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The New York Review of Books, October 25, 1979, pp. 4-7

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      16. Letters by Richard C. Lewontin, Lewis Thomas, and Asher Seidel, ..., pp. 47-52
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      11. Jane Austen and Heroism by Irvin Ehrenpreis, pp. 37-42
      12. Mark Rothko by Lee Seldes, Harriet Van Horne, and Robert Hughes, ..., pp. 43-44
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        Secrets of the Sheel by Gore Vidal, pp. 6-9 - 1 Review
        The Myth Makers by V.S. Pritchett
      3. [+]
        All in the Family by H.R. Trevor-Roper, pp. 10-13 - 1 Review
        The Memoirs of Bridget Hitler by Michael Unger and Bridget Hitler
      4. Does Saudi Arabia Face Revolution? by Arnold Hottinger, pp. 14-17
      5. [+]
        The Sense of Sense by Henri Zerner, pp. 18-21 - 1 Review
        The Sense of Order by E.H. Gombrich
      6. [+]
        License to Kill by Graham Hughes, pp. 22-25 - 1 Review
        For Capital Punishment by Walter Berns
      7. Some Views of Mrs. Thatcher's Victory by Kingsley Amis, p. 26
      8. --- by Noel Annan, p. 26
      9. --- by Ronald Dworkin, pp. 27-29
      10. --- by Karl Miller, p. 30
      11. --- by H.R. Trevor-Roper, p. 31
      12. --- by Emma Rothschild, pp. 31-32
      13. --- by A.J.P. Taylor, p. 33
      14. [+]
        Scientists as Servants by David Joravsky, pp. 34-39 - 5 Reviews
        The Physicists by Daniel J. Kevles
        Scientists in Power by Spencer R. Weart
        Leo Szilard: His Version of the Facts by Spencer R. Weart, Gertrud Weiss Szilard, and Leo Szilard, ...
        Science in a Free Society by Paul Feyerabend
        Against Method by Paul Feyerabend
      15. [+]
        Lit in Trouble by Irvin Ehrenpreis, pp. 40-42 - 2 Reviews
        Literature Against Itself by Gerald Graff
        Celestial Pantomime by Justus George Lawler
      16. [+]
        Down There on a Visit by Frank Kermode, pp. 43-45 - 1 Review
        Decadence: The Strange Life of an Epithet by Richard Gilman
      17. [+]
        Poe in the Sky by Karl Miller, pp. 46-50 - 4 Reviews
        The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
        Edgar Allan Poe by David Sinclair
        The Tell-Tale Heart by Julian Symons
        Building Poe Biography by John Carl Miller
      18. "Cannibals and Kings" by Marvin Harris and Marshall Sahlins, pp. 51-52
      19. Letters by Jan Schreiber, Rachelle Marshall, and Bernard Avishai, ..., pp. 53-56
  3. [+]
    Issues of Jul.-Sep. 1979 = 3 Issues, 54 Articles
    1. [+]
      July 19, 1979 Issue = 17 Articles
      1. [+]
        The Ten-Year-Old Man by V.S. Pritchett, p. 3 - 1 Review
        Dickens: A Life by Norman Ian MacKenzie and Jeanne MacKenzie
      2. How to Get Ahead by John Kenneth Galbraith, pp. 4-7
      3. [+]
        Rewriting the Russian Rules by Leonard Schapiro, pp. 8-9 - 1 Review
        How the Soviet Union Is Governed by Jerry F. Hough and Merle Fainsod
      4. Max Hayward (1924-1979) by Leonard Schapiro, pp. 10-11
      5. [+]
        Stingo's Story by Robert Towers, pp. 12-15 - 1 Review
        Sophie's Choice by William Styron
      6. [+]
        Victorian Swish by Noel Annan, pp. 16-23 - 4 Reviews
        For Queen and Country by Margaret Drabble
        George Eliot and the Novel of Vocation by Alan Mintz
        The Healthy Body and Victorian Culture by Bruce Haley
        The English Vice by Ian Gibson
      7. Trips to California by Robert Penn Warren, p. 24
      8. Rhodesia by Xan Smiley, pp. 25-28
      9. [+]
        Red Flannel Days by Nicholas von Hoffman, pp. 29-30 - 5 Reviews
        A Time to Heal by Gerald R. Ford
        Martha by Winzola McLendon
        Confession and Avoidance by Leon Jaworski and Mickey Herskowitz
        To Set the Record Straight by John J. Sirica
        A Time for Truth by William E. Simon
      10. [+]
        The Chosen People by Edmund S. Morgan, pp. 31-32 - 2 Reviews
        Intellectual Life in the Colonial South, 1585-1763 by Richard Beale Davis
        The American Jeremiad by Sacvan Bercovitch
      11. The Simplicity of the Unknown Past by Kenneth Koch, p. 33
      12. [+]
        A Contest Between Conjurors by Harry Levin, pp. 34-36 - 1 Review
        Dear Bunny, Dear Volodya by Simon Karlinsky, Vladimir Nabokov, and Edmund Wilson, ...
