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Vulnerable Japan

Japan: The Fragile Superpower, by Frank Gibney

by E.J. Hobsbawm

The New York Review of Books, July 17, 1975, pp. 27-31

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        Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow
      6. On Boredom by Saul Bellow, p. 22
      7. [+]
        Wealth and Power by Geoffrey Barraclough, pp. 23-29 - 6 Reviews
        Toward a New International Economic Order by C. Fred Bergsten
        The Politics of Trade by Douglas Evans
        New Forces in World Politics by Seyom Brown
        The Energy Crisis by Michael Tanzer
        Dialogue on World Oil by Edward J. Mitchell
        Energy and U.S. Foreign Policy by Joseph A. Yager and Eleanor B. Steinberg
      8. [+]
        Mindless Societies by C.H. Waddington, pp. 30-31 - 2 Reviews
        Sociobiology: The New Synthesis by Edward O. Wilson
        Biogenetic Structuralism by Charles D. Laughlin, Jr. and Eugene G. D'Aquili, ...
      9. [+]
        The CIA in Latin America by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, pp. 32-33 - 1 Review
        Inside the Company by Philip Agee
      10. [+]
        Adventures of the Deep by Thomas R. Edwards, pp. 34-35 - 3 Reviews
        Far Tortuga by Peter Matthiessen
        The Sinking of Odradek Stadium by Harry Mathews
        The Great Victorian Collection by Brian Moore
      11. [+]
        The Return of Laura Riding by Paul Auster, pp. 36-37 - 2 Reviews
        Selected Poems by Laura Riding Jackson
        The Telling by Laura Riding Jackson
      12. [+]
        Yankee Doodle Andy by William Appleman Williams, p. 38 - 1 Review
        Fathers and Children by Michael Paul Rogin
      13. [+]
        Stricken Boston by Robert Coles, pp. 39-40 - 1 Review
        A City in Terror by Francis Russell
      14. J.E.C. Double-Crostic by Janet Elliott Cameron, p. 41
      15. Letters by Vernon A. Walters and Kenneth Maxwell, pp. 41-44
  4. [+]
    Issues of Oct.-Dec. 1975 = 5 Issues, 79 Articles
    1. [+]
      October 16, 1975 Issue = 14 Articles
      1. [+]
        Boysenberry Sherbet by Irvin Ehrenpreis, pp. 3-5 - 2 Reviews
        Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror by John Ashbery
        Departures by Donald Justice
      2. [+]
        Haunted Landscape by Robert M. Adams, pp. 6-8 - 1 Review
        Pueblo: Mountain, Village, Dance by Vincent Scully
      3. [+]
        American Prophet by Frederick Crews, pp. 9-14 - 1 Review
        Life History and the Historical Moment by Erik H. Erikson
      4. Salzburg, Mozart, Cosi by Robert Craft, pp. 15-17
      5. [+]
        He's Not So Dumb by Garry Wills, pp. 18-26 - 4 Reviews
        Portrait of a President by Hugh Sidey
        The President by John Hersey
        Gerald Ford and the Future of the Presidency by Jerald F. terHorst
        A Ford, Not a Lincoln by Richard Reeves
      6. [+]
        Hello to All That by Karl Miller, pp. 27-29 - 6 Reviews
        The Great War and Modern Memory by Paul Fussell
        Wilfred Owen: A Biography by Jon Stallworthy
        Journey to the Trenches by Joseph Cohen
        Isaac Rosenberg by Jean Liddiard
        Isaac Rosenberg: Poet and Painter by Jean Moorcroft Wilson
        Keith Douglas, 1920-1944 by Desmond Graham
      7. [+]
        The Real Macaulay by H.R. Trevor-Roper, pp. 30-32 - 1 Review
        The Letters of Thomas Babington Macaulay by Thomas Pinney and Thomas Babington Macaulay
      8. [+]
        Magical and Mundane Shakespeare by C.L. Barber, pp. 33-34 - 2 Reviews
        Shakespeare's Last Plays by Frances A. Yates
        William Shakespeare: A Documentary Life by S. Schoenbaum
      9. Paradox by Robert Penn Warren, p. 35
      10. [+]
        The Greeks and Us by Arnaldo Momigliano, pp. 36-37 - 3 Reviews
