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The New York Review of Books, October 12, 1978, pp. 14-17

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      January 26, 1978 Issue = 16 Articles
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        Stir Crazy by Clifford Geertz, pp. 3-6 - 1 Review
        Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault
      2. [+]
        The Master Builder by Kenneth Clark, pp. 7-8 - 1 Review
        Leon Battista Alberti by Franco Borsi and Leon Battista Alberti
      3. The Great Spectacular by Graham Greene, p. 9
      4. Illness as Metaphor by Susan Sontag, pp. 10-15
      5. The Mythical Life of D.H. Lawrence by Stephen Spender, p. 16
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        Below Suspicion by Robert Towers, p. 17 - 2 Reviews
        True Confessions by John Gregory Dunne
        Transatlantic Blues by Wilfrid Sheed
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        Conspicuous Grandeur by Keith Thomas, pp. 18-20 - 1 Review
        The Courts of Europe by A.G. Dickens
      8. [+]
        The Third Coming by Martin Gardner, pp. 21-26 - 3 Reviews
        Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977 Film) by Steven Spielberg
        Close Encounters of the Third Kind by Steven Spielberg
        The Hynek UFO Report by J. Allen Hynek
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        A Victorian Heroine by Aileen Kelly, pp. 27-30 - 1 Review
        Eleanor Marx by Yvonne Kapp
      10. [+]
        Solving the China Problem by John K. Fairbank, pp. 31-33 - 2 Reviews
        China and America by William J. Barnds
        China, Oil, and Asia: Conflict Ahead? by Selig S. Harrison
      11. [+]
        Traveling Light by Stephen Spender, pp. 34-35 - 1 Review
        A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor
      12. [+]
        Cosa Nostra by Geoffrey Grigson, pp. 36-37 - 1 Review
        Four Rossettis: A Victorian Biography by Stanley Weintraub
      13. The Long Work of Liberty by George Konrad, pp. 38-40
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        A History of Endurance by Willie Lee Rose, p. 41 - 1 Review
        Black Odyssey by Nathan Irvin Huggins
      15. The Bakke Case by Ronald Dworkin, Martin Staniland, and John Robertson, ..., pp. 42-44
      16. Letters by Marilyn Vogt, Richard Wilbur, and Harold E. Mahan, ..., pp. 45-48
    2. [+]
      February 9, 1978 Issue = 15 Articles
      1. [+]
        Mr. Eliot's Martyrdom by Irvin Ehrenpreis, pp. 3-8 - 3 Reviews
        Eliot's Early Years by Lyndall Gordon
        T.S. Eliot's Personal Waste Land by James E. Miller, Jr.
        T. S. Eliot: The Longer Poems by Derek A. Traversi
      2. [+]
        Rich Kids by Gore Vidal, pp. 9-14 - 1 Review
        Children of Crisis, Vol. V by Robert Coles
      3. [+]
        A Four Handkerchief Tragedy by Bernard Knox, pp. 15-19 - 2 Reviews
        Iphigeneia at Aulis by Euripides, W.S. Merwin, and George E. Dimock, Jr., ...
        Iphigenia (1977 Film) by Mihalis Kakogiannis
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        What Trotsky Thought by Irving Howe, pp. 20-26 - 2 Reviews
        The Life and Death of Trotsky by Robert Payne
        The Social and Political Thought of Leon Trotsky by Baruch Knei-Paz
      5. Images of Illness by Susan Sontag, pp. 27-29
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        Reading Opera by Joseph Kerman, pp. 30-32 - 3 Reviews
        Romantic Opera and Literary Form by Peter Conrad
        Literature as Opera by Gary Schmidgall
        Mozart and Beethoven by Irving Singer
      7. Walt Whitman by John Updike, pp. 33-35
      8. [+]
        Getting Down to Business by Robert L. Heilbroner, p. 36 - 2 Reviews
        The Visible Hand by Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.
        Captains of Consciousness by Stuart Ewen
      9. On Robert Lowell by Seamus Heaney, p. 37
      10. [+]
        Troubling Comedian by Thomas R. Edwards, pp. 38-39 - 2 Reviews
        Rockinghorse by Yoram Kaniuk
        Adam Resurrected by Yoram Kaniuk
      11. [+]
        Benevolent Adam Smith by Garry Wills, pp. 40-42 - 4 Reviews
        The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith, David D. Raphael, and A.L. MacFie
        An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, R.H. Campbell, and A.S. Skinner
        Essays on Adam Smith by A.S. Skinner and Thomas Wilson
        The Market and the State by Thomas Wilson and Andrew S. Skinner
      12. The Death Penalty by Andrei Sakharov, p. 43
      13. What Happened in Indonesia? by Francis J. Galbraith and Martin Ennals, p. 44
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        Short Reviews, p. 45 - 2 Reviews
        The "Lowell Offering" by Benita Eisler
        Twilight of the Old Order, 1774-1778 by Claude Manceron
      15. Letters by Henry Pachter, John Kenneth Galbraith, and Desmond Stewart, ..., pp. 46-48
    3. [+]
      February 23, 1978 Issue = 13 Articles
      1. [+]
        The Incurable by V.S. Pritchett, p. 3 - 1 Review
        Letters to Friends, Family and Editors by Franz Kafka
      2. [+]
        The View from the Inglenook by Noel Annan, pp. 4-7 - 1 Review
        Sweetness and Light by Mark Girouard
      3. [+]
        Three Temperaments by Edmund Morgan, pp. 8-9 - 1 Review
        The Protestant Temperament by Philip Greven
      4. [+]
        Edith Wharton's Secret by Karl Miller, pp. 10-15 - 1 Review
        A Feast of Words by Cynthia Griffin Wolff
      5. An interview with General Peled by Leon Wieseltier, pp. 16-28
      6. Disease as Political Metaphor by Susan Sontag, pp. 29-33