      13. [+]
        The Lattimore Version by Frank Kermode, pp. 37-38 - 1 Review
        The Four Gospels and the Revelation by Richmond Lattimore
      14. [+]
        The Red and the White by Raymond Carr, pp. 39-40 - 1 Review
        Blood of Spain by Ronald Fraser
      15. [+]
        Feeding on Fantasy by Thomas R. Edwards, pp. 41-42 - 3 Reviews
        Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien
        Incandescence by Craig Nova
        Mulligan Stew by Gilbert Sorrentino
      16. Has China Failed by Harry Grundfest, Charles J. Coe, and Charles M. Dobbs, ..., pp. 43-44
      17. Letters by Mihajlo Mihajlov, Darina Silone, Carl Faith, and Lev Lifshitz-Losev, ..., pp. 45-48
    2. [+]
      August 16, 1979 Issue = 16 Articles
      1. [+]
        The Portable Canterbury by Elizabeth Hardwick, pp. 3-7 - 3 Reviews
        Billy Graham: A Parable of American Righteousness by Marshall Frady
        Billy Graham: Evangelist to the World by John C. Pollock
        Angels: God's Secret Agents by Billy Graham
      2. [+]
        Not So Freed Men by C. Vann Woodward, pp. 8-9 - 1 Review
        Been in the Storm So Long by Leon F. Litwack
      3. [+]
        Dodgson's Passion by Rosemary Dinnage, pp. 10-13 - 2 Reviews
        The Letters of Lewis Carroll by Morton N. Cohen, Roger Lancelyn Green, and Lewis Carroll, ...
        Lewis Carroll, Photographer of Children by Morton N. Cohen
      4. [+]
        Voznesensky's Case by Clive James, pp. 14-17 - 2 Reviews
        Nostalgia for the Present by Andrei Voznesensky, Vera Dunham, and Max Hayward, ...
        The Making and Unmaking of a Soviet Writer by Anatoly T. Gladilin
      5. [+]
        Letter from 'Manhattan' by Joan Didion, pp. 18-19 - 3 Reviews
        Manhattan (1979 Film) by Woody Allen
        Interiors (1978 Film) by Woody Allen
        Annie Hall (1977 Film) by Woody Allen
      6. Italy by Thomas Sheehan, pp. 20-30
      7. [+]
        Eminent Romantics by Karl Miller, pp. 31-32 - 1 Review
        Bloomsbury: A House of Lions by Leon Edel
      8. [+]
        On the Thanatos Trail by Peter Green, pp. 33-35 - 1 Review
        Aspects of Death in Early Greek Art and Poetry by Emily Vermeule
      9. [+]
        Darwin Vindicated! by Stephen Jay Gould, pp. 36-38 - 1 Review
        Darwin and the Mysterious Mr. X by Loren Eiseley
      10. The New Horror by Jean Lacouture, p. 39
      11. How It Works by Jean-Francis Held, p. 40
      12. [+]
        The Half-cracked Hero by Neal Ascherson, pp. 41-42 - 1 Review
        The Road to Khartoum by Charles Chenevix Trench
      13. [+]
        Pictures from an Expedition by Martha Duffy, p. 43 - 1 Review
        The White Album by Joan Didion
      14. [+]
        'Love and Do as You Please' by Frank Kermode, pp. 44-45 - 2 Reviews
        Man of Nazareth by Anthony Burgess
        The Living End by Stanley Elkin
      15. [+]
        Piranesi's Year by Hugh Honour, pp. 46-51 - 6 Reviews
        Piranesi by John Wilton-Ely
        Giovanni Battista Piranesi by Felice Stampfle and Giovanni Battista Piranesi, ...
