August 1970

Articles

• Nepal

  "Nepal presents problems to a God-King unsure of his charisma."  

  Merry I. White

• John Updike: Midpoint and After

  L. E. Sissman

• Zelda; Or, What's in a Name?

  Mark Schorer

• Jaded Appetite

  Felicia Lamport

• Judgment in Moscow

  Agnes De Mille

• The Peripatetic Reviewer

  Edward Weeks

• George Washington's Expense Account

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• Scapegoats

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• Duty, Honor, Empire

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• The Crystal Cave

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• The Rock

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• The Block

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• Prison Journals of a Priest Revolutionary

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• Chagall

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• Enquiry

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• The Great Fur Opera

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• California

  Mary Ellen Leary

• Washington

  Elizabeth B. Drew

• Thanks Giving in Paris-1964

  Mary Mccarthy

• Episode in Tokyo Bay

  There was little joy on that day in 1945. “I wanted to be out of Asia then, and hoped we would stay out until the end of time. If that happened the surrender would have meant something. . .” So writes one of America’s celebrated reporters in this memoir of the end of the war with Japan.

  Theodore H. White

• The McCarthy Campaign

  The (Gene) McCarthy-watchers have brought forth a stream of books attempting to solve the riddles of 1968. At the Atlantic’s invitation, Mrs. McCarthy recorded some thoughts about the books and about her husband’s campaign.

  Abigail McCarthy

• Variations on the Art of Wishing

  Judith Rascoe

• When the President Meets the Press

  Hedrick Smith

• The Inscrutable West

• Novel Bites Man

  In which a noted journalist and contributing editor of the Atlantic confesses the gory, personal details of writing, (and not writing) his first novel. The novel itself, Going All the Way, has just been published by Seymour Lawrence/Delacorte Press, and is an August selection of the Literary Guild.

  Dan Wakefield

• Something Missing

  John L'Heureux

• France and the Middle East

  Georgiana G. Stevens

• Deerhound

  Leslie Norris

• High Schools That Work: Murder in the Schoolroom, Part Iii

  Charles E. Silberman

• Dirty Movies--Hard-Core and Soft

  David Denby

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