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        The First Universal Composer by Robert Craft, pp. 34-35 - 1 Review
        Josquin Des Prez by E.E. Lowinsky and Bonnie J. Blackburn
      8. Not Quite Like a Top by Robert Penn Warren, p. 36
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        The Invasion of the Family by David Brion Davis, pp. 37-38 - 1 Review
        Haven in a Heartless World by Christopher Lasch
      10. [+]
        Brunuel's Private Lessons by Michael Wood, pp. 39-41 - 1 Review
        That Obscure Object of Desire (1977 Film) by Luis Bunuel
      11. [+]
        Picking Up the Pieces by Roger Sale, pp. 42-43 - 4 Reviews
        Refiner's Fire by Mark Helprin
        In Such Dark Places by Joseph Caldwell
        I Heard My Sister Speak My Name by Thomas Savage
        Natural Shocks by Richard Stern
      12. More Psychiatric Terror by Peter Reddaway, p. 44
      13. Letters by Richard M. Weiss, Murat W. Williams, and Renata Adler, ..., pp. 45-48
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      March 9, 1978 Issue = 14 Articles
      1. [+]
        A Gentle-Violent Man by V.S. Pritchett, pp. 3-5 - 1 Review
        The Strange Ride of Rudyard Kipling by Angus Wilson
      2. [+]
        The Life-giving Touch by E.h. Gombrich, pp. 6-10 - 4 Reviews
        Pietro Pauolo Rubens by Frans Baudouin
        Rubens by Keith Roberts
        Rubens and Italy by Michael Jaffe
        Rubens: Drawings and Sketches by John Rowlands
      3. Confessions of a Jewish Dissident by I.F. Stone, pp. 11-12
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        The Great Political Fiction by Edmund S. Morgan, pp. 13-18 - 4 Reviews
        Commons Debates 1628 by William Bidwell, Maija Cole, and Robert C. Johnson, ...
        Letters of Delegates to Congress, 1774-1789 by Paul H. Smith
        The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution by Merrill Jensen
        The Documentary History of the First Federal Elections, 1788-1790 by Merrill Jensen and Robert A. Becker
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        Animal Babel by J.Z. Young, p. 19 - 1 Review
        How Animals Communicate by Thomas A. Sebeok
      6. Fragment, 1959 by Anna Akhmatova, p. 20
      7. The End of White Rule? by Conor Cruise O'Brien, pp. 21-27
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        The Rise of the Fork by Keith Thomas, pp. 28-30 - 2 Reviews
        The Civilizing Process: The History of Manners by Norbert Elias
        Human Figurations by Peter R. Gleichmann, Johan Goudsblom, and Hermann Korte, ...
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        The Call for Chaos by Neal Ascherson, p. 31 - 1 Review
        The City Builder by George Konrad
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        Mandelstam Whole by Henry Gifford, pp. 32-33 - 2 Reviews
        Selected Essays by Osip Mandelstam
        Mandelstam: The Later Poetry by Jennifer Baines
      11. Poem by Osip Mandelstam, p. 34
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        Morality and Reality by H.L.A. Hart, pp. 35-38 - 2 Reviews
        The Nature of Morality by Gilbert Harman
        Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong by J.L. Mackie
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        Too Little Waugh by Robert Craft, p. 39 - 1 Review
        A Little Order by Evelyn Waugh and Donat Gallagher
      14. Letters by Phyllis Roa, Michael Parenti, and Peter Reddaway, ..., pp. 40-44
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      March 23, 1978 Issue = 12 Articles
      1. [+]
        Ah, Wilderness! by Diane Johnson, pp. 3-5 - 2 Reviews
        The Last Cowboy by Jane Kramer
        Coming into the Country by John McPhee
      2. [+]
        Milton, Satan, and Subversion by Quentin Skinner, pp. 6-9 - 1 Review
        Milton and the English Revolution by Christopher Hill
      3. [+]
        Rough Passage by Ronald Steel, pp. 10-14 - 3 Reviews
        The Panama Canal by Walter LaFeber
        The Truth About the Panama Canal by Denison Kitchel
        Surrender in Panama by Philip M. Crane
      4. [+]
        The Delmore File by Robert Towers, pp. 15-17 - 2 Reviews
        Delmore Schwartz: The Life of an American Poet by James Atlas
        In Dreams Begin Responsibilities, and Other Stories by Delmore Schwartz
      5. [+]
        Wonderful Town! by Ken Auletta, pp. 18-21 - 2 Reviews
        The Ungovernable City by Douglas Yates
        Bum Rap on America's Cities by Richard S. Morris
      6. [+]
        To the Sideshow by Alison Lurie, pp. 22-32 - 3 Reviews
        Animals and Men by Kenneth Clark
        Freaks by Leslie A. Fiedler
        A Fiedler Reader by Leslie A. Fiedler
      7. The Theater of Southern Africa by Conor Cruise O'Brien, pp. 33-37
      8. [+]
        Poet in the Wings by Roger Shattuck, pp. 38-40 - 1 Review
        Houseboat Days by John Ashbery
      9. Evviva Vivaldi! by Robert Craft, pp. 41-43
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        Should the Poor Organize? by E.J. Hobsbawm, pp. 44-48 - 1 Review
        Poor People's Movements by Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward
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        Julian Grenfell by Nicholas Mosley
        The Cousins by Max Egremont
      12. Letters by Stanley Weintraub, Geoffrey Grigson, and L.E. Phillabaum, ..., pp. 52-56
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      1. [+]
        Heroic Darkness by Garry Wills, pp. 3-5 - 2 Reviews
        The Ends of Power by H.R. Haldeman and Joseph DiMona
        With Nixon by Raymond Price
      2. [+]
        Beethoven at Home by Frank Kermode, pp. 6-9 - 1 Review
