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                                    17. "Crying Wolf" by Richard S. Kennedy and John Halberstadt, pp. 50-51
                                    18. The Palestinians by Jonathan Dimbleby, Ann Mosely Lesch, and Elia Zureik, ..., p. 52
                                    19. Letters by Barbara C. Sproul, James Webster, and Charles Rosen, ..., pp. 53-56
                                  2. [+]
                                    August 13, 1981 Issue = 15 Articles
                                    1. [+]
                                      The Gambler's Throw by Stuart Hampshire, p. 3 - 1 Review
                                      1. Early Auden by Edward Mendelson
                                    2. [+]
                                      The Disappointments of Jefferson by Gordon S. Wood, pp. 4-7 - 1 Review
                                      1. The Sage of Monticello by Dumas Malone
                                    3. [+]
                                      Lincoln Shelter by Lincoln Kirstein, pp. 8-13 - 1 Review
                                      1. Lincoln Center: The Building of an Institution by Edgar B. Young
                                    4. [+]
                                      Fall of a House by X, pp. 14-18 - 1 Review
                                      1. July's People by Nadine Gordimer
                                    5. [+]
                                      An American Sissy by Gore Vidal, pp. 19-23 - 1 Review
                                      1. Mornings on Horseback by David McCullough
                                    6. [+]
                                      In the Southern Camp by William Styron, pp. 24-26 - 1 Review
                                      1. Mary Chesnut's Civil War by C. Vann Woodward and Mary Chesnut
                                    7. Up from Monetarism and Other Wishful Thinking by John Kenneth Galbraith, pp. 27-31
                                    8. [+]
                                      China by Jonathan D. Spence, pp. 32-36 - 4 Reviews
                                      1. A Madman of Ch'u by Laurence A. Schneider
                                      2. Dissent in Early Modern China by Paul S. Ropp
                                      3. China's Intellectuals: Advise and Dissent by Merle Goldman
                                      4. Beijing Street Voices by David S.G. Goodman
                                    9. [+]
                                      Is Mathematics for Real? by Martin Gardner, pp. 37-39 - 1 Review
                                      1. The Mathematical Experience by Philip J. Davis and Reuben Hersh
                                    10. [+]
                                      The Glow of Irreality by Stephen Spender, pp. 40-43 - 1 Review
                                      1. Sounds by Wassily Kandinsky
                                    11. [+]
                                      Life With Father by Roger Sale, p. 44 - 1 Review
                                      1. Dad by William Wharton
                                    12. The Victory of the New Israel by Bernard Avishai, pp. 45-50
                                    13. Striking Out by James Wolcott, p. 51
                                    14. An Exchange on the New Grove by Roger Scruton, Ben Friedland, and Charles Rosen, p. 52
                                    15. Letters by Walter Abish, Tom Hayden, David Vogel, and Steven Kovacs, ..., pp. 53-56
                                  3. [+]
                                    September 24, 1981 Issue = 19 Articles
                                    1. [+]
                                      'Unacceptable Damage' by Lewis Thomas, pp. 3-7 - 2 Reviews
                                      1. Hiroshima and Nagasaki
                                      2. Unforgettable Fire
                                    2. Verses on the Winter Campaign 1980 by Joseph Brodsky, pp. 8-9
                                    3. [+]
                                      Timerman and His Enemies by Michael Walzer, pp. 10-17 - 1 Review
                                      1. Prisoner without a Name, Cell without a Number by Jacobo Timerman
                                    4. The UN Tango by Murray Kempton, pp. 18-19
                                    5. [+]
                                      Patriot by Noel Annan, pp. 20-23 - 1 Review
                                      1. The Strange Destiny of Rupert Brooke by John Lehmann
                                    6. [+]
                                      The Message of the Insider by Murray Kempton, pp. 24-27 - 1 Review
                                      1. A Life in Our Times by John Kenneth Galbraith
                                    7. [+]
                                      On the Indian World-Mountain by Robert Towers, pp. 28-29 - 1 Review
                                      1. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
                                    8. The Road from Pisa to Florence by Nicholas Christopher, p. 30
                                    9. [+]
                                      Scaffolding of Lies by Leonard Schapiro, pp. 31-32 - 1 Review
                                      1. The Rise of the Gulag by Alain Besancon
                                    10. [+]
                                      Ravings of a Renegade by James Joll, pp. 33-35 - 1 Review
                                      1. Evangelist of Race by Geoffrey G. Field
                                    11. [+]
                                      The Flood Next Time by D.J. Enright, pp. 36-45 - 2 Reviews
                                      1. Man in the Holocene by Max Frisch
                                      2. Triptych by Max Frisch
                                    12. [+]
                                      The 'Shadow' and the Substance by Robert Craft, pp. 46-48 - 1 Review
                                      1. Richard Strauss by Rudolf Hartmann
                                    13. Maxim Gorki (1868-1936) by Vladimir Nabokov, pp. 49-51
                                    14. Philistines and Philistinism by Vladimir Nabokov, pp. 52-53
                                    15. [+]
