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Short Reviews: Books

The Nixons, by Edwin P. Hoyt

by Phoebe Adams

The Atlantic Monthly, July 1972, pp. 96-102

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    January 1972 Issue = 20 Articles
    1. The Editor's Page, pp. 4-5
    2. Reports & Comment by Don Cook, pp. 6-11
    3. Egypt by Georgiana G. Stevens, pp. 12-17
    4. Innocent Bystander by L.E. Sissman, pp. 18-22
    5. The Mail, pp. 23-25
    6. Contributors, pp. 26-28
    7. A Farewell to Alcohol by William McIlwain, pp. 29-35
    8. A Natural History of the Young by Richard W. Murphy, pp. 36-37
    9. Uncle Harry: Shooting Partridge, 1941 by Donald Junkins, p. 38
    10. The 800,000,000, Part II by Ross Terrill, pp. 39-62
    11. Can I Count You In? by Shirley Faessler, pp. 63-69
    12. It's Only a Game: The Beasts of Baltimore by Larry L. King, pp. 70-76
    13. Smash Thy Neighbor by John McMurtry, pp. 77-79
    14. Blurring by Kathleen Spivack, p. 80
    15. Another Unbelievable Year in the Stock Market by Brutus, pp. 81-85
    16. Gathering at Bunnymede by Richard Todd, pp. 86-88
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      1. The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot and Valerie Eliot
      2. T. S. Eliot: A Memoir by Robert Sencourt and Donald Adamson
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      Hogarth: The John Bull of Art by Louis Kronenberger, pp. 92-94 - 1 Review
      1. Hogarth, Vol. I by Ronald Paulson and Richard Hogarth
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      The Peripatetic Reviewer by Edward Weeks, p. 95 - 3 Reviews
      1. The Art of the Old West by Paul A. Rossi and David C. Hunt
      2. Dear Scott/Dear Max by John Kuehl, Jackson R. Bryer, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, ...
      3. We Speak No Treason by Rosemary Hawley Jarman
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      Short Reviews: Books by Phoebe Adams, pp. 96-102 - 9 Reviews
      1. Hair by Wendy Cooper
      2. The Occult by Colin Wilson
      3. Cole by Robert Kimball
      4. The Bejeweled Boy by Miguel Angel Asturias
      5. The Journey of August King by John Ehle
      6. Flaubert the Master by Enid Starkie
      7. Proceedings of the Vinland Map Conference by Wilcomb E. Washburn
      8. Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
      9. Our Gang by Philip Roth
  2. [+]
    February 1972 Issue = 23 Articles
    1. The Editor's Page, pp. 4-5
    2. Reports & Comment by Richard Dougherty, pp. 6-19
    3. The Birth of Bangla Desh by Francis G. Hutchins, pp. 20-27
    4. Japan and the United States by Henry Owen, pp. 28-29
    5. Innocent Bystander by L.E. Sissman, pp. 30-33
    6. The Mail, pp. 34-38
    7. Contributors, pp. 39-40
    8. Nixon and the Square Majority by Stewart Alsop, pp. 41-47
    9. >BJ and the Kennedys by Michael Janeway, pp. 48-58
    10. God's Wrath by Bernard Malamud, pp. 59-61
    11. The Dream of Rousseau by Lawrence Raab, p. 62
    12. The Dark Lady of American Letters by Joe David Bellamy, pp. 63-67
    13. Four Poems From The Captain's Verses by Pablo Neruda, pp. 68-69
    14. Underground by Jean Goldschmidt, pp. 70-72
    15. Secrets of a Museum Director by John Walker, pp. 73-86
    16. Science and Evil by Alfred Adler, pp. 87-90
    17. A Roman Spring by Leslie Norris, pp. 91-95
    18. [+]
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      1. The President's War by Anthony Austin
      2. Tonkin Gulf by Eugene G. Windchy
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      1. Ushant by Conrad Aiken
    20. Ivan Galamian by Faubion Bowers, pp. 100-103
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      Three Visionary Poets by Peter Davison, pp. 104-106 - 3 Reviews
      1. The Book of Nightmares by Galway Kinnell
      2. Crossing the Water by Sylvia Plath
      3. Collected Poems by James A. Wright
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      The Peripatetic Reviewer by Edward Weeks, pp. 107-108 - 4 Reviews
      1. Doctor Brodie's Report by Jorge Luis Borges
      2. The Naive and Sentimental Lover by John le Carre
      3. High Arctic by George Miksch Sutton
      4. The Double-Cross System in the War of 1939 to 1945 by J.C. Masterman
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      Short Reviews: Books by Phoebe Adams, pp. 109-114 - 13 Reviews
