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Issues of 1980 = 20 Issues, 309 Articles
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Issues of 1981 = 18 Issues, 296 Articles-
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Issues of Jan.-Mar. 1981 = 3 Issues, 48 Articles-
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January 22, 1981 Issue = 16 Articles-
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A Family Romance by Rosemary Dinnage, pp. 3-7 - 3 Reviews- Alice James: A Biography by Jean Strouse
- The Death and Letters of Alice James by Ruth Bernard Yeazell and Alice James
- Henry James, Vol. III by Leon Edel
- Dorothy Day (1897-1980) by J.M. Cameron, pp. 8-9
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The Boss by Irving Howe, pp. 10-12 - 1 Review- Tito: The Story from Inside by Milovan Djilas
- The Older America by Felix Rohatyn, pp. 13-16
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Master of Letters by John Russell, pp. 17-20 - 4 Reviews- The Letters of Edward Fitzgerald, Vol. II: 1851-1866 by Alfred McKinley Terhune and Annabelle Burdick Terhune, ...
- The Letters of Edward Fitzgerald, Vol. I: 1830-1850 by Alfred McKinley Terhune and Annabelle Burdick Terhune, ...
- The Letters of Edward Fitzgerald, Vol. III: 1867-1876 by Alfred McKinley Terhune and Annabelle Burdick Terhune, ...
- The Letters of Edward Fitzgerald, Vol. IV: 1877-1883 by Alfred McKinley Terhune and Annabelle Burdick Terhune, ...
- The Czech Wager by Milan Kundera, pp. 21-22
- Italy by Thomas Sheehan, pp. 23-26
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No Holds Barred by Nigel Dennis, pp. 27-29 - 1 Review- Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess
- The Conservative Onslaught by John Kenneth Galbraith, pp. 30-35
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Who Needs Enemies? by James Wolcott, p. 36 - 1 Review- Saul Bellow, Drumlin Woodchuck by Mark Harris
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The Macedonian Connection by Peter Green, pp. 37-41 - 2 Reviews- The Search for Alexander: An Exhibition by Nikolaos Yalouris, Manolis Andronikos, and Katerina Rhomiopoulou, ...
- The Search for Alexander by Robin Lane Fox
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The Ghost of Protagoras by Stephen Jay Gould, pp. 42-44 - 2 Reviews- The Evolution of Culture in Animals by John Tyler Bonner
- Man: The Promising Primate by Peter J. Wilson
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Outsider by Thomas R. Edwards, pp. 45-46 - 1 Review- John Dos Passos: A Twentieth-Century Odyssey by Townsend Ludington
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Otherworldly Goods by Irvin Ehrenpreis, pp. 47-51 - 1 Review- Scripts for the Pageant by James Merrill
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Short Reviews, p. 52 - 2 Reviews- Goodbye, Darkness by William Manchester
- The Wolf: A Species in Danger by Erik Zimen
- Letters by Paul Kravath, Ramsay Cook, J.M. Cameron, and Jeffrey L. Sammons, ..., pp. 53-56
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March 5, 1981 Issue = 14 Articles- Nadezhda Mandelstam (1899-1980) by Joseph Brodsky, pp. 3-5
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The Condemned by Jack H. Abbott, pp. 6-10 - 1 Review- Slow Coming Dark by Doug Magee
- The Nobel Lecture, 1980 by Czeslaw Milosz, pp. 11-15
- Reconstructing America by Felix Rohatyn, pp. 16-20
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An Aesthete at War by Bruce Chatwin, pp. 21-25 - 1 Review- The Paris Diaries: 1941-1944 by Ernst Junger
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'Herrenvolk Democracy' by C. Vann Woodward, pp. 26-27 - 1 Review- White Supremacy by George M. Fredrickson
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Growing Up Nazi by Neal Ascherson, pp. 28-30 - 2 Reviews- Ghost Waltz: A Memoir by Ingeborg Day
- A Model Childhood by Christa Wolf
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Devil's Brew by Robert M. Adams, pp. 31-32 - 2 Reviews- The Egghead Republic by Arno Schmidt, Ernst Krawehl, and Marion Boyars
- Evening Edged in Gold by Arno Schmidt
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The Doge's Secrets by Peter Burke, p. 33 - 1 Review- The Pope, His Banker, and Venice by Felix Gilbert
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Phantom by Darryl Pinckney, pp. 34-36 - 1 Review- The Wayward and the Seeking by Jean Toomer and Darwin T. Turner
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Stands to Reason by P.F. Strawson, pp. 37-38 - 1 Review- Mortal Questions by Thomas Nagel
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Golden Gaits by Roger Sale, p. 39 - 1 Review- Laughing in the Hills by Bill Barich
- How Valid Is Psychoanalysis? by Adolf Grunbaum and Edward Rothstein, pp. 40-41
- Letters by Robert S. Cohen, Stanley Hoffmann, and Leslie H. Gelb, ..., pp. 42-44
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March 19, 1981 Issue = 18 Articles-
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The Enigma of U.S. Grant by C. Vann Woodward, pp. 3-6 - 1 Review- Grant: A Biography by William S. McFeely
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Reconciliations by Robert Towers, p. 7 - 1 Review- The Company of Women by Mary Gordon
- Slow Waker by Thom Gunn, pp. 8-9
- Reagan's Latin America by Tom J. Farer, pp. 10-15
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A Mixed Bane by Graham Hughes, pp. 16-18 - 3 Reviews- Lawyers on Trial by Philip M. Stern
- No Access to Law by Laura Nader
- Lawsuit by Stuart M. Speiser