                                      Two Cheers for Ike by Ronald Steel, pp. 54-56 - 6 Reviews
                                      1. The Eisenhower Diaries by Robert H. Ferrell and Dwight David Eisenhower, ...
                                      2. The Declassified Eisenhower by Blanche Wiesen Cook
                                      3. Eisenhower and the Cold War by Robert A. Divine
                                      4. Ike's Spies by Stephen E. Ambrose
                                      5. Eisenhower the President by William Bragg Ewald, Jr.
                                      6. Eisenhower's Lieutenants by Russell F. Weigley
                                    16. [+]
                                      Ecstasy by Robert M. Adams, pp. 57-58 - 1 Review
                                      1. Bernini and the Unity of the Visual Arts by Irving Lavin
                                    17. [+]
                                      Who Brought Home the Bacon? by S.L. Washburn and Sharon Ranieri, pp. 59-61 - 1 Review
                                      1. Woman the Gatherer by Frances Dahlberg
                                    18. In a Grim Country by William Shawcross, pp. 62-72
                                    19. Letters by Curtis Crawford, Lester Thurow, and David Shipman, ..., pp. 73-80
                                4. [+]
                                  Issues of Oct.-Dec. 1981 = 6 Issues, 106 Articles
                                  1. [+]
                                    October 8, 1981 Issue = 17 Articles
                                    1. [+]
                                      After Jonestown by Diane Johnson, pp. 3-5 - 6 Reviews
                                      1. Our Father Who Art in Hell by James Reston, Jr.
                                      2. The Children of Jonestown by Kenneth Wooden
                                      3. Awake in a Nightmare by Ethan Feinsod
                                      4. In My Father's House by Min S. Yee and Thomas N. Layton
                                      5. Journey to Nowhere by Shiva Naipaul
                                      6. The Strongest Poison by Mark Lane
                                    2. [+]
                                      A Bachward Glance by Joseph Kerman, pp. 6-11 - 1 Review
                                      1. Bach and the Dance of God by Wilfrid H. Mellers
                                    3. [+]
                                      Master Illusionist by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., pp. 12-14 - 1 Review
                                      1. The Speculator by Jordan A. Schwarz
                                    4. [+]