      1. The Scorpion God by William Golding
      2. Not from the Apes by Bjorn Kurten
      3. Blackwater River, Toa-Thal-Kas by William Hillen
      4. Nocturnal Vaudeville by Stephen Schneck
      5. Sean by Eileen O'Casey
      6. Down to Now by Pat Watters
      7. From the Roof of Africa by Clive W. Nicol
      8. American Indian Portraits by Charles R. Reynolds, Jr.
      9. The Arnheiter Affair by Neil Sheehan
      10. The Wonderful World of Women's Wear Daily by Katie Kelly
      11. The German Lesson by Siegfried Lenz
      12. Green Hell by Lucien Bodard
      13. Confessions of a Stockbroker by Brutus
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    March 1972 Issue = 26 Articles
    1. The Editor's Page, pp. 4-5
    2. Reports & Comment by Richard T. Stout, pp. 6-13
    3. Moscow by Hedrick Smith, pp. 14-17
    4. El Paso by James Conaway, pp. 18-23
    5. Innocent Bystander by L.E. Sissman, pp. 24-27
    6. The Mail, pp. 28-29
    7. Contributors, pp. 30-32
    8. The Party's Over by David S. Broder, pp. 33-39
    9. The Letting Down of the Hair by Anne Sexton, pp. 40-42
    10. Sand Dollar by John Updike, p. 43
    11. Petronius Americanus: The Ways of Gore Vidal by Gerald Clarke, pp. 44-51
    12. Believing in Bluegrass by Robert Cantwell, pp. 52-60
    13. Old Voices by Leslie Norris, p. 61
    14. An Eye for an Eye by Milovan Djilas, pp. 62-69
    15. The Ghosts of Nuremberg by Philipp Fehl, pp. 70-80
    16. Four Poems by Nicanor Parra, pp. 81-82
    17. Friday Night in the Coliseum by William C. Martin, pp. 83-87
    18. I Met Khrushchev and Didn't Argue About Refrigerators by Calvin Trillin, pp. 88-89
    19. A Friend Told Me by James Tate, pp. 90-91
    20. [+]
      A Kind of Village Society by Joseph Kraft, pp. 92-94 - 1 Review
      1. The Japanese and the Jews by Isaiah Ben-Dasan
    21. [+]
      After This Life We Will Listen by Donald Junkins, pp. 95-98 - 1 Review
      1. The Donner Party by George Keithley
    22. The Bomb Blanket by William Zinsser, p. 99
    23. [+]
      Pop Nihilism at the Movies by David Denby, pp. 100-103 - 1 Review
      1. A Clockwork Orange (1971 Film) by Stanley Kubrick
    24. What You Fancy by Anne Angus, p. 104
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      The Peripatetic Reviewer by Edward Weeks, pp. 105-107 - 3 Reviews
      1. Those Damned Rebels by Michael Pearson
      2. The Conspiracy by John Hersey
      3. The Nixon Recession Caper by Ralph Maloney
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      Short Reviews: Books by Phoebe Adams, pp. 108-114 - 11 Reviews