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Laughter in the Dark by Clive James, pp. 19-20 - 2 Reviews- The Radiant Future by Aleksandr Zinoviev
- Sans Illusions by Aleksandr Zinoviev
- Insolvent America by James Chace, pp. 21-23
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Mr. Possessed by Aileen Kelly, pp. 24-35 - 1 Review- Sergei Nechaev by Philip Pomper
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Thin Ice by Patricia Craig, pp. 36-37 - 2 Reviews- Other People's Worlds by William Trevor
- The State of Ireland by Benedict Kiely
- Guatemala: A Government Program of Political Murder, pp. 38-40
- On Hawthorne's Mind by John Updike, p. 41
- Caesura by John Ashbery, p. 42
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In the Museum of Strangeness by Michael Wood, pp. 43-45 - 2 Reviews- Conversations: The Autobiography of Surrealism by Andre Breton and Marcel Jean
- From Enchantment to Rage by Steven Kovacs
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The End of Philosophy by Quentin Skinner, pp. 46-48 - 1 Review- Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature by Richard Rorty
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Was Peter All That Great? by Marc Raeff, pp. 49-50 - 1 Review- Peter the Great: His Life and World by Robert K. Massie
- Who Wrote Thomas Wolfe's Last Novels? by John Halberstadt, p. 51
- Letters by Harrison E. Salisbury, D.L. Olmsted, and Edith Wynner, ..., pp. 52-56
- Cover Engraving by Jose Guadalupe Posada
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Issues of Apr.-Jun. 1981 = 6 Issues, 89 Articles-
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April 2, 1981 Issue = 19 Articles-
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Life with Father by Michael Walzer, pp. 3-5 - 1 Review- Wealth and Poverty by George Gilder
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Colette in Pieces by Diane Johnson, pp. 6-8 - 1 Review- Letters from Colette by Robert Phelps and Colette
- Poem by Alexander Pushkin, p. 9
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All-American Bard by Irvin Ehrenpreis, pp. 10-14 - 1 Review- Walt Whitman: A Life by Justin Kaplan
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Vissi d'arte by Joseph Kerman, p. 15 - 5 Reviews- Maria Callas: The Woman Behind the Legend by Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington
- Callas by Sergio Segalini
- Diva: The Life and Death of Maria Callas by Steven Linakis
- Maria Callas: A Tribute by Pierre-Jean Remy
- The Callas Legacy by John Ardoin
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Heroics by Gordon S. Wood, pp. 16-18 - 1 Review- Explaining America: The Federalist by Garry Wills
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God Save our Old Nobility by A.J.P. Taylor, pp. 19-20 - 1 Review- The Persistence of the Old Regime by Arno J. Mayer
- Insolvent America by James Chace, pp. 21-28
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On the Beat by James Walcott, p. 29 - 2 Reviews- First Reactions by Clive James
- Unreliable Memoirs by Clive James
- A Walk With You by John Hollander, p. 30
- Bargain War by Gerard Chaliand, pp. 31-32
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The French Complaint by John Weightman, pp. 33-34 - 1 Review- The Horror of Life by Roger Lawrence Williams
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An Honest Man by Morton White, pp. 35-36 - 1 Review- Moore: G.E. Moore and the Cambridge Apostles by Paul Levy
- Our Gods by Frederick Seidel, p. 37
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Collaborators by H.W. Janson, pp. 38-39 - 1 Review- Donatello and Michelozzo by Ronald W. Lightbown
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An Unfinished Man by Viola Hopkins Winner, pp. 40-42 - 2 Reviews- Henry Adams by R.P. Blackmur and Veronica A. Makowsky
- Henry Adams: The Myth of Failure by William Dusinberre
- More On Ape Talk by Francine Patterson, S.L. Washburn, and Martin Gardner, ..., p. 43
- Keaton and Lubitsch by David Shipman and Dwight Macdonald, p. 44
- Letters by Stanley Diamond, Ronald Steel, and Ursula Enters Copely, ..., pp. 44-48
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April 16, 1981 Issue = 15 Articles-
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The Battler by Alfred Kazin, p. 3 - 1 Review- Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters, 1917-1961 by Carlos Baker and Ernest Hemingway
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Artist in Politics by Noel Annan, pp. 4-13 - 1 Review- George Orwell by Bernard Crick
- A Matter of Psychology by Felix G. Rohatyn, pp. 14-16
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The Brave by John Keegan, pp. 17-18 - 1 Review- Self-Portrait of a Hero by Jonathan Netanyahu, Binyamin Netanyahu, and Ido Netanyahu, ...
- The Second Life of Art by Eugenio Montale, p. 19
- The Prisoner's Dream by Eugenio Montale, p. 20
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Drop by Drop by John K. Fairbank, p. 21 - 1 Review- "Watch Out for the Foreign Guests!" by Orville Schell
- The New Orthodoxy by Stanley Hoffmann, pp. 22-28
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The Oedipal Revolution by Edmund S. Morgan, p. 29 - 1 Review- American Patriots and the Rituals of Revolution by Peter Shaw
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What 'R.' Wrought by Robert Craft, pp. 30-34 - 6 Reviews- The Diary of Richard Wagner by Joachim Bergfeld and Richard Wagner
- Cosima Wagner's Diaries, Vol. II: 1878 to 1883 by Martin Gregor-Dellin, Dietrich Mack, and Cosima Wagner, ...