                                      The Buck Stops Here by Marshall Frady, pp. 15-19 - 1 Review
                                      1. Governing America by Joseph A. Califano, Jr.
                                    5. The Kennedy Solution by Toby Cohen, p. 20
                                    6. O'Connor's Crab-apple Jelly by Richard Ellmann, pp. 21-22
                                    7. Tehran Winter by V.S. Naipaul, pp. 23-29
                                    8. [+]
                                      Destiny's Tots by Christopher Jencks, pp. 30-32 - 1 Review
                                      1. Birth and Fortune by Richard A. Easterlin
                                    9. [+]
                                      A Genius for Revenge by Rhoda Koenig, pp. 33-34 - 1 Review
                                      1. Saki: A Life of Hector Hugh Munro by A.J. Langguth
                                    10. [+]
                                      Greece Against Itself by Peter Green, pp. 35-39 - 8 Reviews
                                      1. Mediaeval Greece by Nicolas Cheetham
                                      2. A Short History of Modern Greece by Richard Clogg
                                      3. Ephesus After Antiquity by Clive Foss
                                      4. Ambassador MacVeagh Reports: Greece, 1933-1947 by John O. Iatrides
                                      5. The Origins of the Cold War in the Near East by Bruce R. Kuniholm
                                      6. The Greek World by Eliot Porter
                                      7. The Greek Upheaval by Taki Theodoracopulos
                                      8. The Struggle for Greece, 1941-1949 by C.M. Woodhouse
                                    11. [+]
                                      Modern Times by Jeremy Bernstein, pp. 40-41 - 1 Review
                                      1. The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder
                                    12. [+]
                                      On Michelangelo's Mind by Michael Baxandall, pp. 42-44 - 1 Review
                                      1. Michelangelo and the Language of Art by David Summers
                                    13. [+]
                                      Digging In by Irvin Ehrenpreis, pp. 45-46 - 3 Reviews
                                      1. Poems, 1965-1975 by Seamus Heaney
                                      2. A Coast of Trees by A.R. Ammons
                                      3. Selected Poems by Mark Strand
                                    14. [+]
                                      Innocents by Patricia Craig, p. 47 - 2 Reviews
                                      1. The Temptation of Eileen Hughes by Brian Moore
                                      2. A Gift Horse, and Other Stories by Kate Cruise O'Brien
                                    15. [+]
                                      Short Reviews, p. 48 - 2 Reviews
                                      1. Polywater by Felix Franks
                                      2. Wounded Men, Broken Promises by Robert Klein
                                    16. The Azadovsky Affair by Joseph Brodsky, p. 49
                                    17. Letters by Jules Geller, Robert Darnton, and Kenneth S. Lynn, ..., pp. 49-52
                                  2. [+]
                                    October 22, 1981 Issue = 16 Articles
                                    1. [+]
                                      Justice to Mrs. Tolstoy by Aileen Kelly, pp. 3-9 - 1 Review
                                      1. Sonya: The Life of Countess Tolstoy by Anne Edwards
                                    2. Three Poems by Eugenio Montale, pp. 10-11
                                    3. [+]
                                      The Inferiority Complex by R.C. Lewontin, pp. 12-16 - 1 Review
                                      1. The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould
                                    4. [+]
                                      Unspeakable News by Neal Ascherson, pp. 17-18 - 2 Reviews
                                      1. Auschwitz and the Allies by Martin Gilbert
                                      2. The Terrible Secret by Walter Z. Laqueur
                                    5. [+]
                                      Borderline Cases by John M. Crewdson, pp. 19-22 - 2 Reviews
                                      1. On the Border by Tom Miller
                                      2. The Border Economy by Niles M. Hansen
                                    6. [+]
                                      Something for Your Entire Family by Virginia Hamilton, pp. 23-27 - 1 Review
                                      1. Foundations of Family Therapy by Lynn Hoffman
                                    7. Mark Chapman's Family by Murray Kempton, p. 28
                                    8. The Hunger Strikers by Denis Donoghue, pp. 29-31
                                    9. [+]
                                      Just Plain Will by Robert M. Adams, pp. 32-33 - 2 Reviews
                                      1. What Shakespeare Read--and Thought by A.L. Rowse
                                      2. Shakespeare and Tragedy by John Bayley
                                    10. [+]
                                      The Silent Majority by Jonathan Lieberson, pp. 34-37 - 2 Reviews
                                      1. The Moral Economy of the Peasant by James C. Scott
                                      2. The Rational Peasant by Samuel L. Popkin
                                    11. Sex and Fashion by Alison Lurie, pp. 38-46
                                    12. [+]
                                      Good Housekeeping by C. Vann Woodward, pp. 47-48 - 1 Review
