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Trompe l’Oeil
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John Gross
Waugh Revisited
A Little Learning by Evelyn Waugh
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Frederick C. Crews
Comedy and Beyond
The Key to My Heart: A Comedy in Three Parts by V.S. Pritchett
Stations by Burt Blechman
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James Merrill
A Carpet Not Bought (poem)
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Paul Goodman
The Liberal Victory
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W.D. Snodgrass
In Praise of Robert Lowell
The Old Glory by Robert Lowell, directed by Jonathan Miller
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Wylie Sypher
The Language of the Dead
Tomb Sculpture by Erwin Panofsky, edited by H.W. Janson
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Gore Vidal
The Writing of E. Nesbit
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Janet Adam Smith
Engines of Mischief: The Best Children’s Books of 1964
Wally the Wordworm by Clifton Fadiman
The Untold Adventures of Santa Claus by Ogden Nash
How to Catch a Crocodile by Robert Pack
How the Whale Became by Ted Hughes
Squawky by Stephen Potter
Tom and Tabby by John Symonds
Elisabeth the Cow Ghost by William Pène du Bois
The Young Man Who Wouldn’t Hoe Corn by Eric von Schmidt
The King Who Loved Candy by Peter Hughes
Meeting with a Stranger by Duane Bradley
The Takula Tree by Elizabeth P. Fleming
Children of Africa by Louise A. Stinetorf
The Letter on the Tree by Natalie Savage Carlson
A Day Without Wind by William Mayne
The Coriander by Eilis Dillon
The Alley by Eleanor Estes
Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
I Go by Sea, I Go by Land by P.L. Travers
Knights Beseiged by Nancy Faulkner
Save the Khan by B. Bartos-Höppner
The Burning of Njal by Henry Treece
The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander
To Catch a Spy by Amelia Elizabeth Walden
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Marius Bewley
Oz Country
The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral by Leo Marx
The Wizard of Oz and Who He Was edited with two introductory essays by Martin Gardner, by Russell B. Nye
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J.H. Plumb
Sir Lewis Namier
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Martha Cameron
The Damned
The Inner Room by Vera Randal
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Hans J. Morgenthau
The Death of Marxism
World Communism by Richard Lowenthal
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Robert M. Adams
Throwing up Absurd
Last Exit To Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr.
Nova Express by William S. Burroughs
The Invention of Morel (and other stories from La Trama Celeste) by Adolfo Bioy Casares
Us He Devours by James B. Hall
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G.M. Matthews
The Last Days of the Poets
The Fatal Gift of Beauty: The Final Years of Byron and Shelley by A.B.C. Whipple
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Francis Haskell
Whistler and Lautrec
Art Nocturne: The Art of James McNeill Whistler by Denys Sutton
Lautrec by Lautrec by P. Huisman, by M.G. Dortu
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Creighton Gilbert
Tolnay’s Michelangelo
The Art and Thought of Michelangelo by Charles de Tolnay, translated by Nan Buranelli
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Hilton Kramer
A Scribble in the Air
A Concise History of Modern Sculpture by Herbert Read
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Frank Kermode
The Man in the Closet
The Life of Drama by Eric Bentley
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J.H. Elliott
Merchants and Pirates
My Voyage Around the World by Francesco Carletti, translated by Herbert Weinstock
Elizabethan Privateering by K.R. Andrews
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.


