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Issues of the 1960s = 10 Years, 120 Issues, 2,400 Articles-
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Issues of 1960 = 12 Issues, 226 Articles
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Issues of 1961 = 12 Issues, 248 Articles
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Issues of 1962 = 12 Issues, 247 Articles
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Issues of 1963 = 12 Issues, 235 Articles-
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January 1963 Issue = 17 Articles- Reckoning (a story) by Tibor Dery, pp. 3-18
- Watch This Space by P.J. Kavanagh, p. 19
- A Dog in Brooklyn, A Girl in Detroit by Herbert Gold, pp. 20-26
- A Patio by Jorge Luis Borges, p. 27
- The Blot and the Diagram by Kenneth Clark, pp. 28-35
- Poetry by Rod Stuart, p. 36
- No View from the Toolshed by Nigel Dennis, pp. 37-39
- Priests of the Highbrow Cinema by Nicola Chiaromonte, pp. 40-45
- The Difficult Muse by Desmond Stewart, pp. 46-51
- War and the Seasons by Leonard Nathan, p. 52
- "Going into Europe" by W.H. Auden, pp. 53-64
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Strachey's Holy Mountain by Michael Howard, pp. 65-71 - 1 Review- On the Prevention of War by John Strachey
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Poems by Martin Seymour-Smith, pp. 72-74 - 1 Review- Collected Poems by Roy Fuller
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End of the Habsburgs by Edward Crankshaw, pp. 75-80 - 1 Review- The Break-Up of the Habsburg Empire, 1914-1918 by Z.A.B. Zeman
- Letters, pp. 81-83
- A Week of Cuba by Reporter, pp. 84-95
- Authors, pp. 96-98
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February 1963 Issue = 16 Articles- Some Hebrew Myths & Legends by Robert Graves and Raphael Patai, pp. 3-18
- Indian Autumn by John Mander, pp. 19-27
- Mr. Stone & the Knights Companion by V.S. Naipaul, pp. 28-41
- Notes from the Brink by Roy Jenkins, pp. 42-47
- The Birds by Peter Levi, p. 48
- The Eye at Bay by Nigel Dennis, pp. 49-53
- Pugwash by Wayland Young, pp. 54-57
- Drumma, p. 58
- The End of the Adenauer Era by F.R. Allemann, pp. 59-62
- The Barrow by Anthony Thwaite, p. 63
- "Going into Europe", pp. 64-75
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Between Two Galaxies by Frank Kermode, pp. 76-81 - 1 Review- The Gutenberg Galaxy by Marshall McLuhan
- Our Intellectual Marines by Peter Levi, pp. 82-89
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Novels by Kathleen Nott, pp. 90-91 - 4 Reviews- Triumphal Entry by Thomas Baird
- Four Novels by Marguerite Duras
- Love and Friendship by Alison Lurie
- Get Ready for Battle by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
- Letters, pp. 92-95
- Authors, pp. 96-98
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March 1963 Issue = 21 Articles- Editorial Note by M.J.L., p. 3
- The Gaullist Republic by Raymond Aron, pp. 4-11
- Hebrew Myths and Legends (II) by Robert Graves and Raphael Patai, pp. 12-18
- Remembering Stalin by Walter Laqueur, pp. 19-27
- A Woman on a Root (story) by Doris Lessing, pp. 28-32
- The Card-Trick by Jorge Luis Borges, p. 33
- Exploring the History of Africa by Roland Oliver, pp. 34-41
- Walter Bagehot by R.H.S. Crossman, pp. 42-54
- Conger by Ted Walker, p. 55
- Fun with Fission by Nigel Dennis, pp. 56-57
- Alone by Rod Stuart, p. 58
- In Defence of Cinema Art by Francis Wyndham, pp. 59-60
- Pteranodon by Douglas Livingstone, p. 61
- The End of the Affair by Sebastian Haffner, pp. 62-66
- To a Pomegranate Tree by T. Carmi, p. 67
- Going into Europe (IV), pp. 68-78
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G. M. Young and His England by John Gross, pp. 79-83 - 1 Review- Victorian Essays by G.M. Young
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Valery as Social Thinker by J.G. Weightman, pp. 84-87 - 1 Review- History and Politics by Paul Valery