                                      1. The Hammonds of Redcliffe by Carol Bleser
                                    13. [+]
                                      The Bitter History of Slave History by E. Badian, pp. 49-53 - 2 Reviews
                                      1. Ancient Slavery and Modern Ideology by M.I. Finley
                                      2. Greek and Roman Slavery by Thomas Wiedemann
                                    14. [+]
                                      In the Latino Americano Mirror by Michael Wood, pp. 54-58 - 4 Reviews
                                      1. Macho Camacho's Beat by Luis Rafael Sanchez
                                      2. The Emperor of the Amazon by Marcio Souza
                                      3. Burnt Water by Carlos Fuentes
                                      4. On Heroes and Tombs by Ernesto Sabato
                                    15. [+]
                                      The Young Pretender by Murray Kempton, p. 59 - 1 Review
                                      1. Prince of the City (1981 Film) by Sidney Lumet
                                    16. Letters by Robert W. Creamer, Gore Vidal, and Azadeh Esteglal, ..., pp. 59-64
                                  3. [+]
                                    November 5, 1981 Issue = 20 Articles
                                    1. [+]
                                      A Good Man by Leonard Schapiro, pp. 3-7 - 1 Review
                                      1. Righteous Gentile by John Bierman
                                    2. [+]
                                      Born Again by H.R. Trevor-Roper, pp. 8-11 - 1 Review
                                      1. Among the Believers by V.S. Naipaul
                                    3. [+]
                                      Reservations by Robert Towers, pp. 12-14 - 1 Review
                                      1. The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving
                                    4. [+]
                                      America's Dreyfus Case by Francis Russell, pp. 15-17 - 1 Review
                                      1. The Black Flag by Brian Jackson
                                    5. Return by Yannis Ritsos, pp. 18-19
                                    6. [+]
                                      The Rake's Progress by Mary McCarthy, pp. 20-23 - 1 Review
                                      1. Green Thoughts by Eleanor Perenyi
                                    7. One of Us? by Alfred Kazin, pp. 24-25
                                    8. [+]
                                      How Long Can They Last? by Conor Cruise O'Brien, pp. 26-33 - 3 Reviews
                                      1. Why South Africa Will Survive by Lewis H. Gann and Peter Duignan
                                      2. South Africa: Time Running Out by The Foreign Policy Study Foundation
                                      3. The Crisis in South Africa by John S. Saul and Stephen Gelb
                                    9. The Wasteland of American Education by Jacques Barzun, pp. 34-35
                                    10. [+]
                                      No Need for Names by Wilfrid Sheed, pp. 36-37 - 1 Review
                                      1. The Last Laugh by S.J. Perelman
                                    11. [+]
                                      Out of the Shadows by David Brion Davis, pp. 38-42 - 1 Review
                                      1. The Image of the Black in Western Art by Ladislas Bugner
                                    12. [+]
                                      In the Crab Pots by Geoffrey Grigson, p. 43 - 1 Review
                                      1. The Book of Ebenezer Le Page by G.B. Edwards
                                    13. [+]
                                      Can We Live the Good Life? by J.M. Cameron, pp. 44-48 - 1 Review
                                      1. After Virtue by Alasdair MacIntyre
                                    14. Letter from Budapest by George Konrad and Peter Reddaway, pp. 49-50
                                    15. [+]
                                      The Missing Link by Robert L. Heilbroner, pp. 51-52 - 1 Review
                                      1. Intellectual and Manual Labour by Alfred Sohn-Rethel
                                    16. [+]
                                      Closet Believers by D.P. Walker, p. 53 - 1 Review
                                      1. The Family of Love by Alastair Hamilton
                                    17. [+]
                                      Climbing Macchu Picchu by Alastair Reid, pp. 54-55 - 1 Review
                                      1. Translating Neruda by John Felstiner
                                    18. [+]
                                      Short Reviews, p. 56 - 3 Reviews
                                      1. Indian Running by Peter Nabokov
                                      2. Bad Blood by James H. Jones
                                      3. Russian Journal by Andrea Lee
                                    19. The Health Crisis in the USSR by Albert Szymanski and Nick Eberstadt, pp. 57-60
                                    20. Letters by Roger L. Lewis, Peter Green, and Robert L. Sullivan, ..., pp. 61-64
                                  4. [+]
                                    November 19, 1981 Issue = 18 Articles
                                    1. [+]
                                      Easy Come, Easy Go by Alfred Kazin, p. 3 - 1 Review
                                      1. Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike
                                    2. Lipinski's Farewell by Edward Lipinski, pp. 4-5
                                    3. [+]
                                      The White Revolutionary by Gordon A. Craig, pp. 6-9 - 1 Review
