October 1968 Issue, THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY

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- Khesanh
  John S. Carroll
  , pp. 4-19
- The Transkei
  Stanley Meisler
  , pp. 20-25
- ---, pp. 26-31
- The FBI
  Clayton Fritchey
  , pp. 32-41
- Portugal
  Joseph A. Page
  , pp. 42-49
- The Mail, pp. 50-54
- The War Against the Young
  Richard Poirier
  , pp. 55-64
- Why We're Against the Biggees
  James S. Kunen
  , p. 65
- Comments From Some Combatants, pp. 66-68
- The Class of '43 Is Puzzled
  Nicholas von Hoffman
  , pp. 69-75
- From An Imagined Life
  Grey Ruthven
  , p. 76
- Unfamiliar Quotations
  Edward Sorel
  , p. 77
- The Intruder
  Jorge Luis Borges
  , pp. 78-79
  A Story
- Three Poems, pp. 80-81
- Bobby K. Hayes of Calico Rock, Ark.
  Philip D. Carter
  , pp. 82-94
- "I Am Alone With the Masses---Waiting"
  Andre Malraux
  , pp. 95-120
  Forty Years of Mao and Communism
- Speak Into the Cupcake, Please
  Martin F. Nolan
  , pp. 121-126
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  Justice and Psychiatry (Review)
  Thomas S. Szasz
  , pp. 127-131
  The Battered Child, by Ray E. Helfer and C. Henry Kempe
  1. The Battered Child by Ray E. Helfer and C. Henry Kempe
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  Victorians, Edwardians, Historians (2 Reviews)
  Steven Marcus
  , pp. 132-135
  Victorian Minds, by Gertrude Himmelfarb
  1. Victorian Minds by Gertrude Himmelfarb
  2. The Edwardian Turn of Mind by Samuel Lynn Hynes
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  That Crystal Teardrop (Review)
  Robert Coles
  , pp. 136-138
  Daybreak, by Joan Baez
  1. Daybreak by Joan Baez
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  The Miracles of Muriel Spark (3 Reviews)
  Peter Davison
  , pp. 139-141
  Collected Poems I, by Muriel Spark
  1. Collected Poems I by Muriel Spark
  2. Collected Stories: I by Muriel Spark
  3. The Public Image by Muriel Spark
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  The Peripatetic Reviewer (4 Reviews)
  Edward Weeks
  , pp. 142-143
  Once an Eagle, by Anton Myrer
  1. Once an Eagle by Anton Myrer
  2. Along the Roads of the New Russia by Hans Koningsberger
  3. Summertime Island by Erskine Caldwell
  4. The First Circle by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
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  Music: Comrade Prokofiev (Review)
  Herbert Kupferberg
  , pp. 144-146
  Serge Prokofiev, by Victor Seroff
  1. Serge Prokofiev by Victor Seroff
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  Movies: Anytown, Alabama (Review)
  Dan Wakefield
  , pp. 147-148
  The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968 Film), by Robert Ellis Miller
  1. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968 Film) by Robert Ellis Miller
- Short Reviews: Records
  Herbert Kupferberg
  , p. 149
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  Short Reviews: Books (16 Reviews)
  Phoebe Adams
  , pp. 150-152
  Fragments of a Journal, by Eugene Ionesco
  1. Fragments of a Journal by Eugene Ionesco
  2. No One Writes to the Colonel, and Other Stories by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  3. Come Along with Me by Shirley Jackson and Stanley Edgar Hyman
  4. Nikos Kazantzakis by Helen Kazantzakis
  5. The White-Garnett Letters by David Garnett and T.H. White
  6. An Orderly Life by Jose Yglesias
  7. Native Realm by Czeslaw Milosz
  8. How to Be a Party Girl by Pat Montandon
  9. Lost in the Funhouse by John Barth
  10. In the Wake of the Sea-Serpents by Bernard Heuvelmans
  11. The Man on the Balcony by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo
  12. Harold Nicolson: The Later Years, 1945-1962 by Nigel Nicolson and Harold Nicolson
  13. The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born by Ayi Kwei Armah
  14. The First Americans by G.H.S. Bushnell
  15. Art and the Seafarer by Hans Jurgen Hansen
  16. The Exaggerations of Peter Prince by Steve Katz
- Cover
  Robert Dustin and Marilyn Dustin