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Novels by Kathleen Nott, pp. 88-92 - 5 Reviews- Fowler's Snare by Jennifer Dawson
- As Far As You Can Go by Julian Mitchell
- A Favourite of the Gods by Sybille Bedford
- The Thin Red Line by James Jones
- A Prayer for My Brethren by Mladen Oljaca
- Letters, pp. 93-95
- Authors, pp. 96-98
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April 1963 Issue = 20 Articles- The Universities by Noel Annan, pp. 3-14
- Sestina by Isabella Gardner, p. 15
- The World Situation by Richard Eberhart, p. 16
- Machine Politics by R.H.S. Crossman, pp. 17-26
- Introduction by Patricia Blake, pp. 27-38
- Adam & Eve - a Story by Yuri Kazakov, pp. 39-51
- Eight Poems by Andrei Voznesensky, p. 52
- Volcanoes by Bella Akhmadulina, p. 53
- Untitled by Evgeni Vinokurov, p. 53
- Fire in the Architectural Institute; Autumn; The Skull Ballad; Foggy Street; Anti-worlds by Andrei Voznesensky, pp. 54-58
- Halfway to the Moon - a Story by Vasili Aksyonov, pp. 59-68
- Five Poems by Andrei Voznesensky, pp. 69-70
- Dolphins by Victor Sosnora, p. 71
- A Footnote to the Debate about Andrey Rublyov by Boris Slutsky, pp. 71-72
- Good Luck, Schoolboy! - a Story by Bulat Okudzhava, pp. 73-87
- Four Poems by Evgeni Evtushenko, pp. 88-91
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Burroughs' "Naked Lunch" by Mary McCarthy, pp. 92-97 - 1 Review- The Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
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After Kafka by Kathleen Nott, pp. 98-103 - 5 Reviews- The Copper Cow by Tom Chetwynd
- The Marquise of O--, and Other Stories by Heinrich von Kleist
- The Director's Wife and Other Stories by Brian Glanville
- A Case of Libel by John Bingham
- The Seed and the Sower by Laurens van der Post
- Letters, pp. 104-111
- Authors, pp. 112-114
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May 1963 Issue = 18 Articles- Our Situation by John Wain, pp. 3-15
- A Ticket to Huddersfield by James Morris, pp. 16-27
- Matryona's Home by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, pp. 28-45
- Deposition by Vernon Watkins, p. 46
- The Premises of Action Painting by Harold Rosenberg, pp. 47-50
- Poems by Jorge Luis Borges, pp. 51-53
- The Eclipse of Distance by Daniel Bell, pp. 54-55
- Letter from Latin America by William Clark, pp. 56-58
- A Talk with John Piper by Stephen Spender, pp. 59-60
- The Great Schism by Hugh Seton-Watson, pp. 61-69
- The Deep North by Marcus Cunliffe, p. 70
- Shared Silence by Pierre Emmanuel, pp. 71-73
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An Intellectual Disaster by George Lichtheim, pp. 74-79 - 1 Review- The Meaning of Contemporary Realism by John Mander and Necke Mander
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Kazin's Contemporaries by John Gross, pp. 80-81 - 1 Review- Contemporaries by Alfred Kazin
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The Politics of Science Fiction by Sidney Hook, pp. 82-87 - 1 Review- Fail-Safe by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler
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New (Translated) Novels by Kathleen Nott, pp. 88-91 - 6 Reviews- The Bluebottle by Ivan Valeriy
- Red and Black by Ivan Valeriy
- Cinnamon Shops and Other Stories by Bruno Schulz
- Explosion in a Cathedral by Alejo Carpentier
- The Slave by Isaac Bashevis Singer
- The Gates of Paradise by George Andrzeyevski
- Letters, pp. 92-95
- Authors, pp. 96-98
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June 1963 Issue = 21 Articles- The Age of Insecurity by Alastair Buchan, pp. 3-10
- Culture and the Cold War by Herbert Luethy, pp. 11-16
- Thoughts on the Novel by Michel Butor, pp. 17-23
- Pieta by James McAuley, p. 24
- The Love of a Little Man by Ray Gosling, pp. 25-27
