CONTENTS
NOTES 8
ARTICLES
1973·VOLUME XL· NUMBER1
On the Golden Notebook Doris Lessing 14
Scenes from Brother Carl Susan Sontag 37
Revolution and Reform Leszek Kolakowski 52
Painting Today Barbara Rose 82
Poem Objects Alicia Ostriker 95
Writing About Movies Stephen Farber 108
STORIES
On Jazz Raymond Federman 65
A Matter ·of Time Sanf'ord Ch.ernoff 73
POEMS
Edwin Brock 31
Colin Falck 34
BOOKS
Doctor Brodie's Report by J.
L.
Borges
Leonard Michaels 121
The De-definition of Art by Harold Rosenberg
Act and the Actor: Making the Self by Harold Rosenberg
Morris Weitz 126
A Theological Position by R,obert Coover
Neil Schmitz 131
T. S. EIi,ot's Intellectual Development 1922- 1939 by John D. Margolis
T. S. Eliot's Social Criticism by Roger Kojecky
T. S. Eliot: A Memoir by Robert Senoourt
Eliot and His Age by Russ'ell Kirk
The Pound Era by Htlgh Kenner
W. W. Robson 136
What Happens Next? by Gilbert Rogin
Burning by Diane Johnson
The
Profes~or's
Daughter by Piers Paul Read
Joyce Carol Oates 143
Woman's Estate by Juliet Mitchell
Nancy Milford 147
VARIETY
Manson Gountry Thomas R. Edwards 153
CONTEMPORARY NONSENSE 160
COVER DESIGN: CHARLES E. FINSILVER