October 1976
In This Issue
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Articles
Heroic Simile
Mushville
Country Fair
Tales From Two Cities
A Sense of the Odd
And Some Other Recent Fiction
Beard's Roman Women
Goya and the Impossible Revolution
Washington Is Leaking
The Hearing Trumpet
When I Was Young
The Man Who Wrote Dracula
The Hour of the Bell
Plagues and People
The Balloonist
Mother Ireland
A Wind to Shake the World
The Race
Nepal
Two on the Isle
Middle-Class Myths, Middle-Class Realities
Four out of five Americans like to think of themselves as middle-class. They’re fooling themselves, argues the author, a distinguished economist: the real middle class is smaller, poorer, yet making out better than some people think.
The Editor's Page
The Road to Good Intentions
The Chinese Puzzle Race
Small Letters
Within Walking Distance
The pleasures of living in a certain part of Paris still linger in the American novelist’s memory, but it was no place for a man who was fighting the weight, the booze, and the cost of living—so Mr. Shaw doesn’t live there anymore.
Campaigning: Democratic Convention Notes
"I Don't See How to Write a Book Without People in It"
Virginia Woolf was forty years old when she addressed this letter to Gerald Brenan, who was twelve years her junior and was to write several books. She wrote it in the year of the appearance of Jacob’s Room, three years before Mrs. Dalloway. This is drawn from The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Volume II, edited by Nigel Nicolson and Joanne Trautmann, to appear in November.
Honor Power Riches Fame & the Love of Women
Simple Gifts
