1977/12 — Contents as follows: Oh! Canada! — Lament for a divided country — by Mordecai Richler Behold the Hunter by Nelson Bryant Great Moments in Architecture – Vinyl Siding, and other achievements — by David Macaulay The Handicapped: Hidden No Longer by Sonny Kleinfield FICTION: “Christmas Roses” by Edna O’Brien “Trilobites” by B. D’J [...]
1977/10 — Contents as follows: Asking for Trouble in South Africa by George W. Ball – The hazards of moralism The Anatomy of White Power by Benjamin Pogrund – Life under apartheid The Gentle Art of Poverty by John Brooke Tinkering With Sunshine by Tracy Kidder – The Prospects for Solar Energy FICTION: “Juvenile Dice” [...]
1977/09 — Contents as follows: Toward Nuclear Stability by Earl C. Ravenal The Children of Affluence by Robert Coles Lion in the Rain-Rinsed Morning – A hunter’s tale – by Jack Curtis FICTION: “Gorm” by Ella Leffland “Undertow” by Stuart Dybek POETRY: “La Bocca della Verita” by Peter Davison “Horse Chestnut” by Gary Miranda REPORTS [...]
1977/08 — Contents as follows: The Politics of Fish by William W. Warner Lunch With Uncle Ez by H. Bibesco Passage to a New India by Pranay Gupte How I Defeated the Germans by Peter Ustinov FICTION: “The Hitchhiker” by Roald Dahl “The Problem of Li T’ang” by Geoffrey Bush POETRY: “Memories” by Helen Knopf [...]
1977/07 — Contents as follows: Bleak House — Frustration on Capitol Hill — by Sanford J. Ungar Wynken, Blynken, and Cob — The back-to-the-sea movement: a firsthand report — by Page Stegner Views — On the strange brotherhood between environmentalists and industrialists — by Anthony Brandt Jimmy Carter Revealed — He’s a Rockefeller Republican — [...]
1977/06 — Contents as follows: Life on Mars by David L. Chandler The Never-Ending Wrong — Sacco and Vanzetti fifty years later — by Katharine Anne-Porter FICTION: “Grounds” by Laura Cunningham “Golden State” by John Sayles POETRY: “Lament for the Non-Swimmers” by David Wagoner “Dr. Freud” by Andrew Glaze REPORTS & COMMENT: Japan by Frank [...]
1977/05 — Contents as follows: Obscenity — Forget It — Some proposals towards controlling pornography — by Charles Rembar A Conversation with John Gardner by Don Edwards and Carol Polsgrove Twilight in White Rhodesia by Joseph B. Treaster Pencils Down by Andrew Ward The Parthenon is Shrinking by Emily Vermeule FICTION: “Redemption” by John Gardner [...]
1977/04 — Contents as follows: Inside the Supreme Court by Earl Warren The Terrifying Prospect — Atomic Bombs everywhere — by Daniel Yergin Money for Art’s Sake — The government as patron — by Eleanor Munro A Poet’s Statements of Faith by Richard Hugo FICTION: “Shaving” by Leslie Norris “The Anatomy of Bliss” by John [...]
1977/01 — Contents as follows: “The Biggest Pimp of All” — Prostitution and some facts of life — by Elizabeth and James Vorenberg St. Patrick’s and the Prospect of Hell by Stephen Harrigan The Tiddling Tennis Theorem by Arthur Hoppe Supersonic Best — The story of the Concorde — by Peter Gillman FICTION: “A Lamp” [...]
1976/12 — Contents as follows: An Expatriate Looks at America by J.P. Donleavy The Vanishing Tuna by John N. Cole Notes While Being Hijacked by Richard Brockman Searching for the Real Nixon Scandal by Renata Adler The Trouble With Professors FICTION: “Smokers” by Tobias Wolff POETRY: “Waiting” by Robert Penn Warren “Everything Comes Eventually” by [...]
1976/11 — Contents as follows: The Battle for Long Island – A plan to stay the bulldozer and save some of God’s green earth – by Tracy Kidder Scenes from a Spanish Village – What Life is like in Post-Franco Spain – by Victor Perera After the Sexual Revolution by Benjamin DeMott On the Reef [...]
1976/10 — Contents as follows: Middle-Class Myths, Middle-Class Realities by Robert L. Heilbroner Within Walking Distance by Irwin Shaw “I Don’t See How to Write a Book Without Poeple in It” by Virginia Woolf — a 1922 letter too Gerald Brenan FICTION: “The Chinese Puzzle Race” by Sam Toperoff “Honor, Power, Riches, Fame & the [...]
