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The Hunting of Wallace Stevens

Wallace Stevens, by Milton J. Bates

by Helen Vendler

The New York Review of Books, November 20, 1986, pp. 42-47

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        The Real David Stockman by John Greenya and Anne Urban
        Stockman by Owen Ullmann
      2. The Tenth Year of the Watch by Anatoly Shcharansky, Yelena Bonner, and Ludmilla Alexeyeva, ..., pp. 5-6
      3. [+]
        A Hero of Our Own Times by Denis Donoghue, pp. 7-9 - 1 Review
        A Man of Letters by V.S. Pritchett
      4. Runners by Patricia Storace, p. 10
      5. [+]
        Eminent Edwardian by Geoffrey Wheatcroft, pp. 11-13 - 1 Review
        The Character Factory by Michael Rosenthal
      6. [+]
        The Faithless Shepherd by Roger Draper, pp. 14-18 - 8 Reviews
        The Mirror Makers by Stephen Fox
        Advertising the American Dream by Roland Marchand
        Advertising, the Uneasy Persuasion by Michael Schudson
        Social Communication in Advertising by William Leiss, Stephen Kline, and Sut Jhally
        The Language of Advertising by Torben Vestergaard and Kim Shroder
        Ogilvy on Advertising by David Ogilvy
        The Trouble with Advertising by John E. O'Toole
        Adventures of an Advertising Woman by Jane Maas
      7. [+]
        Esalen East by James Joll, pp. 19-21 - 1 Review
        The Mountain of Truth by Martin B. Green
      8. [+]
        Just Ducky by Robin Johnson, pp. 22-24 - 2 Reviews
        Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book by Michael Barrier
        The Carl Barks Library by Bruce Hamilton, Thomas Andrac, and Geoffrey Blum, ...
      9. The 'Clean' War by Edward R.F. Sheehan, pp. 25-29
      10. [+]
        Miraculous Mosaics by Willibald Sauerlander, pp. 30-31 - 1 Review
        The Mosaic Decoration of San Marco, Venice by Otto Demus
      11. [+]
        Good News by Robert Towers, pp. 32-35 - 3 Reviews
        The News from Ireland, and Other Stories by William Trevor
        Monkeys by Susan Minot
        Transactions in a Foreign Currency by Deborah Eisenberg
      12. [+]
        Too Many People? by Jonathan Lieberson, pp. 36-41 - 1 Review
        Are World Population Trends A Problem? by Ben Wattenberg and Karl Zinsmeister
      13. The Nicaraguan Tangle by Lord Chitnis, Lord Kennet, Frank Brodhead, and Edward S. Herman, ..., pp. 42-44
      14. Letters by William B. Goodman, Conor Cruise O'Brien, and Leonore Suhl, ..., pp. 45-48
  3. [+]
    Issues of Jul.-Sep. 1986 = 3 Issues, 46 Articles
    1. [+]
      July 17, 1986 Issue = 15 Articles
      1. [+]
        Gone with the Wind by C. Vann Woodward, pp. 3-6 - 1 Review
        Why the South Lost the Civil War by Richard E. Beringer, Herman Hattaway, and Archer Jones, ...
