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June 11, 1981 • Volume 28, Number 10

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Christopher Hill

Tiptoe Through the Tudors

The Lisle Letters edited by Muriel St. Clare Byrne
Murray Kempton

Saving a Whale

A Choice of Days: Essays from “Happy Days,” “Newspaper Days,” and “Heathen Days,” by H.L. Mencken, selected and introduced by Edward L. Galligan

On Mencken edited by John Dorsey

The Young Mencken: The Best of His Work collected by Carl Bode

The American Scene: A Reader by H.L. Mencken, edited by Huntington Cairns

H.L. Mencken on Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe edited by Malcolm Moos

Letters of H.L. Mencken edited by Guy J. Forgue

A Mencken Chrestomathy edited and annotated by H.L. Mencken
Norman Mailer

Discovering Jack H. Abbott
Jack Henry Abbott

Two Notes by Jack H. Abbott
Herbert Scoville Jr.

Indefensible!

National Defense by James Fallows
Anne Barton

Was Shakespeare a Chauvinist?

Shakespeare’s Division of Experience by Marilyn French

Man’s Estate: Masculine Identity in Shakespeare by Coppélia Kahn

Shakespeare and the Problem of Meaning by Norman Rabkin
Julian Symons

Thrillernik

Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith
Bernard Knox

The Greek Conquest of Britain

The Victorians and Ancient Greece by Richard Jenkyns

The Greek Heritage in Victorian Britain by Frank M. Turner
David Vogel

How to Put Humpty Together Again

Revitalizing America: Politics for Prosperity by Ronald E. Müller

The American Future: New Visions Beyond Old Frontiers by Tom Hayden
C. Vann Woodward

Spaghetti West

Land of Savagery, Land of Promise: The European Image of the American Frontier in the Nineteenth Century by Ray Allen Billington
Stephen Spender

Elbe Swans and Other Poets

The Meeting at Telgte by Günter Grass, translated by Ralph Manheim
Robert L. Heilbroner

The Demand for the Supply Side
H.W. Janson

Fallen Idols

Taste and the Antique: The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500-1900 by Francis Haskell, by Nicholas Penny
People of Iran

An Appeal in Iran

LETTERS

Contributors

Anne Barton is a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. She is the author of Essays, Mainly Shakespearean.

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.

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.

Stephen Spender (1909–1995) was an English poet and essayist. As a young man, he became friends with W.H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, Cecil Day-Lewis, and Christopher Isherwood, a loose collection often referred to as “the Auden Group” or “MacSpaunday.” He published many collections of poems, including The Still Centre and Ruins and Visions, and numerous volumes of nonfiction and other works, including Learning Laughterand Love-Hate Relations.

Thomas Sheehan is Professor of Religious Studies at Stanford University. (December 2001)

Christopher Hill (1912–2003) was an English historian. Educated at Oxford, Hill taught at the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire as well as Oxford, where he was elected Master of Balliol College. His books include Puritanism and Revolution,Intellectual Origins of the English Revolution, and The World Turned Upside Down.

C. Vann Woodward (1908–1999) was a historian of the American South. He taught at Johns Hopkins and at Yale, where he was named the Sterling Professor of History. His books include Mary Chesnut’s Civil War and The Old World’s New World.

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.

Murray Kempton (1917-1997) was a columnist for Newsday, as well as a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books. His books include Rebellions, Perversities, and Main Events and The Briar Patch, as well as Part of Our Time. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1985.

James Wolcott is the cultural critic for Vanity Fair.