        Beethoven by Maynard Solomon
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        Separating the Chypre from the Ghosts by Michael Wood, pp. 10-11 - 1 Review
        Eastward Ha! by S.J. Perelman
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        Some Romance! by Irving Howe, p. 12 - 1 Review
        The Romance of American Communism by Vivian Gornick
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        The Outlaw by Karl Miller, pp. 13-14 - 1 Review
        Dylan Thomas: A Biography by Paul Ferris
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        The Third Indochina War by William Shawcross, pp. 15-21 - 3 Reviews
        Communist Party Power in Kampuchea by Timothy Michael Carney
        Murder of a Gentle Land by John Barron and Anthony Paul
        Cambodia: Starvation and Revolution by George C. Hildebrand and Gareth Porter
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        Artist of Nightmare by Helen Muchnic, pp. 22-25 - 2 Reviews
        Andrei Bely by Konstantin Mochulsky
        Petersburg by Andrei Bely
      8. [+]
        The New History of England by Christopher Hill, pp. 26-27 - 2 Reviews
        Reform and Reformation: England, 1509-1558 by Geoffrey R. Elton
        Stability and Strife: England, 1714-1760 by W.A. Speck
      9. [+]
        TV Guide by James Wolcott, pp. 28-30 - 4 Reviews
        Television: The First Fifty Years by Jeff Greenfield
        Remote Control by Frank Mankiewicz and Joel Swerdlow
        The Sponsor by Erik Barnouw
        Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television by Jerry Mander
      10. [+]
        Review Missing Persons: An Autobiography, by Eric R. ... by Stuart Hampshire, p. 31 - 1 Review
        Missing Persons: An Autobiography by Eric R. Dodds
      11. [+]
        'Full to Overflowing' by C.L. Barber, pp. 32-37 - 1 Review
        Shakespeare's Sonnets by Stephen Booth and William Shakespeare
      12. An Exchange on Zionism by Hillel Halkin, Leon Wieseltier, and Bernard Avishai, ..., pp. 38-39
      13. Letters by Murray Bookchin, Raymond Carr, and Daniel Callahan, ..., pp. 40-44
    2. [+]
      April 20, 1978 Issue = 12 Articles
      1. [+]
        The Bad Old Days by H. Stuart Hughes, pp. 3-5 - 2 Reviews
        The Great Fear by David Caute
        Conflict and Crisis by Robert J. Donovan
      2. [+]
        A Hard Case by John Kenneth Galbraith, pp. 6-8 - 1 Review
        Two Cheers for Capitalism by Irving Kristol
      3. [+]
        Nothing Sacred by Michael Wood, pp. 9-12 - 3 Reviews
        Injury Time by Beryl Bainbridge
        The World According to Garp by John Irving
        An American Romance by John Casey
      4. [+]
        The Gnostic Secrets by W.H.C. Frend, pp. 13-15 - 2 Reviews
        The Laughing Savior by John Dart
        The Nag Hammadi Library in English by James M. Robinson
      5. [+]
        Virginia Woolf Fever by Noel Annan, pp. 16-19 - 7 Reviews
        The Pargiters by Virginia Woolf
        Books and Portraits by Virginia Stephen Woolf and Mary Lyon
        Sir Leslie Stephen's Mausoleum Book by Alan Bell and Leslie Stephen
        Moments of Being by Virginia Woolf and Jeanne Schulkind
        The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Vol. One: 1915-1919 by Anne Olivier Bell and Virginia Woolf
        The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Vol. III: 1923-1928 by Nigel Nicolson, Joanne Trautmann, and Virginia Woolf, ...
        A Marriage of True Minds by George Spater and Ian M. Parsons
      6. [+]
        The Honor of Alger Hiss by Garry Wills, pp. 20-30 - 1 Review
        Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case by Allen Weinstein
      7. [+]
        Pensee Persons by Clive James, p. 31 - 1 Review
        Kalki by Gore Vidal
      8. [+]
        Two Cheers for Leskov by Leonard Schapiro, pp. 32-34 - 1 Review
        Nikolai Leskov: The Man and His Art by Hugh McLean
      9. [+]
        Koestler's Solution by Stephen Jay Gould, pp. 35-37 - 1 Review
        Janus: A Summing up by Arthur Koestler
      10. [+]
        Immersed in America by Monroe K. Spears, pp. 38-40 - 1 Review
        Selected Poems, 1923-1975 by Robert Penn Warren
      11. [+]
        Power in History by Herbert Butterfield, pp. 41-42 - 1 Review
        History: Choice and Commitment by Felix Gilbert
      12. Letters by Irving Singer, Joseph Kerman, John L. Hess, and Garry Wills, ..., pp. 43-48
    3. [+]
      May 4, 1978 Issue = 13 Articles
      1. [+]
        The Great Riddle by Andrew Hacker, pp. 3-7 - 1 Review
        Legend: The Secret World of Lee Harvey Oswald by Edward Jay Epstein
      2. [+]
        Portrait of the Artist by Nigel Dennis, pp. 8-14 - 1 Review
        Nadia by Lorna Selfe
      3. [+]
        Gothic Sibyl by Rosemary Dinnage, pp. 15-17 - 4 Reviews
        Silence Will Speak by Errol Trzebinski
        Isak Dinesen's Art: The Gayety of Vision by Robert Woodrow Langbaum
        The Angelic Avengers by Isak Dinesen
        Carnival by Isak Dinesen
      4. [+]
        The Morose Revolution by Neal Ascherson, pp. 18-21 - 1 Review
        A Savage War of Peace by Alistair Horne
      5. [+]
        The Outsider by Edmund S. Morgan, p. 22 - 1 Review
        The Young Hamilton: A Biography by James Thomas Flexner
      6. The Indictment by Donald Woods, pp. 23-29
      7. [+]
        Something About a Soldier by Thomas R. Edwards, pp. 30-31 - 1 Review
        Whistle by James Jones
      8. [+]
        Shortchanged at the Met by David H. Wright, pp. 32-34 - 1 Review
        Treasures of Irish Art, 1500 B.C.-1500 A.D. by G. Frank Mitchell, Peter Harbison, and Liam de Paor, ...