- Cosima Wagner by George R. Marek
- In Search of Wagner by Theodor W. Adorno
- The Dream of Self-Destruction by L.J. Rather
- Bayreuth: The Early Years by Robert Hartford
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The World as Stage by Quentin Skinner, pp. 35-36 - 1 Review- Negara: The Theatre State in Nineteenth-Century Bali by Clifford Geertz
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Tears on the Kimono by Richard Storry, pp. 37-38 - 1 Review- A Tale of Flowering Fortunes by William H. McCullough and Helen Craig McCullough, ...
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Designer Genes by S.L. Washburn, pp. 39-40 - 1 Review- Human Nature and History by Kenneth Bock
- The Spanish Anarchists by William Herrick and Bernard Knox, p. 41
- Letters by Barry Commoner, J.P. Stern, Milan Kundera, and Thomas Roeper, ..., pp. 42-48
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May 14, 1981 Issue = 14 Articles- How to Wreck the Economy by Lester Thurow, pp. 3-7
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The Poet-Logician by V.S. Pritchett, pp. 8-13 - 2 Reviews- Camille Pissarro in the Caribbean, 1850-1855 by Richard R. Brettell
- Pissarro: His Life and Work by Ralph E. Shikes and Paula Harper
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The Album of Donald Evans by Bruce Chatwin, pp. 14-16 - 1 Review- The World of Donald Evans by Willy Eisenhart
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Who Lost Iran? by Shaul Bakhash, pp. 17-22 - 1 Review- Debacle: The American Failure in Iran by Michael Ledeen and William Hubert Lewis
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The Power of the Unstated by Patricia Craig, pp. 23-24 - 1 Review- The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen by Elizabeth Bowen
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Deep Time and Ceaseless Motion by Stephen Jay Gould, pp. 25-28 - 2 Reviews- Basin and Range by John McPhee
- Earth Generated and Anatomized by William Hobbs and Roy Porter
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The Wise Lord and the Lie by Mary Renault, p. 29 - 1 Review- Creation by Gore Vidal
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Sailors Have More Fun by James Wolcott, pp. 30-31 - 1 Review- Darconville's Cat by Alexander Theroux
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The Archaeology of Foucault by Ian Hacking, pp. 32-36 - 1 Review- Power/Knowledge by Michel Foucault and Colin Gordon
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Low-Rent Tragedies by Robert Towers, pp. 37-39 - 3 Reviews- What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver
- Lifetime by Scott Sommer
- Ellis Island, and Other Stories by Mark Helprin
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Hide and Seek by Denis Donoghue, pp. 40-42 - 2 Reviews- The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry by Walter Pater and Donald L. Hill
- Walter Pater's Art of Autobiography by Gerald Monsman
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Born Again? by Peter Partner, pp. 43-44 - 1 Review- Rome: Profile of a City, 312-1308 by Richard Krautheimer
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Fascinating Rhythm by J.Z. Young, pp. 45-46 - 1 Review- The Search for Solutions by Horace F. Judson
- Letters by Huw Beynon, Michael Dummett, J.B. Hasted, and Catherine Donoghue Hartman, ..., pp. 47-52
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May 28, 1981 Issue = 12 Articles-
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The Sword and the Cross by Alan Riding, pp. 3-8 - 4 Reviews- Cry of the People by Penny Lernoux
- Mystic of Liberation by Teofilo Cabestrero
- Archbishop Romero: Martyr of Salvador by Placido Erdozain
- The Challenge of Basic Christian Communities by Sergio Torres and John Eagleson
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The Experiment at Davis Bend by George M. Fredrickson, pp. 9-11 - 1 Review- The Pursuit of a Dream by Janet Sharp Hermann
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Girl Crazy by Phyllis Grosskurth, pp. 12-14 - 1 Review- Surpassing the Love of Men by Lillian Faderman
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The Great Defense Deception by James Fallows, pp. 15-19 - 4 Reviews- The Defense Industry by Jacques S. Gansler
- Defense Facts of Life by Franklin C. Spinney
- Politics and Force Levels by Desmond Ball
- Doubletalk by Gerard Smith
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No Reservations by George Levine, pp. 20-23 - 1 Review- The White Hotel by D.M. Thomas
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His Man in Canton by John K. Fairbank, pp. 24-25 - 1 Review- Borodin: Stalin's Man in China by Daniel N. Jacobs
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The Musicological Marvel by Charles Rosen, pp. 26-37 - 1 Review- The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians by Stanley Sadie
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Catherine Was Great by Henry Gifford, pp. 38-40 - 1 Review- Russia in the Age of Catherine the Great by Isabel de Madariaga
- Revisiting Zionism by Gershom Schocken, pp. 41-46
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Breaking Away by John Willett, pp. 47-48 - 1 Review- The Berlin Secession by Peter Paret
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In the Hell of Art by Peter France, pp. 49-51 - 2 Reviews- The Life of Aleksandr Blok, Vol. II by Avril Pyman
- The Life of Aleksandr Blok, Vol. I by Avril Pyman
- Letters by Warren Lehman, Arnold Milton Paul, and Geoffrey C. Ward, ..., pp. 52-56
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June 11, 1981 Issue = 15 Articles-
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Tiptoe Through the Tudors by Christopher Hill, pp. 3-7 - 1 Review- The Lisle Letters by Muriel St. Clare Byrne
- Saving a Whale by Murray Kempton, pp. 8-14
- Discovering Jack H. Abbott by Norman Mailer, pp. 15-16
- Two Notes by Jack H. Abbott, p. 17