- Notes on Being a Foreigner by Alastair Reid, pp. 28-32
- Stravinsky's Return by Robert Craft, pp. 33-48
- Poems by T. Carmi, pp. 49-50
- Comment on Annan by J.M. Cameron, p. 51
- Gladstone at the Finland Station by David Marquand, pp. 52-54
- The Complacent Satirists by Alfred Sherman, pp. 55-58
- Censored, Banned, Gagged by Nadine Gordimer, pp. 59-62
- Don't Look Down by Hugo Williams, pp. 63-64
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The World of Michael Oakeshott by Bernard Crick, pp. 65-73 - 1 Review- Rationalism in Politics, and Other Essays by Michael J. Oakeshott
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Poetry and Exegesis by C.S. Lewis, pp. 74-75 - 1 Review- The Visionary Company by Harold Bloom and William Golding
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After the Storm by Denys Hay, pp. 76-79 - 1 Review- Reappraisals in History by J.H. Hexter
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Novels by Kathleen Nott, pp. 80-81 - 4 Reviews- Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour by J.D. Salinger
- Pull Down Vanity, and Other Stories by Leslie A. Fiedler
- The Bender by Paul Scott
- An Answer from Limbo by Brian Moore
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The Pink Decade by S.S., pp. 82-83 - 1 Review- In the Thirties by Edward Upward
- Will Capitalism and Communism Spontaneously Converge? by Peter Wiles, pp. 84-94
- Letters, p. 95
- Authors, pp. 96-98
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July 1963 Issue = 18 Articles- On the Comforts of Anger by Henry Fairlie, pp. 9-13
- England, Whose England? by Malcolm Muggeridge, pp. 14-19
- Amateurs and Gentlemen by Goronwy Rees, pp. 20-29
- The Comforts of Stagnation by Michael Shanks, pp. 30-38
- The Plaintive Treble by Andrew Shonfield, pp. 39-44
- Taboo on Expertise by Austen Albu, pp. 45-49
- "A Red under Every Bed?" by Aidan Crawley, pp. 50-55
- The Price of Obstinacy by John Cole, pp. 56-64
- Commonwealth, Common Market, Common Sense by Hugh Seton-Watson, pp. 65-72
- The Logic of Survival by John Mander, pp. 73-81
- A Cure for Westminster by Lord Altrincham, pp. 82-88
- The French Paradox, pp. 89-91
- This Gale-Swept Chip by Cyril Connolly, pp. 92-95
- The Comforts of the Sick-Bay by Marcus Cunliffe, pp. 96-99
- Sex on These Islands by Alan McGlashan, pp. 100-104
- Against the Stream by Elizabeth Young, pp. 105-106
- The Tragedy of Being Clever by John Vaizey, pp. 107-117
- Authors, pp. 118-122
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August 1963 Issue = 21 Articles- Negro Crisis by Richard Rovere, pp. 3-7
- Blackness and Whiteness by Harold R. Isaacs, pp. 8-21
- Dark Angel by Colin MacInnes, pp. 22-33
- The Age of Insecurity (II) by Alastair Buchan, pp. 34-42
- The Added Cubit by Robert Oppenheimer, p. 43
- The Runner by Christopher Middleton, pp. 43-46
- Easter Poem by Ted Walker, p. 47
- The Everlasting Witness by Margaret Shedd, pp. 48-53
- The Death of Marilyn Monroe by Diana Trilling, pp. 54-59
- Wherever You Are by P.J. Kavanagh, pp. 60-61
- Letter from Alexandria by David Holden, pp. 62-63
- Culture and the Cold War by Christopher Mayhew and Herbert Luethy, pp. 64-67
- New from Pilate in Liverpool by Paul Winter, pp. 68-69
- Peter Wiles and Convergence by David T. Bazelon, pp. 70-72
- A Rejoinder by Peter Wiles, p. 73
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Our Northern Manichee by John Bayley, pp. 74-80 - 1 Review- The Dyer's Hand, and Other Essays by W.H. Auden
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New Statesmanship by Irving Kristol, pp. 81-83 - 1 Review- New Statesmanship by Edward Hyams
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Public Faeces by D.J. Enright, pp. 84-85 - 1 Review- Lawrence Durrell and Henry Miller by George Wickes, Lawrence Durrell, and Henry Miller, ...
