April 1968 Issue, COMMENTARY

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  Issues of 1967 = 12 Issues, 180 Articles
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  Issues of 1968 = 12 Issues, 158 Articles
  1. [+]
    January 1968 Issue = 14 Articles
    1. Letters from Readers, pp. 4-20
    2. George F. Kennan by George Kateb, pp. 21-26
    3. French Culture & the Jews by Renee Winegarten, pp. 27-35
    4. The "Plain People" & American Democracy by Donald A. Erickson, pp. 36-44
    5. Two Stories by Isaac Babel, pp. 45-47
    6. Jewish Dreams and Nightmares by Robert Alter, pp. 48-56
    7. The Trouble with "Our Crowd" by Marshall Sklare, pp. 57-61
    8. In Memory of Guido Cantelli by B.H. Haggin, pp. 62-64
    9. Old Friends by John Thompson, pp. 65-70
    10. [+]
      Schooldays by Peter Schrag, pp. 71-73 - 2 Reviews
      1. 36 Children~~Thirty-Six Children by Herbert Kohl
      2. Death at an Early Age by Jonathan Kozol
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      Most Likely to Succeed by Joseph Epstein, pp. 74-76 - 1 Review
      1. North Toward Home by Willie Morris
    12. [+]
      Change of Faith by Erich Isaac, pp. 77-79 - 1 Review
      1. The Nature of Conversion by Albert Isaac Gordon
    13. [+]
      The Newer Criticism by Morris Dickstein, pp. 80-85 - 1 Review
      1. A Primer of Ignorance by R.P. Blackmur
    14. [+]
      The Literature of Poverty by Mary Ellmann, pp. 86-90 - 1 Review
      1. The Cross of Lassitude by Joan Colebrook
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    February 1968 Issue = 14 Articles
    1. Letters from Readers, pp. 4-26
    2. A Defective Institution? by Marcus Cunliffe, pp. 27-33
    3. The McCarthy Candidacy by Andrew Hacker, pp. 34-39
    4. Boaz and the Israelites by Dan Jacobson, pp. 40-52
    5. James Joyce in His Letters by Lionel Trilling, pp. 53-64
    6. Devaluation by George Lichtheim, pp. 65-71
    7. Translating the Psalms by Milton Himmelfarb, pp. 72-76
    8. The Draft Care Gesture by Edward Hoagland, pp. 77-78
    9. TV (Again) by Neil Compton, pp. 79-82
    10. [+]
      War & Peace by Herbert J. Gans, pp. 83-85 - 1 Review
      1. Report from Iron Mountain by Leonard C. Lewin
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      The Holy City by Harold Fisch, pp. 86-87 - 1 Review
      1. Jerusalem: A History by Jacques Boudet
    12. [+]
      The Writer's Text by Joseph Frank, pp. 88-90 - 1 Review
      1. The Notebooks for Crime and Punishment by Fyodor M. Dostoevsky and Edward Wasiolek
    13. [+]
      Sovietology by Adam B. Ulam, pp. 91-92 - 1 Review
      1. The Fate of the Revolution by Walter Laqueur
    14. [+]
      A New Journal by Tony Tanner, pp. 93-98 - 1 Review
      1. New American Review No. 1 by Theodore Solotaroff
  3. [+]
    March 1968 Issue = 14 Articles
    1. Letters from Readers, pp. 4-14
    2. Vietnam and American Politics by Theodore Draper, pp. 15-30
    3. Why Our Schools Have Failed by Peter Schrag, pp. 31-40
    4. The Israeli Occupation by Amos Elon, pp. 41-48
    5. The New Status Quo by Shlomo Avineri, pp. 49-54
    6. Triste Paris by H. Stuart Hughes, pp. 55-60
    7. An Undiscovered Master by Paul Warshow, pp. 61-67
    8. Crime and Punishment by Isidore Silver, pp. 68-73
    9. Nkrumah by Anthony Astrachan, pp. 74-78
    10. [+]
      The Bloomsbury Idea by Dan Jacobson, pp. 79-82 - 1 Review
      1. Downhill All The Way by Leonard Woolf
    11. [+]
      Southern Values by David Donald, pp. 83-85 - 1 Review
      1. The Emergence of the New South, 1913-1945 by George Brown Tindall
    12. [+]
      Hunger by Asher Byrnes, pp. 86-89 - 1 Review
      1. The World Food Problem
    13. [+]
      The Devil in Moscow by Ernst Pawel, pp. 90-92 - 1 Review
      1. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