      1. The Friends of Eddie Coyle by George V. Higgins
      2. The American Way of Violence by Alphonso Pinkney
      3. The Way It Is Now by Sallie Bingham
      4. The Late Great Creature by Brock Brower
      5. We Must Run While They Walk by William Edgett Smith
      6. One Hand Clapping by Anthony Burgess
      7. Stubbs by Basil Taylor
      8. The Ewings by John O'Hara
      9. Selected Poems, 1923-1967 by Jorge Luis Borges and Norman Thomas di Giovanni, ...
      10. Animal, Vegetable, Mineral by Louis Kronenberger
      11. Two Hundred Years of North American Indian Art by Norman Feder
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    April 1972 Issue = 20 Articles
    1. The Editor's Page, pp. 4-5
    2. Reports & Comments by Ward Just, pp. 6-24
    3. Washington by Elizabeth Drew, pp. 25-32
    4. Innocent Bystander by L.E. Sissman, pp. 33-34
    5. The Mail, pp. 35-36
    6. Contributors, pp. 37-38
    7. Beyond Words: Writing for the President by Harry McPherson, pp. 39-45
    8. I Want to Turn to the South: 1941 by Pablo Neruda, p. 46
    9. Silver in the Cold Twilight by H.L. Mountzoures, pp. 47-50
    10. "In My Father's House There Are Many Mansions, and I'm Going to Get Me Some of Them Too!" by James Alan McPherson, pp. 51-83
    11. Fellini on Fellini by Charles Thomas Samuels, pp. 84-92
    12. American Journalism's Ten Hardiest Perennials by Todd Hunt, pp. 93-95
    13. There Comes After Here by Denis Johnson, pp. 96-102
    14. The Return by Tu Fu, p. 103
    15. Two Poems by Jarold Ramsey, pp. 104-106
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      The Man Who Would Be Hero by Josiah Bunting III, pp. 107-110 - 1 Review
      1. The Patton Papers, Vol. I: 1885-1940 by Martin Blumenson
    17. Mother Russia: A Train's Eye View by Darrall Beriro, pp. 111-117
    18. Violence Enshrined by David Denby, pp. 118-123
    19. [+]
      The Peripatetic Reviewer by Edward Weeks, pp. 124-127 - 5 Reviews
      1. The House of Life by Paul Brooks
      2. The Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn
      3. Saints and Innocence by Barbara Rex
      4. The Hindenburg by Michael M. Mooney
      5. The Best of Gluyas Williams by Gluyas Williams
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      Short Reviews: Books by Phoebe Adams, pp. 128-134 - 16 Reviews
      1. The Case of the Midwife Toad by Arthur Koestler
      2. Folklore of the American Land by Duncan Emrich
      3. Not to Disturb by Muriel Spark
      4. Intimate Behaviour by Desmond Morris
      5. The Mendelssohns by Herbert Kupferberg
      6. The Book of Skulls by Robert Silverberg
      7. Six Came Flying by Marquis MacSwiney Mashanaglass
      8. Mortal Consequences by Julian Symons
      9. Free the Male Man! by Shepherd Mead
      10. Suicide by Jacques Choron
      11. Rome: From Its Foundation to the Present by Stewart Perowne
      12. Henry James, Vol. V by Leon Edel
      13. Wild Flowers of the United States by Harold W. Rickett
      14. The Inland Sea by Donald Richie
      15. Friday Night in the Coliseum by Geoff Winningham
      16. 800,000,000: The Real China~~Eight Hundred Million: The Real China by Ross Terrill
  5. [+]
    May 1972 Issue = 25 Articles
    1. The Editor's Page, pp. 4-5
    2. Reports & Comments by Michael Wheeler, pp. 6-11
    3. Ireland: The View from Dublin by Denis Donoghue, pp. 12-16
    4. Ireland: A Visit to Belfast by Mary Manning, pp. 17-24
    5. Innocent Bystander by L.E. Sissman, pp. 25-26
    6. The Mail, pp. 27-29
    7. Contributors, pp. 30-32
    8. Programmed for Disaster by Katharine Davis Fishman, pp. 33-41
    9. Outside Biba's by Grey Gowrie, p. 42
    10. Notes on the New Journalism by Michael J. Arlen, pp. 43-47
    11. A Season at Middle-America U. by Herbert Gold, pp. 48-53
    12. On Opposing Communism by Leopold Tyrmand, pp. 54-57
    13. "Against Woodwaxen..." by George Seferis, p. 58
    14. In Another Country by Wright Morris, pp. 59-61
    15. A Day by Harvey Shapiro, p. 62
    16. The War on Crime: The First Five Years by James Vorenberg, pp. 63-69
    17. Enormous Changes at the Last Minute by Grace Paley, pp. 70-74
    18. Father and Son by William Stafford, p. 75
    19. The Senate Observed: A Recollection by Harry McPherson, pp. 76-93
    20. [+]
      The Way We Lived Then by V.S. Pritchett, pp. 94-98 - 1 Review
      1. Anthony Trollope by James Pope-Hennessy
    21. [+]
      The Case for Dr. Kinsey by Paul A. Robinson, pp. 99-101 - 2 Reviews
      1. Dr. Kinsey and the Institute for Sex Research by Wardell B. Pomeroy
      2. Kinsey: A Biography by Cornelia V. Christenson
    22. Nontraveling by William Zinsser, pp. 102-104
    23. [+]
      It Hurts to Look Back by David Denby, pp. 105-107 - 1 Review
      1. The Sorrow and the Pity (1972 Film) by Marcel Ophuls
    24. [+]
      The Peripatetic Reviewer by Edward Weeks, pp. 108-111 - 4 Reviews
      1. Nunaga by Duncan Pryde
      2. The Terminal Man by Michael Crichton
      3. As Ever, Scott Fitz--- by Matthew J. Bruccoli and Jennifer McCabe Atkinson, ...
      4. The Crown of Mexico by Joan Haslip
    25. [+]