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Indefensible! by Herbert Scoville, Jr., pp. 18-19 - 1 Review- National Defense by James Fallows
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Was Shakespeare a Chauvinist? by Anne Barton, pp. 20-22 - 3 Reviews- Shakespeare's Division of Experience by Marilyn French
- Man's Estate by Coppelia Kahn
- Shakespeare and the Problem of Meaning by Norman Rabkin
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Thrillernik by Julian Symons, p. 23 - 1 Review- Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith
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The Greek Conquest of Britain by Bernard Knox, pp. 24-28 - 2 Reviews- The Victorians and Ancient Greece by Richard Jenkyns
- The Greek Heritage in Victorian Britain by Frank M. Turner
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How to Put Humpty Together Again by David Vogel, pp. 29-32 - 2 Reviews- Revitalizing America by Ronald E. Muller
- The American Future by Tom Hayden
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Spaghetti West by C. Vann Woodward, pp. 33-34 - 1 Review- Land of Savagery, Land of Promise by Ray Allen Billington
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Elbe Swans and Other Poets by Stephen Spender, pp. 35-36 - 1 Review- The Meeting at Telgte by Gunter Grass
- The Demand for the Supply Side by Robert L. Heilbroner, pp. 37-41
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Fallen Idols by H.W. Janson, pp. 42-43 - 1 Review- Taste and the Antique by Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny
- An Appeal in Iran, p. 44
- Letters by Richard Stern, James Wolcott, and William Herrick, ..., pp. 45-48
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June 25, 1981 Issue = 14 Articles-
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Acts of Love by Mary McCarthy, pp. 3-6 - 1 Review- If On a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
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A Working Girl by Keith Thomas, pp. 7-11 - 2 Reviews- Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism by Marina Warner
- Joan of Arc by Frances Gies
- The Responsibility of Scientists by Andrei Sakharov, pp. 12-15
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Kilmartin's Way by Roger Shattuck, pp. 16-19 - 5 Reviews- Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust
- Marcel Proust's Grasset Proofs by Douglas W. Alden
- Proust and the Art of Love by Julius Edwin Rivers
- Proust's Recherche by Randolph Splitter
- Prousts Additions by Alison Winton
- Poem by Sarah Plimpton, p. 20
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The Revenge of the Vrai by Edward Rothstein, pp. 21-23 - 1 Review- Zuckerman Unbound by Philip Roth
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Know Thy President by Nicholas von Hoffman, pp. 24-28 - 8 Reviews- Reagan the Man, the President by Hedrick Smith, Adam Clymer, Leonard Silk, and Robert Lindsey, ...
- The Real Reagan by Frank van der Linden
- Ronald Reagan: A Political Biography by Lee Edwards
- Reagan in Pursuit of the Presidency, 1980 by Doug Wead and Bill Wead
- Where's the Rest of Me? by Ronald Reagan and Richard G. Hubler
- Ronald Reagan by Bill Boyarsky
- The Future Under President Reagan by Wayne Valis
- Reaganomics by Bruce Bartlett
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Return of the Native by John Bayley, pp. 29-33 - 5 Reviews- The Issa Valley by Czeslaw Milosz
- Native Realm by Czeslaw Milosz
- Emperor of the Earth by Czeslaw Milosz
- Bells in Winter by Czeslaw Milosz
- The Captive Mind by Czeslaw Milosz
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The Way We Lived Then by Ronald Blythe, pp. 34-38 - 6 Reviews- Edwardian Childhoods by Thea Thompson
- Roses in December by Amy Stewart Fraser
- East End Underworld by Arthur Harding and Raphael Samuel
- The People's England by Alan Ereira
- The Victorian Countryside by Gordon E. Mingay
- The Gentleman's Country House and Its Plan, 1835-1914 by Jill Franklin
- The Shortcut to Outlaw Abortion by Lawrence Sager, pp. 39-41
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Out of the Picture by Francis Haskell, pp. 42-44 - 1 Review- Absorption and Theatricality by Michael Fried
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Comic Schemes by Robert Towers, pp. 45-46 - 1 Review- Loitering with Intent by Muriel Spark
- France: The Big Change? by Stanley Hoffmann, pp. 47-52
- Letters by Cathy Fitzpatrick, Hans Jonas, Robert Craft, and Valerie Mellerop, ..., pp. 53-56
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Issues of Jul.-Sep. 1981 = 3 Issues, 53 Articles-
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July 16, 1981 Issue = 19 Articles-
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Picture of Dorian Gray by Conor Cruise O'Brien, pp. 3-5 - 1 Review- The Backbench Diaries of Richard Crossman by Janet Morgan and R.H.S. Crossman
- Poland Rewrites History by Robert Darnton, pp. 6-7
- On Cardinal Wyszynski by Murray Kempton, pp. 8-11
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Demon Lover by V.S. Pritchett, pp. 12-13 - 1 Review- Memoirs of an Anti-Semite by Gregory von Rezzori
- A Modest Proposal by George F. Kennan, pp. 14-16
- Is Modern Architecture Dead? by Ada Louise Huxtable, pp. 17-23
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Sociable Comets by Helen Vendler, pp. 24-26 - 2 Reviews- Shadow Train by John Ashbery
- Descending Figure by Louise Gluck
- Bartleby in Manhattan by Elizabeth Hardwick, pp. 27-30
- Two Poems by Tomas Venclova, p. 31
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Stage Fret by Thomas R. Edwards, pp. 32-34 - 2 Reviews- Making Scenes by Robert S. Brustein
- The Camera Age by Michael J. Arlen
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The Great Bourgeois Bargain by Richard Cobb, pp. 35-39 - 1 Review- The Bon Marche by Michael B. Miller
- Minneapolis Story by Robert Penn Warren, p. 40
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Clubland by John Thompson, p. 41 - 1 Review- The Men's Club by Leonard Michaels