      9. [+]
        The Days of the Dulleses by John Phillips, pp. 35-41 - 1 Review
        Dulles by Leonard Mosley
      10. Light on Lasso by Robert Craft, pp. 42-43
      11. [+]
        How Did the Germans Do It? by C.B.A. Behrens, pp. 44-46 - 2 Reviews
        The Age of German Liberation, 1795-1815 by Friedrich Meinecke and Peter Paret
        Bread, Politics, and Political Economy in the Age of Louis XVI by Steven L. Kaplan
      12. Dropping Out by Georgii Vladimov, p. 47
      13. Letters by Baruch A. Levine, George E. Dimock, Jr., and Bernard Knox, ..., pp. 48-52
    4. [+]
      May 18, 1978 Issue = 13 Articles
      1. Saint of the Mundane by John Updike, pp. 3-5
      2. [+]
        Wives and Mistresses by Elizabeth Hardwick, pp. 6-14 - 3 Reviews
        Tolstoy Remembered by Tatyana Tolstoy
        Ada, Countess of Lovelace by Doris Langley Moore
        A Captive of Time by Olga Ivinskaya
      3. [+]
        The Lower Depths by Frederic Wakeman Jr.#2, pp. 15-16 - 1 Review
        The Death of Woman Wang by Jonathan D. Spence
      4. [+]
        Live Souls by V.S. Pritchett, p. 17 - 1 Review
        Russia in Original Photographs, 1860-1920 by Marvin Lyons and Andrew Wheatcroft
      5. [+]
        Why He's Not the Best by Marshall Frady, pp. 18-26 - 1 Review
        Dasher by James T. Wooten
      6. James at an Awkward Age by Veronica Geng, p. 27
      7. The State of the Union by Sheldon Wolin, pp. 28-31
      8. [+]
        Tales of Manhattan by Robert Towers, pp. 32-34 - 1 Review
        New York Jew by Alfred Kazin
      9. Why Israel Should Settle Now by Guido Goldman, pp. 35-37
      10. The Professors by Serge Lang, pp. 38-41
      11. [+]
        Marriage of Inconvenience by E.H. Carr, pp. 42-43 - 1 Review
        The United Front by Daniel F. Calhoun
      12. Will I Be on Television? by Ladislav Hejdanek, p. 44
      13. An Exchange on Adam Smith by D.D. Raphael, Bernard Avishai, and Garry Wills, pp. 45-48
    5. [+]
      June 1, 1978 Issue = 14 Articles
      1. [+]
        Greene's Castle by Conor Cruise O'Brien, pp. 3-5 - 1 Review
        The Human Factor by Graham Greene
      2. [+]
        Truth or Consequences by J.M. Cameron, pp. 6-9 - 1 Review
        Lying by Sissela Bok
      3. Panama by Garry Wills, pp. 10-11
      4. [+]
        The Ape Who Never Grows Up by J.Z. Young, pp. 12-13 - 1 Review
        Ontogeny and Phylogeny by Stephen Jay Gould
      5. [+]
        The Defector's Secrets by Wilfrid Sheed, pp. 14-15 - 1 Review
        Final Payments by Mary Gordon
      6. Carter and the New Constitution by Sheldon Wolin, pp. 16-19
      7. Hitler's Impresario by H.R. Trevor-Roper, pp. 20-26
      8. [+]
        Calculated Risks by Michael Wood, pp. 27-29 - 3 Reviews
        Spectral Emanations by John Hollander
        A Call in the Midst of the Crowd by Alfred Corn
        The Selected Poems: 1951-1977 by A.R. Ammons
      9. [+]
        Five Hundred Years of the King's English by Denis Donoghue, pp. 30-31 - 5 Reviews
        The Oxford University Press and the Spread of Learning, 1478-1978 by Nicolas Barker
        A History of the Oxford University Press, Vol. I by Harry G. Carter
        The Oxford University Press by Peter H. Sutcliffe
        Caught in the Web of Words by K.M. Elisabeth Murray
        The Coming of the Book by Lucien Febvre and Henri-Jean Martin
      10. [+]
        Strangers and Brothers by J.H. Elliott, pp. 32-34 - 2 Reviews
        Lost Tribes and Promised Lands by Ronald Sanders
        The Church Militant and Iberian Expansion, 1440-1770 by C.R. Boxer
      11. On Moral Outrage by Barrington Moore, Jr., p. 35
      12. [+]
        Leavis's Way by D.W. Harding, pp. 36-39 - 1 Review
        The Living Principle by F.R. Leavis
      13. Letter by William Empson, p. 40
      14. What Happened in Indonesia? by Benedict Anderson and Ruth McVey, pp. 40-44
    6. [+]
      June 29, 1978 Issue = 11 Articles
      1. [+]
        The Good Old Days by John Kenneth Galbraith, p. 3 - 1 Review
        RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon by Richard M. Nixon
      2. [+]
        Triumph of a Heretic by Bernard Knox, pp. 4-9 - 1 Review
        The World of Odysseus by M.I. Finley
      3. Hell Reconsidered by William Styron, pp. 10-13
      4. [+]
        Allen's Alley by Michael Wood, pp. 14-16 - 4 Reviews
        On Being Funny by Eric Lax
        Woody Allen: A Biography by Lee Guthrie
        Woody Allen's Play It Again, Sam by Richard J. Anobile
        Non-Being and Somethingness by Woody Allen
      5. [+]
        Bert and LaBelle and Jimmy and God by Gore Vidal, pp. 17-21 - 1 Review
        This, Too, Shall Pass by LaBelle Lance and Gary Sledge
      6. [+]
        Tolstoy in Doubt by Aileen Kelly, pp. 22-26 - 2 Reviews
        Tolstoy's Letters: Volume I, 1828-1879 by R.F. Christian and Leo Tolstoy
        Tolstoy's Letters: Volume II, 1880-1910 by R.F. Christian and Leo Tolstoy
      7. Israel by Lesley Hazleton, pp. 27-32
      8. [+]
        Inescapable Marx by Robert L. Heilbroner, pp. 33-36 - 11 Reviews
        The Karl Marx Library by Saul K. Padover and Karl Marx
        The Marx-Engels Reader by Robert C. Tucker, Karl Marx, and Friedrich Engels, ...
