoire de l’art: Figures d’une discipline.

Helen Vendler is the Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor in the Department of English at Harvard. Stone at Delphi: Seamus Heaney’s Poems with Classical References, Selected and Introduced by Helen Vendler has just appeared in a limited edition. (March 2013)

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

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