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Phew! Oops! Oof! by Christopher Ricks, pp. 42-44 - 1 Review- Forms of Talk by Erving Goffman
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Stretch Genes by P.B. Medawar, pp. 45-48 - 1 Review- Genes, Mind, and Culture by Edward O. Wilson and Charles J. Lumsden
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Growing Up East German by Robert Coles, p. 49 - 1 Review- Twelve Years by Joel Agee
- "Crying Wolf" by Richard S. Kennedy and John Halberstadt, pp. 50-51
- The Palestinians by Jonathan Dimbleby, Ann Mosely Lesch, and Elia Zureik, ..., p. 52
- Letters by Barbara C. Sproul, James Webster, and Charles Rosen, ..., pp. 53-56
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August 13, 1981 Issue = 15 Articles-
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The Gambler's Throw by Stuart Hampshire, p. 3 - 1 Review- Early Auden by Edward Mendelson
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The Disappointments of Jefferson by Gordon S. Wood, pp. 4-7 - 1 Review- The Sage of Monticello by Dumas Malone
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Lincoln Shelter by Lincoln Kirstein, pp. 8-13 - 1 Review- Lincoln Center: The Building of an Institution by Edgar B. Young
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Fall of a House by X, pp. 14-18 - 1 Review- July's People by Nadine Gordimer
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An American Sissy by Gore Vidal, pp. 19-23 - 1 Review- Mornings on Horseback by David McCullough
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In the Southern Camp by William Styron, pp. 24-26 - 1 Review- Mary Chesnut's Civil War by C. Vann Woodward and Mary Chesnut
- Up from Monetarism and Other Wishful Thinking by John Kenneth Galbraith, pp. 27-31
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China by Jonathan D. Spence, pp. 32-36 - 4 Reviews- A Madman of Ch'u by Laurence A. Schneider
- Dissent in Early Modern China by Paul S. Ropp
- China's Intellectuals: Advise and Dissent by Merle Goldman
- Beijing Street Voices by David S.G. Goodman
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Is Mathematics for Real? by Martin Gardner, pp. 37-39 - 1 Review- The Mathematical Experience by Philip J. Davis and Reuben Hersh
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The Glow of Irreality by Stephen Spender, pp. 40-43 - 1 Review- Sounds by Wassily Kandinsky
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Life With Father by Roger Sale, p. 44 - 1 Review- Dad by William Wharton
- The Victory of the New Israel by Bernard Avishai, pp. 45-50
- Striking Out by James Wolcott, p. 51
- An Exchange on the New Grove by Roger Scruton, Ben Friedland, and Charles Rosen, p. 52
- Letters by Walter Abish, Tom Hayden, David Vogel, and Steven Kovacs, ..., pp. 53-56
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September 24, 1981 Issue = 19 Articles-
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'Unacceptable Damage' by Lewis Thomas, pp. 3-7 - 2 Reviews- Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- Unforgettable Fire
- Verses on the Winter Campaign 1980 by Joseph Brodsky, pp. 8-9
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Timerman and His Enemies by Michael Walzer, pp. 10-17 - 1 Review- Prisoner without a Name, Cell without a Number by Jacobo Timerman
- The UN Tango by Murray Kempton, pp. 18-19
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Patriot by Noel Annan, pp. 20-23 - 1 Review- The Strange Destiny of Rupert Brooke by John Lehmann
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The Message of the Insider by Murray Kempton, pp. 24-27 - 1 Review- A Life in Our Times by John Kenneth Galbraith
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On the Indian World-Mountain by Robert Towers, pp. 28-29 - 1 Review- Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
- The Road from Pisa to Florence by Nicholas Christopher, p. 30
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Scaffolding of Lies by Leonard Schapiro, pp. 31-32 - 1 Review- The Rise of the Gulag by Alain Besancon
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Ravings of a Renegade by James Joll, pp. 33-35 - 1 Review- Evangelist of Race by Geoffrey G. Field
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The Flood Next Time by D.J. Enright, pp. 36-45 - 2 Reviews- Man in the Holocene by Max Frisch
- Triptych by Max Frisch
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The 'Shadow' and the Substance by Robert Craft, pp. 46-48 - 1 Review- Richard Strauss by Rudolf Hartmann
- Maxim Gorki (1868-1936) by Vladimir Nabokov, pp. 49-51
- Philistines and Philistinism by Vladimir Nabokov, pp. 52-53
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Two Cheers for Ike by Ronald Steel, pp. 54-56 - 6 Reviews- The Eisenhower Diaries by Robert H. Ferrell and Dwight David Eisenhower, ...
- The Declassified Eisenhower by Blanche Wiesen Cook
- Eisenhower and the Cold War by Robert A. Divine
- Ike's Spies by Stephen E. Ambrose
- Eisenhower the President by William Bragg Ewald, Jr.
- Eisenhower's Lieutenants by Russell F. Weigley
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Ecstasy by Robert M. Adams, pp. 57-58 - 1 Review- Bernini and the Unity of the Visual Arts by Irving Lavin
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Who Brought Home the Bacon? by S.L. Washburn and Sharon Ranieri, pp. 59-61 - 1 Review- Woman the Gatherer by Frances Dahlberg
- In a Grim Country by William Shawcross, pp. 62-72
- Letters by Curtis Crawford, Lester Thurow, and David Shipman, ..., pp. 73-80
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Issues of Oct.-Dec. 1981 = 6 Issues, 106 Articles-
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October 8, 1981 Issue = 17 Articles-
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After Jonestown by Diane Johnson, pp. 3-5 - 6 Reviews- Our Father Who Art in Hell by James Reston, Jr.
