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January 21, 1982 Issue = 21 Articles-
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The Father of Us All by Alfred Kazin, pp. 3-6 - 1 Review- Waldo Emerson: A Biography by Gay Wilson Allen
- Letter to My Foreign Colleages by Andrei Sakharov, p. 7
- On Nuclear War by George Kennan, pp. 8-11
- An Incredible Strategy by Michael Howard, pp. 12-13
- Dido in Love, from the Aeneid, Book IV by Robert Fitzgerald, pp. 14-15
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The Mantle of Munchausen by John Richardson, pp. 16-23 - 1 Review- King of Confessors by Thomas Hoving
- How Peace, After Asking Its Question, Becomes War by Vickie Karp, pp. 24-25
- New York and the Nation by Felix G. Rohatyn, pp. 26-28
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One Mo' Time by Michael Wood, pp. 29-30 - 1 Review- Pursuits of Happiness by Stanley Cavell
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How Not to Crack the Silkwood Case by John M. Crewdson, pp. 31-38 - 1 Review- Who Killed Karen Silkwood? by Howard Kohn
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Neither Here Nor There by Richard Ellmann, p. 39 - 1 Review- Sixty Stories by Donald Barthelme
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The Making of Reaganism by Tom J. Farer, pp. 40-45 - 2 Reviews- The Hidden Election by Thomas Ferguson and Joel Rogers
- Portrait of an Election by Elizabeth Drew
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Now, Voyager by Jonathan Raban, pp. 46-47 - 1 Review- Halfway Around the World by Gavin Young
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Bombs Away by Murray Kempton, pp. 48-50 - 1 Review- Growing Up Underground by Jane Alpert
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More Kicks than Pricks by James Walcott, p. 51 - 1 Review- Nobody Here But Us Chickens by Marvin Mudrick
- Appalachian Spring by V.S. Pritchett, pp. 52-53
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Calling Dr. Cooper by P.B. Medawar, pp. 54-58 - 1 Review- The Vital Probe by Irving S. Cooper
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Guide Rouge by Emmanuel LeRoy Ladurie, pp. 59-61 - 1 Review- Teachers, Writers, Celebrities by Regis Debray
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The Medici Megalopolis by Felix Gilbert, pp. 62-66 - 3 Reviews- Public Life in Renaissance Florence by Richard C. Trexler
- The Laboring Classes in Renaissance Florence by Samuel Kline Cohn, Jr.
- The Building of Renaissance Florence by Richard A. Goldthwaite
- The Polish Crisis, p. 67
- Letters by Robert Gordis, J.M. Cameron, and Samuel H. Preston, ..., pp. 67-72
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February 4, 1982 Issue = 16 Articles-
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The Polish Revolution by Leonard Schapiro, pp. 3-5 - 2 Reviews- The Polish August by Neal Ascherson
- Poland Today: The State of the Republic by Michel Vale
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The Logic of Franz Kafka by V.S. Pritchett, pp. 6-7 - 3 Reviews- Kafka: A Biography by Ronald Hayman
- Kafka's Other Trial by Elias Canetti
- Letters to Ottla and the Family by Franz Kafka and N.N. Glatzer
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A Musical Offering by Robert Craft, pp. 8-9 - 1 Review- A Virgil Thomson Reader by Virgil Thomson
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Golden Boy by Robert Brustein, pp. 10-12 - 1 Review- Clifford Odets: American Playwright by Margaret Brenman-Gibson
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The Dream of Karl Rahner by Thomas Sheehan, pp. 13-15 - 2 Reviews- Foundations of Christian Faith by Karl Rahner
- Concern for the Church by Karl Rahner
- Reagan Abroad by Stanley Hoffmann, pp. 16-21
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The Other Sylvia Plath by Irvin Ehrenpreis, pp. 22-23 - 1 Review- The Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes
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Could the Hungarian Jews Have Survived? by Istvan Deak, pp. 24-27 - 1 Review- The Politics of Genocide: The Holocaust in Hungary by Randolph L. Braham
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Sartre's Last Case by Frederick Brown, pp. 28-30 - 1 Review- The Family Idiot: Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1857, Vol. I by Jean-Paul Sartre
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The Quack Detector by Stephen Jay Gould, pp. 31-32 - 1 Review- Science: Good, Bad, and Bogus by Martin Gardner
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Enemies Within by A. Alvarez, p. 33 - 1 Review- The Age of Wonders by Aharon Appelfeld
- Recession Economics by John Kenneth Galbraith, p. 34
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All Souls Food by Noel Annan, pp. 35-37 - 1 Review- Words on the Air by John Sparrow
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Strange Fruits by John Appleton, pp. 38-39 - 1 Review- The Legacy of Greece by M.I. Finley
- Is Intelligence for Real? by Terry Tomkow, Robert M. Martin, and Steven Orzack, ..., p. 40
- Letters by Vasily Aksenov, Brian Jackson, and David E. Kaiser, ..., pp. 41-44
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February 18, 1982 Issue = 13 Articles-
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Looking for Heroes by Gordon S. Wood, pp. 3-5 - 1 Review- The Vineyard of Liberty by James MacGregor Burns
- The Rise of Andy Warhol by Robert Hughes, pp. 6-10
- Begin and the Jews by Arthur Hertzberg, pp. 11-12
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Family Man by John Bayley, pp. 13-15 - 1 Review- The Love Letters of William and Mary Wordsworth by Beth Darlington, William Wordsworth, and Mary Wordsworth, ...
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Odd Couple by Rudolf Peierls, pp. 16-17 - 1 Review- John von Neumann and Norbert Wiener by Steve J. Heims
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The New American Cuisine by Diane Johnson, pp. 18-20 - 24 Reviews- The New American Cuisine
- The Elegance with Ease Cookbook by Fern Lebo
- Discover Brunch by Ruth MacPherson
- Cooking with Carrier by Robert Carrier
- Robert Carrier's Entertaining by Robert Carrier
- Too Busy to Cook?