        The Making of Marx's Capital by Roman Rosdolsky
        Karl Marx: His Life and Thought by David McLellan
        Karl Marx: Selected Writings by David McLellan and Karl Marx
        Marx's Fate: The Shape of a Life by Jerrold E. Seigel
        Marx's Theory of History by William H. Shaw
        The Structure of Marx's World-View by John M. McMurtry
        Marx's Capital and Capitalism Today by Antony Cutler, Barry Hindess, Paul Hirst, and Athar Hussain, ...
        Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution by Hal Draper
        The Marxian Legacy by Dick Howard
      9. [+]
        Throwaways by Rosemary Dinnage, pp. 37-38 - 1 Review
        Infanticide: Past and Present by Maria W. Piers
      10. [+]
        Deciphering the Big Book by Frank Kermode, pp. 39-42 - 3 Reviews
        The Birth of the Messiah by Raymond E. Brown
        A Palpable God by Reynolds Price
        The Early Versions of the New Testament by Bruce M. Metzger
      11. What It Means To Be Censored by Lev Lifshitz-Losev, pp. 43-52
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    Issues of Jul.-Sep. 1978 = 3 Issues, 53 Articles
    1. [+]
      July 20, 1978 Issue = 18 Articles
      1. For a New "Internationale" by Jacques Julliard, p. 3
      2. Poem by Anna Akhmatova, p. 3
      3. [+]
        What Chateaubriand Saw by Hugh Honour, pp. 4-6 - 1 Review
        The Longed-For Tempests by George D. Painter
      4. [+]
        Let There Be Light by F.W. Bateson, pp. 7-8 - 1 Review
        The New Oxford Book of English Light Verse by Kingsley Amis
      5. [+]
        The Real China by Frederic Wakeman Jr.#2, pp. 9-17 - 1 Review
        The Execution of Mayor Yin, and Other Stories from the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution by Chen Jo-Hsi
      6. [+]
        Infirmary Blues by Nigel Dennis, pp. 18-19 - 1 Review
        Illness as Metaphor by Susan Sontag
      7. [+]
        A Guy Like I by Garry Wills, pp. 20-21 - 2 Reviews
        Wheeling and Dealing by Bobby Baker and Larry L. King
        The Senate Nobody Knows by Bernard Asbell
      8. Carter, Africa and SALT by I.F. Stone, pp. 22-29
      9. [+]
        Good Grief! by Robert Towers, pp. 30-31 - 1 Review
        On Moral Fiction by John C. Gardner
      10. [+]
        Witnesses to Calamity by Henry Gifford, pp. 32-34 - 2 Reviews
        The Challenge of the Spirit by Boris I. Shragin
        Notes of a Non-Conspirator by Efim G. Etkind
      11. [+]
        Pioneer and Phantoms by John Bayley, pp. 35-36 - 2 Reviews
        The Hill of Evil Counsel by Amos Oz
        The Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass by Bruno Schulz
      12. [+]
        The Predicament by Mary Gordon, pp. 37-39 - 2 Reviews
        The Ambivalence of Abortion by Linda Bird Francke
        Abortion in America by James C. Mohr
      13. [+]
        Must Democracy Be Capitalist? by Michael Walzer, pp. 40-41 - 1 Review
        Politics and Markets by Charles E. Lindblom
      14. [+]
        The Private Life of F.O. Matthiessen by Harry Levin, pp. 42-45 - 1 Review
        Rat and the Devil by Louis K. Hyde, F.O. Matthiessen, and Russell Cheney, ...