- The Children of Jonestown by Kenneth Wooden
- Awake in a Nightmare by Ethan Feinsod
- In My Father's House by Min S. Yee and Thomas N. Layton
- Journey to Nowhere by Shiva Naipaul
- The Strongest Poison by Mark Lane
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A Bachward Glance by Joseph Kerman, pp. 6-11 - 1 Review- Bach and the Dance of God by Wilfrid H. Mellers
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Master Illusionist by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., pp. 12-14 - 1 Review- The Speculator by Jordan A. Schwarz
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The Buck Stops Here by Marshall Frady, pp. 15-19 - 1 Review- Governing America by Joseph A. Califano, Jr.
- The Kennedy Solution by Toby Cohen, p. 20
- O'Connor's Crab-apple Jelly by Richard Ellmann, pp. 21-22
- Tehran Winter by V.S. Naipaul, pp. 23-29
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Destiny's Tots by Christopher Jencks, pp. 30-32 - 1 Review- Birth and Fortune by Richard A. Easterlin
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A Genius for Revenge by Rhoda Koenig, pp. 33-34 - 1 Review- Saki: A Life of Hector Hugh Munro by A.J. Langguth
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Greece Against Itself by Peter Green, pp. 35-39 - 8 Reviews- Mediaeval Greece by Nicolas Cheetham
- A Short History of Modern Greece by Richard Clogg
- Ephesus After Antiquity by Clive Foss
- Ambassador MacVeagh Reports: Greece, 1933-1947 by John O. Iatrides
- The Origins of the Cold War in the Near East by Bruce R. Kuniholm
- The Greek World by Eliot Porter
- The Greek Upheaval by Taki Theodoracopulos
- The Struggle for Greece, 1941-1949 by C.M. Woodhouse
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Modern Times by Jeremy Bernstein, pp. 40-41 - 1 Review- The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder
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On Michelangelo's Mind by Michael Baxandall, pp. 42-44 - 1 Review- Michelangelo and the Language of Art by David Summers
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Digging In by Irvin Ehrenpreis, pp. 45-46 - 3 Reviews- Poems, 1965-1975 by Seamus Heaney
- A Coast of Trees by A.R. Ammons
- Selected Poems by Mark Strand
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Innocents by Patricia Craig, p. 47 - 2 Reviews- The Temptation of Eileen Hughes by Brian Moore
- A Gift Horse, and Other Stories by Kate Cruise O'Brien
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Short Reviews, p. 48 - 2 Reviews- Polywater by Felix Franks
- Wounded Men, Broken Promises by Robert Klein
- The Azadovsky Affair by Joseph Brodsky, p. 49
- Letters by Jules Geller, Robert Darnton, and Kenneth S. Lynn, ..., pp. 49-52
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October 22, 1981 Issue = 16 Articles-
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Justice to Mrs. Tolstoy by Aileen Kelly, pp. 3-9 - 1 Review- Sonya: The Life of Countess Tolstoy by Anne Edwards
- Three Poems by Eugenio Montale, pp. 10-11
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The Inferiority Complex by R.C. Lewontin, pp. 12-16 - 1 Review- The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould
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Unspeakable News by Neal Ascherson, pp. 17-18 - 2 Reviews- Auschwitz and the Allies by Martin Gilbert
- The Terrible Secret by Walter Z. Laqueur
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Borderline Cases by John M. Crewdson, pp. 19-22 - 2 Reviews- On the Border by Tom Miller
- The Border Economy by Niles M. Hansen
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Something for Your Entire Family by Virginia Hamilton, pp. 23-27 - 1 Review- Foundations of Family Therapy by Lynn Hoffman
- Mark Chapman's Family by Murray Kempton, p. 28
- The Hunger Strikers by Denis Donoghue, pp. 29-31
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Just Plain Will by Robert M. Adams, pp. 32-33 - 2 Reviews- What Shakespeare Read--and Thought by A.L. Rowse
- Shakespeare and Tragedy by John Bayley
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The Silent Majority by Jonathan Lieberson, pp. 34-37 - 2 Reviews- The Moral Economy of the Peasant by James C. Scott
- The Rational Peasant by Samuel L. Popkin
- Sex and Fashion by Alison Lurie, pp. 38-46
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Good Housekeeping by C. Vann Woodward, pp. 47-48 - 1 Review- The Hammonds of Redcliffe by Carol Bleser
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The Bitter History of Slave History by E. Badian, pp. 49-53 - 2 Reviews- Ancient Slavery and Modern Ideology by M.I. Finley
- Greek and Roman Slavery by Thomas Wiedemann
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In the Latino Americano Mirror by Michael Wood, pp. 54-58 - 4 Reviews- Macho Camacho's Beat by Luis Rafael Sanchez
- The Emperor of the Amazon by Marcio Souza
- Burnt Water by Carlos Fuentes
- On Heroes and Tombs by Ernesto Sabato
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The Young Pretender by Murray Kempton, p. 59 - 1 Review- Prince of the City (1981 Film) by Sidney Lumet
- Letters by Robert W. Creamer, Gore Vidal, and Azadeh Esteglal, ..., pp. 59-64
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November 5, 1981 Issue = 20 Articles-
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A Good Man by Leonard Schapiro, pp. 3-7 - 1 Review- Righteous Gentile by John Bierman
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Born Again by H.R. Trevor-Roper, pp. 8-11 - 1 Review- Among the Believers by V.S. Naipaul