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Shakespeare Again by George Steiner, pp. 86-89 - 2 Reviews- The Shakespearean Ethic by John Vyvyan
- The Story of the Night by John Holloway
- Letters, pp. 90-95
- Authors, pp. 96-98
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September 1963 Issue = 21 Articles- God and the Theologians by Alasdair MacIntyre, pp. 3-10
- The Age of Revolution by J.L. Talmon, pp. 11-17
- From a Suburban Window by Dannie Abse, p. 18
- A Month in Summer by Carolyn Kizer, pp. 19-22
- The Rocky Road to Atlantic Partnership by Andrew Shonfield, pp. 23-33
- Difficulties of a Revisionist by Christopher Middleton, p. 34
- On from Spencer by P.B. Medawar, pp. 35-43
- In Search of the Lost Language by Hans Magnus Enzensberger, pp. 44-50
- Poems by Philip Roberts, p. 51
- Two Poems by Diana Witherby, p. 52
- John Strachey by John Kenneth Galbraith, pp. 53-54
- De Profumis by Anthony Hartley, pp. 55-56
- Postcard from Marienbad by James Morris, pp. 57-58
- Faulkner and Bennett by Richard Hughes, pp. 59-62
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Lonely Old Volcano by Walter Allen, pp. 63-69 - 1 Review- The Letters of Wyndham Lewis by William Kent Rose and Wyndham Lewis
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The Sexy Cross by J.G. Weightman, pp. 70-72 - 1 Review- Maria Cross by Conor Cruise O'Brien
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Sporting Life by V.S. Naipaul, pp. 73-75 - 1 Review- Beyond a Boundary by C.L.R. James
- Tarpon by Derek Walcott, p. 76
- How to Control a Deviation by Zbigniew Brzezinski, pp. 77-88
- Letters, pp. 89-95
- Authors, pp. 96-98
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October 1963 Issue = 21 Articles- The World Scene Transformed by Richard Lowenthal, pp. 3-10
- South Africa by John Mander, pp. 11-20
- The Middle East versus the West by Bernard Lewis, pp. 21-29
- My First Marriage (a story) by R. Prawer Jhabvala, pp. 30-37
- Two Poems by James McAuley, p. 38
- Hitchcock's Art by Eric Rhode, pp. 39-44
- Ten Poems by Sylvia Plath, pp. 45-52
- On the French Left by Jean Bloch-Michel, pp. 53-54
- The Pilloried Pope by Francois Bondy, pp. 55-57
- Reality and Revelation by John Robinson, pp. 58-59
- Grammar and Theologic by D.M. MacKinnon, p. 60
- Balance of Payments by William Letwin, pp. 61-65
- Byzance by Lawrence Durrell, pp. 66-67
- The Moment by Theodore Roethke, p. 68
- Theodore Roethke by Allen Tate, p. 68
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On Fanny Hill by John Hollander, pp. 69-76 - 1 Review- Fanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure by John Cleland
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A Last Look at Marxism? by J.M. Cameron, pp. 77-81 - 4 Reviews- Philosophy and Myth in Karl Marx by Robert C. Tucker
- Marx's Concept of Man by Erich Fromm
- Ethical Foundations of Marxism by Eugene Kamenka
- Soviet Marxism: A Critical Analysis by Herbert Marcuse
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New Novels? by P.N. Furbank, pp. 82-85 - 6 Reviews- A Sense of Reality by Graham Greene
- The Winter People by Gilbert Phelps
- The Icicle and Other Stories by Abram Tertz
- Lindmann by Frederic Raphael
- Down to Hope by Ernest Frost
- Going Away by Clancy Sigal
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The Populist Nightmare by David Marquand, pp. 86-89 - 1 Review- Power, Politics and People by C. Wright Mills and Irving L. Horowitz
- Letters, pp. 90-95
- Authors, pp. 96-98