      2. Death and the Maiden by Harry Mulisch, pp. 7-8
      3. [+]
        Chastisements by D.J. Enright, pp. 9-10 - 1 Review
        The Play of the Eyes by Elias Canetti
      4. Report from Hell by Ronald Dworkin, pp. 11-16
      5. [+]
        Diamonds Are Forever by Leonard Thompson, pp. 17-20 - 1 Review
        The Randlords by Geoffrey Wheatcroft
      6. [+]
        The Eighth Gothic Tale by Jane Kramer, pp. 21-27 - 17 Reviews
        Out of Africa (1985 Film) by Sydney Pollack
        Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
        Shadows on the Grass by Isak Dinesen
        Seven Gothic Tales by Isak Dinesen
        The Angelic Avengers by Isak Dinesen
        Last Tales by Isak Dinesen
        Anecdotes of Destiny, and Ehrengard by Isak Dinesen
        Letters from Africa, 1914-1931 by Isak Dinesen and Frans Lasson
        Daguerreotypes and Other Essays by Isak Dinesen
        Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller by Judith Thurman
        West with the Night by Beryl Markham
        The Pact by Thorkild Bjornvig
        The Flame Trees of Thika by Elspeth Huxley
        On the Edge of the Rift by Elspeth Huxley
        Silence Will Speak by Errol Trzebinski
        The Kenya Pioneers by Errol Trzebinski
        Longing for Darkness by Peter Beard
      7. Castro's Victims by Aryeh Neier, pp. 28-30
      8. [+]
        Good Housekeeping by Louis Auchincloss, pp. 31-32 - 1 Review
        Felicitous Space by Judith Fryer
      9. [+]
        Look Back in Anger by John K. Fairbank, pp. 33-35 - 4 Reviews
        To the Storm by Yue Daiyun and Carolyn Wakeman
        After the Nightmare by Liang Heng and Judith Shapiro
        Cold Winds, Warm Winds by Judith Shapiro and Liang Heng
        The Cultural Revolution and Post-Mao Reforms by Tang Tsou
      10. [+]
        Dr. Right by Rosemary Dinnage, pp. 36-37 - 2 Reviews
        Home Is Where We Start From by D.W. Winnicott, Clare Winnicott, and Ray Shepherd, ...
        Holding and Interpretation by D.W. Winnicott
      11. [+]
        Grand Illusions by John Keegan, pp. 38-41 - 1 Review
        Makers of Modern Strategy by Peter Paret, Gordon A. Craig, and Felix Gilbert
      12. Art Into Money by Joseph Alsop, pp. 42-45
      13. [+]
        Noise, Fire, and Hunger by Josef Skvorecky, pp. 46-48 - 1 Review
        Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman
      14. [+]
        Who Can Tell Right from Wrong? by H.L.A. Hart, pp. 49-51 - 1 Review
        Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy by Bernard Williams
      15. Letters by Harold P. Blum, M.D., Vladimir Dedijer, and Nora Beloff, ..., pp. 52-56
    2. [+]
      August 14, 1986 Issue = 15 Articles
      1. [+]
        Goodness, How Sad by Gabriele Annan, pp. 3-4 - 3 Reviews
        Nancy Mitford: A Biography by Selina Hastings
        Noblesse Oblige by Nancy Mitford
        The Water Beetle by Nancy Mitford
      2. Scenes from Nicaragua by Murray Kempton, pp. 5-10
      3. The Death of Borges by Hector Bianciotti, p. 11
      4. [+]
        Reign of Terror by Shaul Bakhash, pp. 12-13 - 1 Review
        Terrorism: How the West Can Win by Benjamin Netanyahu
      5. [+]
        The Young Yeats by Denis Donoghue, pp. 14-16 - 1 Review
        The Collected Letters of W.B. Yeats: Volume I, 1865-1895 by John Kelly, Eric Domville, and W.B. Yeats
      6. [+]
        Truly the Last Tycoons by John Kenneth Galbraith, p. 17 - 1 Review
        Ford: The Men and the Machine by Robert Lacey
      7. The Futurist Past by John Golding, pp. 18-22
      8. [+]
        Us and Others by Ian Buruma, pp. 23-25 - 1 Review
        War Without Mercy by John W. Dower
      9. [+]
        Women at Work by Andrew Hacker, pp. 26-32 - 9 Reviews
        A Lesser Life by Sylvia Ann Hewlett
        A Mother's Work by Deborah Fallows
        Why We Lost the ERA by Jane J. Mansbridge
        The Divorce Revolution by Lenore J. Weitzman
        Hard Choices by Kathleen Gerson
        Alone in a Crowd by Jean Reith Schroedel
        Women and Work: An Annual Review, Vol. I by Laurie Larwood, Ann H. Stromberg, and Barbara Gutek, ...