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Reservations by Robert Towers, pp. 12-14 - 1 Review- The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving
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America's Dreyfus Case by Francis Russell, pp. 15-17 - 1 Review- The Black Flag by Brian Jackson
- Return by Yannis Ritsos, pp. 18-19
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The Rake's Progress by Mary McCarthy, pp. 20-23 - 1 Review- Green Thoughts by Eleanor Perenyi
- One of Us? by Alfred Kazin, pp. 24-25
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How Long Can They Last? by Conor Cruise O'Brien, pp. 26-33 - 3 Reviews- Why South Africa Will Survive by Lewis H. Gann and Peter Duignan
- South Africa: Time Running Out by The Foreign Policy Study Foundation
- The Crisis in South Africa by John S. Saul and Stephen Gelb
- The Wasteland of American Education by Jacques Barzun, pp. 34-35
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No Need for Names by Wilfrid Sheed, pp. 36-37 - 1 Review- The Last Laugh by S.J. Perelman
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Out of the Shadows by David Brion Davis, pp. 38-42 - 1 Review- The Image of the Black in Western Art by Ladislas Bugner
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In the Crab Pots by Geoffrey Grigson, p. 43 - 1 Review- The Book of Ebenezer Le Page by G.B. Edwards
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Can We Live the Good Life? by J.M. Cameron, pp. 44-48 - 1 Review- After Virtue by Alasdair MacIntyre
- Letter from Budapest by George Konrad and Peter Reddaway, pp. 49-50
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The Missing Link by Robert L. Heilbroner, pp. 51-52 - 1 Review- Intellectual and Manual Labour by Alfred Sohn-Rethel
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Closet Believers by D.P. Walker, p. 53 - 1 Review- The Family of Love by Alastair Hamilton
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Climbing Macchu Picchu by Alastair Reid, pp. 54-55 - 1 Review- Translating Neruda by John Felstiner
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Short Reviews, p. 56 - 3 Reviews- Indian Running by Peter Nabokov
- Bad Blood by James H. Jones
- Russian Journal by Andrea Lee
- The Health Crisis in the USSR by Albert Szymanski and Nick Eberstadt, pp. 57-60
- Letters by Roger L. Lewis, Peter Green, and Robert L. Sullivan, ..., pp. 61-64
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November 19, 1981 Issue = 18 Articles-
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Easy Come, Easy Go by Alfred Kazin, p. 3 - 1 Review- Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike
- Lipinski's Farewell by Edward Lipinski, pp. 4-5
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The White Revolutionary by Gordon A. Craig, pp. 6-9 - 1 Review- Bismarck by Edward Crankshaw
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The Heart of the Heart of the Country by Diane Johnson, pp. 10-13 - 1 Review- Old Glory: An American Voyage by Jonathan Raban
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Goodbye, Hitler by Geoffrey Barraclough, pp. 14-15 - 1 Review- The Nazi Question by Pierre Aycoberry
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Past, Present, & Future by A. Alvarez, pp. 16-18 - 3 Reviews- Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
- The Flute-Player by D.M. Thomas
- The Country by David Plante
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The Triumphs of the New Right by Frances FitzGerald, pp. 19-26 - 2 Reviews- The New Right by Richard A. Viguerie
- The Sweetheart of the Silent Majority by Carol Felsenthal
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Brave New World by James Wolcott, p. 27 - 1 Review- Easy Travel to Other Planets by Ted Mooney
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Idylls for Idlers by Robert Bernard Martin, pp. 28-33 - 1 Review- The Return to Camelot by Mark Girouard
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Hollywood's Hessians by John Gregory Dunne, pp. 34-37 - 1 Review- The Craft of the Screenwriter by John Joseph Brady
- In Libertad Prison, pp. 38-39
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An Alchemical Lear by Frances Yates, p. 40 - 1 Review- The Chemical Theatre by Charles Nicholl
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Are Justices Just? by Graham Hughes, pp. 41-43 - 1 Review- How Courts Govern America by Richard Neely
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The Real McCoy by Denis Donoghue, pp. 44-47 - 2 Reviews- Essays on Realism by Georg Lukacs and Rodney Livingstone
- The Realistic Imagination by George Levine
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Japan in the Chips by Robert B. Reich, pp. 48-50 - 1 Review- The World Challenge by Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber
- The Unraveling of Reagan? by Murray Kempton, p. 51
- Going Crazy in India by Rosemary Dinnage, pp. 52-55
- Letters by Claude Gruen, Nina Gruen, Bernard Avishai, and James K. Genden, ..., pp. 56-60
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December 3, 1981 Issue = 15 Articles-
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Never-Never-Land by V.S. Pritchett, pp. 3-5 - 1 Review- P.G. Wodehouse: A Literary Biography by Benny Green
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Pas de deux by John Russell, pp. 6-10 - 1 Review- Bronislava Nijinska: Early Memoirs by Irina Nijinska, Jean Rawlinson, and Bronislava Nijinska, ...