        Piranesi by Jonathan Scott
        Piranesi by Nicholas Penny
        The Mind and Art of Giovanni Battista by John Wilton-Ely
        Rome by Christian Elling
      16. Letters by Bruce Page, Kingsley Amis, Anthony Quinton, and Sol Gittleman, ..., pp. 52-56
    3. [+]
      September 27, 1979 Issue = 21 Articles
      1. [+]
        Oil: A Solution by John Kenneth Galbraith, pp. 3-6 - 1 Review
        Energy Future by Robert Stobaugh and Daniel Yergin
      2. [+]
        Playing Stendhal by V.S. Pritchett, p. 7 - 1 Review
        A Lion for Love by Robert Alter and Carol Cosman
      3. The Toome Road by Seamus Heaney, pp. 8-9
      4. [+]
        The Legal Revolutionary by A.J.P. Taylor, pp. 10-13 - 1 Review
        The Lawful Revolution by Istvan Deak
      5. [+]
        Out of the Labyrinth by Gerald Brenan, pp. 14-15 - 1 Review
        Spain: Dictatorship to Democracy by Raymond Carr and Juan Pablo Fusi
      6. An Old Engraving by John Hollander, p. 16
      7. [+]
        The Wars of D.H. Lawrence by John Gross, pp. 17-22 - 3 Reviews
        The Letters of D. H. Lawrence, Vol. I by James T. Boulton and D.H. Lawrence
        D.H. Lawrence's Nightmare by Paul Delany
        Lives and Letters by John Carswell
      8. [+]
        Meet Mr. Right by Nicholas von Hoffman, pp. 23-24 - 1 Review
        An American Renaissance by Jack Kemp
      9. [+]
        High Spirits by J.M. Cameron, pp. 25-26 - 3 Reviews
        Thomas Merton: Monk and Poet by George Woodcock
        The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton
        Love and Living by Thomas Merton, Naomi Burton Stone, and Patrick Hart, ...