        Women in Charge by Aileen Jacobson
        The Third Sex by Patricia A. McBroom
      10. Visiting Malraux and Nabokov in the Fifties by Edmund Wilson, pp. 33-36
      11. [+]
        Special Subjects by D.J. Enright, pp. 37-38 - 3 Reviews
        Letter to Lord Liszt by Martin Walser
        The Parable of the Blind by Gert Hofmann
        Across by Peter Handke
      12. Can Guatemala Change? by Victor Perera, pp. 39-42
      13. Yalta and the Fate of Poland by Leszek Kolakowski and Theodore Draper, p. 43
      14. Letters by Walter Abish, Edward Albee, Evan J. Charkes, and Darryl Pinckney, ..., p. 44
      15. Report on the Shakespeare Quiz, pp. 45-48
    3. [+]
      September 25, 1986 Issue = 16 Articles
      1. [+]
        The Siege by C. Vann Woodward, pp. 3-10 - 1 Review
        No Ivory Tower by Ellen W. Schrecker
      2. [+]
        On the Verge by V.S. Pritchett, pp. 11-12 - 1 Review
        Dostoevsky: The Stir of Liberation, 1860-1865 by Joseph Frank
      3. [+]
        Mensch by Peter Reddaway, pp. 13-18 - 1 Review
        Shcharansky: Hero of Our Time by Martin Gilbert
      4. [+]
        MOMA's Vienna by Carl E. Schorske, pp. 19-24 - 1 Review
        Vienna 1900 by Kirk Varnedoe
      5. [+]
        The War that Won't Go Away by John Gregory Dunne, pp. 25-29 - 4 Reviews
        Brothers in Arms by William Broyles, Jr.
        Chance and Circumstance by Lawrence M. Baskir and William A. Strauss
        Long Time Passing by Myra MacPherson
        The Vietnamese Gulag by Doan Van Toai and David Chanoff
      6. [+]
        Eisenhower's War by Theodore Draper, pp. 30-42 - 1 Review
        Eisenhower At War, 1943-1945 by David Eisenhower and Dwight D. Eisenhower
      7. [+]
        How to Think About the Deficit by James Tobin, pp. 43-46 - 2 Reviews
        How Real is the Federal Deficit? by Robert Eisner
        The Deficits: How Big? How Long? How Dangerous? by Daniel Bell and Lester Thurow
      8. [+]
        Cardboard Darwinism by Stephen Jay Gould, pp. 47-54 - 3 Reviews
        Vaulting Ambition by Philip Kitcher
        Myths of Gender by Anne Fausto-Sterling
        Females of the Species by Bettyann Kevles
      9. [+]
        Ways Down South by Robert Towers, pp. 55-57 - 2 Reviews
        Kate Vaiden by Reynolds Price
        A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor
      10. The Return of Maimonides by Arthur Hertzberg, pp. 58-61
      11. [+]
        The Other Germany by Gordon A. Craig, pp. 62-64 - 3 Reviews
        German History in Marxist Perspective by Andreas Dorpalen
        Bismarck: Urpreusse Und Reichsgrunder by Ernst Engelberg
        East Germany and Detente by A. James McAdams
      12. Thanks, Shchukin & Morozov by Murray Kempton, p. 65
      13. The Odd Couple in France by Stanley Hoffmann, pp. 66-71
      14. Washington's New Celebrities by Charles Krauthammer, Morton Kondracke, and James Fallows, ..., pp. 72-74
      15. Letters by Richard John Neuhaus, M.C. Wheeler, and Nora Beloff, ..., pp. 75-80
      16. Cover illustration by Grandville
  4. [+]
    Issues of Oct.-Dec. 1986 = 6 Issues, 89 Articles
    1. [+]
      October 9, 1986 Issue = 15 Articles
      1. [+]
        The Waldheim File by Gordon A. Craig, pp. 3-6 - 4 Reviews
        Hitler and the Forgotten Nazis by Bruce F. Pauley
        Hitler's Hometown by Evan Burr Bukey
        Kurt Waldheim's Hidden Past
        In the Eye of the Storm by Kurt Waldheim
