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Contents

November 11, 1976 • Volume 23, Number 18

  • Willie Lee Rose

    An American Family e-edition

    Roots by Alex Haley

  • V.S. Pritchett

    The Dostoevsky Labyrinth e-edition

    Dostoevsky: The Seeds of Revolt by Joseph Frank

    Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics by Mikhail Bakhtin, translated by R. W. Rotsel

    Dostoevsky and His Devils by Václav Cerny, translated by F. W. Galan, with an afterword by Josef Skvorecky

  • Keith Thomas

    The Virgin in History e-edition

    Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary by Marina Warner

    The Virgin by Geoffrey Ashe

  • Robert Craft

    ‘Winnie’ and ‘Uncle Wolf’ e-edition

    Winifred Wagner a film directed by Hans Jürgen Syberberg

    The Wagner Family Albums by Wolf Siegfried Wagner, translated by Susanne Flatauer

    Richard Wagner in Bayreuth by Hans Mayer, translated by Jack Zipes

    Wagner: A Documentary Study edited by Herbert Barth, by Dietrich Mack, by Egon Voss, translated by P.R.J. Ford, by Mary Whittall

  • Roger Shattuck

    Artaud Possessed e-edition

    Antonin Artaud: Selected Writings edited, and with an introduction, by Susan Sontag, translated by Helen Weaver

  • Garry Wills

    The Founders’ Virtues e-edition

    The Challenge of the American Revolution by Edmund S. Morgan

    The Meaning of Independence: Adams, Washington and Jefferson by Edmund S. Morgan

    Adams and Jefferson: A Revolutionary Dialogue by Merrill D. Peterson

    The Character of John Adams by Peter Shaw

    The Life of George Washington by Washington Irving, edited by Jess Stein

    George Washington: A Biography by Washington Irving, edited by Charles Neider

    Jefferson: A Revealing Biography by Page Smith

  • Michael Wood

    Endangered Species e-edition

    The Takeover by Muriel Spark

    Sleep It Off, Lady by Jean Rhys

    Lovers and Tyrants by Francine du Plessix Gray

  • Arnaldo Momigliano

    On the Pioneer Trail e-edition

    Vico and Herder: Two Studies in the History of Ideas by Isaiah Berlin

  • David Wise

    The Campaign to Destroy Martin Luther King e-edition

  • Bernard Williams

    Where Chomsky Stands e-edition

    Reflections on Language by Noam Chomsky

    On Noam Chomsky: Critical Essays edited by Gilbert Harman

LETTERS

Contributors

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*.

Keith Thomas is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He is the author The Ends of Life: Roads to Fulfillment in Early Modern England.

Roger Shattuck (1923–2005) was an American writer and scholar of French culture. He taught at Harvard, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Virginia, and Boston University, where he was named University Professor. His books includeForbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography.

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.

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.

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

V.S. Pritchett (1900–1997) was a British essayist, novelist and short story writer. He worked as a foreign correspondent for the The Christian Science Monitorand as a literary critic forNew Statesman. In 1968 Pritchett was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire; he was knighted in 1975. His body of work includes many collections of short stories, in addition to travelogues, reviews, literary biographies and novels.