      10. [+]
        Hooray for Monsters by D.J. Enright, p. 27 - 1 Review
        Secret Rendezvous by Kobo Abe
      11. South Africa by Conor Cruise O'Brien, pp. 28-30
      12. [+]
        Prophetess by Owen Chadwick, p. 31 - 1 Review
        The Second Coming by John F.C. Harrison
      13. Less Than One by Joseph Brodsky, pp. 32-47
      14. [+]
        The Heavy Fantastic by Julian Symons, pp. 48-50 - 2 Reviews
        The Language of the Night by Ursula K. Le Guin and Susan Wood
        Fantastic Worlds by Eric S. Rabkin
      15. [+]
        The Heart in Hiding by Denis Donoghue, pp. 51-53 - 1 Review
        Gerard Manley Hopkins by Paddy Kitchen
      16. [+]
        The Finger and the Ear by David Jackson, pp. 54-55 - 2 Reviews
        I, Rembrandt by David Weiss
        City of God by Cecelia Holland
      17. [+]
        The Virtues of Plato by M.F. Burnyeat, pp. 56-59 - 3 Reviews
        Plato: The Written and Unwritten Doctrines by J.N. Findlay
        Plato and Platonism by J.N. Findlay
        Plato's Moral Theory by Terence Irwin
      18. The Sense of Order by E.H. Gombrich and Henri Zerner, pp. 60-62
      19. An Exchange on the Oracle by Joseph Fontenrose and Peter Green, pp. 63-64
      20. Letters by Eric Sherover Marcuse, Peter Marcuse, and Stephen A. Kezerian, ..., p. 65
      21. NYR Doublecross No. 1 by Jane Salter, pp. 66-72
  4. [+]
    Issues of Oct.-Dec. 1979 = 6 Issues, 98 Articles
    1. [+]
      October 11, 1979 Issue = 18 Articles
      1. [+]
        Dreamer by Stephen Jay Gould, pp. 3-4 - 1 Review
        Disturbing the Universe by Freeman Dyson
      2. [+]
        Nervous Liberals by Michael Walzer, pp. 5-8 - 1 Review
        The Neoconservatives by Peter Steinfels
      3. [+]
        She Had It All by Diane Johnson, pp. 9-11 - 4 Reviews
        My Life by George Sand and Dan Hofstadter
        George Sand in Her Own Words by Joseph Amber Barry and George Sand
        The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters by A.L. McKenzie, George Sand, and Gustave Flaubert, ...
        The Double Life of George Sand, Woman and Writer by Renee Winegarten
      4. Tony White by Richard Murphy, p. 12
      5. Argentine Terror by V.S. Naipaul, pp. 13-16
      6. [+]
        Bangs and Whimpers by Michael Wood, pp. 17-18 - 1 Review
        Apocalypse Now (1979 Film) by Francis Ford Coppola
      7. [+]
        Tut-Tut-Tut by Peter Green, pp. 19-32 - 23 Reviews
        Tutankhamun: His Tomb and Its Treasures by I.E.S. Edwards
        The Gold of Tutankhamen by Arnold C. Brackman
        Egyptian Treasures from the Collections of the Brooklyn Museum by Robert S. Bianchi
        An Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary by E.A. Wallis Budge
        Egypt Observed by Henri Gougaud and Colette Gouvion
        Ramesses the Great, Master of the World by William MacQuitty
        Tutankhamun: The Untold Story by Thomas Hoving
        The Discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamen by Howard Carter and A.C. Mace
        Egypt Before the Pharoahs by Michael A. Hoffman
        Ancient Egyptians by Adolf Erman
        The Wisdom of the Ancient Egyptians by William MacQuitty
        Ancient Egypt: A Cultural Topography by Hermann Kees and T.G.H. James
        Egyptian Religion by E.A. Wallis Budge
        Egyptian Magic by E.A. Wallis Budge
        The Egyptian Gods by Alan W. Shorter
        Temples, Tombs and Hieroglyphs by Barbara Mertz
        Red Land, Black Land by Barbara Mertz
        Ancient Egypt by Warner Hutchinson
        Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid by C. Piazzi Smyth
        The Great Pyramid Decoded by Peter Lemesurier
        Serpent in the Sky by John Anthony West
        The First Practical Pyramid Book by Norman Stark
        The Egypt Story by P.H. Newby
      8. [+]