      15. [+]
        Women in Love by Martha Duffy, p. 46 - 2 Reviews
        Violet Clay by Gail Godwin
        I Sent a Letter to My Love by Bernice Rubens
      16. "Treasures of Early Irish Art" by David Greene and David H. Wright, p. 47
      17. An Exchange on Cambodia by Gareth Porter and William Shawcross, pp. 48-49
      18. Letters by Ned O'Gorman, A. David Wunsch, and Robert Towers, ..., pp. 50-52
    2. [+]
      August 17, 1978 Issue = 18 Articles
      1. [+]
        The Disconcerting Sybil by V.S. Pritchett, pp. 3-7 - 4 Reviews
        Mauprat by George Sand
        Lelia by George Sand
        The Journeyman Joiner by George Sand
        The Haunted Pool by George Sand
      2. [+]
        Democratic Vistas by Willie Lee Rose, pp. 8-11 - 1 Review
        The Victim As Criminal and Artist by H. Bruce Franklin
      3. 'Payne Whitney Poems' by James Schuyler, pp. 12-13
      4. [+]
        'Watson, I'm Back' by Julian Symons, pp. 14-15 - 1 Review
        The Last Sherlock Holmes Story by Michael Dibdin
      5. [+]
        Controlling the Writing on the Wall by Jan Kott, pp. 16-17 - 1 Review
        The Black Book of Polish Censorship by Aleksandar Niczow
      6. [+]
        A Modern Master by Frank Kermode, p. 18 - 1 Review
        Selected Stories by V.S. Pritchett
      7. Poem by Howard Moss, p. 19
      8. The Bakke Decision by Ronald Dworkin, pp. 20-24
      9. [+]
        Families by Karl Miller, pp. 25-30 - 2 Reviews
        Picture Palace by Paul Theroux
        The Family by David Plante
      10. [+]
        Typhoon on the Bay by Garry Wills, p. 31 - 1 Review
        Chesapeake by James A. Michener
      11. [+]
        A Good Doctor by Elsa First, pp. 32-36 - 1 Review
        The Piggle by Donald W. Winnicott and Ishak Ramzy
      12. [+]
        The Russian Way by Leonard Schapiro, p. 37 - 1 Review
        The Punished Peoples by Aleksandr M. Nekrich
      13. [+]
        The Heart of Jefferson by Edmund S. Morgan, pp. 38-40 - 1 Review
        Inventing America by Garry Wills
      14. [+]
        Black Diamond by Jerome Charyn, p. 41 - 1 Review
        Josh Gibson by William Brashler
      15. [+]
        Who Can Salvage Peace? by Stanley Hoffmann, pp. 42-47 - 2 Reviews
        Decade of Decisions by William B. Quandt
        Israel: The Embattled Ally by Nadav Safran
      16. [+]
        At the Poles of Poetry by Irvin Ehrenpreis, pp. 48-49 - 2 Reviews
        Millions of Strange Shadows by Anthony Hecht
        Gaudete by Ted Hughes
      17. Concorde Diary by Robert Craft, pp. 50-52
      18. Letters by John Kenneth Galbraith, Page Smith, and Ruby Cohn, ..., pp. 53-56
    3. [+]
      September 28, 1978 Issue = 17 Articles
      1. [+]
        The Worst of Times? by Lawrence Stone, pp. 3-7 - 1 Review
        A Distant Mirror by Barbara W. Tuchman
      2. [+]
        Blue Sheep Zen by Robert M. Adams, pp. 8-11 - 2 Reviews
        The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen
        Mountain Monarchs by George B. Schaller
      3. [+]
        Before Her Time by Rosemary Dinnage, pp. 12-15 - 1 Review
        Stories by Doris Lessing
      4. [+]
        The Mess of Things by Robert O. Paxton, pp. 16-18 - 2 Reviews
        France, 1848-1945 by Theodore Zeldin
        The End of French Predominance in Europe by Stephen A. Schuker
      5. [+]
        Jerry for President? by Marshall Frady, pp. 19-30 - 4 Reviews
        Brown by Orville Schell
        Jerry Brown: The Philosopher-Prince by Robert Pack
        Jerry Brown: The Man on the White Horse by J.D. Lorenz
        Jerry Brown by John C. Bollens and G. Robert Williams
      6. [+]
        Heroes in Nature by Stephen Jay Gould, pp. 31-40 - 1 Review
        A Species of Eternity by Joseph Kastner
      7. [+]
        Theater of Cruelty by Gennady Smakov, pp. 41-42 - 1 Review
        To Dance by Valery Panov and George Feifer
      8. Is Brazil on the Brink of Democracy? by Harry Maurer, pp. 43-48
      9. [+]
        Lost Generation by Robert Coles, pp. 49-50 - 1 Review
        The Children Are Dying by Ned O'Gorman
      10. [+]
        The Mozart of Psychology by Stephen Toulmin, pp. 51-57 - 3 Reviews
        Mind in Society by L.S. Vygotsky, Michael Cole, and Vera John-Steiner, ...
        The Psychology of Art by Lev S. Vygotsky
        Soviet Developmental Psychology by Michael Cole
      11. [+]
        Boys Will Beat Boys by Neal Ascherson, pp. 58-59 - 1 Review
        The Old School Tie by Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy
      12. [+]
        Mysteries of Louisa May Alcott by Ann Douglas, pp. 60-63 - 2 Reviews
        Louisa May by Martha Saxton
        Work by Louisa May Alcott
      13. [+]
        Why Men Do Not Revolt by James Joll, pp. 64-65 - 1 Review
        Injustice: The Social Bases of Obedience and Revolt by Barrington Moore, Jr.