      2. [+]
        Edmund Wilson at Ease by Jason Epstein, pp. 7-10 - 1 Review
        The Fifties by Edmund Wilson and Leon Edel
      3. [+]
        Trop de Zele by Conor Cruise O'Brien, pp. 11-14 - 1 Review
        The Bloody Crossroads by Norman Podhoretz
      4. [+]
        Pop Foucaultism by Robert Darnton, pp. 15-16 - 1 Review
        Damning the Innocent by Pierre Darmon
      5. [+]
        The Road Not Taken by Edward Mortimer, pp. 17-18 - 1 Review
        The Vanished Imam by Fouad Ajami
      6. Why Read the Classics? by Italo Calvino, p. 19
      7. Rec Room by Ellen Levy, p. 20
      8. Neural Darwinism by Israel Rosenfield, pp. 21-27
      9. [+]
        Tall Tales from the Drug Wars by Alan Dershowitz, pp. 28-33 - 1 Review
        The Underground Empire by James Mills
      10. [+]
        Eisenhower's War---II by Theodore Draper, pp. 34-40 - 1 Review
        Eisenhower At War, 1943-1945 by David Eisenhower and Dwight D. Eisenhower
      11. [+]
        The Sahib's Pictures by Stuart Cary Welch, pp. 41-42 - 1 Review
        From Merchants to Emperors by Pratapaditya Pal and Vidya Dehejia
      12. [+]
        The Other Florence by Felix Gilbert, pp. 43-44 - 5 Reviews
        Tuscans and Their Families by David V. Herlihy and Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, ...
        Giovanni and Lusanna by Gene Brucker
        Doctors and Medicine in Early Renaissance Florence by Katharine Park
        Plague and the Poor in Renaissance Florence by Ann G. Carmichael
        Pictures and Punishment by Samuel Y. Edgerton, Jr.
      13. [+]
        Does Central Europe Exist? by Timothy Garton Ash, pp. 45-52 - 5 Reviews
        The Power of the Powerless by Vaclav Havel and John Keane
        The Anatomy of a Reticence by Vaclav Havel
        Antipolitics by Max Konrad
        Letters from Prison, and Other Essays by Adam Michnik
        KOR by Jan Jozef Lipski
      14. An Exchange on Ezra Pound by Michael Reck, Theodore Weiss, Alfred Kazin, and Oliver Taplin, ..., pp. 53-55
      15. Letters by Duncan Campbell, Murray Sayle, and I. Bernard Cohen, ..., pp. 56-60
    2. [+]
      October 23, 1986 Issue = 14 Articles
      1. [+]
        What Is To Be Done? by Leonard Thompson, pp. 3-7 - 3 Reviews
        Crossing the Line by William Finnegan
        South Africa Without Apartheid by Heribert Adam and Kogila Moodley
        Beggar Your Neighbours by Joseph Hanlon
      2. [+]
        An Art of Self-Discovery by John Bayley, pp. 8-9 - 3 Reviews
        Collected Poems by Edward Thomas
        A Language Not to be Betrayed by Edward Thomas and Edna Longley
        Edward Thomas by Richard George Thomas
      3. Birth and Death in Romania, pp. 10-18
      4. [+]
        The Man Who Should Be King by Christopher Hill, pp. 19-20 - 1 Review
        Henry, Prince of Wales, and England's Lost Renaissance by Roy Strong
      5. [+]
        Something Fishy in the Hamptons by Robert Hughes, pp. 21-24 - 1 Review
        Men's Lives by Peter Matthiessen
      6. The Faker's Art by Joseph Alsop, pp. 25-31
      7. The Road from Mandalay by Ian Buruma, pp. 32-35
      8. [+]
        The Bilingual Blur by Howard Gardner, pp. 36-46 - 1 Review
        Mirror of Language by Kenji Hakuta
      9. [+]
        In the Zoo of the New by Helen Vendler, pp. 47-51 - 4 Reviews
        The Triumph of Achilles by Louise Gluck
        Local Time by Stephen Dunn