        Cheerful Chronicle by J.M. Cameron, pp. 33-34 - 1 Review
        Confessions of a Conservative by Garry Wills
      9. [+]
        Back to Burckhardt by Peter Burke, pp. 35-36 - 2 Reviews
        Renaissance Man by Agnes Heller
        Power and Imagination by Lauro Martines
      10. [+]
        Nothing to Lose by David Trainer, pp. 37-39 - 1 Review
        Prick Up Your Ears by John Lahr
      11. [+]
        Cult of the Sword by Richard Storry, pp. 40-41 - 3 Reviews
        Some Japanese Portraits by Donald Keene
        Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai by Yamamoto Tsunetomo
        Giving Up the Gun by Noel Perrin
      12. 30 Out of 600 by Christopher Logue, p. 42
      13. [+]
        In the Trap by Robert Towers, pp. 43-44 - 3 Reviews
        The Tree House Confessions by James McConkey
        Ghost Images by Stephen Minot
        Let the Lion Eat Straw by Ellease Southerland
      14. [+]
        Upward to Defeat by Neal Ascherson, pp. 45-46 - 1 Review
        Gladstone: A Progress in Politics by Peter Stansky
      15. [+]
        Meat Loaf by Stephen Spender, p. 47 - 1 Review
        What's for Dinner? by James Schuyler
      16. Science and Society by Daniel J. Kevles, Paul Feyerabend, and David Joravsky, ..., pp. 48-50
      17. Letters by Irving Howe, Sidney Morgenbesser, and Roger Hurwitz, ..., p. 51
      18. NYR Doublecross No. 2 by Jane Salter, pp. 52-56
    2. [+]
      October 25, 1979 Issue = 15 Articles
      1. [+]
        Between Paris and Jerusalem by Leon Wieseltier, p. 3 - 1 Review
        When Memory Comes by Saul Friedlander
      2. [+]
        Fathers and Ghosts by John Leonard, pp. 4-7 - 1 Review
        The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth
      3. [+]
        The Heavenly Deception by Francine du Plessix Gray, pp. 8-15 - 4 Reviews
        Crazy for God by Christopher Edwards
        Moonstruck by Allen Tate Wood and Jack Vitek
        Hostage to Heaven by Barbara Underwood and Betty Underwood
        Science, Sin, and Scholarship by Irving Louis Horowitz
      4. Three Poems by Heberto Padilla, p. 16
      5. [+]
        On the Assassins' Trail by Gore Vidal, pp. 17-22 - 1 Review
        Candido: Or, Dream Dreamed in Sicily by Leonardo Sciascia
      6. [+]
        Uncle Oedipus and Ante Bellum by David Brion Davis, pp. 23-26 - 1 Review
        Patricide in the House Divided by George B. Forgie
      7. [+]
        Waiting for Revolution by Conor Cruise O'Brien, pp. 27-31 - 1 Review
        Burger's Daughter by Nadine Gordimer
      8. The Discovery of the Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels, pp. 32-37
      9. [+]
        Unhappy Landings by Robert M. Adams, pp. 38-39 - 1 Review
        Cannibals and Missionaries by Mary McCarthy
      10. [+]
        Pasternak in Private by Peter France, pp. 40-41 - 3 Reviews
        My Sister, Life and Other Poems by Boris Pasternak and Olga A. Carlisle
        Pasternak: A Collection of Critical Essays by Victor Erlich
        Boris Pasternak's Translations of Shakespeare by Anna Kay France
      11. [+]
        The Old Ecole Tie by John Talbott, pp. 42-43 - 2 Reviews
        Elites in French Society by Ezra N. Suleiman
        Class and Status in France by Jane Marceau
      12. [+]
        The Power of the Press by D.P. Walker, pp. 44-45 - 1 Review
        The Printing Press as an Agent of Change by Elizabeth L. Eisenstein
      13. [+]
        The Cold War Revisited by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., pp. 46-51 - 7 Reviews
        The Shattered Peace by Daniel Yergin
        Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932-1945 by Robert Dallek
        Russia and the United States by Nikolai V. Sivachev and Nikolai N. Yakovlev
        Russia's Road to the Cold War by Vojtech Mastny
        Stalin Embattled, 1943-1948 by William O. McCagg, Jr.