                                      1. Bismarck by Edward Crankshaw
                                    4. [+]
                                      The Heart of the Heart of the Country by Diane Johnson, pp. 10-13 - 1 Review
                                      1. Old Glory: An American Voyage by Jonathan Raban
                                    5. [+]
                                      Goodbye, Hitler by Geoffrey Barraclough, pp. 14-15 - 1 Review
                                      1. The Nazi Question by Pierre Aycoberry
                                    6. [+]
                                      Past, Present, & Future by A. Alvarez, pp. 16-18 - 3 Reviews
                                      1. Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
                                      2. The Flute-Player by D.M. Thomas
                                      3. The Country by David Plante
                                    7. [+]
                                      The Triumphs of the New Right by Frances FitzGerald, pp. 19-26 - 2 Reviews
                                      1. The New Right by Richard A. Viguerie
                                      2. The Sweetheart of the Silent Majority by Carol Felsenthal
                                    8. [+]
                                      Brave New World by James Wolcott, p. 27 - 1 Review
                                      1. Easy Travel to Other Planets by Ted Mooney
                                    9. [+]
                                      Idylls for Idlers by Robert Bernard Martin, pp. 28-33 - 1 Review
                                      1. The Return to Camelot by Mark Girouard
                                    10. [+]
                                      Hollywood's Hessians by John Gregory Dunne, pp. 34-37 - 1 Review
                                      1. The Craft of the Screenwriter by John Joseph Brady
                                    11. In Libertad Prison, pp. 38-39
                                    12. [+]
                                      An Alchemical Lear by Frances Yates, p. 40 - 1 Review
                                      1. The Chemical Theatre by Charles Nicholl
                                    13. [+]
                                      Are Justices Just? by Graham Hughes, pp. 41-43 - 1 Review
                                      1. How Courts Govern America by Richard Neely
                                    14. [+]
                                      The Real McCoy by Denis Donoghue, pp. 44-47 - 2 Reviews
                                      1. Essays on Realism by Georg Lukacs and Rodney Livingstone
                                      2. The Realistic Imagination by George Levine
                                    15. [+]
                                      Japan in the Chips by Robert B. Reich, pp. 48-50 - 1 Review
                                      1. The World Challenge by Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber
                                    16. The Unraveling of Reagan? by Murray Kempton, p. 51
                                    17. Going Crazy in India by Rosemary Dinnage, pp. 52-55
                                    18. Letters by Claude Gruen, Nina Gruen, Bernard Avishai, and James K. Genden, ..., pp. 56-60
                                  5. [+]
                                    December 3, 1981 Issue = 15 Articles
                                    1. [+]
                                      Never-Never-Land by V.S. Pritchett, pp. 3-5 - 1 Review
                                      1. P.G. Wodehouse: A Literary Biography by Benny Green
                                    2. [+]
                                      Pas de deux by John Russell, pp. 6-10 - 1 Review
                                      1. Bronislava Nijinska: Early Memoirs by Irina Nijinska, Jean Rawlinson, and Bronislava Nijinska, ...
                                    3. Reaganonics and Economics by James Tobin, pp. 11-14
                                    4. [+]
                                      How Guilty Were the French? by Patrice Higonnet, pp. 15-17 - 1 Review
                                      1. Vichy France and the Jews by Michael R. Marrus and Robert O. Paxton
                                    5. [+]
                                      The Novelist as Pedagogue by John Bayley, pp. 18-21 - 1 Review
                                      1. Lectures on Russian Literature by Vladimir Nabokov and Fredson Bowers
                                    6. [+]
                                      Happy Endings by Christopher Lasch, pp. 22-24 - 1 Review
                                      1. New Rules by Daniel Yankelovich
                                    7. [+]
                                      Fall and Decline by Shaul Bakhash, pp. 25-30 - 3 Reviews
                                      1. Roots of Revolution by Nikki R. Keddie
                                      2. Inside the Iranian Revolution by John D. Stempel
                                      3. Mission to Iran by William H. Sullivan
                                    8. [+]
                                      Proto-Photo by Charles Rosen and Henri Zerner, p. 31 - 1 Review
                                      1. Before Photography by Peter Galassi
                                    9. [+]
                                      Bottoms Up by Julian Symons, pp. 32-33 - 2 Reviews
                                      1. Moscow to the End of the Line by Venedikt Erofeev
                                      2. Illuminations by Tamas Aczel
                                    10. [+]
                                      A Close Encounter by Gunther S. Stent, pp. 34-36 - 1 Review
                                      1. Life Itself by Francis Crick
                                    11. [+]