      14. [+]
        Sour Notes by Robert Craft, p. 66 - 1 Review
        A Concise History of Avant-Garde Music by Paul Griffiths
      15. [+]
        Shorter Reviews, p. 67 - 5 Reviews
        Acting Out by Roland W. Betts
        Golden Bats and Pink Pigeons by Gerald Durrell
        Spooks: The Haunting of America by Jim Hougan
        Leon Trotsky by Irving Howe
        The Year of the Ant by George Ordish
      16. Letters by Paul Weiss, W. Paul Vogt, Ronald Dworkin, and Laurence Veysey, ..., pp. 68-72
      17. Cover Drawing by David Levine
  4. [+]
    Issues of Oct.-Dec. 1978 = 4 Issues, 63 Articles
    1. [+]
      October 12, 1978 Issue = 18 Articles
      1. [+]
        Character by V.S. Pritchett, pp. 6-10 - 1 Review
        E.M. Forster: A Life by P.N. Furbank
      2. Lithuanian Divertissement by Joseph Brodsky, pp. 11-13
      3. [+]
        Digging out Doug by John K. Fairbank, pp. 14-17 - 1 Review
        American Caesar by William Manchester
      4. [+]
        Soulcraft by Ronald Dworkin, pp. 18-21 - 1 Review
        The Pursuit of Happiness and Other Sobering Thoughts by George F. Will
      5. [+]
        Death and Its History by Lawrence Stone, pp. 22-33 - 2 Reviews
        The Hour of Our Death by Philippe Aries
        Western Attitudes Towards Death by Philippe Aries
      6. [+]
        Compulsion by Julian Symons, pp. 34-36 - 5 Reviews
        The Iron Staircase by Georges Simenon
        The Girl with a Squint by Georges Simenon
        The Family Lie by Georges Simenon
        Maigret's Pipe by Georges Simenon
        Maigret and the Hotel Majestic by Georges Simenon
      7. [+]
        The Scientist as Conformist by David Joravsky, pp. 37-41 - 3 Reviews
        Soviet Science by Zhores A. Medvedev
        Scientists Under Hitler by Alan D. Beyerchen
        Proletarian Science? The Case of Lysenko by Dominique Lecourt
      8. [+]
        The Transformation of Bobby Kennedy by Marshall Frady, pp. 42-51 - 1 Review
        Robert Kennedy and His Times by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
      9. [+]
        The Wizard of Oc by Keith Thomas, pp. 52-54 - 3 Reviews
        Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
        Life in Renaissance France by Lucien Febvre and Marian Rothstein
        The Community of the Village by Edward Britton
      10. [+]
        Yesterday's Today Show by Francis Haskell, pp. 55-56 - 1 Review
        The Shows of London by Richard D. Altick
      11. [+]
        The Lesson of Thomas More by Quentin Skinner, pp. 57-60 - 1 Review
        The Complete Works of St. Thomas More by Thomas More
      12. [+]
        The Not So Light Fantastic by Michael Wood, pp. 61-63 - 2 Reviews
        Innocent Erendira and Other Stories by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
        A Manual for Manuel by Julio Cortazar
      13. [+]
        The Illusion of Sociobiology by Stuart Hampshire, pp. 64-69 - 1 Review
        On Human Nature by Edward O. Wilson
      14. KGB Psychiatry by Peter Reddaway, pp. 70-71
      15. [+]
        The Strategic Mind by John Kenneth Galbraith, pp. 72-74 - 3 Reviews
        In Search of Enemies by John Stockwell
        Honorable Men by William E. Colby and Peter Forbath
        Decent Interval by Frank Snepp
      16. [+]
        The Last Intellectual by Susan Sontag, pp. 75-81 - 1 Review
        Reflections by Walter Benjamin and Peter Demetz
      17. [+]
        Short Reviews, p. 82 - 2 Reviews
        The Crime and Punishment of I. G. Farben by Joseph Borkin
        Of Wolves and Men by Barry Holstun Lopez
      18. Letters by Hal Draper, John McMurtry, and Robert Heilbroner, ..., pp. 83-88
    2. [+]
      November 23, 1978 Issue = 15 Articles
      1. [+]
        The Partisan by Frederick Crews, pp. 3-9 - 1 Review
        Essays on Literature and Politics, 1932-1972 by Philip Rahv, Arabel J. Porter, and Andrew J. Dvosin, ...
      2. Two Poems by Heberto Padilla, pp. 10-11
      3. [+]
        Hello and Goodbye by Martin Gardner, pp. 12-15 - 3 Reviews
        Murmurs of Earth by Carl Sagan, F.D. Drake, Ann Druyan, and Timothy Ferris, ...
        Spaceships of the Mind by Nigel Calder
        In the Center of Immensities by Bernard Lovell
      4. [+]
        Looking Backward by Clive James, pp. 16-17 - 1 Review
        Nineteen Eighty-Five by Anthony Burgess
      5. The Ballet and the Public by Lincoln Kirstein, pp. 18-21
      6. [+]
        The One That Got Away by Nigel Dennis, pp. 22-24 - 1 Review
        The Flounder by Gunter Grass
      7. [+]
        Otherworldly by W.V. Quine, p. 25 - 1 Review
        Ways of Worldmaking by Nelson Goodman
      8. [+]
        Slippery Fish by Robert Mazzocco, pp. 26-30 - 1 Review
        Conversations with Willie by Robin Maugham
      9. [+]
        Papa Europe by Robert O. Paxton, pp. 31-32 - 1 Review
        Memoirs by Jean Monnet
      10. [+]
        Only Yesterday by Thomas R. Edwards, pp. 33-35 - 2 Reviews
        A Good School by Richard Yates
        Lying Low by Diane Johnson
      11. [+]
        American Prophet by Daniel Aaron, pp. 36-39 - 1 Review
        The Radical Will: Randolph Bourne by Olaf Hansen and Randolph Bourne
      12. [+]
        Solving the Correggion Problem by Henri Zerner, pp. 40-44 - 1 Review
        The Paintings of Correggio by Cecil Gould
      13. [+]
        Culture as Protein and Profit by Marshall Sahlins, pp. 45-52 - 1 Review
        Cannibals and Kings by Marvin Harris
      14. Letters by Eugene V. Rostow, Stanley Hoffmann, and Jakob Liszka, ..., pp. 53-56
      15. Cover Drawing by David Levine
    3. [+]
      December 7, 1978 Issue = 14 Articles
      1. [+]
        A Shameful Story by Leonard Schapiro, pp. 3-5 - 1 Review
        The Secret Betrayal, 1944-47 by Nikolai Tolstoy
      2. [+]
        The Revenge of I.B. Singer by Leon Wieseltier, pp. 6-9 - 3 Reviews
        Shosha by Isaac Bashevis Singer
        Gimpel the Fool, and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer
        A Young Man in Search of Love by Isaac Bashevis Singer
      3. "Mexican Divertimento" by Joseph Brodsky, pp. 10-13
      4. [+]
        Global Vision by J.H. Elliott, pp. 14-15 - 1 Review
        The Times Atlas of World History by Geoffrey Barraclough
      5. [+]
        The Music of Suffering by Irvin Ehrenpreis, pp. 16-18 - 2 Reviews
        The Composition of Four Quartets by Helen Louise Gardner
        Remembering Poets by Donald Hall
      6. [+]
        Vietnam: The Defense's Case by Kevin Buckley, pp. 19-23 - 1 Review
        America in Vietnam by Guenter Lewy
      7. [+]
        Contradictory Kipling by V.S. Pritchett, p. 24 - 1 Review
        Rudyard Kipling by Lord Birkenhead
      8. [+]
        From Rags to Rags by Alison Lurie, pp. 25-29 - 5 Reviews
        The Woman's Dress for Success by John T. Molloy
        Seeing Through Clothes by Anne Hollander
        In Fashion by Prudence Glynn
        Mirror, Mirror by Michael Batterberry and Ariane Ruskin Batterberry, ...
