VOLUME LXXIII, NO. 1 (October 1983)

Arnold Rampersad Biography, Autobiography, and Afro-American Culture 1
John Hersey Treadup of the China Field 17
Jonathan Spence Ricci 47
James Olney Aké: Wole Soyinka as Autobiographer 72
Marie Sheppard Williams Weeds A Story 94
Reviews
J. D. McClatchy A Little More Night Music 115
Gushing Strout Telling the Oppenheimer Story: From the AEC to the BBC 122
B. H. Haggin New Records in Review 131
Seamus Heaney Station Island A Poem 136
Comment: Terrence Des Pres Accident and Its Scene 145
John Hollander Poetry in Review ix