From Winter 1979 Explore This Issue Triptych of Excellence (on The Sitwells: A Family’s Biography by John Pearson) By Christine Lahey-Dolega From the Winter 1979 Issue ← The History of an Illusion (on The History of Sexuality; Volume I: An Introduction by Michel Foucault, Robert Hurley; & A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments by Roland Barthes, Richard Howard) → Violence, Imagery, and Introspection (on Killing Floor by Ai; The Five Stages of Grief by Linda Pastan; & Natural Histories by Leslie Ullman)