      Short Reviews: Books by Phoebe Adams, pp. 112-118 - 13 Reviews
      1. The Closed Enterprise System by Mark J. Green, Beverly C. Moore, Jr., and Bruce Wasserman, ...
      2. The Case History of Comrade V by James Park Sloan
      3. The Lionheads by Josiah Bunting III
      4. Antarctica by Charles Neider
      5. America, My Wilderness by Frederic Prokosch
      6. The Dead of the House by Hannah Green
      7. A Woman of Feeling by Violet Weingarten
      8. The Edge of Impossibility by Joyce Carol Oates
      9. Victor Vasarely by Werner Spies
      10. Diaboliad and Other Stories by Mikhail Bulgakov, Ellendea Proffer, and Carl R. Proffer, ...
      11. The Mystery of Things by Patrik Le Nestour
      12. The Party's Over by David S. Broder
      13. The Stone and the Violets by Milovan Djilas
  6. [+]
    June 1972 Issue = 22 Articles
    1. The Editor's Page, pp. 4-5
    2. Reports & Comment by Henry Owen, pp. 6-11
    3. Ethiopia by Stanley Meisler, pp. 12-16
    4. A Year in a Welsh School by Judith Chernaik, pp. 17-25
    5. Innocent Bystander by L.E. Sissman, pp. 26-27
    6. The Mail, pp. 28-32
    7. Contributors, pp. 33-34
    8. Superdams: The Perils of Progress by Claire Sterling, pp. 35-40
    9. Divinest Syzygy by Lorita Whitehead, p. 41
    10. Strictly Personal by John P. Sisk, pp. 42-44
    11. A Conscientious Objector at Parris Island by Steven Warner, pp. 45-52
    12. In the Toils of the Law by Edward Hoagland, pp. 53-58
    13. Academic Ignorance and Black Intelligence by William Labov, pp. 59-67
    14. The Debt by Jesse Hill Ford, pp. 68-72
    15. Bridges by Leslie Norris, p. 73
    16. Out of Small-Town America by Abigail McCarthy, pp. 74-93
    17. [+]
      Provide, Provide! by Elizabeth Janeway, pp. 94-97 - 1 Review
      1. The Coming of Age by Simone de Beauvoir
    18. [+]
      Hemingway: The Posthumous Achievement by William Abrahams, pp. 98-101 - 1 Review
      1. The Nick Adams Stories by Ernest Hemingway
    19. Music: Lives Without Language by Robert Evett, pp. 102-103
    20. Spring Moviegoing by David Denby, pp. 104-107
    21. [+]
      The Peripatetic Reviewer by Edward Weeks, pp. 108-111 - 4 Reviews
      1. Midnight Oil by V.S. Pritchett
      2. No Name in the Street by James Baldwin
      3. The Malcontents by C.P. Snow
      4. The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty
    22. [+]
      Short Reviews: Books by Phoebe Adams, pp. 112-118 - 12 Reviews
      1. The Descent of Woman by Elaine Morgan
      2. Before the Deluge by Otto Friedrich
      3. The Quiet End of Evening by Honor Tracy
      4. Things To Come by Herman Kahn and Barry Bruce-Briggs
      5. Bonecrack by Dick Francis
      6. We by Yevgeny I. Zamyatin
      7. China, India, and the Ruins of Washington by Austin Coates
      8. Going to America by Terry Coleman
      9. The Godforgotten by Gladys Schmitt
      10. A Political Education by Harry McPherson
      11. The Bridge by H.L. Mountzoures
      12. The Rosa Luxemburg Contraceptives Cooperative by Leopold Tyrmand
  7. [+]
    July 1972 Issue = 21 Articles
    1. The Editor's Page, pp. 4-5
    2. Reports & Comment by Don Cook, pp. 6-9
    3. Italy: The Feltrinelli Case by Claire Sterling, pp. 10-19
    4. Innocent Bystander by L.E. Sissman, pp. 20-24
    5. The Mail, pp. 25-29
    6. Contributors, pp. 30-32
    7. A Light That Failed by Robert Manning, pp. 33-35
