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Chant: Riverside

by Barry Spacks

The Atlantic Monthly, May 1973, p. 72

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      4. Back to the Top of World by Hans Ruesch
      5. Harvest Home by Thomas Tryon
      6. In Search of the Maya by Robert L. Brunhouse
      7. Travelers by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
      8. A Bloody Field by Shrewsbury by Edith Pargeter
      9. My Young Years by Arthur Rubinstein
  8. [+]
    August 1973 Issue = 18 Articles
    1. The Editor's Page, pp. 4-5
    2. The Pentagon Papers Trial by Sanford J. Ungar, pp. 6-13
    3. Klagenfurt, Austria by Clyde Farnsworth, pp. 14-18
    4. Innocent Bystander by L.E. Sissman, pp. 19-21
    5. The Mail, pp. 22-32
    6. The Jewish Princess by Norman Mailer, pp. 33-53
    7. Miriamu and the King by Edward Hower, pp. 54-58
    8. The Order by Norma McLain Stoop, p. 59
    9. A Watergate Diary by Elizabeth Drew, pp. 60-72
    10. Nietzsche Would Have Been a Great Dart Player by Steven Warner, pp. 73-77
    11. The Economics of the American Housewife by John Kenneth Galbraith, pp. 78-82
    12. Estrangement by William Pitt Root, pp. 83-86
    13. Journal of a Plague Year by Ward Just, pp. 87-91
    14. [+]
      The Lonely Calm by Mark Schorer, pp. 92-93 - 1 Review
      1. Recovery by John Berryman
    15. [+]
      Walter Clark's Frontier by Wallace Stegner, pp. 94-97 - 1 Review
      1. The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
    16. Cara Theresa by William Zinsser, pp. 98-100
    17. [+]
      The Peripatetic Reviewer by Edward Weeks, pp. 101-102 - 3 Reviews
      1. The Lusitania by Colin Simpson
      2. Mark Twain by Hamlin Lewis Hill
      3. The Fatal Gift by Alec Waugh
    18. [+]
      Short Reviews: Books by Phoebe Adams, pp. 103-110 - 12 Reviews
      1. Winner Lose All by Hugh Eames
      2. Peary at the North Pole by Dennis Rawlins
      3. Facing the Lions by Tom Wicker
      4. The Ungodly by Richard Rhodes
      5. Letters from Sardis by George M.A. Hanfmann
      6. The Stone Baby by Ben Healey
      7. Borges on Writing by Norman Thomas di Giovanni and Jorge Luis Borges, ...
      8. The Age of Arthur by John Morris
      9. Casablanca: Script and Legend by Howard Koch
      10. Shakespeare the Man by A.L. Rowse
      11. Equal Danger by Leonardo Sciascia
      12. Starting Over by Dan Wakefield
  9. [+]
    September 1973 Issue = 19 Articles
    1. The Editor's Page, pp. 4-5
    2. Reports & Comment by Stanley Meisler, pp. 6-15
    3. The Menlo Park Police by Patricia Lynden, pp. 16-26
    4. Innocent Bystander by L.E. Sissman, pp. 27-30
    5. The Mail, pp. 31-38
    6. History As Mirror by Barbara W. Tuchman, pp. 39-45
    7. Rest by John Hall Wheelock, p. 46
    8. How Now World's Greatest Cow? by Paul O'Neil, pp. 47-50
    9. The Polite Mugger by Anne Hussey, p. 51
    10. The Endless Night by Stephen Becker, pp. 52-79
    11. Alkan by Henry Shultz, pp. 80-83
    12. Shall We Strip-Mine Iowa and Illinois to Air-Condition New York?, p. 84
    13. Farming and Mining by Harry M. Caudill, pp. 85-90
    14. The Last of the West by James Conaway, pp. 91-103
    15. [+]
      God's First Mistakes by Richard Todd, pp. 104-107 - 3 Reviews
      1. Ninety-Two in the Shade by Thomas McGuane
      2. Small Changes by Marge Piercy
      3. Regiment of Women by Thomas Berger
    16. [+]
      Kozmic Blues by Dan Wakefield, pp. 108-113 - 2 Reviews
      1. Going Down with Janis by Peggy Caserta and Dan Knapp
