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December 5, 1985 Issue - 16 Articles-
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Big Three (2 Reviews) John Bayley
, pp. 3-4 Letters: Summer 1926, by Yevgeny Pasternak, Yelena Pasternak, and Konstantin M. Azadovs...
- Letters: Summer 1926 by Yevgeny Pasternak, Yelena Pasternak, and Konstantin M. Azadovsky, ...
- Letters on Cezanne by Rainer Maria Rilke and Clara Rilke
- The Hungarian Lesson
Timothy Garton Ash
, pp. 5-9 - What is Europe?
Alain Finkielkraut
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Tall Stories (2 Reviews) Martin Filler
, pp. 11-18 The Tall Building Artistically Reconsidered, by Ada Louise Huxtable
- The Tall Building Artistically Reconsidered by Ada Louise Huxtable
- Ada Louise Huxtable: An Annotated Bibliography by Lawrence Wodehouse
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Limpid Pessimist (10 Reviews) Mavis Gallant
, pp. 19-24 Alexis, by Marguerite Yourcenar
- Alexis by Marguerite Yourcenar
- Coup de Grace by Marguerite Yourcenar
- A Coin in Nine Hands by Marguerite Yourcenar
- Hadrian's Memoirs by Marguerite Yourcenar
- With Open Eyes by Marguerite Yourcenar
- The Abyss by Marguerite Yourcenar
- Oriental Tales by Marguerite Yourcenar
- The Dark Brain of Piranesi, and Other Essays by Marguerite Yourcenar
- Plays by Marguerite Yourcenar
- Fires by Marguerite Yourcenar
- The Disappearance of Luisa Porto
Carlos Drummond de Andrade
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The Return of the Native (Review) David Joravsky
, pp. 26-34 Kapitza, Rutherford and the Kremlin, by Lawrence Badash
- Kapitza, Rutherford and the Kremlin by Lawrence Badash
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Depositions (3 Reviews) D.J. Enright
, pp. 35-37 A Maggot, by John Fowles
- A Maggot by John Fowles
- Foreign Land by Jonathan Raban
- Family and Friends by Anita Brookner
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On the Town (Review) Peter Partner
, pp. 38-40 Cities and People, by Mark Girouard
- Cities and People by Mark Girouard
- Algeria Rising
Alistair Horne
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Master of Exceptions (Review) Roy Foster
, pp. 44-47 Workers: Worlds of Labor, by Eric Hobsbawm
- Workers: Worlds of Labor by Eric Hobsbawm
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Founding Sons (2 Reviews) T.H. Breen
, pp. 48-51 A People's Army, by Fred Anderson
- A People's Army by Fred Anderson
- To Starve the Army at Pleasure by E. Wayne Carp
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The Right Stuff (Review) Anthony Quinton
, pp. 52-54 Alfred North Whitehead, by Victor Lowe
- Alfred North Whitehead by Victor Lowe
- The Nicaraguan Tangle
Robert S. Leiken
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Survivor (Review) Stephen Spender
, pp. 65-66 The Assault, by Harry Mulisch
- The Assault by Harry Mulisch
- Letters
Mark Wheeler, Nora Beloff, Loyd D. Easton, and Andrzej Walicki, ...
, pp. 67-72