        The Communist Movement by Fernando Claudin
        The American Non-Policy Towards Eastern Europe, 1943-1947 by Geir Lundestad
      14. Letters by Lynn E. Rose, Daniel L. Kline, and Martin Gardner, ..., p. 52
      15. NYR Doublecross No. 3 by Jane Salter, pp. 53-56
    3. [+]
      November 8, 1979 Issue = 17 Articles
      1. [+]
        The Instigator by Lincoln Kirstein, pp. 3-6 - 1 Review
        Diaghilev by Richard Buckle
      2. [+]
        Finite Variety by V.S. Pritchett, pp. 7-8 - 1 Review
        The View in Winter by Ronald Blythe
      3. [+]
        Hog Heaven by John Gregory Dunne, pp. 9-11 - 1 Review
        The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
      4. Two Poems by John Ashbery, p. 12
      5. Einstein and Israel by Isaiah Berlin, pp. 13-17
      6. [+]
        Cuisine Minseur by Robert Towers, pp. 18-19 - 1 Review
        Problems, and Other Stories by John Updike
      7. [+]
        Into the Alleys of Mentalite by Lawrence Stone, pp. 20-24 - 2 Reviews
        The Territory of the Historian by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
        Carnival: A People's Uprising at Romans, 1579-1580 by Emmanuel le Roy Ladurie
      8. [+]
        Was Freud a Crypto-Biologist? by Richard Wollheim, pp. 25-28 - 1 Review
        Freud: Biologist of the Mind by Frank J. Sulloway
      9. [+]
        Life Studies by John Bayley, pp. 29-30 - 1 Review
        Collected Poems, 1943-1976 by Vasko Popa
      10. [+]
        Does Mind Matter? by P.B. Medawar, pp. 31-33 - 1 Review
        The Self and Its Brain by Karl R. Popper and John C. Eccles
      11. [+]
        Harking and Barking by Michael Wood, pp. 34-36 - 3 Reviews
        On Not Being Good Enough by Roger Sale
        Celebrations and Attacks by Irving Howe
        The Good Word and Other Words by Wilfrid Sheed
      12. The Threat of the Gnostics by Elaine Pagels, pp. 37-46
      13. On Voznesensky by Harrison Salisbury, S. Frederick Starr, and William Jay Smith, ..., pp. 47-48
      14. The German Problem by David P. Calleo and Felix Gilbert, pp. 49-50
      15. NYR Double-Corss No. 4 by Jane Salter, p. 51
      16. For Jim Farrell's Funeral by Mary McCarthy, p. 52
      17. Letters by S.L. Washburn, Marshall Sahlins, and Justus George Lawler, ..., pp. 52-56
    4. [+]
      November 22, 1979 Issue = 15 Articles
      1. Solzhenitsyn and Russian Nationalism by Andrei Sinyavsky, pp. 3-5
      2. [+]
        Mean Spirits by Elie Kedourie, pp. 6-10 - 1 Review
        Britain and the Jews of Europe, 1939-1945 by Bernard Wasserstein
      3. [+]
        Mod Apostle by James Wolcott, pp. 11-13 - 1 Review
        Jailbird by Kurt Vonnegut
      4. [+]
        America the Bad? by C. Vann Woodward, pp. 14-17 - 1 Review
        Iron Cages: Race and Culture in 19th-Century America by Ronald Takaki
      5. [+]
        La Dogaressa by Jack Richardson, pp. 18-20 - 1 Review
        Out of This Century by Peggy Guggenheim
      6. [+]
        Never-Never-Land by Geoffrey Grigson, pp. 21-22 - 1 Review
        Prehistoric Avebury by Aubrey Burl
      7. [+]
        The Permanent Revolution by Charles Rosen and Henri Zerner, pp. 23-30 - 1 Review
        Romanticism by Hugh Honour
      8. [+]
        Ford's Modern Romance by Alfred Kazin, pp. 31-32 - 1 Review
        Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford
      9. Catherine and Igor Stravinsky by Robert Craft, pp. 33-36
      10. [+]