        Democracy Ancient and Modern by M.I. Finley
        The Ancient Economy by M.I. Finley
        The Use and Abuse of History by M.I. Finley
      11. [+]
        The Uses of Antislavery by George M. Fredrickson, pp. 38-40 - 1 Review
        The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823 by David Brion Davis
      12. [+]
        Short Reviews, p. 41 - 2 Reviews
        Eagle and Sword by Richard H. Kohn
        The Long Thirst by Thomas M. Coffey
      13. The Kim Chi Ha Case by Bruce Cumings, p. 42
      14. Letters by Michael Bawtree, Peter Levi, Noel Annan, and Lawrence Krader, ..., pp. 43-48
    2. [+]
      October 30, 1975 Issue = 15 Articles
      1. [+]
        The Sporting Life by Garry Wills, pp. 3-7 - 4 Reviews
        Muhammad Ali by Wilfrid Sheed
        Sportsworld by Robert Lipsyte
        The Fight by Norman Mailer
        The Greatest: My Own Story by Muhammad Ali and Richard Durham
      2. [+]
        The Dostoevskys by V.S. Pritchett, pp. 8-9 - 1 Review
        Dostoevsky: Reminiscences by Anna Dostoevsky and Beatrice Stillman
      3. Old Man by Anthony Ostroff, p. 10
      4. [+]
        Mozart's 'Opera of All Operas' by Robert Craft, pp. 11-13 - 1 Review
        The Don Juan Legend by Otto Rank and David G. Winter
      5. [+]
        Paranonsense by Martin Gardner, pp. 14-15 - 2 Reviews
        Superminds by John G. Taylor
        The Magic of Uri Geller by James Randi
      6. [+]
        The Return of George Wallace by Marshall Frady, pp. 16-25 - 1 Review
        The Wallaces of Alabama by George C. Wallace and James Gregory
      7. [+]
        Anatomy Lessons by Quentin Bell, pp. 26-27 - 1 Review
        The Anatomical Works of George Stubbs by Terence Doherty
      8. [+]
        The Lives of Ancient Women by E. Badian, pp. 28-31 - 3 Reviews
        Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves by Sarah B. Pomeroy
        Females of the Species by Hugh Lloyd-Jones and Simonides
        Sex and Power in History by Amaury de Riencourt
      9. [+]
        Unsafe at Any Speed by Norman E. Zinberg, pp. 32-33 - 3 Reviews
        The Cocaine Papers by Sigmund Freud and Robert Byck
        Cocaine: Its History, Uses and Effects by Richard Ashley
        The Speed Culture by Lester Grinspoon and Peter Hedblom
      10. Israel Letter by Bernard Avishai, pp. 34-36
      11. Interview on the Palestinians by Abba Eban, p. 37
      12. [+]
        Cracking the Code by D.S. Carne-Ross, pp. 38-39 - 1 Review
        After Babel by George Steiner
      13. An Open Letter to the Secretary General by Ludvik Vaculik, p. 40
      14. Letters by Lev Navrozov, Garry Wills, Philip Collins, and Charles E. Robinson, ..., p. 41
      15. J.E.C. Double-Crostic by Janet Elliott Cameron, pp. 42-44
    3. [+]
      November 13, 1975 Issue = 15 Articles
      1. [+]
        The Corridors of DNA by C.P. Snow, p. 3 - 1 Review
        Rosalind Franklin and DNA by Anne Sayre
      2. [+]
        The Rescue of Edith Wharton by Irvin Ehrenpreis, pp. 4-9 - 1 Review
        Edith Wharton: A Biography by R.W.B. Lewis
      3. [+]
        Disturbing, Fanatical, and Heroic by Leonard Schapiro, pp. 10-16 - 1 Review
        The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956 by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
      4. [+]
        Art, Life & Dr. Williams by Helen Vendler, pp. 17-19 - 3 Reviews
        William Carlos Williams by Robert Coles
        William Carlos Williams: Poet from Jersey by Reed Whittemore
        The Embodiment of Knowledge by William Carlos Williams and Ron Loewinsohn
      5. [+]
        Someone to Watch Over You by Garry Wills, pp. 20-22 - 1 Review
        The Abuses of the Intelligence Agencies by Jerry J. Berman and Morton H. Halperin
      6. Disintegrating Portugal by Oriana Fallaci, pp. 23-30
      7. [+]