- The New York Times More 60-Minute Gourmet by Pierre Franey
- Fifteen-Minute Meals by Emalee Chapman
- The New James Beard by James Beard
- The Park Avenue Cookbook by Sara B.B. Stamm
- The Helen Corbitt Collection by Elizabeth Ann Johnson and Helen Corbitt
- Pamela Harlech's Practical Guide to Cooking, Entertaining, and Household Management by Pamela Harlech
- The Only Texas Cookbook by Linda West Eckhardt
- The World's Best Food for Health and Long Life by Michael Bateman
- Kitchen in the Hills by Elizabeth West
- The Microwave Chinese Cookbook by Lillian Chen and Edith Nobile
- Cookbook from a Melting Pot by Elizabeth Paulucci
- The Nouvelle Cuisine Cookbook by Armand Aulicino
- The French Cuisine of Your Choice by Isabelle Marique and Albert Jorant
- Kitchen Science by Howard Hillman
- Chinese Technique by Ken Hom and Harvey Steiman
- Cooking Techniques by Beverly Cox and Joan Whitman
- The Cook's Handbook by Prue Leith
- Judith Olney's Entertainments by Judith Olney
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What Is, and Is Not, Realism? by Charles Rosen and Henri Zerner, pp. 21-26 - 1 Review- The Realist Tradition by Gabriel P. Weisberg
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The Magician by Gabriele Annan, pp. 27-29 - 1 Review- Thomas Mann: The Making of an Artist, 1875-1911 by Richard Winston
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Nuremberg in Washington by Robert Dallek, pp. 30-31 - 1 Review- The Road to Nuremberg by Bradley F. Smith
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Cosmic Philosopher by Bernard Williams, pp. 32-34 - 1 Review- Philosophical Explanations by Robert Nozick
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The Illegitimate Theater by Nigel Dennis, pp. 35-36 - 1 Review- The Antitheatrical Prejudice by Jonas Barish
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Up Against the Great Wall by Frederic Wakeman Jr.#2, pp. 37-40 - 1 Review- The Gate of Heavenly Peace by Jonathan D. Spence
- Letters by Noam Chomsky, John D. Stempel, and Shaul Bakhash, ..., pp. 41-44
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March 4, 1982 Issue = 12 Articles-
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Just Deserts by Amartya Sen, pp. 3-5 - 1 Review- Equality, the Third World, and Economic Delusion by P.T. Bauer
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Point of Departure by Diane Johnson, pp. 6-8 - 1 Review- The Dean's December by Saul Bellow
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A Bunch of Reds by Elizabeth Hardwick, pp. 9-15 - 1 Review- Reds (1981 Film) by Warren Beatty
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The Polish Wake by Jaroslaw Anders, pp. 16-17 - 1 Review- The Polish Complex by Tadeusz Konwicki
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Verdi's Hit Parade by Joseph Kerman, pp. 18-20 - 1 Review- The Operas of Verdi by Julian Budden
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A Tight Squeeze by Anne Hollander, pp. 21-22 - 1 Review- Fashion and Fetishism by David Kunzle
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Poet of Two Worlds by Helen Vendler, pp. 23-26 - 1 Review- The Fortunate Traveller by Derek Walcott
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Jogging to the Abyss by Robert M. Adams, pp. 27-28 - 1 Review- All That Is Solid Melts Into Air by Marshall Berman
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Enemies of Realism by Charles Rosen and Henri Zerner, pp. 29-33 - 1 Review- The Realist Tradition by Gabriel P. Weisberg
- Brezhnev and After by Simon Head, pp. 34-42
- "There Is No Penance Due to Innocence" by Helen Gardner, Mark Justin, and William Empson, p. 43
- Letters by Stephen Rosskam Shalom, John M. Gates, and Gore Vidal, ..., pp. 44-48
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March 18, 1982 Issue = 15 Articles-
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Sentimental Education by Joan Didion, pp. 3-6 - 1 Review- Every Secret Thing by Patricia Campbell Hearst and Alvin Moscow
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Guilty Secrets by Stephen Spender, pp. 7-9 - 1 Review- The Royal Game, and Other Stories by Stefan Zweig
- Valery: Palme by James Merrill, pp. 10-11
- Advice from Admiral Rickover by Hyman G. Rickover, pp. 12-14
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The World of the Pied Piper by Alison Lurie, pp. 15-17 - 1 Review- Kate Greenaway by Rodney Engen
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The Fly on Nixon's Wall by Nicholas von Hoffman, pp. 18-20 - 1 Review- Witness to Power by John D. Ehrlichman
- Poland by Martin Malia, pp. 21-34
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Tough Act to Follow by Peter Green, pp. 35-36 - 1 Review- Funeral Games by Mary Renault
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Farewell to the Family by Andrew Hacker, pp. 37-44 - 9 Reviews- Marriage, Divorce, Remarriage by Andrew J. Cherlin
- What's Happening to the American Family? by Sar A. Levitan and Richard S. Belous
- Singled Out by Richard Schickel
- America Now by Marvin Harris
- The Inner American by Joseph Veroff, Elizabeth Douvan, and Richard A. Kulka, ...
- The Futility of Family Policy by Gilbert Y. Steiner
- Friends as Family by Karen Lindsey
- Marital Status and Living Arrangements
- Household and Family Characteristics
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Good at Games by Veronica Geng, p. 45 - 1 Review- Personal Best (1982 Film) by Robert Towne
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Hangovers by D.J. Enright, pp. 46-47 - 2 Reviews- Headbirths, or The Germans Are Dying Out by Gunter Grass
- The Safety Net by Heinrich Boll
- Prussia Lives! by Felix Gilbert, pp. 48-50
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Settlers and 'Savages' on Two Frontiers by George M. Fredrickson, pp. 51-53 - 3 Reviews- The Frontier in History by Howard Lamar and Leonard Thompson
- The Shaping of South African Society, 1652-1820 by Richard Elphick and Hermann Giliomee
- Economy and Society in Pre-Industrial South Africa by Shula Marks and Anthony Atmore
- An Appeal to Psychiatrists by Peter Reddaway and Anatoly Koryagin, p. 54
- Letters by Judith Weissman, Susanne P. Schad-Somers, and Jane Alpert, ..., pp. 55-60
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Issues of Apr.-Jun. 1982 = 7 Issues, 106 Articles-
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April 1, 1982 Issue = 16 Articles-
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How to Rescue a Drowning Economy by Lester C. Thurow, p. 3 - 1 Review- Minding America's Business by Ira C. Magaziner and Robert B. Reich
- Landscape (after Baudelaire) by John Ashbery, pp. 4-5
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A Funny Meister by Gabriele Annan, pp. 6-11 - 1 Review- The Genius of Wilhelm Busch: Comedy of Frustration by Walter Arndt and Wilhelm Busch
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No Fool by Francine du Plessix Gray, pp. 12-14 - 1 Review- Clare Boothe Luce by Wilfrid Sheed
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The Rise of Hyman Rickover by James Fallows, pp. 15-18 - 1 Review- Rickover by Norman Polmar and Thomas B. Allen
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Reading for Signs of Life by Jerome Bruner, pp. 19-20 - 1 Review- On Learning to Read by Bruno Bettelheim and Karen Zelan
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The Old Country by Robert Towers, pp. 21-22 - 1 Review- Malgudi Days by R.K. Narayan
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How Strong Are the Saudis? by Jim Hoagland, pp. 23-25 - 3 Reviews- The Kingdom by Robert Lacey
- The House of Saud by David Holden and Richard Johns #2
- Saudi Arabia in the 1980's by William B. Quandt
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The Genius Syndrome by Malcolm Muggeridge, p. 26 - 1 Review- God's Fifth Column by William A. Gerhardie, Michael Holroyd, and Robert Skidelsky, ...
