Table of Contents
Volume 17, Number 2 · August 12, 1971
Elizabeth Hardwick, On Sylvia Plath 
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Crossing the Water (to be published September 8) by Sylvia Plath
Leonard Ross, The Myth that Things Are Getting Better
Rich Man, Poor Man by Herman P. Miller
Income Redistribution and the Welfare State by Adrian L. Webb, by Jack E.B. Sieve
Roger Sale, Hello Out There
U.S. Journal by Calvin Trillin
Listening to America by Bill Moyers
Manolis Anagnostakis, The Decision (poem)
C. Vann Woodward, Our Own Herrenvolk
The Black Image in the White Mind: The Debate on Afro-American Character and Destiny, 1817-1914 by George M. Fredrickson
In Red and Black: Marxian Explorations in Southern and Afro-American History by Eugene D. Genovese
John Wain, In Johnson's Bear Hug
Boswell in Extremes, 1776-1778 Editions, McGraw-Hill edited by Charles McC. Weis, edited by Frederick A. Pottle
The Rambler (Collected Works, Vols. III, IV, V) by Samuel Johnson, edited by W.J. Bate, edited by Albrecht B. Strauss
The History of Rasselas by Samuel Johnson, edited by Geoffrey Tillotson, edited by Brian Jenkins
Life of Savage by Samuel Johnson, edited by Clarence Tracy
Samuel Johnson and the Life of Writing by Paul Fussell
The Conversations of Dr. Johnson edited by Raymond Postgate
The Correspondence and Other Papers of James Boswell Relating to the Making of the Life of Johnson, Vol. 2 Editions, McGraw-Hill edited by Marshall Waingrow
A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (Collected Works, Vol. IX) by Samuel Johnson, edited by Mary Lascelles
Martin Bernal, North Vietnam and China Reflections on a Visit
D.W. Harding, Good-by Man
The Order of Things: An Archeology of the Human Sciences (A translation of Les Mots et les choses) by Michel Foucault
Robert Penn Warren, Homage to Theodore Dreiser on the Centennial of His Birth (poem)
Alasdair MacIntyre, Tell Me Where You Stand On Kronstadt
Kronstadt 1921 by Paul Avrich
Jack Richardson, My Trip to Las Vegas
D.A.N. Jones, The Power of Positive Trotskyism
Standing Fast by Harvey Swados
Letters
Charles M. Holmes, Stephen Spender, No Utilitarian
Jonathan Mirsky, Richard Wasserstrom, Nuremberg and Vietnam
Vladimir Dedijer, Jean-Paul Sartre, Beyond War Crimes
James J. Dahl, Michael G. Michaelson, Getting Out of Bed at Night
Arnold M. Price, Amnesty International
Frank Jones, Nigel Dennis, Shameful Behavior
H.C. Castein, James Redmond, Shameful Behavior