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Richard Wilbur
The Lilacs (poem)
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Colette
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Gore Vidal
Citizen Ken
The McLandress Dimension by Mark Epernay
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Richmond Lattimore
Brief Encounter
The Ancient Greeks: An Introduction to their Life and Thought by M.I. Finley
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Gertrude Himmelfarb
The Scientific Imagination
Evolution by Ruth Moore and the Editors of Life
The Evolution of Man by G.H.R. von Koenigswald
The Intelligence of Louis Agassiz: A Specimen Book of Scientific Writings by Guy Davenport
Darwiniana by Asa Gray ed. A. Hunter Dupree
Darwin for Today ed. by Stanley Edgar Hyman
The Tangled Bank: Darwin, Marx, Frazier, Freud as Imaginative Writers by Stanley Edgar Hyman
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Neal Ascherson
The Queen of Hearts
Queen Victoria’s Early Letters edited by John Raymond
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F.W. Dupee
Nabokov: the Prose and Poetry of It All
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M.I. Finley
Bogus Togas
The Civilization of Rome by Pierre Grimal, translated by W.S. Maguiness
The Revolutions of Ancient Rome by F.R. Cowell
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Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
End as a Man
George C. Marshall: Education of a General, 1880-1939 by Forrest C. Pogue, with the assistance of Gordon Harrison
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G. S Fraser
Louis MacNeice
The Burning Perch by Louis MacNeice
Collected Poems, 1925-1948 by Louis MacNeice
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Helen Muchnic
Dostoevsky’s Journalism
Dostoevsky’s Occasional Writings selected, translated, and introduced by David Magarshack
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Nathan P. Glazer
City Lights
City Politics by Edward C. Banfield, by James C. Wilson
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Richard Poirier
The Great Tradition
Scrutiny, (1932-1953) with a Retrospect by F.R. Leavis
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Marius Bewley
Adams at Home
The Adams Family Correspondence edited by L.H. Butterfield
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John Hollander
Science Fiction
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Robert L. Heilbroner
In the French Style
Economic Planning in France by John Hackett, by Anne-Marie Hackett
LETTERS
Contributors
Paul Goodman (1911–1972) was an American social critic, psychologist, poet, novelist, and anarchist, whose writings appeared in Politics, Partisan Review, The New Republic, Commentary, The New Leader, Dissent, and The New York Review of Books. He published several well-regarded but little-known books in a variety of fields—including city planning, Gestalt therapy, educational reform, literary criticism, and politics—before Growing Up Absurd, cancelled by its original publisher and turned down by a further eighteen, was brought out by Random House in 1960 and became an instant bestseller. Its author became an influential leader of the New Left and anti-war movements and a model for a new generation of critics like Susan Sontag, who wrote: “There is no living American writer for whom I have left the same simple curiosity to read as quickly as possible anything he wrote on any subject.” “Paul Goodman Changed My Life,” a 2011 documentary directed by Jonathan Lee and distributed by Zeitgeist Films, continues to play at film festivals and independent cinemas. The film received excellent reviews in such publications as The New York Times, Variety, The New York Post, Village Voice, and Time Out New York.