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Dr. Shaw's Music Lessons by Edward Rothstein, pp. 27-32 - 1 Review- Shaw's Music by George Bernard Shaw and Dan H. Laurence
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Moses and Atheism by J.M. Cameron, p. 33 - 1 Review- The Refusers by Stanley Burnshaw
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The Supply-Side Star by Robert Mazzocco, pp. 34-38 - 1 Review- Dirty Harry (1971 Film) by Don Siegel
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Who Should Go to Prison? by Graham Hughes, pp. 39-41 - 1 Review- Imprisonment in America by Michael Sherman and Gordon Hawkins
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Wittgenstein the Psychologist by Ian Hacking, pp. 42-44 - 1 Review- Remarks on the Philosophy of Psychology by Ludwig Wittgenstein, G.H. von Wright, and Heikki Nyman, ...
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China by Jonathan Spence, pp. 45-46 - 5 Reviews- China's Silk Trade by Lillian M. Li
- Bureaucracy and Famine in Eighteenth-Century China by Pierre-Etienne Will
- China by Keith Buchanan, Charles P. Fitzgerald, and Colin A. Ronan, ...
- A History of Chinese Civilization by Jacques Gernet
- Chinese Civilization and Society by Patricia Buckley Ebrey
- Letters by Stanley Diamond, Nicholas Penny, and Charles Rosen, ..., pp. 47-52
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April 15, 1982 Issue = 15 Articles-
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The Kindly Stranger by Murray Kempton, pp. 3-5 - 1 Review- FDR: A Centenary Rememberance, 1882-1945 by Joseph Alsop
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Poets of Sacrifice by David McDuff, pp. 6-9 - 1 Review- Selected Poems by Marina Tsvetayeva
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Elephant Man by John Gregory Dunne, pp. 10-13 - 1 Review- The Kennedy Imprisonment by Garry Wills
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Mysterious Incest by Nadine Gordimer, p. 14 - 1 Review- Flaws in the Glass by Patrick White
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The Lowest Depths by E.J. Hobsbawm, pp. 15-16 - 1 Review- Peasants, Rebels, and Outcastes by Mikiso Hane
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Glamour Boy by A.J.P. Taylor, pp. 17-18 - 1 Review- Anthony Eden: A Biography by David Carlton
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The Philosophy of Reaganism by Emma Rothschild, pp. 19-26 - 1 Review- Economic Report of the President
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Will Man Become Obsolete? by Stephen Jay Gould, p. 27 - 1 Review- Enchanted Loom by Robert Jastrow
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A Good Read by J.M. Cameron, pp. 28-31 - 2 Reviews- The Great Code by Northrop Frye
- The Art of Biblical Narrative by Robert Alter
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Famous but Unknown by Francis Haskell, pp. 32-34 - 1 Review- French Sculptors of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries by Francois Souchal
- The Aradovsky Case by Michael Scammell, pp. 35-36
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Moby-Dad by Robert Towers, p. 37 - 1 Review- The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux
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Rags by Anne Hollander, pp. 38-40 - 2 Reviews- The Language of Clothes by Alison Lurie
- The Fashionable Mind by Kennedy Fraser
- Medici Florence by Richard C. Trexler and Felix Gilbert, p. 41
- Letters by Charles Schwartz, V.S. Pritchett, and Robert Frazier, ..., pp. 42-44
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April 29, 1982 Issue = 15 Articles-
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The Myth of the Computer by John R. Searle, pp. 3-7 - 1 Review- The Mind's I by Douglas R. Hofstadter and Daniel C. Dennett
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Chance-taker by Robert M. Adams, pp. 8-9 - 1 Review- Oh What a Paradise It Seems! by John Cheever
- The Ruins of Washington by Gore Vidal, pp. 10-11
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Our Town by Roger Sale, pp. 12-13 - 1 Review- Nuclear Culture by Paul Rogat Loeb
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The Return of Henry Kissinger by Stanley Hoffmann, pp. 14-20 - 1 Review- Years of Upheaval by Henry Kissinger
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How to Understand Slavery by Stanley Elkins, pp. 21-22 - 1 Review- Slavery and Freedom by Willie Lee Rose and William W. Freehling
- A Raw Deal by Felix Rohatyn, pp. 23-27
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Bright and Silly by Denis Donoghue, pp. 28-29 - 2 Reviews- The Enemy by Jeffrey Meyers
- Fables of Aggression by Fredric Jameson
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Ireland: The Shirt of Nessus by Conor Cruise O'Brien, pp. 30-33 - 1 Review- Irish Nationalism by Sean Cronin
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Quantum Squabbles by Rudolf Peierls, pp. 34-35 - 2 Reviews- The Rise of Robert Millikan by Robert H. Kargon
- Night Thoughts of a Classical Physicist by Russell McCormmach
- A Guide to El Salvador by Murray Kempton, p. 36
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Queen Story by Harry Mathews, pp. 37-42 - 1 Review- Progress of Stories by Laura Riding Jackson
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Ask the Fact by Vernon Shetley, p. 43 - 2 Reviews- The Revisionist by Douglas Crase
- The Everlastings by Norman Dubie
- Begin and the Jews by Alan M. Milner, Robert Fink, and Rabbi Ephraim Rubinger, ..., p. 44
- Letters by David Burnham, Howard Kohn, and John M. Crewdson, ..., pp. 45-48
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May 13, 1982 Issue = 15 Articles-
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A Fine Romance by D.M. Thomas, pp. 3-5 - 1 Review- A Secret Symmetry by Aldo Carotenuto
- The House Fly by James Merrill, pp. 6-7
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The Art of Dying by Robert Darnton, pp. 8-12 - 1 Review- Death and the Enlightenment by John McManners
- The Missed Chance to Stop the H-Bomb by McGeorge Bundy, pp. 13-21
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Flushed with Ideas by A. Alvarez, pp. 22-23 - 2 Reviews- Levitation by Cynthia Ozick
- Waking by Eva Figes
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Pillars of the Third Reich by Norman Stone, pp. 24-26 - 6 Reviews- Infiltration by Albert Speer
- Reinhard Heydrich: A Biography by Gunther Deschner
- The Hitler State by Martin Broszat
- Third Reich and the Christian Churches by Peter Matheson
- Operation Valkyrie by Pierre Galante
- The Wehrmacht and German Rearmament by Wilhelm Deist
- Post-Conservative America by Kevin Phillips, pp. 27-32
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Emperor of China Studies by David S. Nivison, pp. 33-36 - 1 Review- Chinabound: A Fifty-Year Memoir by John King Fairbank
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Electronic Maestros by David Hamilton, pp. 37-38 - 2 Reviews- On and Off the Record by Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
- Putting the Record Straight by John Culshaw
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Letters from Zola by Frederick Brown, pp. 39-40 - 1 Review- The Correspondance of Emile Zola by B.H. Bakker and Emile Zola