      2. Buried Alive by Myra Friedman
    17. No Business Like News Business by Zoltan Sarfathy, p. 114
    18. [+]
      The Peripatetic Reviewer by Edward Weeks, pp. 115-117 - 3 Reviews
      1. Survive the Savage Sea by Dougal Robertson
      2. A Life by Wright Morris
      3. Departing Glory by Joseph L. Gardner
    19. [+]
      Short Reviews: Books by Phoebe Adams, pp. 118-126 - 14 Reviews
      1. Frieda Lawrence by Robert Lucas
      2. Jason and Medeia by John Gardner
      3. Dickie's List by Ann Birstein
      4. The 92nd Tiger by Michael Francis Gilbert
      5. Ward 402 by Ronald J. Glasser
      6. Adventures with D.W. Griffith by Karl Brown and Kevin Brownlow
      7. Sir Noel Coward: His Words and Music by Lee Snider and Noel Coward
      8. The Hall of the Mountain King by Howard H. Snyder
      9. Exterminator! by William S. Burroughs
      10. Red Adam's Lady by Grace Ingram
      11. Utah by David Muench
      12. The Confessions of Lady Nijo by Karen Brazell
      13. Half Remembered by Peter Davison
      14. Marilyn: A Biography by Norman Mailer
  10. [+]
    October 1973 Issue = 21 Articles
    1. Reports & Comments by Don Cook, pp. 6-11
    2. Italy by Claire Sterling, pp. 12-33
    3. Innocent Bystander by L.E. Sissman, pp. 34-38
    4. The Mail, pp. 39-44
    5. The Politics of American Health Care by Godfrey Hodgson, pp. 45-61
    6. Feeding on Dreams in a Bubble Gum Culture by Sara Davidson, pp. 62-71
    7. Truly to Love You by Robert Graves, p. 72
    8. China Through Rose-Tinted Glasses by Stanley Karnow, pp. 73-75
    9. The Secret Work by Irving Feldman, pp. 76-77
    10. Luke's Song by John Bart Gerald, pp. 78-80
    11. The Blind Harper by Mary Manning, pp. 81-90
    12. The Sick Sixties by James Q. Wilson and Robert L. DuPont, pp. 91-100
    13. The Jesus Infection by Maxine Kumin, p. 101
    14. The Phrenology of Love by James Polk, pp. 102-110
    15. In the Tunnel by Robert A. Brooks, p. 111
    16. [+]
      The Shape of H.G. Wells by Justin Kaplan, pp. 112-114 - 1 Review
      1. H. G. Wells: A Biography by Norman Ian MacKenzie and Jeanne MacKenzie
    17. [+]
      Alone in Cover-Up Country by Benjamin Demott, pp. 115-119 - 3 Reviews
      1. Truth About Kent State by Peter Davies
      2. An American Verdict by Michael J. Arlen
      3. The I. F. Stone's Weekly Reader by I.F. Stone
    18. [+]
      Where It All Ends... by Michael Janeway, pp. 120-124 - 4 Reviews
      1. The Making of the President, 1972 by Theodore H. White
      2. Goodbye, Mr. Christian by Richard Dougherty
      3. Right from the Start by Gary Hart
      4. The Long Shot by Gordon L. Weil
    19. [+]
      On the Strip by Joseph Kanon, pp. 125-127 - 1 Review
      1. American Graffiti (1973 Film) by George Lucas
    20. [+]
      The Peripatic Reviewer by Edward Weeks, pp. 128-129 - 4 Reviews
      1. The Fourteenth Chronicle by Townsend Ludington and John Dos Passos
      2. Saint Jack by Paul Theroux
      3. The Onion Field by Joseph Wambaugh
      4. A Memory, and Other Stories by Mary Lavin
    21. [+]
      Short Reviews: Books by Phoebe Adams, pp. 130-138 - 9 Reviews
      1. From the Diary of a Snail by Gunter Grass
      2. The Sea and the Ice by Louis J. Halle
      3. A Fairy Tale of New York by J.P. Donleavy
      4. Letters to Felice by Franz Kafka, Erich Heller, and Jurgen Born
      5. The Riverside Villas Murder by Kingsley Amis
      6. A Recitation of Ifa, Oracle of the Yoruba by Judith Illsley Gleason, Awotunde Aworinde, and John Olaniyi Ogundipe, ...