    14. [+]
      Death of a Chronicler by Frances FitzGerald, pp. 93-98 - 1 Review
      1. Last Reflections on a War by Bernard B. Fall
  4. [+]
    April 1968 Issue = 12 Articles
    1. Letters from Readers, pp. 4-21
    2. Voting the Lesser Evil by Michael Harrington, pp. 22-32
    3. The Battle of the Pentagon by Norman Mailer, pp. 33-57
    4. On Not Being a Jew by Edward Hoagland, pp. 58-62
    5. Hebrew Between Two Worlds by Robert Alter, pp. 63-70
    6. Fantasy & Circumstance by John Thompson, pp. 71-73
    7. Theater Chronicle by Jack Richardson, pp. 74-78
    8. [+]
      Bearing Witness by Walter Goodman, pp. 79-81 - 1 Review
      1. Protest: Pacifism and Politics by James Finn
    9. [+]
      Double Jeopardy by Amos Elon, pp. 82-86 - 1 Review
      1. American Jews in Israel by Harold R. Isaacs
    10. [+]
      Personal Politics by Richard Poirier, pp. 87-91 - 1 Review
      1. Twenty Letters to a Friend by Svetlana Alliluyeva
    11. [+]
      A Literary Gathering by Denis Donoghue, pp. 92-95 - 1 Review
      1. The Experience of Literature by Lionel Trilling
    12. [+]
      History & Metahistory by Norman Birnbaum, pp. 96-106 - 1 Review
      1. The Concept of Ideology, and Other Essays by George Lichtheim
  5. [+]
    May 1968 Issue = 14 Articles
    1. Letters from Readers, pp. 4-14
    2. The Democrats, Kennedy & The Murder of Dr. King by Daniel P. Moynihan, pp. 15-30
    3. Dean Rusk by Edmund Stillman, pp. 31-37
    4. The Madmen of Sighet by Elie Wiesel, pp. 38-41
    5. Relevance in the Synagogue by Milton Himmelfarb, pp. 42-47
    6. Europe & the United States by George Lichtheim, pp. 48-53
    7. Levi-Strauss & the Primitive by Robert L. Zimmerman, pp. 54-62
    8. Metaphysical Obduracy by Kathleen Nott, pp. 63-69
    9. [+]
      Updike's Couples by John Thompson, pp. 70-74 - 1 Review
      1. Couples by John Updike
    10. [+]
      The Teacher-Scholar by George Kateb, pp. 75-77 - 1 Review
      1. The Dissenting Academy by Theodore Roszak
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      Catholicism Today by J. Coert Rylaarsdam, pp. 78-83 - 1 Review
      1. A Time to Build by Michael Novak
    12. [+]
      After the Bomb by Mary Ellmann, pp. 84-87 - 1 Review
      1. Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima by Robert Jay Lifton
    13. [+]
      Medieval Jews by Charles Issawi, pp. 88-93 - 1 Review
      1. A Mediterranean Society by S.D. Goitein
    14. [+]
      Nostalgic Ideology by Peter Shaw, pp. 94-106 - 1 Review
      1. The Conservative Tradition in America by Allen Guttmann
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    June 1968 Issue = 13 Articles
    1. Letters from Readers, pp. 4-24
    2. In Praise of Populism by Paul Goodman, pp. 25-31
    3. Israel Among the Nations by J.L. Talmon, pp. 32-51
    4. The Betrayal of the American City by David Danzig and John Feild, pp. 52-59
    5. The Year 2000 and All That by Robert A. Nisbet, pp. 60-66
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      Baldwin by John Thompson, pp. 67-68 - 1 Review
      1. Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone by James Baldwin
    7. TV Specials by Neil Compton, pp. 69-70
    8. Kit Carson in Peru by Paul Cowan, pp. 71-76
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      The Chairman by Stephen Spender, pp. 77-78 - 1 Review
      1. A Sense of the Present by William Phillips
    10. [+]
      Identities by Arthur A. Cohen, pp. 79-83 - 1 Review
      1. Elder and Younger Brothers by A. Roy Eckardt
    11. [+]
      Capturing Reality by Peter Shaw, pp. 84-87 - 1 Review
      1. Stop-Time by Frank Conroy
    12. [+]
      Eureka! by Peter Caws, pp. 88-92 - 1 Review
      1. The Double Helix by James D. Watson
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      Eminent Historian by David Daiches, pp. 93-98 - 1 Review
