September 1974
In This Issue
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Articles
Headin’ for the First Roundup
Or, how to raise your own steak au poivre for only slightly more than you would pay at Lutèce
The Nerve Gas Controversy
Binary weapons are a "quantum jump in safety," says the Army. They are a quantum jump in the danger of a boom in do-it-yourself chemical weapons, say the Army's critics.
The Peripatetic Reviewer
All Said and Done
The Secret Glass
In Search of Lake Monsters
Four Masterworks of American Indian Literature
The Mystic Adventures of Roxie Stoner
The Mystic Adventures of Roxie Stoner
Five Decades: A Selection (Poems: 1925-1970)
Ross and Tom
And the Land Provides
Behind the Trail of Broken Treaties
The War Between the Tates
The Nothing Book
Family Affairs
Harold's Eye
The Folio Society
Iran
Innocent Bystander: Summersend
Correction
Détente Through Soviet Eyes: Vague Pledges, Silent Crowds
You can buy a recording of Jesus Christ Superstar on the Moscow black market this year, and anti-Stalinist books by Mandelstam and Bulgakov in limited edition. Many more copies were shipped abroad “to show the West how liberal we are,” one Soviet citizen told the author.
Bangladesh
Tigers in the Night: Thoughts on Turning 30 (All Right, 31)
“ ‘Are you still married?’ an old friend asked me. ‘Cute!’—as if it were some quaint onion dip.”
The Dodos
Two Passages From the Iliad
Skimpy Day at the Solstice
The Wages of Inflation
The Folly of Modern Architecture
Nine outrageous questions posed by an architect who says, “I have seen the future, and it doesn’t work.”
The Bandit Was My Neighbor
September Landscape
How to Play Second Base
“Hey, kid, you’re gonna miss it!” Of course I was; no one had to broadcast it.
Praise God, From Whom All Ball Bearings Flow
Calangute, Goa
Recycling Comedy