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Storming the Fortress by John Maynard Smith, pp. 41-42 - 2 Reviews- The Growth of Biological Thought by Ernst Mayr
- The Possible and the Actual by Francois Jacob
- The Terror Facing the Bahais by Firuz Kazemzadeh, pp. 43-44
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Message from Heraclitus by M.F. Burnyeat, pp. 45-47 - 1 Review- The Art and Thought of Heraclitus by Charles H. Kahn and Heraclitus
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Playing to Empty Pockets by Patricia Craig, pp. 48-50 - 1 Review- An Duanaire: An Irish Anthology, 1600-1900 by Sean O'Tuama
- Letters by Leonid Plyushch, Norman Fruman, John Bayley, and Steve J. Heims, ..., pp. 51-56
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May 27, 1982 Issue = 15 Articles-
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China on the Rocks by John K. Fairbank, pp. 3-7 - 2 Reviews- China: Alive in the Bitter Sea by Fox Butterfield
- From the Center of the Earth by Richard Bernstein
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La Grand Mademoiselle by Robert Craft, pp. 8-11 - 1 Review- Nadia Boulanger: A Life in Music by Leonie Rosenstiel
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The Black Sheep of Pokrovskoe by Edward Crankshaw, pp. 12-16 - 1 Review- The Life and Times of Grigorii Rasputin by Alex de Jonge
- Cuba, the US, and the Central American Mess by Seweryn Bialer and Alfred Stepan, pp. 17-21
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Death of Venice by Peter Partner, pp. 22-24 - 1 Review- A History of Venice by John Julius Norwich
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Conjuring with Islam by Clifford Geertz, pp. 25-28 - 7 Reviews- Muslim Society by Ernest Gellner
- Loyalty and Leadership in an Early Islamic Society by Roy P. Mottahedeh
- On Understanding Islam by Wilfred Cantwell Smith
- Islam and Revolution by Ruhollah Khomeini and Hamid Algar
- Studies on Islam by Merlin L. Swartz
- Covering Islam by Edward W. Said
- Islam in the Modern World, and Other Studies by Elie Kedourie
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The Priestly Comedy of J.F. Powers by Mary Gordon, pp. 29-35 - 2 Reviews- Prince of Darkness, and Other Stories by J.F. Powers
- Morte D'Urban by J.F. Powers
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Did FDR Invite the Pearl Harbor Attack? by David Kahn, pp. 36-39 - 2 Reviews- At Dawn We Slept by Gordon W. Prange, Donald M. Goldstein, and Katherine V. Dillon, ...
- Infamy: Pearl Harbor and Its Aftermath by John Toland
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Fun in the Waste Land by Michael Wood, pp. 40-41 - 1 Review- Looking for Laforgue by David Arkell
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Mysteries in History by C. Vann Woodward, pp. 42-43 - 1 Review- After the Fact by James West Davidson and Mark Hamilton Lytle
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The Rape of the Voice by Veronica Geng, pp. 44-45 - 1 Review- Diva (1981 Film) by Jean-Jacques Beineix
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Slums of Empire by Darryl Pinckney, pp. 46-48 - 2 Reviews- Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack by Austin Clarke
- Crown Jewel by Ralph de Boissiere
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The Unhappy Medium by Charles Rosen and Henri Zerner, pp. 49-53 - 1 Review- Thomas Couture and the Eclectic Vision by Albert Boime
- Genocide in Hungary by Helen Fein, Dr. Albert B. Belton, and William McCagg, Jr., ..., pp. 54-55
- Letters by Karen Lindsey, Vivian Cadden, and Sharon Mayberry, ..., pp. 56-60
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June 10, 1982 Issue = 16 Articles- The Inferiority Complex by Hans A. Bethe, pp. 3-5
- My Life with Stravinsky by Robert Craft, pp. 6-10
- China's Secret Prisons by Anonymous, pp. 11-13
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Straw Dogs by James Wolcott, pp. 14-17 - 2 Reviews- Virginie: Her Two Lives by John Hawkes
- Sabbatical: A Romance by John Barth
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The Last Puritan by Noel Annan, pp. 18-19 - 3 Reviews- Like It Was by John Bright-Holmes and Malcolm Muggeridge
- The Green Stick by Malcolm Muggeridge
- The Infernal Grove by Malcolm Muggeridge
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The Road to Disaster by Bernard Avishai, pp. 20-25 - 1 Review- The West Bank Story by Rafik Halabi
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Godfathers and Sons by Luigi Barzini, pp. 26-28 - 1 Review- Sicilian Lives by Danilo Dolci
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The Voice of the People by Ronald Blythe, pp. 29-30 - 1 Review- William Cobbett: The Poor Man's Friend by George Spater
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Shyster Saints by Robert M. Adams, p. 31 - 2 Reviews- Take Five by D. Keith Mano
- Dutch Shea, Jr. by John Gregory Dunne
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Mars Bars by Bernard Lovell, pp. 32-33 - 2 Reviews- The Channels of Mars by Victor R. Baker
- The Surface of Mars by Michael H. Carr
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Living Nightmares by Michael Wood, pp. 34-35 - 4 Reviews- Reverse Angle by John Simon
- Fritz Lang in America by Peter Bogdanovich
- Hawks on Hawks by Joseph McBride
- Polanski: The Filmmaker as Voyeur by Barbara Leaming
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Is Locke the Key? by Ian Hacking, pp. 36-37 - 1 Review- From Locke to Saussure by Hans Aarsleff
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Last Exit to Nature by Richard Murphy, pp. 38-40 - 5 Reviews- New Selected Poems by Ted Hughes
- Remains of Elmet by Ted Hughes
- Cave Birds by Ted Hughes
- Under the North Star by Ted Hughes
- Moortown by Ted Hughes
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A Pitch for Socialism by Robert L. Heilbroner, pp. 41-42 - 1 Review- The Political Economy of Socialism by Branko Horvat
- "Just Deserts" by P.T. Bauer and Amartya Sen, p. 43
- Letters by Rachelle Marshall, Karl W. Ryavec, and Albert L. Weeks, ..., pp. 44-48
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June 24, 1982 Issue = 14 Articles-
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Woman in Dark Times by Alfred Kazin, pp. 3-7 - 1 Review- Hannah Arendt: For the Love of the World by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl
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Going Strong by Jonathan Raban, pp. 8-11 - 2 Reviews- Collected Stories by V.S. Pritchett
- The Turn of the Years by V.S. Pritchett
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Practical Sense by James Fallows, pp. 12-16 - 1 Review- The Past Has Another Pattern by George W. Ball
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So Big by Robert Towers, pp. 17-19 - 1 Review- Mickelsson's Ghosts by John Gardner
- Getting out of the Central American Maze by James Chace, pp. 20-26
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Busting the People's Case by Graham Hughes, pp. 27-29 - 1 Review- The Best Defense by Alan M. Dershowitz
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[+]
A Naughty President by Francis Russell, pp. 30-33 - 1 Review- The Ohio Gang by Charles L. Mee, Jr.