        Cats of the Temple by Brad Leithauser
        Thomas and Beulah by Rita Dove
      10. [+]
        The Birth of a Tragedy by Avishai Margalit, pp. 52-55 - 2 Reviews
        The Tragedy of Zionism by Bernard Avishai
        Conflicts and Contradictions by Meron Benvenisti
      11. [+]
        The Voices of Mikhail Bakhtin by Joseph Frank, pp. 56-60 - 3 Reviews
        Mikhail Bakhtin by Katerina Clark and Michael Holquist
        Mikhail Bakhtin by Tzvetan Todorov
        Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics by Mikhail Bakhtin and Caryl Emerson
      12. [+]
        Eisenhower's War: The Final Crisis by Theodore Draper, pp. 61-67 - 1 Review
        Eisenhower At War, 1943-1945 by David Eisenhower and Dwight D. Eisenhower
      13. 'Mysteries of the Deaf' by William McCarthy, Bernard J. Sussman, and Arden Neisser, ..., p. 68
      14. Letters by Stewart D. Friedman, Harbir Singh, and John Kenneth Galbraith, ..., pp. 69-72
    3. [+]
      November 6, 1986 Issue = 15 Articles
      1. [+]
        In the American Mirror by George F. Kennan, pp. 3-6 - 1 Review
        The Cycles of American History by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
      2. [+]
        Lessons of the Master by Gore Vidal, pp. 7-9 - 2 Reviews
        Henry James: Essays, English and American Writers by Leon Edel, Mark Wilson, and Henry James
        Henry James: European Writers and Prefaces by Leon Edel, Mark Wilson, and Henry James
      3. Transformations of Livy by Zbigniew Herbert, p. 10
      4. [+]
        Natural Selection of Culture? by John Maynard Smith, pp. 11-12 - 1 Review
        Culture and the Evolutionary Process by Robert Boyd and Peter J. Richerson
      5. [+]
        Saint Cory and the Yellow Revolution by Ian Buruma, pp. 13-24 - 3 Reviews
        The Snap Revolution by James Fenton
        People Power: An Eyewitness History by Monina Allarey Mercado
        Crisis in the Philippines by John Bresnan
      6. [+]
        Insulin & Innocence by Alan Pryce-Jones, pp. 25-26 - 1 Review
        Reversal of Fortune by Alan M. Dershowitz
      7. [+]
        'Pintor Real' by Avigdor Arikha, pp. 27-35 - 1 Review
        Velazquez: Painter and Courtier by Jonathan Brown
      8. Visiting Gertrude and Alice by Maurice Grosser, pp. 36-38
      9. [+]
        Looking Backward by Ronald Steel, pp. 39-42 - 1 Review
        Thinking in Time by Richard E. Neustadt and Ernest R. May
      10. [+]
        The Last Idol by Neal Ascherson, pp. 43-45 - 2 Reviews
        Kitchener: The Man Behind the Legend by Philip Warner
        The Kitchener Enigma by Trevor Royle
      11. [+]
        Master of Horror by D.J. Enright, pp. 46-49 - 3 Reviews
        Karl Kraus: Apocalyptic Satirist by Edward Timms
        In These Great Times by Harry Zohn and Karl Kraus
        Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths by Karl Kraus and Harry Zohn
      12. [+]
        New Bards for Old by Robert M. Adams, pp. 50-54 - 9 Reviews
        Northrop Frye On Shakespeare by Northrop Frye
        Shakespeare and the Question of Theory by Patricia A. Parker and Geoffrey H. Hartman
        Shakespeare's Perjured Eye by Joel Fineman
        New Readings vs. Old Plays by Richard Levin
        The Devil's Party by Harriett Hawkins
        Shakespeare's English and Roman History Plays by Paul N. Siegel
        William Shakespeare by Terry Eagleton
        That Shakespearian Rag by Terence Hawkes