1976/09 — Contents as follows: While Alma Mater Burns by Gail Thain Parker Lo, the Poor Animals by James Fallows My Love Affair With Foster by Anonymous as told to Ward Just A Fatal Slaying of the Very Worst by Edwin Newman The Scourge of Avondale by Louis Kronenberger FICTION: “Three Shots for Charlie Betson” [...]
1976/08 — Contents as follows: Trains in Trouble — Amtrak to the rescue? — by Tracy Kidder The Rice Is Wild — Harvesting the Earth’s last undomesticated grain by Robert Treuer Thinking About the Thinkable — Arms and the politicians — by Drew Middleton Crumblings — Some true stories about interesting people — by Wallace [...]
1970/08 — Contents as follows: Thanksgiving in Paris — 1964 by Mary McCarthy Episode in Tokyo Bay by Theodore H. White The McCarthy Campaign by Abigail McCarthy “Variations on the Art of Wishing” a poem by Judith Rascoe When the President Meets the Press by Hedrick Smith The Inscrutable West by Ross Terrill Novel Bites [...]
1970/07 — Contents as follows: Let Us Now Appraise Famous Writers by Jessica Mitford King of the River — A Poem — by Stanley Kunitz The Recruiting Officer — A Story — by John McGahern Surviving — A Poem — by Rosellen Brown The Little Big Man Who Laughs at the Law by Nicholas Gage [...]
1970/06 — Contents as follows: The God-Hucksters of Radio by William C. Martin Tale of Genji — A Poem — by Hugh Seidman Love and Death — A Story — by Joyce Carol Oates Who, Sir? Me, Sir? The Times, Sir! — A Poem — by Ogden Nash Indians in History by Alvin M. Josephy, [...]
1969/09 — Contents as follows: The Young and the Old: Notes on a New History – Part I – by Robert Jay Lifton “Tell Me, Doctor, Will I Be Active Right Up to the Last?” by Howard Luck Gossage Why Automobile Insurance Rates Keep Going Up by Gilbert B. Friedman Viewpoint: The President’s Making History [...]
1969/03 — Contents as follows: Reveille for Democrats by Bill Moyers “Patients” a Story by Jonathan Strong Further Thoughts on the Biological Revolution “The Summer People” a poem by James Merrill The Price of Free TV by Leonard Chazen Hadrian the Seventh On Stage and Off by Louis Kronenberger How to Teach a Delinquent THE [...]
1968/07 — Contents as follows: Bill Moyers Talks About LBJ, Power, Poverty, War, and the Young by Bill Moyers Carnival of Excess – TV at the Conventions – by Charles McDowell, Jr. The Freedom Rides Revisited by Victor S. Navasky Sorel’s Unfamiliar Quotations by Edward Sorel Edwin O’Connor and the Irish-American Process by John V. [...]
1968/04 — Contents as follows: How Could Vietnam Happen? – An Autopsy by James C. Thomson, Jr. After the War — A Poem — by W.S. Merwin Whatever You Do, Don’t Sell My IBM by “Adam Smith” The Right to Die: A Father Speaks by Bernard Bard A Theologian Comments by Joseph Fletcher What Makes [...]
1968/03 — Contents as follows:Supernation at Peace and War by Dan WakefieldBeing Certain Observations, Depositions, Testimonies, and Graffiti Gathered on a One Man Fact-and-Fantasy-Finding Tour of the Most Powerful Nation of the World. Part I: Protest A. Against the War in Vietnam B. Against Home and Mother C. Against Poverty Part II: Pacification A. The [...]
1967/12 — Contents as follows: Shepherds vs. Flocks: Ministers and Negro Militancy by William C. Martin Thomas Wolfe Arrives by Andrew Turnbull “Song: One in Many” a poem by Robert Graves The Cost of the Brain Drain by Walter Mondale “Sidney and the Dogs” an Atlantic First by Brett Riley The Health Syndicate: Washington’s Noble [...]
1967/06 — Contents as follows: To Boris Leonidovich Pasternak by Svetlana Alliluyeva (Stalin’s daughter) A Minority Nobody Knows by Helen Rowan My Brother Evelyn by Alec Waugh Wings and Beards — A Poem — by Robert Graves Capitalism, Socialism, and the Future of the Industrial State by John Kenneth Galbraith The Jones Boy Forever by [...]
1967/05 — Contents as follows: Germany 1967 by Robert Manning — Daniel P. Moynihan, Richard Rovere, Diana Trilling, Irving Kristol, Harvey Swados, Midge Dector, George P. Elliott, Stanley Kauffmann Bobby — A Story — by Joseph Whitehill Fly — A Poem — by W.S. Merwin A Time for Comedy by Louis Kronenberger Market Planning and [...]