                                      Intruders by Richard Poirier, pp. 37-39 - 1 Review
                                      1. A Flag for Sunrise by Robert Stone
                                    12. Czech Nightmares by Werner Paul, pp. 40-41
                                    13. [+]
                                      There Is No Penance Due to Innocence by William Empson, pp. 42-50 - 1 Review
                                      1. John Donne by John Carey
                                    14. Vietnam by Arthur H. Westing, Carol E. Westing, and William Shawcross, ..., p. 51
                                    15. Letters by Stanley Sadie, Charles Rosen, and John Eldergill, ..., pp. 52-56
                                  6. [+]
                                    December 17, 1981 Issue = 20 Articles
                                    1. [+]
                                      Death by a Thousand Cuts by Lester C. Thurow, pp. 3-5 - 1 Review
                                      1. Making America Work by James O'Toole
                                    2. Back Issues by Elizabeth Hardwick, pp. 6-11
                                    3. The Berlin Wall Tune by Joseph Brodsky, pp. 12-13
                                    4. [+]
                                      Wolfe in Wolfe's Clothing by Janet Malcolm, pp. 14-17 - 1 Review
                                      1. From Bauhaus to Our House by Tom Wolfe
                                    5. [+]
                                      The Triumph of Matthew Arnold by Noel Annan, pp. 18-21 - 1 Review
                                      1. Matthew Arnold: A Life by Park Honan
                                    6. [+]
                                      Relic by Luc Sante, pp. 22-25 - 2 Reviews
                                      1. Elvis by Albert Goldman
                                      2. Private Elvis by Diego Cortez
                                    7. [+]
                                      The Trap of Rearmament by James Fallows, pp. 26-31 - 3 Reviews
                                      1. The Baroque Arsenal by Mary Kaldor
                                      2. Soviet Military Power, 1986 by The Department of Defense
                                      3. The East-West Strategic Balance by T.B. Millar
                                    8. [+]
                                      All Too Real by Helen Vendler, pp. 32-36 - 3 Reviews
                                      1. Work, for the Night is Coming by Jared Carter
                                      2. A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far by Adrienne Rich
                                      3. One for the Rose by Philip Levine
                                    9. [+]
                                      Black Old Black and White Magic by Clive James, pp. 37-44 - 25 Reviews
                                      1. Camera Lucida by Roland Barthes
                                      2. Photography in Print by Vicki Goldberg
                                      3. Before Photography by Peter Galassi
                                      4. The Work of Atget: Old France by John Szarkowski and Maria Morris Hambourg
                                      5. Les Autochromes de J.H. Lartigue, 1912-1927 by Jacques-Henri Lartigue
                                      6. The Photography of Max Yavno by Ben Maddow and Max Yavno
                                      7. Feininger's Chicago, 1941 by Andreas Feininger
                                      8. Cole Weston: Eighteen Photographs by Cole Weston
                                      9. American Photographers and the National Parks by Robert Cahn and Robert Glenn Ketchum
                                      10. New England Reflections, 1882-1907 by Alan B. Newman
                                      11. Man as Art by Malcolm Kirk
                                      12. Rajasthan: India's Enchanted Land by Raghubir Singh
                                      13. Falkland Road: Prostitutes of Bombay by Mary Ellen Mark
                                      14. Nicaragua: June 1978-July 1979 by Susan Meiselas
                                      15. Visions of China by Marc Riboud
                                      16. The Russians by Vladimir Sichov
                                      17. Photographs by William Klein
                                      18. Hearts of Darkness by Don McCullin
                                      19. Herbert List: Photographs 1930-1970 by Herbert List
                                      20. Photographs, 1973-1980 by Christopher Rauschenberg
                                      21. Altered Landscapes by John Pfahl
                                      22. Sam Haskins: Photographics by Sam Haskins
                                      23. Bill Brandt: Nudes, 1945-1980 by Bill Brandt
                                      24. Hollywood Color Portraits by John Kobal
                                      25. A Century of Japanese Photography
                                    10. [+]
                                      One Culture by Rudolf Peierls, p. 45 - 1 Review
                                      1. The Physicists by C.P. Snow
                                    11. Poem for the End of the Year by Mary Gordon, p. 46
                                    12. Music Does Not Flow by Virgil Thomson, pp. 47-51
                                    13. [+]
                                      Washington at War by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., p. 52 - 1 Review
                                      1. Washington Dispatches, 1941-45 by H.G. Nicholas
                                    14. [+]
                                      Uncle Wiz the Wizard by Lincoln Kirstein, pp. 53-56 - 1 Review
                                      1. W.H. Auden: A Biography by Humphrey Carpenter