        Such is My Love by Joseph Pequigney
      13. [+]
        Now, Voyager by Charles Rosen, pp. 55-59 - 1 Review
        Voyage Into Substance by Barbara Maria Stafford
      14. Letters by Dexter Masters, Roger Dickinson, and Roger Draper, ..., pp. 60-64
      15. Cover Drawing by David Levine
    4. [+]
      November 20, 1986 Issue = 15 Articles
      1. The Noble Liszt by Alfred Brendel, pp. 3-7
      2. [+]
        In Bed with the Victorians by Noel Annan, pp. 8-14 - 1 Review
        The Tender Passion by Peter Gay
      3. An Icelandic Saga by Stanley Hoffmann, pp. 15-17
      4. [+]
        How Unpleasant to Meet Mr. Baudelaire! by Julian Barnes, pp. 18-20 - 1 Review
        Selected Letters of Charles Baudelaire by Rosemary Lloyd and Charles Baudelaire
      5. [+]
        The Survivor's Voice by Norman Davies, pp. 21-23 - 1 Review
        Shielding the Flame by Hanna Krall
      6. [+]
        The Nose Knows by Robert M. Adams, pp. 24-26 - 2 Reviews
        The Foul and the Fragrant by Alain Corbin
        Perfume by Patrick Suskind
      7. [+]
        Murderous Colombia by E.J. Hobsbawm, pp. 27-35 - 2 Reviews
        Human Rights in Colombia as President Barco Begins
        The Fruit Palace by Charles Nicholl
      8. The Unimportance of Being Oscar by Jonathan Lieberson, pp. 36-38
      9. [+]
        The Don Quixote of Diplomacy by Raymond Carr, pp. 39-41 - 1 Review
        The Count-Duke of Olivares by John H. Elliott
      10. [+]
        The Hunting of Wallace Stevens by Helen Vendler, pp. 42-47 - 3 Reviews
        Wallace Stevens by Milton J. Bates
        Wallace Stevens by George S. Lensing
        Wallace Stevens: The Early Years, 1879-1923 by Joan Richardson
      11. [+]
        Right Man, Wrong Place by T.H. Breen, pp. 48-50 - 1 Review
        The Complete Works of Captain John Smith, 1580-1631 by Philip L. Barbour and John Smith
      12. [+]
        Anything Goes? by Peter Bauer, pp. 51-55 - 1 Review
        Emerging from Poverty by Gerald M. Meier
      13. [+]
        Conservative Revolutionary by Rudolf Peierls, pp. 56-57 - 1 Review
        Dilemmas of an Upright Man by J.L. Heilbron
      14. Letters by Charles Mohr, Alfred Kazin, and Patricia McBroom, ..., pp. 58-64
      15. Cover Drawing by David Levine
    5. [+]
      December 4, 1986 Issue = 14 Articles
      1. [+]
        A House Is Not a Home by Diane Johnson, pp. 3-6 - 4 Reviews
        Home: A Short History of an Idea by Witold Rybczynski
        House by Tracy Kidder
        The Englishman's Room by Alvilde Lees-Milne
        Designs for Interiors by Stephen Calloway
      2. [+]
        Mr. Updike's Planet by Frederick Crews, pp. 7-14 - 1 Review
        Roger's Version by John Updike
      3. [+]
        Prisoner of Success by Jefferson Morley, pp. 15-20 - 1 Review
        Duarte: My Story by Jose Napoleon Duarte
      4. [+]
        An Excellent Man by John Bayley, pp. 21-22 - 1 Review
        Chekhov by Henri Troyat
      5. [+]
        A New New Testament by J.M. Cameron, pp. 23-27 - 1 Review
        The First Coming by Thomas Sheehan
      6. [+]
        Not So Common Man by Kenneth S. Davis, pp. 28-38 - 3 Reviews
        Truman: The Rise to Power by Richard Lawrence Miller
        Bess W. Truman by Margaret Truman
        Truman by Roy Jenkins
      7. [+]
        All in the Family by Rosemary Dinnage, p. 39 - 3 Reviews
        The Secret Trauma by Diana E.H. Russell