      1. Gleanings: Essays in Jewish History, Letters and Art by Cecil Roth
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    July 1968 Issue = 13 Articles
    1. Letters from Readers, pp. 14-30
    2. The New Left and Its Limits by Nathan Glazer, pp. 31-39
    3. Journey to Sarajevo by Joachim Remak, pp. 40-51
    4. The Politics of Development by J.P. Nettl and Karl von Vorys, pp. 52-59
    5. Teaching Jewish Teachers by Robert Alter, pp. 60-65
    6. My Version of the Rubaiyyat by Robert Graves, pp. 66-70
    7. On Being a Woman in Shul by Lucy S. Dawidowicz, pp. 71-73
    8. James Bond Unmasked by Mordecai Richler, pp. 74-82
    9. [+]
      A Tradition of Scrutiny by Frank Kermode, pp. 83-86 - 1 Review
      1. Anna Karenina, and Other Essays by F.R. Leavis
    10. [+]
      The Promising Land by Ernest Stock, pp. 87-88 - 1 Review
      1. Israel: Politics and People by Leonard J. Fein
    11. [+]
      HUAC by Robert Lekachman, pp. 89-91 - 1 Review
      1. The Committee by Walter Goodman
    12. [+]
      Science & Sensibility by Daniel Lang, pp. 92-93 - 1 Review
      1. My Life and My Views by Max Born
    13. [+]
      Harry's Hour by Marcus Cunliffe, pp. 94-98 - 1 Review
      1. The Loneliest Campaign by Irwin Ross
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    August 1968 Issue = 13 Articles
    1. Letters from Readers, pp. 4-18
    2. The Professors and the Poor by Daniel P. Moynihan, pp. 19-29
    3. Jewish Faith and the Holocaust by Emil L. Fackenheim, pp. 30-36
    4. Charles Ives, American by Eric Salzman, pp. 37-43
    5. The Conversion---A Story by Victor Perera, pp. 44-53
    6. Anarchism Revisited by George Woodcock, pp. 54-59
    7. The Loneliest Jews of All by Erich Isaac, pp. 60-62
    8. A Nostalgia for Swing by Richard Schickel, pp. 63-66
    9. [+]
      A Jewish Community by Nathan Glazer, pp. 67-69 - 1 Review
      1. Jewish Identity on the Suburban Frontier by Marshall Sklare and Joseph Greenblum
    10. [+]
      Fabianism by Gertrude Himmelfarb, pp. 70-72 - 1 Review
      1. Beatrice Webb: A Life, 1858-1943 by Kitty Muggeridge and Ruth Adam
    11. [+]
      Unsentimental Journey by Robert Kiely, pp. 73-74 - 1 Review
      1. A Cab at the Door: A Memoir by V.S. Pritchett
    12. [+]
      The Eatherly Case by George P. Elliott, pp. 75-77 - 3 Reviews
      1. Burning Conscience by Claude Eatherly and Gunther Anders
      2. The Hiroshima Pilot by William Bradford Huie
      3. Dark Star by Ronnie Dugger
    13. [+]
      New Left History by David Donald, pp. 78-82 - 1 Review
      1. Intellectual Origins of American Radicalism by Staughton Lynd
  9. [+]
    September 1968 Issue = 14 Articles
    1. Letters from Readers, pp. 4-17
    2. The Psalms in Translation by Mitchell Dahood and Milton Himmelfarb, pp. 18-38
    3. What Happened in France by George Lichtheim, pp. 39-49
    4. Why the Poor People's Campaign Failed by Tom Kahn, pp. 50-55
    5. Poland by Paul Lendvai, pp. 56-66
    6. Black Power at Columbia by Stephen Donadio, pp. 67-76
    7. Letter from Israel by Edward Grossman, pp. 77-81
    8. Television and Reality by Neil Compton, pp. 82-85
    9. Return of the Repressed by John Thompson, pp. 86-90
    10. [+]
      The Last Word by Michael Novak, pp. 91-94 - 1 Review
      1. The Peasant of the Garonne by Jacques Maritain
    11. [+]
      Under Thirty by Walter Goodman, pp. 95-96 - 1 Review
      1. Young Radicals by Kenneth Keniston
    12. [+]
      Critical Myth by David Schiller, pp. 97-99 - 1 Review
      1. The Modern Century by Northrop Frye
    13. [+]
      Midrash by David Daiches, pp. 100-101 - 1 Review
      1. The Walls of Jerusalem by Chaim Raphael
    14. [+]
      Fantasia by Joseph Epstein, pp. 102-106 - 1 Review
      1. The Disney Version by Richard Schickel
