August 1971
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Articles
Recollections of a Cultural Imperialist
"All of us have been the tools of American cultural aggression, perhaps without being wholly conscious of it."
—Y. T. Wu, Chinese Christian leader, July, 1951Prague
Innocent Bystander: The Sex Biz
Contributors
The Editor's Page
A Future Literacy
Welfare: The Best of Intentions, the Worst of Results
Pop Mom Moon
Rabbit Angstrom, the faded basketball hero of Rabbit, Run, is ten years older, and perchance wiser. These scenes from his life are drawn from Rabbit Redux, Mr. Updike’s forthcoming novel.
Washington
"I Am a Maid, and What Do I Know?"
Into the Future
Najari Levon's Old Country Advice to the Young Americans on How to Live With a Snake
Starting to Write: Paris, 1921
“A writer is, at the very least, two persons.”Mr. Pritchett tells how he entered into the pain and pleasure of the double life.
The Faint-Hearted Suicide
On Epidemic First Personism
"The End of the World Is Coming"
Last Prisoner at Spandau
It Only Hurts When We Laugh
The Peripatetic Reviewer
Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont
The Omnivorous Ape
Old Age: The Last Segregation
Graffiti
Winners Got Scars Too: The Life and Legends of Johnny Cash
Paul Kane's Frontier
Madame
Before Columbus
The World Without Women
Claude Lorrain
The Onion Eaters