                                    15. [+]
                                      The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie by Richard Cobb, pp. 57-59 - 1 Review
                                      1. Ladies of the Leisure Class by Bonnie G. Smith
                                    16. [+]
                                      Empire Building by John Keegan, pp. 60-61 - 1 Review
                                      1. Revolutionary Empire by Angus Calder
                                    17. [+]
                                      The Clowning Victim by Alan Pryce-Jones, pp. 62-63 - 2 Reviews
                                      1. Edith Sitwell by Victoria Glendinning
                                      2. Edith Sitwell by Geoffrey Elborn
                                    18. [+]
                                      The Professor Knows by Richard Wollheim, pp. 64-66 - 1 Review
                                      1. Is There a Text in This Class? by Stanley Fish
                                    19. [+]
                                      Short Reviews, p. 67 - 2 Reviews
                                      1. Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman by Marjorie Shostak and Nisa
                                      2. Science in Traditional China by Joseph Needham
                                    20. Letters by Edward Abbey, John Crewdson, and Jay Presson Allen, ..., pp. 68-72
                              2. [+]
                                Issues of 1982 = 21 Issues, 317 Articles
                                1. [+]
                                  Issues of 1983 = 20 Issues, 305 Articles
                                  1. [+]
                                    Issues of 1984 = 19 Issues, 298 Articles
                                    1. [+]
                                      Issues of 1985 = 20 Issues, 305 Articles
                                      1. [+]
                                        Issues of 1986 = 21 Issues, 313 Articles
                                        1. [+]
                                          Issues of 1987 = 21 Issues, 314 Articles
                                          1. [+]
                                            Issues of 1988 = 21 Issues, 337 Articles
                                            1. [+]
                                              Issues of 1989 = 20 Issues, 333 Articles
                                            2. [+]
                                              Issues of the 1990s = 10 Years, 201 Issues, 3,320 Articles
                                              1. [+]
                                                Issues of 1990 = 21 Issues, 345 Articles
                                                1. [+]
                                                  Issues of 1991 = 20 Issues, 315 Articles
                                                  1. [+]
                                                    Issues of 1992 = 20 Issues, 317 Articles
                                                    1. [+]
                                                      Issues of 1993 = 20 Issues, 329 Articles
                                                      1. [+]
                                                        Issues of 1994 = 20 Issues, 315 Articles
                                                        1. [+]
                                                          Issues of 1995 = 20 Issues, 326 Articles
                                                          1. [+]
                                                            Issues of 1996 = 20 Issues, 335 Articles
                                                            1. [+]
                                                              Issues of 1997 = 20 Issues, 328 Articles
                                                              1. [+]
                                                                Issues of 1998 = 20 Issues, 344 Articles
                                                                1. [+]
                                                                  Issues of 1999 = 20 Issues, 366 Articles
                                                                2. [+]
                                                                  Issues of the 2000s = 6 Years, 66 Issues, 1,270 Articles
                                                                  1. [+]
                                                                    Issues of 2000 = 20 Issues, 380 Articles
                                                                    1. [+]
                                                                      Issues of 2005 = 1 Issue, 17 Articles
                                                                      1. [+]
                                                                        Issues of 2006 = 6 Issues, 97 Articles
                                                                        1. [+]
                                                                          Issues of 2007 = 9 Issues, 166 Articles
                                                                          1. [+]
                                                                            Issues of 2008 = 13 Issues, 286 Articles
                                                                            1. [+]
                                                                              Issues of 2009 = 17 Issues, 324 Articles
                                                                            2. [+]
                                                                              Issues of the 2010s = 1 Year, 19 Issues, 402 Articles
                                                                              1. [+]
                                                                                Issues of 2010 = 19 Issues, 402 Articles