January 1971
In This Issue
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Articles
The Peripatetic Reviewer
Indonesia Is a Happening
Erte
The Frying Pan
Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare
Collected Poems: 1916-1970
Street Kids
Harpoon of the Hunter
The Pleasures of Archaeology
They Became What They Beheld
By the Political Sea
Wild Flowers of the United States
China Policy
Venice
Innocent Bystander
Where Egypt Stands
The Middle East after Nasser remains a place of suppressed state of war, of uncertainty and alarm. Did he leave behind an Egypt with the strength to make continued war, or the greater strength to make peace? Two experts examine the state of the country Nasser led for eighteen years, and (page 45) Nasser’s achievements.
The Editor's Page
What Nasser Did
Cock Robbins Opens in New York
First N. Y. Showing
Lieder Eines Fahrenden Gesellen
Who Is Mad? Who Is Sane? R. D. Laing: In Search of a New Psychiatry
“To increasing numbers of readers— psychiatrists as well as patients; political activists and dropouts; the hardly literate, searching young; as well as middle-class artists and intellectuals— R. D. Laing is the guide who most clearly elucidates the disordered surfaces and depths of their own lives.”
Berlin
The Hollow Tree
Doctor Brodie's Report
Night Letter to Regina
A Nation of Shopkeepers Loses Three of Them Through Contact With a Nation of Violence
Contests
The Anatomy of Pretentiousness
Religion and culture seem to be represented by a catholic belief that something is lacking which must be found, but as to what that something is, the keys of heaven, the missing air, genius, the smells of childhood, or a sense of humour, why it is lacking, whether it has been deliberately stolen, or accidentally lost or just hidden for a lark, and who is responsible, ourselves, the social structure, or mysterious wicked powers, there are as many faiths as there are searchers, and clues can be found behind every clock, under every stone, and in every hollow tree to support all of them.—W. H. Auden
Mab
Normal Love
My Ghost
Canada
To its natives as well as to its neighbors, Canada was the “bush-league vacuum” of North America. A Canadian journalist recounts his country’s sometimes painful, sometimes exhilarating loss of innocence.
In Pursuit of the Almighty Dollar
New Sounds, New Silences
Cooking Under Chinese Signs
Contradictions
