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April 20, 1978 • Volume 25, Number 6

  • H. Stuart Hughes

    The Bad Old Days e-edition

    The Great Fear: The Anti-Communist Purge Under Truman and Eisenhower by David Caute

    Conflict and Crisis: The Presidency of Harry S Truman, 1945-1948 by Robert J. Donovan

  • John Kenneth Galbraith

    A Hard Case e-edition

    Two Cheers for Capitalism by Irving Kristol

  • Michael Wood

    Nothing Sacred e-edition

    Injury Time by Beryl Bainbridge

    The World According to Garp by John Irving

    An American Romance by John Casey

  • W.H.C. Frend

    The Gnostic Secrets e-edition

    The Laughing Savior: The Discovery and Significance of the Nag Hammadi Gnostic Library by John Dart

    The Nag Hammadi Library in English edited by James M. Robinson

  • Noel Annan

    Virginia Woolf Fever e-edition

    The Pargiters: The Novel-Essay Portion of ‘The Years’ by Virginia Woolf, edited with an introduction by Mitchell A. Leaska

    Books and Portraits: Some Further Selections from the Literary and Biographical Writings of Virginia Woolf edited by Mary Lyon

    Sir Leslie Stephen’s Mausoleum Book edited by Alan Bell

    Moments of Being by Virginia Woolf, edited by Jeanne Schulkind

    The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume I: 1915-1919 edited by Anne Olivier Bell

    The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Volume III: 1923-1928 edited by Nigel Nicolson, edited by Joanne Trautmann

    A Marriage of True Minds: An Intimate Portrait of Leonard and Virginia Woolf by George Spater, by Ian Parsons

    Bulletin of the New York Public Library: Virginia Woolf Issue

  • Garry Wills

    The Honor of Alger Hiss e-edition

    Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case by Allen Weinstein

  • Clive James

    Pensée Persons e-edition

    Kalki by Gore Vidal

  • Leonard Schapiro

    Two Cheers for Leskov e-edition

    Nicolai Leskov: The Man and His Art by Hugh McLean

  • Stephen Jay Gould

    Koestler’s Solution e-edition

    Janus: A Summing Up by Arthur Koestler

  • Monroe K. Spears

    Immersed in America e-edition

    Selected Poems 1923-1975 by Robert Penn Warren

  • Herbert Butterfield

    Power in History e-edition

    History: Choice and Commitment by Felix Gilbert

LETTERS

Contributors

Noel Annan (1916–2000) was a British military intelligence officer and scholar of European history. His works include Leslie Stephen and Our Age, Changing Enemies: The Defeat and Regeneration of Germany, and The Curious Strength of Positivism in English Political Thought.

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.

Stephen Jay Gould (1941–2002) was an American geologist, biologist and historian of science. He taught at Harvard, where he was named Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology, and at NYU. His last book was Punctuated Equilibrium.

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

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.

Clive James is the author of many books of criticism, autobiography, fiction, and poetry. Among his books are Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts, The Blaze of Obscurity, and A Point of View.

Leonard Schapiro was a British political scientist and one of the world’s foremost experts on Soviet politics. His works include The Communist Party of the Soviet Union and Russian Studies; he also translated Turgenev’s novel Spring Torrentsinto English.

Joseph Kerman is emeritus professor of music at the University of California, Berkeley. He began writing music criticism for The Hudson Review in the 1950s, and is a longtime contributor to The New York Review of Books and many other journals. His books include Opera as Drama (1956; new and revised edition 1988), The Beethoven Quartets (1967), Contemplating Music (1986), Concerto Conversations (1999), and The Art of Fugue (2005).

Roger Sale is a critic and journalist. Until 1999, he was Professor of English at the University of Washington. His books include Modern Heroism: Essays on D. H. Lawrence, William Empson and J.R.R. Tolkien and On Not Being Good Enough: Writings of a Working Critic.