        The Fear of the Occult by Frances Yates, pp. 37-38 - 1 Review
        Symphorien Champier and the Reception of the Occultist Tradition in Renaissance France by Brian Copenhaver
      11. [+]
        It Makes You Wonder by Vernon Young, pp. 39-41 - 2 Reviews
        The Poems of Stanley Kunitz, 1928-1978 by Stanley Kunitz
        Time by Yehuda Amichai
      12. The Suppressed Gnostic Feminism by Elaine Pagels, pp. 42-49
      13. "Lucky black man in my dream..." by Frederick Morgan, p. 50
      14. Letters by Patrick O'Donnell, E.D. Hirsch, Jr., and Robert E. Daggy, ..., pp. 50-51
      15. NYR Double-Cross No. 5 by Jane Salter, pp. 52-56
    5. [+]
      December 6, 1979 Issue = 16 Articles
      1. [+]
        Death for Sale by Diane Johnson, pp. 3-5 - 1 Review
        The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
      2. Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) by James Merrill, pp. 6-7
      3. [+]
        Variations on an Idee Fixe by Bruce Chatwin, pp. 8-9 - 1 Review
        The Year of the Greylag Goose by Konrad Lorenz
      4. [+]
        Last Exit to LA by Irving Howe, pp. 10-11 - 1 Review
        The Apathetic Bookie Joint by Daniel Fuchs
      5. [+]
        The War that Made South Africa by Neal Ascherson, pp. 12-13 - 1 Review
        The Boer War by Thomas Pakenham
      6. [+]
        The Case of Dr. Kissinger by Stanley Hoffmann, pp. 14-31 - 1 Review
        The White House Years by Henry A. Kissinger
      7. [+]
        Blues for Mr. Baldwin by Darryl Pinckney, pp. 32-33 - 1 Review
        Just Above My Head by James Baldwin
      8. [+]
        The Dream of Mind and Machine by Edward Rothstein, pp. 34-39 - 1 Review
        Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. Hofstadter
      9. I.A. Richards (1893-1979) by Harry Levin, pp. 40-41
      10. [+]
        Smiles in the Dark by Nigel Dennis, p. 42 - 1 Review
        Darkness Visible by William Golding
      11. The Defeat of the Gnostics by Elaine Pagels, pp. 43-51
      12. Letters by Adam B. Ulam, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and Burton Raffel, ..., p. 52
      13. NYR Doublecross No. 6 by Jane Salter, pp. 53-56
      14. [+]
        The One-Eyed World of Germaine Greer by Brigid Brophy - 1 Review
        The Obstacle Race by Germaine Greer
      15. [+]
        Fairy Flight in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' by William Empson - 1 Review
        A Midsummer Night's Dream by Harold F. Brooks and William Shakespeare
      16. [+]
        Human Nature by Stuart Hampshire - 1 Review
        Beast and Man by Mary Midgley
    6. [+]
      December 20, 1979 Issue = 17 Articles
      1. [+]
        Paradise Regained by Gore Vidal, pp. 3-5 - 1 Review
        Shikasta: Canopus in Argos-Archives by Doris May Lessing
      2. [+]
        Re-creating Eve by Rosemary Dinnage, pp. 6-9 - 1 Review
        The Madwoman in the Attic by Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar
      3. [+]
        Web-Footed Gentry by Robert O. Paxton, pp. 10-14 - 7 Reviews
        The Birds of Paradise and Bower Birds by William T. Cooper and Joseph M. Forshaw
        The Herons of the World by James Hancock and Hugh F.I. Elliott
        Rails of the World by S. Dillon Ripley
        Manual of Neo-Tropical Birds by Emmett Reid Blake
        Eleanora's Falcon by Hartmut Walter
        The Audobon Society Field Guide to North American Birds by John L. Bull and John Farrand, Jr.