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Where Does Language Come From? by Jerome Bruner and Carol Fleisher Feldman, pp. 34-36 - 1 Review- Roots of Language by Derek Bickerton
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Playing Tag with Japan by Robert B. Reich, pp. 37-40 - 2 Reviews- MITI and the Japanese Miracle by Chalmers A. Johnson
- The Eastasia Edge by Roy Hofheinz, Jr. and Kent E. Calder
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Chosen People by John Clive, pp. 41-43 - 1 Review- A Liberal Descent by J.W. Burrow
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The Way of All Flesh by Robert L. Heilbroner, pp. 44-46 - 2 Reviews- Essays in Trespassing by Albert O. Hirschman
- Shifting Involvements by Albert O. Hirschman
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Sparkle Plenty by Alan Pryce-Jones, pp. 47-48 - 1 Review- Geoffrey Madan's Notebooks by J.A. Gere, John Sparrow, and Geoffrey Madan
- The Question of Orientalism by Bernard Lewis, pp. 49-56
- The Myth of the Computer by Daniel C. Dennett and John R. Searle, pp. 57-60
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Issues of Jul.-Sep. 1982 = 3 Issues, 46 Articles-
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July 15, 1982 Issue = 14 Articles-
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The Return of Meyerhold by Jane Russell, pp. 3-7 - 2 Reviews- Meyerhold the Director by Konstantin Rudnitsky and Sydney Schultze
- Meyerhold at Work by Paul Schmidt
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Good Poems, Sad Lives by Howard Moss, pp. 8-12 - 1 Review- Poets in Their Youth by Eileen Simpson
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Lincoln and His Legend by George M. Fredrickson, pp. 13-16 - 2 Reviews- Lincoln's Quest for Union by Charles B. Strozier
- Abraham Lincoln: The Quest for Immortality by Dwight G. Anderson
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R.I.P. by James Wolcott, pp. 17-19 - 1 Review- Edie: American Girl by Jean Stein and George Plimpton
- Mrs. Thatcher's Case by Noel Annan, pp. 20-22
- General Galtieri's Case by Murray Kempton, p. 23
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Why People Go Hungry by Kenneth J. Arrow, pp. 24-25 - 1 Review- Poverty and Famines by Amartya Sen
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Changeling by Stephen Spender, pp. 26-27 - 1 Review- Continuous by Tony Harrison
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Good Morning, America by Thomas R. Edwards, pp. 28-30 - 2 Reviews- Hometown by Peter Davis
- American Journey by Richard Reeves
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[+]
Breaking Away by Irving Howe, pp. 31-32 - 1 Review- Prophecy and Politics by Jonathan Frankel
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Excelsior! by A.J.P. Taylor, pp. 33-34 - 1 Review- Churchill: Young Man in a Hurry, 1874-1915 by Ted Morgan
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How Not to Think About Nuclear War by Theodore Draper, pp. 35-43 - 2 Reviews- The Fate of the Earth by Jonathan Schell
- Nuclear Illusion and Reality by Solly Zuckerman
- Watergate Over the Dam by Mary McCarthy, p. 44
- Letters by Stanley Burnshaw, J.M. Cameron, and Suzy Hallock-Butterworth, ..., pp. 45-48
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August 12, 1982 Issue = 16 Articles-
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Private Lives by V.S. Pritchett, p. 3 - 1 Review- The Correspondence of Boris Pasternak and Olga Friedenberg, 1910-1954 by Elliot Mossman, Boris Pasternak, and Olga Friedenberg, ...
