June 1975

Articles

• A Shallot

  Richard Wilbur

• Party of One: Is It Worth Arguing About?

  Thomas Griffith

• The One-Man Flying Multinational: Armand Hammer Wheels and Deals

  Daniel Yergin

• Hammer's First Kremlin Connection

  Philip S. Gillette

• The Great Hug

  Donald Barthelme

• The Gentleman's Guide to Death

  J. P. Donleavy

• View From the Credit Hole

  Brick Dupree

• Uneasy in Zion: A Journey to Israel

  Ward Just

• Mann's Fate

  Michael Steinberg

• Someone

  Howard Moss

• Thurble's Fabulous Word Machine

  A nonadmirer once described the writings of Thomas Carlyle as “the history of silence in thirty volumes by Mr. Wordy.” But Carlyle was a dry well next to the 3000-barrels-a-day prosifiers who regale us today. What ever happened to the simple declarative sentence? Now it can be told.

  Robert Manning

• True Brew

  John Porter

• Listening to Billie

  Alice Adams

• Of Memoirs and Magpies

  John Fowles

• Cyril Connolly, Last Bookman

  Melvin Maddocks

• Culture Watch

  Benjamin DeMott

• The Peripatetic Reviewer

  Edward Weeks

• Shardik

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• Alexander Dolgun's Story

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• No Left Turns

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• Shelley

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• The Bottle Factory Outing

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• Cop Killer

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• The Little Hotel

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• The Gentle Tasaday

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• God's Dog

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• The Summer Book

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• The Zulu Kings

  Phoebe Lou Adams

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