April 1973 Issue, THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY

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- The Editor's Page, pp. 4-5
- Washington
  Elizabeth Drew
  , pp. 6-15
- Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
  Sanford J. Ungar
  , pp. 16-30
- Innocent Bystander
  L.E. Sissman
  , pp. 31-33
- The Mail, pp. 34-41
- Contributors, pp. 42-44
- The First Amendment on Trial
  Charles Rembar
  , pp. 45-54
  The Government, the Press, and the Public
- The President and the Press
  David Wise
  , pp. 55-68
- Project for a Trip to China
  Susan Sontag
  , pp. 69-77
  A Story
- Democracy in the Factor
  David Jenkins
  , pp. 78-83
- Two Poems
  Anna Akhmatova
  , p. 84
- The Faithful
  James Alan McPherson
  , pp. 85-92
  A Story
- A Very Good Puzzle
  Arthur Freeman
  , p. 93
- Frankly, Miss Dodds
  William Zinsser
  , pp. 94-95
- Snake Clothes
  Ya Hsien
  , pp. 96-97
- Alternatives
  Alice Adams
  , pp. 98-109
  A Story
- Proposition to a Perfect Stranger
  Jarold Ramsey
  , p. 110
- The Last Laugh
  Fernando Krahn
  , p. 111
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  Cecil and Greta: A Love Story (Review)
  William Abrahams
  , pp. 112-113
  Memoirs of the Forties, by Cecil Beaton
  1. Memoirs of the Forties by Cecil Beaton
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  Psychic Farming: Country Books (7 Reviews)
  Richard Todd
  , pp. 114-119
  A Day No Pigs Would Die, by Robert Newton Peck
  1. A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck
  2. Grow It! by Richard W. Langer
  3. Country Matters by Vance N. Bourjaily
  4. Walking the Dead Diamond River by Edward Hoagland
  5. Home Comfort by Richard Wizansky
  6. Mother Walter and the Pig Tragedy by Mark Kramer
  7. The Machine in the Garden by Leo Marx
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  Media Orgy (Review)
  David Denby
  , pp. 120-123
  The Last Tango in Paris (1973 Film), by Bernardo Bertolucci
  1. The Last Tango in Paris (1973 Film) by Bernardo Bertolucci
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  The Peripatetic Reviewer (4 Reviews)
  Edward Weeks
  , pp. 124-127
  The Nobel Lecture on Literature, by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
  1. The Nobel Lecture on Literature by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
  2. Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
  3. Wellington: The Pillar of State by Elizabeth Longford
  4. Surfacing by Margaret Atwood
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  Short Reviews: Books (11 Reviews)
  Phoebe Adams
  , pp. 128-134
  The Hawk Is Dying, by Harry Crews
  1. The Hawk Is Dying by Harry Crews
  2. Escape from the Shadows by Robin Maugham
  3. Absolutely Nothing to Get Alarmed About by Charles Wright
  4. The Digger's Game by George V. Higgins
  5. No Neutral Ground by Joel Carlson
  6. Macaulay: The Shaping of the Historian by John Clive
  7. The White Island by John Lister-Kaye
  8. A China Passage by John Kenneth Galbraith
  9. Young Winston's Wars by Frederick Woods and Winston S. Churchill
  10. X-Raying the Pharoahs by James E. Harris and Kent R. Weeks
  11. Fairy Tale by Erich Segal