    8. Top Secret: The Prophecy the President Rejected by George W. Ball, pp. 36-49
    9. The War in the Back Seat by Alix Kates Shulman, pp. 50-54
    10. Old Girl by T.S. Matthews, p. 55
    11. Science: A Technocratic Trap by Theodore Roszak, pp. 56-60
    12. The Dreamer, The Dream by Maxine Kumin, p. 61
    13. The Renoirs in the Delicatessen by Milton Esterow, pp. 62-67
    14. Aging in the Land of the Young by Sharon Curtin, pp. 68-78
    15. The Last Laugh by Fernando Krahn, p. 79
    16. One's Twenty-fifth by Ralph Maloney, pp. 80-84
    17. [+]
      The British Novel Lives by Frank Kermode, pp. 85-87 - 4 Reviews
      1. Not to Disturb by Muriel Spark
      2. An Accidental Man by Iris Murdoch
      3. The Scorpion God by William Golding
      4. Girl, 20 by Kingsley Amis
    18. Listen to Painting by Alexander Eliot, pp. 88-89
    19. A La Recherche du Pain Perdu by Betty Suyker, pp. 90-92
    20. [+]
      The Peripatetic Reviewer by Edward Weeks, pp. 93-95 - 3 Reviews
      1. O Jerusalem! by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre
      2. The Late John Marquand by Stephen Birmingham
      3. The Dawn's Early Light by Walter Lord
    21. [+]
      Short Reviews: Books by Phoebe Adams, pp. 96-102 - 12 Reviews
      1. The Nixons by Edwin P. Hoyt
      2. The Levanter by Eric Ambler
      3. Meditations on Hunting by Jose Ortega y Gasset
      4. Enemies: A Love Story by Isaac Bashevis Singer
      5. Of Mosquitoes, Moths, and Mice by C. Brooke Worth
      6. Police in Trouble by James F. Ahern
      7. Coco Chanel by Marcel Haedrich
      8. The Fifth World of Forster Bennett by Vincent Crapanzano
      9. Lillian Hellman, Playwright by Richard Moody
      10. Gustav Klimt by Werner Hofmann
      11. Shaft Among the Jews by Ernest Tidyman
      12. Private Faces/Public Places by Abigail McCarthy
  8. [+]
    August 1972 Issue = 20 Articles
    1. The Editor's Page, pp. 4-5
    2. Reports & Comment by Anthony Lewis, pp. 6-9
    3. Black Africa by Stanley Meisler, pp. 10-15
    4. Innocent Bystander by L.E. Sissman, pp. 16-19
    5. The Mail, pp. 20-23
    6. Contributors, pp. 24-26
    7. Talking Horse by Bernard Malamud, pp. 27-34
    8. Looking for Wilderness by Edward Hoagland, pp. 35-41
    9. Toward the New Chastity by Midge Decter, pp. 42-54
    10. Short One to the Cuckoo by W.H. Auden, p. 55
    11. The Last Laugh by Fernando Krahn, pp. 56-57
    12. Green Days and Photojournalism, and The Old Man in the Room by Michael J. Arlen, pp. 58-66
    13. Burns by Ward Just, pp. 67-72
    14. Broken Wing Theory by Richard Eberhart, p. 73
    15. Offshore by Leo Janos, pp. 74-79
    16. [+]
      More on Drugs by Robert Coles, M.D., pp. 80-82 - 2 Reviews
      1. The Natural Mind by Andrew Weil
      2. Drugs and the Public by Norman E. Zinberg and John A. Robertson
    17. [+]
      The Voice of South America by Jose Yglesias, pp. 83-85 - 4 Reviews
      1. Doctor Brodie's Report by Jorge Luis Borges
      2. Three Trapped Tigers by G. Cabrera Infante
      3. Betrayed by Rita Hayworth by Manuel Puig
      4. Leaf Storm and Other Stories by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    18. Getting Whitey by David Denby, pp. 86-88
    19. [+]
      The Peripatetic Reviewer by Edward Weeks, pp. 89-91 - 3 Reviews
      1. Only One Earth by Barbara Ward and Rene Dubos
      2. My Dear Wister--- by Ben Merchant Vorpahl
      3. Stay Hungry by Charles Gaines
    20. [+]
