November 1973

Articles

• The Runaway Presidency

  “Watergate is potentially the best thing to have happened to the presidency in a long time.”

  Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

• The Force That Drives the Flower

  What is it about fecundity that so appalls? Is it that with nature’s bounty goes a crushing waste that threatens our own cheap lives?

  Annie Dillard

• At Usk

  Leslie Norris

• At Usk

  Leslie Norris

• Smoke

  William Eastlake

• I'm Nobody--Who Are You?

  Richard Todd

• The Noble and the Absurd

  William Abrahams

• Truffaut's Cinema Notebook

  Joseph Kanon

• The Peripatetic Reviewer

  Edward Weeks

• As if by Magic

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• Real Lace

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• Eagle Eye

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• Great Zimbabwe

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• Fraud

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• The Locked Room

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• Before Civilization

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• Prismatics

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• The Case of Mary Bell

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• The Rohan Master

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• California

  Mary Ellen Leary

• Innocent Bystander: The Crystal Year

  L. E. Sissman

• The Editor's Page

• A Soldier in Iceland

  Barton Midwood

• Israel: The West Bank

  Richard Holbrooke

• On Being Easy in the Ritual of Separation

  Alan Dugan

• The Strength of Illusions

  Tom Mckeown

• "The Next War" How the Military Men See the Future

  “Oh, boy, oh, joy, where do we go from here? Anywhere from Harlem to a Jersey City pier.”

  Drew Middleton

• Uncle

  Philip Levine

• Ruined Genius

  Douglas Day

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