Volume 26, Number 19 (1979-12-06)

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Table of Contents

December 6, 1979

Diane Johnson

Death for Sale

The Executioner's Song

by Norman Mailer

James Merrill

Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)

Bruce Chatwin

Variations on an Idée Fixe

The Year of the Greylag Goose

by Konrad Lorenz, translated by Robert Martin, photographs by Sybille Kalas and Klaus Kalas

Irving Howe

Last Exit to LA

The Apathetic Bookie Joint

by Daniel Fuchs

Neal Ascherson

The War that Made South Africa

The Boer War

by Thomas Pakenham

Stanley Hoffmann

The Case of Dr. Kissinger

White House Years

by Henry Kissinger

Darryl Pinckney

Blues for Mr. Baldwin

Just Above My Head

by James Baldwin

Edward Rothstein

The Dream of Mind and Machine

Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

by Douglas R. Hofstadter

Harry Levin

I. A. Richards (1893–1979)

Nigel Dennis

Smiles in the Dark

Darkness Visible

by William Golding

Elaine H. Pagels

The Defeat of the Gnostics

Letters

Adam B. Ulam,
Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

Dubious Battles

Burton Raffel

Kill the Killers?

John Arsenian,
Graham Hughes

Kill the Killers?

Morris Philipson

Vive Leroy

Edward Albee,
Christian Anfinsen,
Dore Ashton,
Patricia Barnes,
et al.

Free the Czechs

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