      Short Reviews: Books by Phoebe Adams, pp. 92-98 - 11 Reviews
      1. Under the Guns: New York: 1775-1776 by Bruce Bliven, Jr.
      2. Tropical Detective Story by Raymond Mungo
      3. How the Government Breaks the Law by Jethro K. Lieberman
      4. In Hiding by Ronald Fraser
      5. Magog by Andrew Sinclair
      6. Report to the Commissioner by James Mills
      7. The Night of Long Knives by Max Gallo
      8. Victoria's Heyday by J.B. Priestley
      9. The Restless Earth by Nigel Calder
      10. A Sense of Place by Alan Gussow
      11. The Politics of Literature by Louis Kampf and Paul Lauter
  9. [+]
    September 1972 Issue = 25 Articles
    1. The Editor's Page, pp. 4-5
    2. Reports & Comments by Robert Sam Anson, pp. 6-9
    3. Miami Beach: The Democrats by Michael Janeway, pp. 10-12
    4. Washington by Elizabeth Drew, pp. 13-21
    5. Moscow by Hedrick Smith, pp. 22-29
    6. Innocent Bystander by L.E. Sissman, pp. 30-33
    7. The Mail, pp. 34-39
    8. Contributors, pp. 40-42
    9. The Last Days of Cowboy Capitalism by "Adam Smith", pp. 43-55
    10. How the Economy Went Haywire by David Halberstam, pp. 56-59
    11. St. Antony of Padua by Robert Graves, p. 60
    12. The Last Laugh by Fernando Krahn, p. 61
    13. The Sandman by Donald Barthelme, pp. 62-64
    14. Poem for Jean Tinguely by Jarold Ramsey, pp. 65-69
    15. Two Men by R.D. Skillings, pp. 70-71
    16. Notes on an Italian Hill Town by Linda Arking, pp. 72-81
    17. Simpson's Wife by Ward Just, pp. 82-86
    18. The Pale Ones by Barry Spacks, p. 87
    19. Three Poems by W.H. Auden, pp. 88-89
    20. "Is This Like Your War, Sir" by Arthur T. Hadley, pp. 90-95
    21. [+]
      A Seagull Named Irving by William Abrahams, pp. 96-97 - 1 Review
      1. The Word by Irving Wallace
    22. Steak Media, Please by Edwin Newman, pp. 98-99
    23. Blanchine/Stavinsky by Richard Poirier, pp. 100-103
    24. [+]
      The Peripatetic Reviewer by Edward Weeks, pp. 104-109 - 3 Reviews
      1. Eleanor: The Years Alone by Joseph P. Lash
      2. I Come as a Thief by Louis Auchincloss
      3. The Hudson River and Its Painters by John K. Howat
    25. [+]
      Short Reviews: Books by Phoebe Adams, pp. 110-116 - 9 Reviews
      1. Aswan! by Michael Heim
      2. Bela Lugosi's White Christmas by Paul West
      3. Splendor and Death of Joaquin Murieta by Pablo Neruda
      4. The Roots of Coincidence by Arthur Koestler
      5. The Santa Claus Bank Robbery by A.C. Greene
      6. A Window on Russia by Edmund Wilson
      7. Treasury of Great Humor by Louis Untermeyer
      8. Black English by J.L. Dillard
      9. Counsel for the Deceived by Philip G. Schrag
  10. [+]
    October 1972 Issue = 24 Articles
    1. The Editor's Page, pp. 4-5
    2. Reports & Comments by Ross Terrill, pp. 6-21
    3. Japan by Elizabeth Pond, pp. 22-27
    4. Vienna by Alan Levy, pp. 28-31
    5. Innocent Bystander by L.E. Sissman, pp. 32-37
    6. The Mail, pp. 38-47
    7. Contributors, pp. 48-50
    8. The Government Is Watching by Thomas Powers, pp. 51-64
    9. A Few Speak for Freedom by Alfred Kazin, pp. 65-71
    10. The Last Traffic Jam by Stewart Udall, pp. 72-76
    11. The Last Laugh by Fernando Krahn, p. 77
    12. Norman Mailer: A Self-Creation by Richard Poirier, pp. 78-84
    13. Watch the Wind by L. WoiWode, p. 85
    14. Behind the Meat Counter: The Fight over DES by Harrison Wellford, pp. 86-92
    15. I Never Hollered Cheezit the Cops by Nelson Algren, pp. 93-98
    16. Encounters with Artists by Alexander Eliot, pp. 99-104
    17. Portfolio by Diane Arbus, pp. 105-108
    18. The Congressman Who Loved Flaubert by Ward Just, pp. 109-118
    19. The Prepared Statement by Robert Graves, p. 119
    20. [+]