        The Audobon Society Field Guide to North American Birds by Miklos D.F. Udvardy
      4. From a Part of Speech by Joseph Brodsky, p. 15
      5. [+]
        Playing Hooky by C. Vann Woodward, pp. 16-18 - 1 Review
        America Revised by Frances Fitzgerald
      6. [+]
        Only in America by Robert Hughes, pp. 19-29 - 2 Reviews
        Bernard Berenson: The Making of a Connoisseur by Ernest Samuels
        Being Bernard Berenson by Meryle Secrest
      7. [+]
        Return to Sender by Robert Towers, pp. 30-32 - 1 Review
        Letters by John Barth
      8. Weeds by Peter Huchel, p. 33
      9. The Indigestible by M.F.K. Fisher, pp. 34-36
      10. How to Read the Civil Rights Act by Ronald Dworkin, pp. 37-42
      11. [+]
        Un-Kinglike King by J.H. Plumb, p. 43 - 1 Review
        Royal Charles: Charles II and the Restoration by Antonia Fraser
      12. [+]
        On Your Marx by Peter Singer, pp. 44-47 - 4 Reviews
        Marx and History by D. Ross Gandy
        Marx's Interpretation of History by Melvin M. Rader
        Marx's Theory of History by William H. Shaw
        Karl Marx's Theory of History: A Defence by G.A. Cohen
      13. [+]
        The Powers of Alexander Pope by Irvin Ehrenpreis, pp. 48-51 - 2 Reviews
        Alexander Pope by Dustin H. Griffin
        Alexander Pope and the Arts of Georgian England by Morris R. Brownell
      14. Whose Peace Now? by Bernard Avishai, pp. 52-53
      15. [+]
        Alexander's Mules by E. Badian, pp. 54-55 - 1 Review
        Alexander the Great and the Logistics of the Macedonian Army by Donald W. Engels
      16. Letters by John Anthony West, Peter Green, and Allan Solomonow, ..., p. 56
      17. NYR Doublecross No. 7 by Jane Salter, pp. 57-60
[+]
Issues of the 1980s = 10 Years, 201 Issues, 3,127 Articles
1. [+]
  Issues of 1980 = 20 Issues, 309 Articles
2. [+]
  Issues of 1981 = 18 Issues, 296 Articles
3. [+]
  Issues of 1982 = 21 Issues, 317 Articles
4. [+]
  Issues of 1983 = 20 Issues, 305 Articles
5. [+]
  Issues of 1984 = 19 Issues, 298 Articles
6. [+]
  Issues of 1985 = 20 Issues, 305 Articles
7. [+]
  Issues of 1986 = 21 Issues, 313 Articles
8. [+]
  Issues of 1987 = 21 Issues, 314 Articles
9. [+]
  Issues of 1988 = 21 Issues, 337 Articles
10. [+]
  Issues of 1989 = 20 Issues, 333 Articles
[+]
Issues of the 1990s = 10 Years, 201 Issues, 3,320 Articles
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  Issues of 1990 = 21 Issues, 345 Articles
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  Issues of 1991 = 20 Issues, 315 Articles
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  Issues of 1992 = 20 Issues, 317 Articles
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  Issues of 1993 = 20 Issues, 329 Articles
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  Issues of 1994 = 20 Issues, 315 Articles
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  Issues of 1995 = 20 Issues, 326 Articles
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  Issues of 1996 = 20 Issues, 335 Articles
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  Issues of 1997 = 20 Issues, 328 Articles
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  Issues of 1998 = 20 Issues, 344 Articles
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  Issues of 1999 = 20 Issues, 366 Articles
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Issues of the 2000s = 6 Years, 66 Issues, 1,270 Articles
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  Issues of 2000 = 20 Issues, 380 Articles
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  Issues of 2005 = 1 Issue, 17 Articles
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  Issues of 2006 = 6 Issues, 97 Articles
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  Issues of 2007 = 9 Issues, 166 Articles
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  Issues of 2008 = 13 Issues, 286 Articles
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  Issues of 2009 = 17 Issues, 324 Articles
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Issues of the 2010s = 1 Year, 19 Issues, 402 Articles
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  Issues of 2010 = 19 Issues, 402 Articles