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[+]
Star-Spangled History by Gordon S. Wood, pp. 4-8 - 1 Review- The Glorious Cause by Robert Middlekauff
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[+]
Rite of Passage by Diane Johnson, pp. 9-10 - 2 Reviews- Life After Marriage by A. Alvarez
- Marriage, Love, Sex, and Divorce by Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy
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[+]
Public Faces by Robert M. Adams, p. 11 - 2 Reviews- The Portage to San Cristobal of A. H. by George Steiner
- The Frog Who Dared to Croak by Richard Sennett
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Staying the Course by Rosemary Dinnage, pp. 12-14 - 4 Reviews- The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West
- Harriet Hume: A London Fantasy by Rebecca West
- The Young Rebecca by Rebecca West and Jane Marcus
- Ninteeen Hundred by Rebecca West
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The Lower Depths by Andrew Hacker, pp. 15-19 - 2 Reviews- The Underclass by Ken Auletta
- Shopping Bag Ladies by Ann Marie Rousseau
- The Lesson of the Master by Cynthia Ozick, pp. 20-21
- Manifest Destiny by A.B. Yehoshua, p. 22
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From Alberti to Zoppo by Hugh Honour, pp. 23-24 - 2 Reviews- Italy: A Cultural Guide by Ernest O. Hauser
- A Concise Encyclopaedia of the Italian Renaissance by J.R. Hale
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[+]
Pictures from an Expedition by A.J.P. Taylor, pp. 25-28 - 1 Review- Six Armies in Normandy by John Keegan
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Keeping Up with Mr. B by Robert Craft, pp. 29-30 - 2 Reviews- Going to the Dance by Arlene Croce
- Winter Season by Toni Bentley
- What Hope for the Economy? by Wassily Leontief, pp. 31-34
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Good Men Are Hard to Find by Robert Towers, pp. 35-36 - 2 Reviews- The Terrible Twos by Ishmael Reed
- The Color Purple by Alice Walker
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Year One by Stanley Hoffmann, pp. 37-43 - 3 Reviews- The Heights of Power by Pierre Birnbaum
- The Wheat and the Chaff by Francois Mitterand
- Problems of Contemporary French Politics by Dorothy Maud Pickles
- Orientalism by Edward W. Said and Bernard Lewis, pp. 44-47
- Letters by Graham Greene, Laura Riding Jackson, and Harry Mathews, ..., pp. 48-52
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September 23, 1982 Issue = 16 Articles-
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Pennies from Heaven by C. Vann Woodward, pp. 3-5 - 1 Review- Voices of Protest by Alan Brinkley
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Monkey Business by Gore Vidal, pp. 6-11 - 1 Review- Indecent Exposure by David McClintick
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[+]
From Moses to Gilboa by Harold Bloom, pp. 12-16 - 1 Review- The Penguin Book of Hebrew Verse by T. Carmi
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[+]
Going for Broke by Jason Epstein, pp. 17-21 - 2 Reviews- The Coming Boom by Herman Kahn
- The Imperious Economy by David P. Calleo
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[+]
The Natural Artificer by Alexander Cockburn, pp. 22-26 - 1 Review- P. G. Wodehouse: A Biography by Frances L. Donaldson
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Pecking Orders by John Keegan, pp. 27-29 - 4 Reviews- Empires in the Balance by H.P. Willmott
- From Conquest to Collapse by V.G. Kiernan
- The Pattern of Imperialism by Tony Smith
- War and Change in World Politics by Robert Gilpin
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Why Are You Scared? by Ian Hacking, pp. 30-40 - 2 Reviews- Risk and Culture by Mary Douglas and Aaron Wildavsky
- Acceptable Risk by Baruch Fischhoff, Sarah Lichtenstein, and Paul Slovic, ...
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[+]
The Creeping Griffon by Helen Vendler, pp. 41-44 - 2 Reviews- Hundreds of Fireflies by Brad Leithauser
- Monolithos by Jack Gilbert
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Reds by Wilfrid Sheed, pp. 45-47 - 4 Reviews- The Red Smith Reader by Dave Anderson and Red Smith
- To Absent Friends from Red Smith by Red Smith
- Late Innings by Roger Angell
- 1947---When All Hell Broke Loose in Baseball~~Nineteen Forty-Seven---When All Hell Broke Loose in Baseball by Red Barber
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That Old Czech Magic by Neal Ascherson, pp. 48-49 - 1 Review- The Questionnaire by Jiri Grusa
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Bronzino Returns by Craig Hugh Smyth, pp. 50-53 - 1 Review- Bronzino by Charles McCorquodale
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Purity and Danger by Raymond Carr, p. 54 - 1 Review- The Anarchists of Casas Viejas by Jerome R. Mintz
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Speaking of the Unspeakable by J.M. Cameron, pp. 55-56 - 1 Review- Religion: If There is No God... by Leszek Kolakowski
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Classic Classicists by Bernard Knox, p. 57 - 1 Review- History of Classical Scholarship by Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorf and Hugh Lloyd-Jones, ...
- How Not to Think About Nuclear War by Rudolf Peierls, Thomas Powers, and Aron M. Bernstein, ..., pp. 58-60
- Letters by Robert Rosenblum, Charles Rosen, and Henri Zerner, ..., pp. 61-72
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Issues of Oct.-Dec. 1982 = 6 Issues, 88 Articles-
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October 7, 1982 Issue = 14 Articles-
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School of the Blind by Janet Malcolm, pp. 3-5 - 1 Review- Vedi by Ved Mehta
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Sentimental Education by Lester C. Thurow, pp. 6-8 - 1 Review- The Education of David Stockman by William Greider
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The Two Hardys by John Bayley, pp. 9-12 - 3 Reviews- Thomas Hardy: A Biography by Michael Millgate
- The Short Stories of Thomas Hardy by Kristin Brady
- The Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy, Vol. III: 1902-1908 by Richard Little Purdy, Michael Millgate, and Richard Purdy, ...
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The Very Rich Hours of the Shah by Michael Levey, pp. 13-15 - 1 Review- The Houghton Shahnameh by Martin Bernard Dickson and Stuart Cary Welch
- Where Is Israel Going? by Nahum Goldmann, pp. 16-18
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A Genius of Journalism by Murray Kempton, pp. 19-25 - 3 Reviews- Mussolini by Denis Mack Smith
- Mussolini Unleashed, 1939-1941 by MacGregor Knox
- Mussolini by Anthony James Joes
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The Discreet Charm of Fontane by Gabriele Annan, pp. 26-28 - 1 Review- Theodor Fontane by Peter Demetz and Theodor Fontane
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The Party's Over by Darryl Pinckney, pp. 29-32 - 1 Review- This Was Harlem by Jervis Anderson
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[+]
Complex Oedipus by Hugh Lloyd-Jones, pp. 33-34 - 1 Review- The Three Theban Plays by Bernard Knox, Robert Fagles, and Sophocles
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[+]
Habermas's Reformation by Quentin Skinner, pp. 35-38 - 8 Reviews- The Idea of a Critical Theory by Raymond Geuss
- Knowledge and Human Interests by Jurgen Habermas
- Toward a Rational Society by Jurgen Habermas
- Theory and Practice by Jurgen Habermas
- Legitimation Crisis by Jurgen Habermas
- Communication and the Evolution of Society by Jurgen Habermas
- The Critical Theory of Jurgen Habermas by Thomas A. McCarthy
- Habermas: Critical Debates by John Brookshire Thompson and David Held
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So Big by Malcolm Muggeridge, pp. 39-42 - 2 Reviews- End of the Affair by Eleanor M. Gates
- Churchill and de Gaulle by Francois Kersaudy
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[+]
Grub Street Revolutionaries by Norman Hampson, pp. 43-44 - 1 Review- The Literary Underground of the Old Regime by Robert Darnton
- Reforming Women by Willie Lee Rose, pp. 45-48
- Letters by Bernard Crick, Noel Annan, Thomas Willard, and Ian Hacking, ..., pp. 49-52
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October 21, 1982 Issue = 15 Articles-
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The Child Is the Man by Nadine Gordimer, pp. 3-5 - 1 Review- Ake: The Years of Childhood by Wole Soyinka
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Chinatowns by John Gregory Dunne, pp. 6-9 - 2 Reviews- Water and Power by William L. Kahrl
- The California Water Atlas by William L. Kahrl
- Two Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke, pp. 10-11
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Wonder Woman by Denis Donoghue, pp. 12-16 - 1 Review- A Bloodsmoor Romance by Joyce Carol Oates
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Ultra Ultra Secrets by Zara Steiner, pp. 17-21 - 1 Review- British Intelligence in the Second World War by Francis H. Hinsley, C.F.G. Ransom, and R.C. Knight, ...