      Toward a New Society by Ross Terrill, pp. 120-125 - 2 Reviews
      1. Socialism by Michael Harrington
      2. Reflections on the Causes of Human Misery and Upon Certain Proposals to Eliminate Them by Barrington Moore, Jr.
    21. [+]
      The Floating World by Melvin Maddocks, pp. 126-128 - 2 Reviews
      1. The Master of Go by Yasunari Kawabata
      2. Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima
    22. News from the Castle by John Ormond, pp. 129-131
    23. [+]
      The Peripatetic Reviewer by Edward Weeks, pp. 132-134 - 5 Reviews
      1. Herself by Hortense Calisher
      2. Standard Dreaming by Hortense Calisher
      3. Forecast for Overlord by James Martin Stagg
      4. Paris Was Yesterday, 1925-1939 by Janet Flanner and Irving Drutman
      5. Travels in Nihilon by Alan Sillitoe
    24. [+]
      Short Reviews: Books by Phoebe Adams, pp. 135-142 - 12 Reviews
      1. Chimera by John Barth
      2. Father Figure by Beverley Nichols
      3. The Players and the Game by Julian Symons
      4. The Darkening Land by William F. Longgood
      5. The Tomb of Tutankhamen by Howard Carter
      6. The Breast by Philip Roth
      7. Kings, Beasts and Heroes by Gwyn Jones
      8. The Green Flag by Robert Kee
      9. Triple Cross: Novellas by Carlos Fuentes, Jose Donoso, and Severo Sarduy
      10. Herblock's State of the Union by Herbert Block
      11. Who Is Angela Davis? by Regina Nadelson
      12. Don't Put Your Daughter on the Stage by Margaret Webster
  11. [+]
    November 1972 Issue = 22 Articles
    1. The Editor's Page, pp. 4-5
    2. Reports & Comment by Elizabeth Drew, pp. 6-16
    3. School Busing by Frank Barrows, pp. 17-21
    4. The Pentagon Papers Trial by Sanford J. Ungar, pp. 22-33
    5. Paris by Justine Delacy, pp. 34-39
    6. Innocent Bystander by L.E. Sissman, pp. 40-41
    7. The Mail, pp. 42-46
    8. Contributors, pp. 47-48
    9. Walt Disney Presents: Adventures in Collegeland! by Herbert Gold, pp. 49-55
    10. Home from the War: The Psychology of Survival by Robert Jay Lifton, pp. 56-72
    11. His Last Autumn by Leslie Norris, p. 73
    12. Ghosts by Frank O'Connor, pp. 74-78
    13. The Re-Selling of the President by Martin F. Nolan, pp. 79-81
    14. The Last Laugh by Fernando Krahn, p. 82
    15. A Way of Caring: Notes from a Journal by Stephen Spender, pp. 83-89
    16. The 400-Year-Old Commune by Jon Swan, pp. 90-100
    17. The Way We Went by Wallace E. Knight, pp. 101-110
    18. Veteran's Dream by Anne Hussey, p. 111
    19. [+]
      Heroin and the CIA by Flora Lewis, pp. 112-121 - 1 Review
      1. The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia by Alfred W. McCoy, Cathleen B. Read, and Leonard P. Adams II, ...
    20. [+]
      Such, Such Was George Orwell by Melvin Maddocks, pp. 122-124 - 1 Review
      1. The Unknown Orwell by Peter Stansky and William Abrahams
    21. [+]
      The Peripatetic Reviewer by Edward Weeks, pp. 125-129 - 4 Reviews
      1. The Tree Where Man Was Born by Peter Matthiessen and Eliot Porter
      2. Nelson the Commander by Geoffrey Bennett
      3. The Clocks of Columbus by Charles S. Holmes
      4. Like the Lion's Tooth by Marjorie Kellogg
    22. [+]
