Edition |
1st ed. |
Description |
345 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents |
A day at the White House / Dwight Macdonald -- After Watts / Elizabeth Hardwick -- On two poets / Robert Lowell ; "Lesbos" by Sylvia Plath -- A Buddhist poet in Vietnam / Thich Nhat Hanh -- The great amateur / Isaiah Berlin -- Reflections on violence / Hannah Arendt -- Eau de vie: an interview on Beethoven / Igor Stravinsky with Robert Craft -- The megrims / W.H. Auden -- Balzac at thirty / V.S. Pritchett -- On photography / Susan Sontag -- How I came to dissent / Andrei D. Sakharov -- Mahler now / Pierre Boulez -- Your show of shows / John Richardson -- An aesthete at war / Bruce Chatwin -- Nadezhda Mandelstam / Joseph Brodsky -- The rise of Andy Warhol / Robert Hughes -- In El Salvador / Joan Didion -- Joyce at 100 / Richard Ellmann -- The 'truth'of Karl Popper / Jonathan Lieberson -- The bull on the mountain / Oliver Sacks -- Girl from Berlin / Gabriele Annan -- Love of flying / Gore Vidal -- Last Christmas of the war / Primo Levi. |
Added Author |
Silvers, Robert B.
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Epstein, Barbara, 1928-2006.
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Hederman, Rea S.
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Added Title |
New York review of books.
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ISBN |
0940322013 |
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