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London Letter

by Dwight Macdonald

The Partisan Review, March 1961, pp. 248-259

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    January 1961 Issue = 15 Articles
    1. On The Modern Element in Modern Literature by Lionel Trilling, pp. 9-35
    2. Four Speeches from Racine's "Phedre" by Robert Lowell, pp. 36-47
    3. Poet and Dancer Before Diaghilev by Frank Kermode, pp. 48-75
    4. Route With No Number by W.S. Merwin, pp. 76-77
    5. Villa D'Este, Tivoli by Donald Lehmkuhl, p. 78
    6. Budded Oaks by Patricia Coombs, p. 79
    7. The Detective by Jascha Kessler, pp. 80-108
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      Morals and Psychoanalysis by Selma Fraiberg, pp. 109-116 - 2 Reviews
      1. Freud: The Mind of the Moralist by Philip Rieff
      2. Psychoanalysis and Moral Values by Heinz Hartmann
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      Other People's Affairs by John Thompson, pp. 117-123 - 3 Reviews
      1. Our Visit to Niagara by Paul Goodman
      2. The Beat of Life by Barbara Probst Solomon
      3. Rabbit, Run by John Updike
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      Views of Conrad by Robert M. Adams, pp. 124-129 - 1 Review
      1. Joseph Conrad: A Critical Biography by Jocelyn Baines
    11. [+]
      Poetry Chronicles by Kenneth Koch, pp. 130-136 - 5 Reviews
      1. Second Avenue by Frank O'Hara
      2. Collected Poems by Yvor Winters
      3. Collected Poems by Lawrence Durrell
      4. Songs by Christopher Logue
      5. Lupercal by Ted Hughes
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      3 Reviews The Collected Poems of Weldon Kees, by Donald ... by Marius Bewley, pp. 137-143 - 3 Reviews
      1. The Collected Poems of Weldon Kees by Donald Justice and Weldon Kees
      2. The Woman at the Washington Zoo by Randall Jarrell
      3. New and Selected Poems by Howard Nemerov
    13. In Support of French Intellectuals, pp. 144-145
    14. English Queerdom by Colin MacInnes, pp. 146-153
    15. Correspondence, pp. 154-162
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    March 1961 Issue = 12 Articles
    1. Characters in Fiction by Mary McCarthy, pp. 171-191
    2. Translations from Baudelaire by Robert Lowell, pp. 192-200
    3. The English Gardens by David Jackson, pp. 201-244
    4. Digging It Out by John Hollander, pp. 245-247
    5. London Letter by Dwight Macdonald, pp. 248-259
    6. Conversations in Warsaw by Daniel Bell, pp. 260-279
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      Coming-of-Age by Richard Chase, pp. 280-285 - 1 Review
      1. Growing Up Absurd by Paul Goodman
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      The Western Theme by Robert B. Heilman, pp. 286-296 - 1 Review
      1. Butcher's Crossing by John Williams
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      Fiction Chronicles by Irving Howe, pp. 297-300 - 3 Reviews
      1. The Last of the Just by Andre Schwarz-Bart
      2. Tempo di Roma by Alexis Curvers
      3. The Marquise of O--, and Other Stories by Heinrich von Kleist
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      4 Reviews The Many Colored Coat, by Morley Callaghan by Theodore Solotaroff, pp. 301-308 - 4 Reviews
      1. The Many Colored Coat by Morley Callaghan
      2. The General by Alan Sillitoe
      3. Among the Dangs by George P. Elliott
      4. The Glass Bees by Ernst Junger
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      The Triumph and Failure of D.H. Lawrence by Edzia Weisberg, pp. 309-313 - 1 Review
      1. D.H. Lawrence: The Failure and the Triumph of Art by Eliseo Vivas
    12. An Impossible Doctrine by Francis Golffing, pp. 314-322
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    May 1961 Issue = 15 Articles
    1. Introduction by Max Hayward, pp. 333-362
    2. Without Love by Boris Pasternak, pp. 363-371
    3. On Literature, Revolution and Entropy by Evgeny Zamyatin, pp. 372-378
    4. Soviet Russia by Sergei Esenin, pp. 379-382
    5. The Journey by Isaac Babel, pp. 383-390
    6. Reminiscences of Babel by Konstantin Paustovsky, pp. 391-406
    7. The Making of Asper by Alexander Grin, pp. 407-415
    8. M.T.s by Boris Pasternak, pp. 416-417
    9. Mahogany by Boris Pilnyak, pp. 418-450
    10. Before Sunrise by Mikhail Zoshchenko, pp. 451-474
    11. 1941 by Julia Neiman, p. 475
    12. The Tale of the Three Master Craftsmen by Lev Kassil, pp. 476-493
    13. People, Years and Life by Ilya Ehrenburg, pp. 494-514
    14. The Story of a Story by Vladimir Polyakov, pp. 515-517
    15. References, pp. 518-530
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    July 1961 Issue = 20 Articles
    1. One Law for the Lion by Wright Morris, pp. 541-551
    2. The Education of a Queen by Thalia Selz, pp. 552-573
    3. The Madison Avenue Villain by Robert Brustein, pp. 574-593
    4. Hope by Randall Jarrell, pp. 594-601
    5. From Trollope's Journal by Elizabeth Bishop, p. 602
    6. A Marriage in the 'Sixties by Adrienne Rich, pp. 603-604
    7. Six Poems by Anne Sexton, pp. 605-610
    8. An Additional Poem by John Ashbery, p. 611
    9. The Whites in South Africa by Angus Wilson, pp. 612-632
    10. Sartre Versus Proust by Robert Greer Cohn, pp. 633-645
    11. Two Modern Incest Heroes by Selma Fraiberg, pp. 646-661
    12. Theater Chronicle by Nicola Chiaromonte, pp. 662-687
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      Art and Criticism by Robert Goldwater, pp. 688-694 - 1 Review
      1. Art and Culture by Clement Greenberg
    14. [+]
      Nothing New About Freud by Hans Meyerhoff, pp. 695-701 - 1 Review
      1. Letters of Sigmund Freud by Ernst L. Freud and Sigmund Freud
    15. [+]
      More Loveless Love by Elizabeth Hardwick, pp. 702-706 - 1 Review
      1. A Burnt-Out Case by Graham Greene
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      Plot, Character, Etc. by John Thompson, pp. 707-715 - 4 Reviews
      1. Take a Girl Like You by Kingsley Amis
      2. A Severed Head by Iris Murdoch
      3. Prize Stories 1961 by Richard Poirier
      4. Hear Us O Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling Place by Malcolm Lowry
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      Fiction Chronicle by Edzia Weisberg, pp. 716-722 - 4 Reviews
      1. The Lime Twig by John Hawkes
      2. The Crossing Point by Gerda Charles
      3. Journey Not To End by Paul Herr
      4. The Bachelors by Muriel Spark
    18. The Cult of the Goldenarmed Oracle by Don W. Kleine, pp. 723-730
    19. Correspondence, pp. 731-733
    20. Index to Volume XXVIII, p. 734
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