      7. All Fires the Fire, and Other Stories by Julio Cortazar
      8. The First Great Civilizations by Jacquetta H. Hawkes
      9. So Short a Time by Barbara Gelb
  11. [+]
    November 1973 Issue = 20 Articles
    1. The Editor's Page, pp. 4-5
    2. Reports & Comment by Richard Holbrooke, pp. 6-16
    3. California by Mary Ellen Leary, pp. 17-34
    4. Innocent Bystander by L.E. Sissman, pp. 35-38
    5. The Mail, pp. 39-42
    6. The Runaway Presidency by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., pp. 43-55
    7. A Soldier in Iceland by Barton Midwood, pp. 56-63
    8. On Being Easy in the Ritual of Separation by Alan Dugan, pp. 64-68
    9. The Force That Drives the Flower by Annie Dillard, pp. 69-76
    10. The Strength of Illusions by Tom McKeown, pp. 77-78
    11. "The Next War" by Drew Middleton, pp. 79-82
    12. Uncle by Philip Levine, p. 83
    13. Ruined Genius by Douglas Day, pp. 84-102
    14. At Usk by Leslie Norris, p. 103
    15. Smoke by William Westlake, pp. 104-107
    16. I'm Nobody---Who Are You? by Richard Todd, pp. 108-113
    17. [+]
      The Noble and the Absurd by William Abrahams, pp. 114-117 - 1 Review
      1. The Honorary Consul by Graham Greene
    18. [+]
      Truffaut's Cinema Notebook by Joseph Kanon, pp. 118-121 - 1 Review
      1. Day for Night (1973 Film) by Francois Truffaut
    19. [+]
      The Peripatetic Reviewer by Edward Weeks, pp. 122-127 - 4 Reviews
      1. Will Rogers: His Life and Times by Richard M. Ketchum
      2. The Rothschilds: A Family of Fortune by Virginia Cowles
      3. Theophilus North by Thornton Wilder
      4. A Thousand Summers by Garson Kanin
    20. [+]
      Short Reviews: Books by Phoebe Adams, pp. 128-136 - 10 Reviews
      1. As If By Magic by Angus Wilson
      2. Real Lace by Stephen Birmingham
      3. Eagle Eye by Hortense Calisher
      4. Great Zimbabwe by Peter S. Garlake
      5. Fraud by E.J. Kahn, Jr.
      6. The Locked Room by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo
      7. Before Civilization by Colin Renfrew
      8. Prismatics: Exploring a New World by David Douglas Duncan
      9. The Case of Mary Bell by Gitta Sereny
      10. The Rohan Master by Marcel Thomas
  12. [+]
    December 1973 Issue = 19 Articles
    1. Reports & Comment by Trudy Rubin, pp. 4-17
    2. Labor: The Steel Experiment by John Hoerr, pp. 18-35
    3. The Innocent Bystander by L.E. Sissman, pp. 36-43
    4. The Mail, pp. 44-52
    5. Evelyn Waugh's Lost Rabbit by Claud Cockburn, pp. 53-59
    6. The Principle of Tolerance by J. Bronowski, pp. 60-66
    7. Feast Days: Christmas by Annie Dillard, pp. 67-76
    8. The Story of a Scar by James Alan McPherson, pp. 77-83
    9. The Natural History of a Vision by Robert Penn Warren, pp. 84-90
    10. The Weak Are the Second Sex by Elizabeth Janeway, pp. 91-107
    11. Did Monet See What He Thought He Saw? by Alexander Eliot, pp. 108-110
    12. Night Sail by Judith Minty, p. 111
    13. Victor Blue by Ann Beattie, pp. 112-120
    14. "Not You I Fear..." by Margaret Atwood, p. 121
    15. [+]
      Couple Trouble: Mod & Trad by Benjamin DeMott, pp. 122-127 - 6 Reviews
      1. Becoming Partners by Carl R. Rogers