        Fathers & Fathers & Sons by Roger Sale, p. 31 - 3 Reviews
        Northern Lights by Tim O'Brien
        Look How the Fish Live by J.F. Powers
        Beyond the Bedroom Wall by Larry Woiwode
      8. Postscript from Portugal by Kenneth Maxwell, p. 32
      9. [+]
        The Family and History by Christopher Lasch, pp. 33-38 - 7 Reviews
        The American Family in Social-Historical Perspective by Michael Gordon
        The World We Have Lost by Peter Laslett
        World Revolution and Family Patterns by William J. Goode
        Household and Family in Past Times by Peter Laslett and Richard Wall
        The Family in History by Theodore K. Rabb and Robert I. Rotberg
        The Wish to Be Free by Fred Weinstein and Gerald M. Platt
        The Making of the Modern Family by Edward Shorter
      10. [+]
        The Progress of Cesar Chavez by Francis Carney, pp. 39-41 - 2 Reviews
        Chavez and the Farm Workers by Ronald B. Taylor
        Cesar Chavez by Jacques E. Levy and Cesar Chavez
      11. [+]
        Vectors by Irving Howe, p. 42 - 1 Review
        I Would Have Saved Them If I Could by Leonard Michaels
      12. Against "Sociobiology" by Elizabeth Allen, p. 43
      13. Chile's Murderous Regime by Anthony T. Moffett, p. 44
      14. Letters by Jay Fellows, Martin Tropp, and Michael Wood, p. 45
      15. Les Mysteres de Constantinople by Edward Gorey, pp. 46-48
    4. [+]
      November 27, 1975 Issue = 12 Articles
      1. [+]
        How Freedom Took Root in Slavery by J.H. Plumb, pp. 3-5 - 1 Review
        American Slavery, American Freedom by Edmund S. Morgan
      2. Modern Architecture in Question by Ada Louise Huxtable, pp. 6-10
      3. [+]
        Greatness and Melancholy by Michael Wood, pp. 11-15 - 2 Reviews
        George Eliot: The Emergent Self by Ruby V. Redinger
        Young Thomas Hardy by Robert Gittings
      4. [+]
        Playing with 'The Magic Flute' by Robert Craft, pp. 16-21 - 4 Reviews
        The Magic Flute (1975 Film) by Ingmar Bergman
        A Preface to The Magic Flute by Edward M. Batley
        The Magic Flute Unveiled by Jacques Chailley
        Three Mozart Operas by R.B. Moberly
      5. Spain on the Brink by Barbara Probst Solomon, pp. 22-26
      6. [+]
        Aeschylus Pinioned and Grabbed by Bernard M.W. Knox, pp. 27-29 - 3 Reviews
        Aeschylus: The Suppliants by Janet Lembke and Aeschylus
        Seven Against Thebes by Anthony Hecht, Helen H. Bacon, and Aeschylus
        Prometheus Bound by James Scully, C. John Herington, and Aeschylus
      7. [+]
        School's Out by Edgar Z. Friedenberg, pp. 30-34 - 3 Reviews
        Half the House by Herbert Kohl
        Being with Children by Phillip Lopate
        The Myth of the Hyperactive Child by Peter Schrag and Diane Divosky
      8. [+]
        Working Up Work by Frank Kermode, pp. 35-36 - 1 Review
        Work and Play by Alasdair Clayre
      9. [+]
        The Emotions of Family Life by Christopher Lasch, pp. 37-41 - 1 Review
        The Wish to Be Free by Fred Weinstein and Gerald M. Platt
      10. [+]
        Lost Allusions by Christopher Ricks, pp. 42-44 - 2 Reviews
        The Realms of Gold by Margaret Drabble
        Cockpit by Jerzy Kosinski
      11. Brazil by Richard Morse, p. 45
      12. Letters by Joanna S. Rose and Joseph Cohen, pp. 46-48
    5. [+]
      December 11, 1975 Issue = 23 Articles
      1. [+]
        In Scorn and Pity by Karl Miller, pp. 3-4 - 1 Review
        Guerrillas by V.S. Naipaul
      2. [+]
        Laying the Dust by Kirkpatrick Sale, pp. 5-8 - 1 Review
        Final Report
      3. 'A Prodigy of Nature' by Robert Craft, pp. 9-14
      4. [+]
        The Short Good-bye by Neville Maxwell, pp. 15-17 - 1 Review
        Freedom at Midnight by Larry Collins and Dominique LaPierre
      5. [+]
        Mysteries of Islam by Clifford Geertz, pp. 18-25 - 3 Reviews