- The Tragedy and the Hope by Arthur Hertzberg, pp. 22-26
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Pandora's Box by Sara Laschever, pp. 27-30 - 1 Review- Lulu in Hollywood by Louise Brooks
- The Myth of a Liberation by Truong Nhu Tang, pp. 31-35
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[+]
Clockwork History by Geoffrey Barraclough, pp. 36-38 - 1 Review- Power and Civility by Norbert Elias
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Sacred Space by Frank Kermode, pp. 39-41 - 3 Reviews- The New Oxford Book of Christian Verse by Donald Davie
- The Poems of William Cowper by John D. Baird, Charles Ryskamp, and William Cowper, ...
- The Letters and Prose Writings of William Cowper by James King, Charles Ryskamp, and William Cowper
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On the Brink of Dulles by Ronald Steel, pp. 42-43 - 1 Review- John Foster Dulles: The Road to Power by Ronald W. Pruessen
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[+]
Body, Mind, and Machine by David Joravsky, pp. 44-46 - 4 Reviews- Mind in Science by Richard L. Gregory
- The Question of Animal Awareness by Donald R. Griffin
- The Universe Within by Morton Hunt
- The Enlightened Machine by Daniel N. Robinson
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The Revenge of the Mortal Hand by Jaroslaw Anders, pp. 47-48 - 1 Review- Sounds, Feelings, Thoughts by Wislawa Szymborska
- "The Unhappy Medium" by Albert Boime, Charles Rosen, and Henri Zerner, pp. 49-50
- Letters by Edith E. Flynn, Bickley Townsend, and David Courtwright, ..., pp. 51-56
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November 4, 1982 Issue = 13 Articles- The State of the Banks by Felix G. Rohatyn, pp. 3-8
- In El Salvador by Joan Didion, pp. 9-17
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Innocents Abroad by Jonathan Raban, pp. 18-20 - 2 Reviews- J'Accuse: The Darker Side of Nice by Graham Greene
- Monsignor Quixote by Graham Greene
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Tom Wolfe's Greatest Hits by James Wolcott, pp. 21-22 - 1 Review- The Purple Decades: A Reader by Tom Wolfe
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[+]
Under Eastern Eyes by R.W. Southern, pp. 23-25 - 1 Review- The Muslim Discovery of Europe by Bernard Lewis
- Dear Mr. Weinberger by Theodore Draper, pp. 26-30
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[+]
Mission from Japan by Irving Howe, pp. 31-32 - 1 Review- The Samurai by Shusaku Endo
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How Venetian Is Venetian Painting? by Charles Hope, pp. 33-36 - 1 Review- Painting in Sixteenth-Century Venice by David Rosand
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Un-Canadian Activities by Edgar Z. Friedenberg, pp. 37-38 - 2 Reviews- Fragile Freedoms by Thomas R. Berger
- Portrait of Canada by June Callwood
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Witch Hunting by Edmund S. Morgan, pp. 39-40 - 1 Review- Entertaining Satan by John Putnam Demos
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The Making of Canetti by S.S. Prawer, pp. 41-44 - 1 Review- The Torch in My Ear by Elias Canetti
- Robert Lowell: Life Studies by Ian Hamilton, pp. 45-52
- Letters, pp. 53-54
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November 18, 1982 Issue = 15 Articles-
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Amadevious by Alan Tyson, pp. 3-9 - 1 Review- Mozart by Wolfgang Hildesheimer
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The Rebel by Frederick Brown, pp. 10-16 - 1 Review- Camus: The Stranger by Patrick McCarthy
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Jew d'Esprit by Josh Rubins, pp. 17-18 - 1 Review- Bech is Back by John Updike
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The Revolution Against Itself by Shaul Bakhash, pp. 19-25 - 3 Reviews- Iran Since the Revolution by Sepehr Zabih
- Iran: The Untold Story by Mohamed Heikal
- Iran Between Two Revolutions by Ervand Abrahamian
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The Primal Code by C. Vann Woodward, pp. 26-27 - 1 Review- Southern Honor by Bertram Wyatt-Brown
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Chumps and Chimps by Mordecai Richler, pp. 28-30 - 2 Reviews- Mantissa by John Fowles
- God's Grace by Bernard Malamud
- In El Salvador by Joan Didion, pp. 31-54
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The Party's Over by Harvey Klehr, pp. 55-57 - 2 Reviews- Which Side Were You On? by Maurice Isserman
- Steve Nelson: American Radical by Steve Nelson, James R. Barrett, and Rob Ruck
- Joyce at 100 by Richard Ellmann, pp. 58-64
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Slow Food by Geoffrey Grigson, pp. 65-66 - 1 Review- Culture and Cuisine by Jean-Francois Revel
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The 'Truth' of Karl Popper by Jonathan Lieberson, pp. 67-68 - 4 Reviews- Realism and the Aim of Science by Karl R. Popper and W.W. Bartley, III
- The Open Universe by Karl R. Popper and W.W. Bartley, III
- Quantum Theory and the Schism in Physics by Karl R. Popper and W.W. Bartley, III
- Karl Popper by Anthony O'Hear
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Save the Wales? by Graham Hughes, pp. 69-70 - 1 Review- Rebirth of a Nation: Wales, 1880-1980 by Kenneth O. Morgan
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An Exagmination of Imagination by W. Jackson Bate, pp. 71-72 - 1 Review- The Creative Imagination by James Engell
- Dissent and Israel by Ivan J. Novick, Arthur Hertzberg, and Irving Howe, ..., pp. 73-76
- Letters by Halina M. Steiglitz, Lee Simmons, and Clayton Libolt, ..., pp. 77-80
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December 2, 1982 Issue = 16 Articles-
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American Poet by Helen Vendler, pp. 3-5 - 1 Review- Robert Lowell: A Biography by Ian Hamilton
- The Danger in Poland by George Konrad, pp. 6-7
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In the Garrison by Jane Kramer, pp. 8-12 - 2 Reviews- Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee
- A Chain of Voices by Andre Brink
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[+]
'Red' or 'Expert'? by John K. Fairbank, pp. 13-15 - 3 Reviews- Education Under Mao by Jonathan Unger
- Competitive Comrades by Susan L. Shirk
- China's Intellectual Dilemma by Robert Taylor
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Beautiful and Damned by Michael Wood, pp. 16-20 - 3 Reviews- Baudelaire the Damned by F.W.J. Hemmings
