April 1956 Issue, ENCOUNTER

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- Innocent Abroad
  Goronwy Rees
  , pp. 3-16
- On Being a Cabinet Minister
  Patrick Gordon Walker
  , pp. 17-24
- A Massacre of Authors
  Anthony Cronin
  , pp. 25-32
- Hic et Ille
  W.H. Auden
  , pp. 33-39
- Illusions in Reverse
  Roger Caillois
  , pp. 40-46
- Three Poems
  Kingsley Amis
  , pp. 47-48
- The Silent Reform
  Alfred Burmeister
  , pp. 49-52
- The Strike at Norilski
  Herbert Passin and Fritz van Briessen
  , pp. 53-64
- A Postage Stamp State
  George Mikes
  , pp. 65-68
- Politics and Pork-Knockers
  Michael Swan
  , pp. 69-74
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  Novels and Highbrows (Review)
  Angus Wilson
  , pp. 75-76
  Dickens and His Readers, by George Harry Ford
  1. Dickens and His Readers by George Harry Ford
- The Heterodox Conformist
  Irving Kristol
  , pp. 77-78
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  A Mind at Large (Review)
  Stuart Hampshire
  , pp. 79-80
  Heaven and Hell, by Aldous Huxley
  1. Heaven and Hell by Aldous Huxley
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  Opening Up (5 Reviews)
  Hilary Corke
  , pp. 81-83
  Some Prefer Nettles, by Junichiro Tanizaki
  1. Some Prefer Nettles by Junichiro Tanizaki
  2. A Treasury of Yiddish Stories by Irving Howe and Eliezer Greenberg
  3. The Queen's Knight by Marvin Borowsky
  4. A High-Pitched Buzz by Roger Longrigg
  5. Selected Works of Sacheverell Sitwell by Sacheverell Sitwell
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  The Human Phenomenon (Review)
  Lulian Huxley
  , pp. 84-85
  The Phenomenon of Man, by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
  1. The Phenomenon of Man by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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  Very Well (4 Reviews)
  David Wright
  , pp. 86-90
  New and Collected Poems, by Robert Conquest
  1. New and Collected Poems by Robert Conquest
  2. Friday's Child by Wilfred Watson
  3. Patmos and Other Poems by Robin Skelton
  4. A Way of Looking by Elizabeth Jennings