        The Venture of Islam, Vol. I by Marshall G.S. Hodgson
        The Venture of Islam, Vol. II by Marshall G.S. Hodgson
        The Venture of Islam, Vol. III by Marshall G.S. Hodgson
      6. A Tail of Terror by Alison Lurie, pp. 26-27
      7. [+]
        The Psychopathology of Journalism by Alexander Cockburn, pp. 28-30 - 4 Reviews
        Hope and Fear in Washington (The Early Seventies) by Barney Collier
        We're Going to Make You a Star by Sally Quinn
        The First Casualty by Phillip Knightley
        The First Time by Karl Fleming and Anne Taylor Fleming
      8. The Current Cinema by Veronica Geng, pp. 31-33
      9. [+]
        Keeping the Secret by Nigel Dennis, pp. 34-35 - 1 Review
        Trollope: His Life and Art by C.P. Snow
      10. [+]
        The War Between Men and Women by Diane Johnson, pp. 36-38 - 3 Reviews
        Against Our Will by Susan Brownmiller
        Rape: The Bait and the Trap by Jean Scott MacKellar
        Rape and Its Victims
      11. [+]
        Cultural Hothouse by Carl E. Schorske, pp. 39-43 - 7 Reviews
        The Sacred Spring by Nicolas Powell
        Art in Vienna, 1898-1918 by Peter Vergo
        Gustav Klimt by Werner Hofmann
        Gustav Klimt by Alessandra Comini
        Egon Schiele's Portraits by Alessandra Comini and Egon Schiele
        The Art of Egon Schiele by Erwin Mitsch
        Egon Schiele by Rudolf Leopold
      12. [+]
        Coco's Closet by Francine Gray, pp. 44-45 - 1 Review
        Chanel by Edmonde Charles-Roux
      13. [+]
        Strawberry Shortcut by Martin Gardner, p. 46 - 1 Review
        Powers of Mind by Adam Smith#2
      14. Street Musicians by John Ashbery, p. 47
      15. [+]
        Writer, Rightist or Freak? by Hide Ishiguro, pp. 48-49 - 2 Reviews
        Mishima by John Nathan
        The Life and Death of Yukio Mishima by Henry Scott Stokes
      16. [+]
        What the Doctor Ordered by Christopher Lasch, pp. 50-53 - 1 Review
        The Making of the Modern Family by Edward Shorter
      17. [+]
        Barthelme the Scrivener by Thomas R. Edwards, p. 54 - 1 Review
        The Dead Father by Donald Barthelme
      18. The Secret of Their Voices by Philip Levine, p. 55
      19. [+]
        Joy in Mudville by Moshe Safdie, pp. 56-57 - 1 Review
        Architecture for the Poor by Hassan Fathy
      20. Lionel Trilling (1905-1975) by John Thompson, p. 58
      21. Letter from a Portuguese Prison by Kenneth Maxwell, p. 59
      22. Letters by Edward O. Wilson, William N. Parker, and Thomas L. Haskell, ..., p. 60
      23. J.E.C. Double-Crostic by Janet Elliott Cameron, pp. 60-64
7. [+]
  Issues of 1976 = 21 Issues, 272 Articles
8. [+]
  Issues of 1977 = 19 Issues, 258 Articles
9. [+]
  Issues of 1978 = 18 Issues, 262 Articles
10. [+]
  Issues of 1979 = 21 Issues, 321 Articles
[+]
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
1. [+]
  Issues of 1990 = 21 Issues, 345 Articles
2. [+]
  Issues of 1991 = 20 Issues, 315 Articles
3. [+]
  Issues of 1992 = 20 Issues, 317 Articles
4. [+]
  Issues of 1993 = 20 Issues, 329 Articles
5. [+]
  Issues of 1994 = 20 Issues, 315 Articles
6. [+]
  Issues of 1995 = 20 Issues, 326 Articles
7. [+]
  Issues of 1996 = 20 Issues, 335 Articles
8. [+]
  Issues of 1997 = 20 Issues, 328 Articles
9. [+]
  Issues of 1998 = 20 Issues, 344 Articles
10. [+]
  Issues of 1999 = 20 Issues, 366 Articles
[+]
Issues of the 2000s = 6 Years, 66 Issues, 1,270 Articles
1. [+]
  Issues of 2000 = 20 Issues, 380 Articles
2. [+]
  Issues of 2005 = 1 Issue, 17 Articles
3. [+]
  Issues of 2006 = 6 Issues, 97 Articles
4. [+]
  Issues of 2007 = 9 Issues, 166 Articles
5. [+]
  Issues of 2008 = 13 Issues, 286 Articles
6. [+]
  Issues of 2009 = 17 Issues, 324 Articles
[+]
Issues of the 2010s = 1 Year, 19 Issues, 402 Articles
1. [+]
  Issues of 2010 = 19 Issues, 402 Articles