        Avedon: Photographs,1947-1977 by Richard Avedon
      9. [+]
        A Dredful Decision by C. Vann Woodward, pp. 30-31 - 1 Review
        The Dred Scott Case by Don E. Fehrenbacher
      10. [+]
        The Erratic Magpie by Douglas Cooper, pp. 32-34 - 1 Review
        The Noble Buyer by Judith Zilczer
      11. [+]
        Ragged Individualist by Irving Howe, pp. 35-36 - 1 Review
        The Last Romantic by William L. O'Neill
      12. [+]
        Scientists in Society by Christopher Hill, pp. 37-38 - 2 Reviews
        Robert Boyle and the English Revolution by James R. Jacob
        The Newtonians and the English Revolution, 1689-1720 by Margaret C. Jacob
      13. The Rights of M.A. Farber by Frederick F. Schauer, Virginia Held, and John L. Hess, ..., pp. 39-41
      14. Letters by Jean-Paul Sartre, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, and Lawrence Stone, ..., pp. 42-48
    4. [+]
      December 21, 1978 Issue = 16 Articles
      1. [+]
        Updike le Noir by John Thompson, p. 3 - 1 Review
        The Coup by John Updike
      2. December 24, 1971 by Joseph Brodsky, pp. 4-7
      3. [+]
        Blue Chip Sublime by Robert Hughes, pp. 8-17 - 2 Reviews
        The Legacy of Mark Rothko by Lee Seldes
        Mark Rothko by Diane Waldman
      4. [+]
        The Piaget Way by Rosemary Dinnage, pp. 18-24 - 8 Reviews
        The Essential Piaget by Howard E. Gruber and J. Jacques Voneche
        The Origins of Intelligence in Children by Jean Piaget
        The Construction of Reality in the Child by Jean Piaget
        Play, Dreams, and Imitation in Childhood by Jean Piaget
        Behavior and Evolution by Jean Piaget
        Jean Piaget by Richard I. Evans
        Jean Piaget: Psychologist of the Real by Brian Rotman
        Children's Minds by Margaret Donaldson
      5. [+]
        Missing Connections by Alfred Kazin, p. 25 - 1 Review
        The Lover by A.B. Yehoshua
      6. [+]
        Angola:A Story of Stupidity by Gerald J. Bender, pp. 26-30 - 2 Reviews
        The Angolan Revolution, Vol. II by John A. Marcum
        In Search of Enemies by John Stockwell
      7. [+]
        Yes, Santa, There Is a Virginia by Frank Kermode, pp. 31-32 - 3 Reviews
        The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Vol. Two: 1920-1924 by Anne Olivier Bell, Andrew McNeillie, and Virginia Woolf, ...
        The Unknown Virginia Woolf by Roger Poole
        Woman of Letters by Phyllis Rose
      8. [+]
        Understanding the Economic Crisis by Joan Robinson, p. 33 - 1 Review
        Beyond Boom and Crash by Robert L. Heilbroner
      9. [+]
        Heaven Can't Wait by Stephen Spender, pp. 34-36 - 1 Review
        Mirabell: Books of Number by James Merrill
      10. [+]
        The Christie Mystery by Julian Symons, pp. 37-39 - 4 Reviews
        Agatha by Kathleen Tynan
        Ten Little Indians by Agatha Christie
        The Mousetrap and Other Plays by Agatha Christie
        Death on the Nile (1978 Film) by John Guillermin
      11. How Did Art Collecting Begin? by Joseph Alsop, pp. 40-46
      12. Victory by Robert Mazzocco, p. 47
      13. [+]
        The Insulted and the Injured by Michael Wood, pp. 48-51 - 5 Reviews
        Cesar Vallejo by Jean Franco
        Poesia Completa by Cesar Vallejo
        Vertical Poetry by Roberto Juarroz
        Harsh World and Other Poems by Angel Gonzalez
        Muestra by Angel Gonzalez
      14. [+]
        Swim or Sink by Mary Gordon, pp. 52-54 - 1 Review
        Other Shores by Diana Nyad
      15. [+]
        In Sorrow's Kitchen by Darryl Pinckney, pp. 55-56 - 2 Reviews
        Zora Neale Hurston: A Literary Biography by Robert E. Hemenway
        Mules and Men by Zora Neale Hurston
      16. Letters by Morton Smith, Frank Kermode, Nelson Goodman, and Bruce D. Larkin, ..., pp. 57-60
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