- Baudelaire's Literary Criticism by Rosemary Lloyd
- Les Fleurs du Mal by Charles Baudelaire
- Eyewitness Art News by Elizabeth Hardwick, p. 21
- Two poems from Tristia by Osip Mandelstam, p. 22
- El Salvador by Joan Didion, pp. 23-31
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Mein liebes Tagebuch by Gordon A. Craig, pp. 32-33 - 1 Review- Thomas Mann Diaries, 1918-1939 by Hermann Kesten and Thomas Mann
- Social Security by Peter G. Peterson, pp. 34-38
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The Art of Collecting Art by E.H. Gombrich, pp. 39-42 - 1 Review- The Rare Art Traditions by Joseph W. Alsop
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An Unwanted Civil War? by Kevin Sharpe, pp. 43-45 - 3 Reviews- The Golden Age Restor'd by Graham Parry
- The Outbreak of the English Civil War by Anthony Fletcher
- The Royalist War Effort, 1642-1646 by Ronald Hutton
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Surprises by Ada Long, p. 46 - 1 Review- Grace Abounding by Maureen Howard
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Marx in the Agora by E. Badian, pp. 47-50 - 1 Review- The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World by G.E.M. de Ste. Croix
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Romantic Rationalist by Jonathan Lieberson, pp. 51-55 - 2 Reviews- Karl Popper by Anthony O'Hear
- In Pursuit of Truth by Paul Levinson
- Letters by Ned Rorem, Robert Craft, E. Kedourie, and Clifford Geertz, ..., pp. 56-60
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December 16, 1982 Issue = 15 Articles-
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For Old Times' Sake by James Fallows, pp. 3-10 - 2 Reviews- Keeping Faith by Jimmy Carter
- Crisis by Hamilton Jordan
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Buddies by John Gross, pp. 11-14 - 1 Review- Bernard Shaw and Alfred Douglas by Mary Hyde, Bernard Shaw, and Alfred Douglas
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[+]
The Shrink Princess by Phyllis Grosskurth, pp. 15-17 - 1 Review- Marie Bonaparte: A Life by Celia Bertin
- Epitaph for a Tyrant by Joseph Brodsky, p. 18
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[+]
Nuclear Sense and Nonsense by Solly Zuckerman, pp. 19-25 - 2 Reviews- The Nuclear Delusion by George F. Kennan
- With Enough Shovels by Robert Scheer
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[+]
In Flaubert's Laboratory by Stuart Hampshire, pp. 26-27 - 1 Review- The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1857-1880 by Francis Steegmuller and Gustave Flaubert
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Madness by Lawrence Stone, pp. 28-36 - 4 Reviews- Unclean Spirits by Daniel P. Walker
- Mystical Bedlam by Michael MacDonald
- Health, Medicine, and Mortality in the Sixteenth Century by Charles Webster
- Madhouses, Mad Doctors and Madmen by Andrew Scull
- A Note on a Borrowing by Conrad by V.S. Naipaul, p. 37
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American Graffiti by Robert Towers, pp. 38-40 - 3 Reviews- The Woods by David Plante
- A Midnight Clear by William Wharton
- Shiloh and Other Stories by Bobbie Ann Mason
- How Is India Doing? by Amartya Sen, pp. 41-45
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Variety Shows by Josh Rubins, pp. 46-47 - 2 Reviews- George Mills by Stanley Elkin
- The Names by Don DeLillo
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Ancient Biggies by Hugh Lloyd-Jones, pp. 48-49 - 2 Reviews- Who Was Who in the Roman World by Diana Bowder
- Who Was Who in the Greek World by Diana Bowder
- The Salvation of Social Security by Peter G. Peterson, pp. 50-57
- Writing History by Jackson Lears, John Patrick Diggins, and Cushing Strout, ..., pp. 58-59
- Letters by Michael Kazin, Joseph R. Conlin, and John Gregory Dunne, ..., pp. 60-64
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Issues of 1983 = 20 Issues, 305 Articles
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Issues of 1984 = 19 Issues, 298 Articles
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Issues of 1985 = 20 Issues, 305 Articles
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Issues of 1986 = 21 Issues, 313 Articles
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Issues of 1987 = 21 Issues, 314 Articles
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Issues of 1988 = 21 Issues, 337 Articles
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Issues of 1989 = 20 Issues, 333 Articles
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Issues of the 1990s = 10 Years, 201 Issues, 3,320 Articles-
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Issues of 1990 = 21 Issues, 345 Articles
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Issues of 1991 = 20 Issues, 315 Articles
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Issues of 1992 = 20 Issues, 317 Articles
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Issues of 1993 = 20 Issues, 329 Articles
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Issues of 1994 = 20 Issues, 315 Articles
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Issues of 1995 = 20 Issues, 326 Articles
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Issues of 1996 = 20 Issues, 335 Articles
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Issues of 1997 = 20 Issues, 328 Articles
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Issues of 1998 = 20 Issues, 344 Articles
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Issues of 1999 = 20 Issues, 366 Articles
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Issues of the 2000s = 6 Years, 66 Issues, 1,270 Articles-
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Issues of 2000 = 20 Issues, 380 Articles
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Issues of 2005 = 1 Issue, 17 Articles
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Issues of 2006 = 6 Issues, 97 Articles
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Issues of 2007 = 9 Issues, 166 Articles
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Issues of 2008 = 13 Issues, 286 Articles
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Issues of 2009 = 17 Issues, 324 Articles
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Issues of the 2010s = 1 Year, 19 Issues, 402 Articles-
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Issues of 2010 = 19 Issues, 402 Articles