November 1974

Articles

• The Friends of Richard Nixon

  Some were trusting; some were not. Either way, they lived to regret it, because what was going on was “obstruction of justice.”

  George V. Higgins

• My Son, the Feminist

  Richard Todd

• The Immortal, Impossible Sultan of Swat

  C. Michael Curtis

• The Peripatetic Reviewer

  Edward Weeks

• Expendable Americans

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• Alas! The Love of Women!

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• The Camberwell Beauty and Other Stories

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• The Patton Paper

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• The Hermit

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• The Iliad

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• The Abbess of Crewe

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• Apache Lightning

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• Mademoiselle B

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• The Diary of Samuel Pepys

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• The Collected Works of Billy the Kid

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• Brittany

  Justine Delacy

• Innocent Bystander: Adoptive Son

  L. E. Sissman

• The Mail

  Abraham D. Beame, Katherine Sieg, Janet L. James, Fran Popper, Kenneth O’Meara, Hiram B. Holdridge, Mary Ellen Girard Jones, Hapgood, R. Joshua Young, Robert B. Nordberg, Celeste R. Watson, K. P. Shepard, Elizabeth F. Hood, Susan Ogilvie, Steven Holl, J. Patrick Prendergast, Mortimer B. Zuckerman, and Quentin R. Regestein

• Peoria

  David R. Pichaske

• All About Pigeons

  Susan Page

• A Man at the Top of His Trade

  Ward Just

• The Future of Doctoring

  The kindly old GP is fast being replaced by the keen young specialist, but the specialist may be in for some surprises too, as computerized medicine and paramedical personnel become realities. Ironically, one result could be the return of the kindly old GP.

  Jerry Avorn

• Reality Street

  Andrew Glaze

• Breath in the Afternoon

  Lunch sometime? Just you, me, and the IRS . . .

  John Skow

• How to Know Where You Are

  William Walden

• Autumn of a Dormouse

  Penelope Gilliatt

• November

  Margaret Atwood

• Parody's End

  LOOK AT THE HARLEQUINS! by Vladimir Nabokov McGraw-Hill, $7.95

  Page Stegner

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