        The Original Sin by William Arens
        Forbidden Partners by James B. Twitchell
      8. [+]
        She's Got Rhythm by Denis Donoghue, pp. 40-43 - 1 Review
        The Complete Prose of Marianne Moore by Patricia C. Willis and Marianne Moore
      9. [+]
        The Betrayed People by Margo Picken, pp. 44-48 - 3 Reviews
        Funu: The Unfinished Saga of East Timor by Jose Ramos-Horta
        East Timor Violations of Human Rights
        Timor: A People Betrayed by James Dunn
      10. [+]
        Secrets of the Old One by Martin Gardner, pp. 49-50 - 1 Review
        Was Einstein Right? by Clifford M. Will
      11. [+]
        The Theater of Ethics by Bernard Knox, pp. 51-56 - 1 Review
        The Fragility of Goodness by Martha C. Nussbaum
      12. From a West-East Diary by Robert Craft, pp. 57-59
      13. Letters by Page Smith, Richard Ohmann, and C. Vann Woodward, ..., pp. 60-64
      14. Cover Drawing by David Levine
    6. [+]
      December 18, 1986 Issue = 16 Articles
      1. Afghanistan's Other War by Jeri Laber, pp. 3-7
      2. [+]
        City Lights by Mark Girouard, pp. 8-9 - 1 Review
        The City as a Work of Art by Donald J. Olsen
      3. [+]
        On the Edge of Revelation by J.M. Coetzee, pp. 10-12 - 1 Review
        Five Women by Robert Musil
      4. Japan by James Merrill, pp. 13-18
      5. [+]
        The Genius of George Herriman by Adam Gopnik, pp. 19-28 - 1 Review
        Krazy Kat: The Comic Art of George Herriman by Patrick McDonnell, Karen O'Connell, and Georgia Riley de Havenon, ...
      6. [+]
        The Wild Blue Yonder by Robert Towers, pp. 29-33 - 3 Reviews
        Diary of a Yuppie by Louis Auchincloss
        Pubis Angelical by Manuel Puig
        Paper Doll by Jim Shepard
      7. [+]
        The Americans in Space by James Fallows, pp. 34-48 - 3 Reviews
        The Heavens and the Earth by Walter A. McDougall
        Report of the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident
        The Aerospace Plane by Stephen W. Korthals-Altes
      8. [+]
        Sex in the Head by Martha Nussbaum, pp. 49-52 - 1 Review
        Sexual Desire by Roger Scruton
      9. Out of Phase Again by Albert O. Hirschman, pp. 53-57
      10. [+]
        Gulp! by Thomas R. Edwards, pp. 58-60 - 2 Reviews
        It by Stephen King
        Whirlwind by James Clavell
      11. [+]
        A Long Way from Poland by Selden Rodman, pp. 61-63 - 1 Review
        Poland's Caribbean Tragedy by Jan Pachonski and Reuel K. Wilson
      12. [+]
        Are Tyrants Necessary? by W.G. Runciman, pp. 64-65 - 1 Review
        At the Dawn of Tyranny by Eli Sagan
      13. [+]
        Catching Up with the Avant-garde by Roger Shattuck, pp. 66-74 - 8 Reviews
        Bohemian Paris by Jerrold Seigel
        Pleasures of the Belle Epoque by Charles Rearick
        France: Fin de Siecle by Eugen Weber
        Theory of the Avant-Garde by Peter Burger
        Poets, Prophets, and Revolutionaries by Charles Russell
        The Culture of Time and Space, 1880-1918 by Stephen Kern
        The Matrix of Modernism by Sanford Schwartz
        Mapping Literary Modernism by Ricardo J. Quinones
      14. On Fame and the Writer by Stephen Spender, p. 75
      15. Letters by Sherman E. Lee, Josua Bruyn, Joseph Alsop, and Eleanor Cook, ..., pp. 76-80
      16. Cover Illustration by George Herriman
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