      2. Fear of Flying by Erica Jong
      3. In the Middle of a Life by Richard B. Wright
      4. Other Men's Daughters by Richard Stern
      5. Creative Divorce by Mel Krantzler
      6. Do With Me What You Will by Joyce Carol Oates
    16. [+]
      Happy Marriages Are Not Alike by William Abrahams, pp. 128-131 - 1 Review
      1. Portrait of a Marriage by Nigel Nicolson
    17. [+]
      The Neighborhood by Joseph Kanon, pp. 132-133 - 1 Review
      1. Mean Streets (1973 Film) by Martin Scorsese
    18. [+]
      The Peripatetic Reviewer by Edward Weeks, pp. 134-137 - 4 Reviews
      1. Burr by Gore Vidal
      2. Toward the 21st Century by Edwin O. Reischauer
      3. Children of the Light by Everett S. Allen
      4. The Plundered Past by Karl E. Meyer
    19. [+]
      Short Reviews: Books by Phoebe Adams, pp. 138-146 - 11 Reviews
      1. Byron's Letters and Journals by Leslie A. Marchand and George Gordon Byron
      2. The Seven Wives of Westlake by Enrique Hank Lopez
      3. Chulo by Bil Gilbert
      4. Gloriana by Mary M. Luke
      5. The Femininity Game by Thomas Boslooper and Marcia Hayes
      6. Maxfield Parrish by Coy Ludwig
      7. The Loo Sanction by Trevanian
      8. Black Conceit by John Leonard
      9. Dorothy and Lillian Gish by Lillian Gish
      10. The Tale of Kieu by Nguyen Du
      11. Picasso, in Retrospect by Roland Penrose and John Golding
5. [+]
  Issues of 1974 = 6 Issues, 135 Articles
6. [+]
  Issues of 1975 = 6 Issues, 122 Articles
[+]
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1. [+]
  Issues of 1981 = 12 Issues, 250 Articles
2. [+]
  Issues of 1982 = 12 Issues, 231 Articles
3. [+]
  Issues of 1983 = 12 Issues, 227 Articles
4. [+]
  Issues of 1984 = 12 Issues, 258 Articles
5. [+]
  Issues of 1985 = 12 Issues, 253 Articles
6. [+]
  Issues of 1986 = 12 Issues, 270 Articles
7. [+]
  Issues of 1987 = 12 Issues, 290 Articles
8. [+]
  Issues of 1988 = 12 Issues, 277 Articles
9. [+]
  Issues of 1989 = 12 Issues, 276 Articles
[+]
Issues of the 1990s = 10 Years, 113 Issues, 2,420 Articles
1. [+]
  Issues of 1990 = 12 Issues, 261 Articles
2. [+]
  Issues of 1991 = 11 Issues, 217 Articles
3. [+]
  Issues of 1992 = 11 Issues, 232 Articles
4. [+]
  Issues of 1993 = 12 Issues, 274 Articles
5. [+]
  Issues of 1994 = 12 Issues, 247 Articles
6. [+]
  Issues of 1995 = 9 Issues, 199 Articles
7. [+]
  Issues of 1996 = 11 Issues, 232 Articles
8. [+]
  Issues of 1997 = 11 Issues, 243 Articles
9. [+]
  Issues of 1998 = 12 Issues, 255 Articles
10. [+]
  Issues of 1999 = 12 Issues, 260 Articles
[+]
Issues of the 2000s = 10 Years, 102 Issues, 3,204 Articles
1. [+]
  Issues of 2000 = 12 Issues, 273 Articles
2. [+]
  Issues of 2001 = 11 Issues, 406 Articles
3. [+]
  Issues of 2002 = 11 Issues, 404 Articles
4. [+]
  Issues of 2003 = 10 Issues, 336 Articles
5. [+]
  Issues of 2004 = 10 Issues, 341 Articles
6. [+]
  Issues of 2005 = 9 Issues, 318 Articles
7. [+]
  Issues of 2006 = 10 Issues, 382 Articles
8. [+]
  Issues of 2007 = 9 Issues, 264 Articles
9. [+]
  Issues of 2008 = 10 Issues, 257 Articles
10. [+]
  Issues of 2009 = 10 Issues, 223 Articles
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1. [+]
  Issues of 2010 = 1 Issue, 22 Articles