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June 29, 1978 • Volume 25, Number 11

  • John Kenneth Galbraith

    The Good Old Days e-edition

    RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon

  • Bernard Knox

    Triumph of a Heretic

    The World of Odysseus by M.I. Finley

  • William Styron

    Hell Reconsidered e-edition

  • Michael Wood

    Allen’s Alley e-edition

    On Being Funny: Woody Allen and Comedy by Eric Lax

    Woody Allen: A Biography by Lee Guthrie

    Woody Allen’s Play It Again Sam edited by Richard J. Anobile

    Non-Being and Somethingness: Selections from the Comic Strip Inside Woody Allen drawn by Stuart Hample

  • Gore Vidal

    Bert and LaBelle and Jimmy and God e-edition

    This Too Shall Pass by LaBelle Lance, by Gary Sledge

  • Aileen Kelly

    Tolstoy in Doubt e-edition

    Tolstoy’s Letters: Volume I, 1828-1879; Volume II, 1880-1910 selected, edited, and translated by R. F. Christian

  • Lesley Hazleton

    Israel: The Sticking Point e-edition

  • Robert L. Heilbroner

    Inescapable Marx e-edition

    The Karl Marx Library edited by Saul K. Padover

    The Marx-Engels Reader edited by Robert C. Tucker

    The Making of Marx’s Capital by Roman Rosdolsky, translated by Pete Burgess

    Karl Marx: His Life and Thought by David McLellan

    Karl Marx by David McLellan

    Marx’s Fate: The Shape of a Life by Jerrold Seigel

    Marx’s Theory of History by William Shaw

    The Structure of Marx’s World-View by John McMurtry

    Marx’s Capital and Capitalism Today by Antony Cutler, Barry Hindess, Paul Hirst, and Athar Hussain

    Marxist Perspectives: Vol. I, No. 1, Spring 1978

    Karl Marx’s Theory of Revolution Part One: The State and Bureaucracy by Hal Draper

    Karl Marx’s Theory of Revolution Volume II: The Politics of Social Classes by Hal Draper

    The Marxian Legacy by Dick Howard

  • Rosemary Dinnage

    Throwaways e-edition

    Infanticide by Maria W. Piers

  • Frank Kermode

    Deciphering the Big Book e-edition

    The Birth of the Messiah: A Commentary on the Infancy Narratives in Matthew and Luke by Raymond E. Brown

    A Palpable God: Thirty Stories Translated from the Bible with an Essay on the Origins and Life of Narrative by Reynolds Price

    The Early Versions of the New Testament by Bruce M. Metzger

  • Lev Lifshitz-Losev,
    Joseph Deney

    What It Means To Be Censored e-edition

Contributors

Rosemary Dinnage’s books include The Ruffian on the Stair, One to One: Experiences of Psychotherapy, and Annie Besant.

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.

Aileen Kelly is a fellow of King’s College, Cambridge. Her books include Toward Another Shore: Russian Thinkers Between Necessity and Chance and Views from the Other Shore: Essays on Herzen, Chekhov, and Bakhtin.

Frank Kermode (1919–2010) was a British critic and literary theorist. Born on the Isle of Man, he taught at University College London, Cambridge, Columbia and Harvard. Adapted from a series of lectures given at Bryn Mawr College, Kermode’s Sense of An Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction remains one of the most influential works of twentieth-century literary criticism.

Bernard Knox (1914–2010) was an English classicist. He was the first director of Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC. Among his many books are The Heroic Temper, The Oldest Dead White European Males, and Backing into the Future: The Classical Tradition and Its Renewal. He is the editor of The Norton Book of Classical Literature and wrote the introductions and notes for Robert Fagles’s translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey.

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

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

Robert L. Heilbroner (1919–2005) was an American economist. He taught economic history at the New School, where he was appointed Norman Thomas Professor of Economics in 1971.