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“No, but I read the book.”

Barry Lyndon

directed by Stanley Kubrick

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

directed by Miloš Forman

The Story of Adèle H

directed by François Truffaut


The New Conservatives

Twilight of Authority

by Robert Nisbet

"The American Commonwealth, 1976,"

Tenth Anniversary Issue


Greek for the Greekless

The Oresteia

by Aeschylus, translated by Robert Fagles

The Bacchae of Euripides, A Communion Rite

by Wole Soyinka


Selected Memories of the Glorious Bird and the Golden Age

In his memoirs, Tennessee Williams showed himself to be a romantic genius with a voracious appetite for applause.

Memoirs

by Tennessee Williams


The Possessed

Evelyn Waugh: A Biography

by Christopher Sykes

Evelyn Waugh's Officers, Gentlemen & Rogues: The Fact Behind His Fiction

by Gene D. Phillips


Room at the Bottom

A Seventh Man: Migrant Workers in Europe

text by John Berger, photographs by Jean Mohr

Immigrant Workers and Class Structure in Western Europe

by Stephen Castles and Godula Kosack


Whigs, Marxists, and Poachers

Albion's Fatal Tree: Crime and Society in Eighteenth-Century England

by Douglas Hay and Peter Linebaugh and John G. Rule and E. P. Thompson and Cal Winslow

Whigs and Hunters: The Origins of the Black Act

by E. P. Thompson


The DeFunis Case: The Right to Go to Law School

DeFunis versus Odegaard and the University of Washington: The University Admissions Case, The Record

edited by Ann Fagan Ginger

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