- Reaganonics and Economics by James Tobin, pp. 11-14
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How Guilty Were the French? by Patrice Higonnet, pp. 15-17 - 1 Review- Vichy France and the Jews by Michael R. Marrus and Robert O. Paxton
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The Novelist as Pedagogue by John Bayley, pp. 18-21 - 1 Review- Lectures on Russian Literature by Vladimir Nabokov and Fredson Bowers
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Happy Endings by Christopher Lasch, pp. 22-24 - 1 Review- New Rules by Daniel Yankelovich
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Fall and Decline by Shaul Bakhash, pp. 25-30 - 3 Reviews- Roots of Revolution by Nikki R. Keddie
- Inside the Iranian Revolution by John D. Stempel
- Mission to Iran by William H. Sullivan
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Proto-Photo by Charles Rosen and Henri Zerner, p. 31 - 1 Review- Before Photography by Peter Galassi
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Bottoms Up by Julian Symons, pp. 32-33 - 2 Reviews- Moscow to the End of the Line by Venedikt Erofeev
- Illuminations by Tamas Aczel
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A Close Encounter by Gunther S. Stent, pp. 34-36 - 1 Review- Life Itself by Francis Crick
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Intruders by Richard Poirier, pp. 37-39 - 1 Review- A Flag for Sunrise by Robert Stone
- Czech Nightmares by Werner Paul, pp. 40-41
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There Is No Penance Due to Innocence by William Empson, pp. 42-50 - 1 Review- John Donne by John Carey
- Vietnam by Arthur H. Westing, Carol E. Westing, and William Shawcross, ..., p. 51
- Letters by Stanley Sadie, Charles Rosen, and John Eldergill, ..., pp. 52-56
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December 17, 1981 Issue = 20 Articles-
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Death by a Thousand Cuts by Lester C. Thurow, pp. 3-5 - 1 Review- Making America Work by James O'Toole
- Back Issues by Elizabeth Hardwick, pp. 6-11
- The Berlin Wall Tune by Joseph Brodsky, pp. 12-13
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Wolfe in Wolfe's Clothing by Janet Malcolm, pp. 14-17 - 1 Review- From Bauhaus to Our House by Tom Wolfe
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The Triumph of Matthew Arnold by Noel Annan, pp. 18-21 - 1 Review- Matthew Arnold: A Life by Park Honan
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Relic by Luc Sante, pp. 22-25 - 2 Reviews- Elvis by Albert Goldman
- Private Elvis by Diego Cortez
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The Trap of Rearmament by James Fallows, pp. 26-31 - 3 Reviews- The Baroque Arsenal by Mary Kaldor
- Soviet Military Power, 1986 by The Department of Defense
- The East-West Strategic Balance by T.B. Millar
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All Too Real by Helen Vendler, pp. 32-36 - 3 Reviews- Work, for the Night is Coming by Jared Carter
- A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far by Adrienne Rich
- One for the Rose by Philip Levine
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Black Old Black and White Magic by Clive James, pp. 37-44 - 25 Reviews- Camera Lucida by Roland Barthes
- Photography in Print by Vicki Goldberg
- Before Photography by Peter Galassi
- The Work of Atget: Old France by John Szarkowski and Maria Morris Hambourg
- Les Autochromes de J.H. Lartigue, 1912-1927 by Jacques-Henri Lartigue
- The Photography of Max Yavno by Ben Maddow and Max Yavno
- Feininger's Chicago, 1941 by Andreas Feininger
- Cole Weston: Eighteen Photographs by Cole Weston
- American Photographers and the National Parks by Robert Cahn and Robert Glenn Ketchum
- New England Reflections, 1882-1907 by Alan B. Newman
- Man as Art by Malcolm Kirk
- Rajasthan: India's Enchanted Land by Raghubir Singh
- Falkland Road: Prostitutes of Bombay by Mary Ellen Mark
- Nicaragua: June 1978-July 1979 by Susan Meiselas
- Visions of China by Marc Riboud
- The Russians by Vladimir Sichov
- Photographs by William Klein
- Hearts of Darkness by Don McCullin
- Herbert List: Photographs 1930-1970 by Herbert List
- Photographs, 1973-1980 by Christopher Rauschenberg
- Altered Landscapes by John Pfahl
- Sam Haskins: Photographics by Sam Haskins
- Bill Brandt: Nudes, 1945-1980 by Bill Brandt
- Hollywood Color Portraits by John Kobal
- A Century of Japanese Photography
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One Culture by Rudolf Peierls, p. 45 - 1 Review- The Physicists by C.P. Snow
- Poem for the End of the Year by Mary Gordon, p. 46
- Music Does Not Flow by Virgil Thomson, pp. 47-51
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Washington at War by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., p. 52 - 1 Review- Washington Dispatches, 1941-45 by H.G. Nicholas
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Uncle Wiz the Wizard by Lincoln Kirstein, pp. 53-56 - 1 Review- W.H. Auden: A Biography by Humphrey Carpenter
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The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie by Richard Cobb, pp. 57-59 - 1 Review- Ladies of the Leisure Class by Bonnie G. Smith
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Empire Building by John Keegan, pp. 60-61 - 1 Review- Revolutionary Empire by Angus Calder
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The Clowning Victim by Alan Pryce-Jones, pp. 62-63 - 2 Reviews- Edith Sitwell by Victoria Glendinning
- Edith Sitwell by Geoffrey Elborn
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The Professor Knows by Richard Wollheim, pp. 64-66 - 1 Review- Is There a Text in This Class? by Stanley Fish
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Short Reviews, p. 67 - 2 Reviews- Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman by Marjorie Shostak and Nisa
- Science in Traditional China by Joseph Needham
- Letters by Edward Abbey, John Crewdson, and Jay Presson Allen, ..., pp. 68-72
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Issues of 1982 = 21 Issues, 317 Articles
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Issues of 1983 = 20 Issues, 305 Articles
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Issues of 1984 = 19 Issues, 298 Articles
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Issues of 1985 = 20 Issues, 305 Articles
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Issues of 1986 = 21 Issues, 313 Articles
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Issues of 1987 = 21 Issues, 314 Articles
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Issues of 1988 = 21 Issues, 337 Articles
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Issues of 1989 = 20 Issues, 333 Articles
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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