      Short Reviews by Phoebe Adams, pp. 130-138 - 11 Reviews
      1. The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
      2. The True History of the First Mrs. Meredith and Other Lesser Lives by Diane Johnson
      3. The Original Sin by Anthony Quinn
      4. The Mountain People by Colin M. Turnbull
      5. Dictionary for the Disenchanted by Bernard Rosenberg
      6. Portraits from North American Indian Life by Edward S. Curtis
      7. The Clang Birds by John L'Heureux
      8. In Search of Dracula by Radu Florescu and Raymond T. McNally
      9. The Natural History of the Vampire by Anthony Masters
      10. The High Priests of Waste by A. Ernest Fitzgerald
      11. The Visconti Hours by Millard Meiss, Edith W. Kirsch, and Giovannino De' Grassi, ...
  12. [+]
    December 1972 Issue = 21 Articles
    1. The Editor's Page, pp. 4-5
    2. Reports & Comment by George C. Wilson, pp. 6-26
    3. Uganda by Stanley Meisler, pp. 27-39
    4. Innocent Bystander by L.E. Sissman, pp. 40-45
    5. The Mail, pp. 46-51
    6. Contributors, pp. 52-54
    7. The Lucky Generation by Malcolm Cowley, pp. 55-61
    8. A Brief Life is best in the End, I Suppose by Richard Elman, pp. 62-67
    9. The Inside Story of the Mellon Art Collection by John Walker, pp. 68-86
    10. The Trapper by Peter Klappert, p. 87
    11. A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck, pp. 88-90
    12. Ornette Coleman and the Circle with a Hole in the Middle by Robert Palmer, pp. 91-93
    13. Sailing by April Smith, pp. 94-100
    14. "Yes, Sir, This Has Certainly Been Considered a Safe Mine" by Rachel Scott, pp. 101-114
    15. Praying on a 707 by Anne Sexton, p. 115
    16. The Morning After the War Before by Denis Warner, pp. 116-125
    17. [+]
      Updike and Barthelme: Disengagement by Richard Todd, pp. 126-131 - 2 Reviews
      1. Museums and Women, and Other Stories by John Updike
      2. Sadness by Donald Barthelme
    18. [+]
      Reich at the Orgone Box by Paul A. Robinson, pp. 132-137 - 3 Reviews
      1. Character-Analysis by Wilhelm Reich
      2. The Function of the Orgasm by Wilhelm Reich
      3. Ether, God and Devil, and Cosmic Superimposition by Wilhelm Reich
    19. [+]
      Rohmer's Men and Women by David Denby, pp. 138-140 - 1 Review
      1. Chloe in the Afternoon (1972 Film) by Eric Rohmer
    20. [+]
      The Peripatetic Reviewer by Edward Weeks, pp. 141-143 - 4 Reviews
      1. Queen Victoria by Cecil Woodham-Smith
      2. Transparent Things by Vladimir Nabokov
      3. The Persian Boy by Mary Renault
      4. The Great American Shooting Prints by Robert Elman
    21. [+]
      Short Reviews: Books by Phoebe Adams, pp. 144-154 - 12 Reviews
      1. The Odessa File by Frederick Forsyth
      2. Waiting for the Morning Train by Bruce Catton
      3. A Universal History of Infamy by Jorge Luis Borges
      4. The Temptation of Jack Orkney, and Other Stories by Doris Lessing
      5. The Age of Kipling by John Gross
      6. The Hidden Injuries of Class by Richard Sennett and Jonathan Cobb
      7. Somewhere Else by Robert Kotlowitz
      8. The Making of a Psychiatrist by David S. Viscott
      9. Amphigorey by Edward Gorey
      10. Treasures of the Armada by Robert Stenuit
      11. Erotic Art Today by Volker Kahmen
      12. The Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam
4. [+]
  Issues of 1973 = 12 Issues, 235 Articles
5. [+]
  Issues of 1974 = 6 Issues, 135 Articles
6. [+]
  Issues of 1975 = 6 Issues, 122 Articles
[+]
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1. [+]
  Issues of 1981 = 12 Issues, 250 Articles
2. [+]
  Issues of 1982 = 12 Issues, 231 Articles
3. [+]
  Issues of 1983 = 12 Issues, 227 Articles
4. [+]
  Issues of 1984 = 12 Issues, 258 Articles
5. [+]
  Issues of 1985 = 12 Issues, 253 Articles
6. [+]
  Issues of 1986 = 12 Issues, 270 Articles
7. [+]
  Issues of 1987 = 12 Issues, 290 Articles
8. [+]
  Issues of 1988 = 12 Issues, 277 Articles
9. [+]
  Issues of 1989 = 12 Issues, 276 Articles
[+]
Issues of the 1990s = 10 Years, 113 Issues, 2,420 Articles
1. [+]
  Issues of 1990 = 12 Issues, 261 Articles
2. [+]
  Issues of 1991 = 11 Issues, 217 Articles
3. [+]
  Issues of 1992 = 11 Issues, 232 Articles
4. [+]
  Issues of 1993 = 12 Issues, 274 Articles
5. [+]
  Issues of 1994 = 12 Issues, 247 Articles
6. [+]
  Issues of 1995 = 9 Issues, 199 Articles
7. [+]
  Issues of 1996 = 11 Issues, 232 Articles
8. [+]
  Issues of 1997 = 11 Issues, 243 Articles
9. [+]
  Issues of 1998 = 12 Issues, 255 Articles
10. [+]
  Issues of 1999 = 12 Issues, 260 Articles
[+]
Issues of the 2000s = 10 Years, 102 Issues, 3,204 Articles
1. [+]
  Issues of 2000 = 12 Issues, 273 Articles
2. [+]
  Issues of 2001 = 11 Issues, 406 Articles
3. [+]
  Issues of 2002 = 11 Issues, 404 Articles
4. [+]
  Issues of 2003 = 10 Issues, 336 Articles
5. [+]
  Issues of 2004 = 10 Issues, 341 Articles
6. [+]
  Issues of 2005 = 9 Issues, 318 Articles
7. [+]
  Issues of 2006 = 10 Issues, 382 Articles
8. [+]
  Issues of 2007 = 9 Issues, 264 Articles
9. [+]
  Issues of 2008 = 10 Issues, 257 Articles
10. [+]
  Issues of 2009 = 10 Issues, 223 Articles
[+]
Issues of the 2010s = 1 Year, 1 Issue, 22 Articles
1. [+]
  Issues of 2010 = 1 Issue, 22 Articles