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November 1963 Issue = 21 Articles- The Intellectual Review by D.W. Brogan, pp. 7-14
- Neither Nor by Brian Higgins, p. 15
- Sterilities (and Virilities) by Colin MacInnes, pp. 16-21
- Recent American Fiction by Saul Bellow, pp. 22-29
- One Fat Englishman by Kingsley Amis, pp. 30-34
- Epigrams by Sol Biderman, p. 35
- The Age of the Androids by Gordon Rattray Taylor, pp. 36-47
- Louis MacNeice by W.H. Auden, pp. 48-49
- Three Poems by Robert Lowell, pp. 50-51
- This Room is Full of Clocks by Isabella Gardner, pp. 52-54
- An Atlantic Constitution? by H.C. Allen, p. 55
- God & the Theologians by Will Herberg, pp. 56-57
- Translation by J.G. Weightman, pp. 58-59
- The World Scene Transformed by Patrick Gordon Walker, pp. 60-64
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Eichmann in Jerusalem by John Gross, pp. 65-75 - 1 Review- Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt
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The Club Armchair by Richard Mayne, pp. 76-81 - 4 Reviews- Death Under Sail by C.P. Snow
- Strangers and Brothers by C.P. Snow
- Time of Hope by C.P. Snow
- The Conscience of the Rich by C.P. Snow
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Survival of the Classics by Frank Kermode, pp. 82-85 - 2 Reviews- The Poetry of Edmund Spenser by William Nelson
- Milton's Grand Style by Christopher Ricks
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The View from Miami by Irving Kristol, pp. 86-90 - 3 Reviews- Great Britain or Little England by John Mander
- A State of England by Anthony Hartley
- The Outriders by James Morris
- A Rumanian Notebook by Maurice Cranston, pp. 91-97
- Letters, pp. 98-103
- Authors, pp. 104-106
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December 1963 Issue = 20 Articles- Among Murderers and Madmen by Ingeborg Bachmann, pp. 3-14
- Voyeur by Vernon Scannell, p. 15
- Meetings with Max Beerbohm by Edmund Wilson, pp. 16-22
- Homecoming by Walter Laqueur, pp. 23-31
- The Cave of Nakedness by W.H. Auden, pp. 32-33
- John Maynard Keynes by Robert Lekachman, pp. 34-43
- A Tirade Turning by Winterset Rothberg, pp. 44-45
- Five Poems by Charles Tomlinson, pp. 46-47
- The Kitchen Sink by G. Wilson Knight, pp. 48-53
- Badly-Chosen Lover by Rosemary Tonks, p. 54
- Event or Happening? by Martin Esslin, pp. 55-56
- Between Europe & America by Lord Gladwyn, pp. 57-63
- Vietnamese Notebook by P.J. Honey, pp. 64-72
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Trotsky in Exile by Alasdair MacIntyre, pp. 73-77 - 1 Review- The Prophet Outcast: Trotsky, 1929-1940 by Isaac Deutscher
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Three Women by Katharine Whitehorn, pp. 78-82 - 3 Reviews- The Group by Mary McCarthy
- The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark
- The Unicorn by Iris Murdoch
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Pieter Geyl by Francis Hope, pp. 83-85 - 1 Review- Encounters in History by Pieter Geyl
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Ott by Bernard Bergonzi, pp. 86-87 - 1 Review- Ottoline by Robert Gathorne-Hardy and Ottoline Morrell
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Plain Mysteries by Richard Ellmann, pp. 88-89 - 1 Review- Essays on Literature and Ideas by John Wain
- Letters, pp. 90-95
- Authors, pp. 96-98
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Issues of 1979 = 12 Issues, 258 Articles
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Issues of the 1980s = 10 Years, 102 Issues, 2,558 Articles-
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