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Elizabeth Hardwick

Militant Nudes

Gimme Shelter Directed by David Maysles and Albert Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin

Ice Directed by Robert Kramer

Dance the Eagle to Sleep by Marge Piercy

Trash Produced by Andy Warhol, directed by Paul Morrissey

The Groupies Directed by Ron Dorfman and Peter Nevard
Ronald Syme

Bad Trip

Hannibal by Sir Gavin de Beer

Scipio Africanus: Soldier and Politician by Howard H. Scullard

Julius Caesar by Michael Grant

Letters

Contributors

Elizabeth Hardwick (1916–2007) was born in Lexington, Kentucky, and educated at the University of Kentucky and Columbia University. A recipient of a Gold Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she is the author of three novels, a biography of Herman Melville, and four collections of essays. She was a co-founder and advisory editor of The New York Review of Books and contributed more than one hundred reviews, articles, reflections, and letters to the magazine. NYRB Classics publishes Sleepless Nights, a novel, and Seduction and Betrayal, a study of women in literature.

Francis Haskell (1928-2000) was an English art historian. His works include Patrons and Painters: Art and Society in Baroque Italyand History and its Images: Art and the Interpretation of the Past. Haskell taught at Oxford.

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.

Robert Penn Warren was an American novelist, poet and critic.