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The Not So Light Fantastic

Innocent Erendira and Other Stories, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

by Michael Wood

The New York Review of Books, October 12, 1978, pp. 61-63

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        Essays on Adam Smith by A.S. Skinner and Thomas Wilson
        The Market and the State by Thomas Wilson and Andrew S. Skinner
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        Letters to Friends, Family and Editors by Franz Kafka
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        The Oxford University Press by Peter H. Sutcliffe
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        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