January 1973

In This Issue
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Articles
The Yellow Trolley Car in Barcelona, and Other Visions
Faulkner created Yoknapatawpha County. Welcome to García Márquez's Macondo.
"Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye"
The Energy Crisis
A Dream of Dracula
The Sunlight Dialogues
The Art of Black Africa
Tales of Yoruba Gods and Heroes
Prisoners of Psychiatry
A Flask of Fields
The John Collier Reader
Sculpture of the Eskimos
Sculpture of the Eskimos
Larousse Encyclopedia of Archaeology
Making the World Safe for Hypocrisy
Buddhism in China
Innocent Bystander: Auld Acquaintance
The Balance of Mutual Weakness: Nixon's Voyage Into the World of the 1970s
The President and the Professor blocked out a daring course: “stop-go retreat” from Vietnam and manipulation of bigpower antagonisms. They took a first in Peking, covered ground in Moscow, and now, the election won, with or without Henry Kissinger at his side, the President has another four years in which to travel the new direction of international diplomacy. Where will it take us?
The Editor's Page
Holy Day
The McGovern Camp Disbands: The Rewards of Upward Failure
Reunioning Dialogue
Washington
A Full Moon in Sagittarius
Burning
Experiments Behind Bars: Doctors, Drug Companies, and Prisoners
“Criminals in our penitentiaries are fine experimental material—and much cheaper than chimpanzees.”
A Guide to Prison Research
History of Alchemy
Laud
On Looking for Models
Matisse De Luxe
Poetry À La Mode
Craft on His Own
Obsessions
The Peripatetic Reviewer