  10. [+]
    October 1968 Issue = 12 Articles
    1. Letters from Readers, pp. 4-28
    2. The New York Intellectuals by Irving Howe, pp. 29-52
    3. The Curious Case of Kol Nidre by Herman Kieval, pp. 53-60
    4. Rhetoric and the Arab Mind by Robert Alter, pp. 61-66
    5. The Fiction Machine by John Thompson, pp. 67-70
    6. Music Criticism Today by B.H. Haggin, pp. 71-75
    7. The State of Social Science by Ben. B. Seligman, pp. 76-80
    8. [+]
      The Price of Revolution by Adam B. Ulam, p. 81 - 1 Review
      1. The Soviet Achievement by J.P. Nettl
    9. [+]
      Identity Problems by Marshall Sklare, pp. 82-86 - 1 Review
      1. The Passionate People by Roger Kahn
    10. [+]
      Serious Criticism by Keith Botsford, pp. 87-89 - 1 Review
      1. Language and Silence by George Steiner
    11. [+]
      Dark Dreams by Fritz J. Raddatz, pp. 90-93 - 1 Review
      1. O The Chimneys by Nelly Sachs
    12. [+]
      Roots of Anti-Semitism by Jacob Katz, pp. 94-98 - 1 Review
      1. The French Enlightenment and the Jews by Arthur Hertzberg
  11. [+]
    November 1968 Issue = 12 Articles
    1. Letters from Readers, pp. 4-23
    2. Avant-Garde Theatrics by Jack Anderson, pp. 24-28
    3. On the Steps of Low Library by Diana Trilling, pp. 29-56
    4. The Colony by Isaac Bashevis Singer, pp. 57-62
    5. Czechoslovakia 1968 by George Lichtheim, pp. 63-74
    6. Vietnam & the Law by Beverly Woodward, pp. 75-88
    7. Paganism, Religion & Modernity by Milton Himmelfarb, pp. 89-96
    8. [+]
      Pornography & The Courts by Alexander M. Bickel, pp. 97-99 - 1 Review
      1. The End of Obscenity by Charles Rembar
    9. [+]
      Eminent Englishmen by Robert A. Nisbet, pp. 100-105 - 1 Review
      1. Victorian Minds by Gertrude Himmelfarb
    10. [+]
      Jews & Greeks by David Daiches, pp. 106-113 - 1 Review
      1. Four Strange Books of the Bible by Elias Bickerman
    11. [+]
      Locating Marx by Loyd D. Easton, pp. 114-115 - 1 Review
      1. The Social and Political Thought of Karl Marx by Shlomo Avineri
    12. [+]
      Art & Politics by Michael Harrington, pp. 116-122 - 1 Review
      1. Writers and Partisans by James Burkhart Gilbert
  12. [+]
    December 1968 Issue = 13 Articles
    1. Letters from Readers, pp. 4-25
    2. Television & Politics by Neil Compton, pp. 26-32
    3. The Menace of the Peaceful Atom by Sheldon Novick, pp. 33-40
    4. Is Electoral Reform the Answer? by Alexander M. Bickel, pp. 41-52
    5. Sickness---A Story by Johanna Kaplan, pp. 53-62
    6. Race, Rage & Eldrige Cleaver by Jervis Anderson, pp. 63-70
    7. Adlai Stevenson in Retrospect by Joseph Epstein, pp. 71-84
    8. Explaining American Jews by Lucy S. Dawidowicz, pp. 85-92
    9. [+]
      The Conventions, 1968 by Peter Shaw, pp. 93-95 - 1 Review
      1. Miami and the Siege of Chicago by Norman Mailer
    10. [+]
      Bureaucrats & the Ghetto by Leonard Chazen, pp. 96-99 - 1 Review
      1. Prelude to Riot by Paul Jacobs
    11. [+]
      A Voice Before the Silence by Ernst Pawel, pp. 100-105 - 2 Reviews
      1. Kurt Tucholsky and the Ordeal of Germany, 1914-1935 by Harold L. Poor
      2. What If...? by Kurt Tucholsky
    12. [+]
      Facing Up to the Present by David T. Bazelon, pp. 106-109 - 1 Review
      1. Waist Deep in the Big Muddy by Richard H. Rovere
    13. [+]
      The Third World by J.P. Nettl, pp. 110-114 - 1 Review
      1. Asian Drama: An Inquiry Into the Poverty of Nations by Gunnar Myrdal
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  Issues of 1969 = 12 Issues, 163 Articles
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  Issues of 1997 = 11 Issues, 158 Articles
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  Issues of 1999 = 11 Issues, 157 Articles
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