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December 1982 Issue - 14 Articles- In search of Edward Thomas
Robert Richman
, pp. 1-16 - The notebooks of Joseph Joubert
Paul Auster
, pp. 17-31 selected and translated
- Reviewing and being reviewed
Joseph Epstein
, pp. 32-40 - Who now reads Macaulay?
Gertrude Himmelfarb
, pp. 41-47 - American precisionists
Hilton Kramer
, pp. 48-53 Art
- The sculpture of Joel Shapiro
William H. Jordy
, pp. 54-56 - English landscapes
Rackstraw Downes
, pp. 57-59 Music
- Berlin on two coasts
Samuel Lipman
, pp. 60-65
- Letter from London
Mimi Kramer
, pp. 66-70 Books
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The price of distinction (Review) Robert Langbaum
, pp. 71-77 Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller, by Judith Thurman
- Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller by Judith Thurman
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Mexico at the movies (Review) Mark Falcoff
, pp. 78-80 Mexican Cinema, by Carl J. Mora
- Mexican Cinema by Carl J. Mora
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The possessed (Review) Peter Shaw
, pp. 81-83 Entertaining Satan, by John Putnam Demos
- Entertaining Satan by John Putnam Demos
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Thinking big (Review) John Podhoretz
, pp. 84-87 Bech is Back, by John Updike
- Bech is Back by John Updike
Fiction chronicle
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Spirits in the material world (5 Reviews) Joshua Gilder
, pp. 88-98 The Names, by Don DeLillo
- The Names by Don DeLillo
- The Woods by David Plante
- Family Happiness by Laurie Colwin
- Grace Abounding by Maureen Howard
- The Cage by Susan Cheever