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Helen Muchnic
Tolstoy the Great
Tolstoy and the Novel by John Bayley
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John McDermott
Crisis Manager
To Move a Nation by Roger Hilsman
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Conor Cruise O’Brien
In Quest of Uncle Tom
Dublin: A Portrait by V.S. Pritchett, Photographs by Evelyn Hofer
Irish Journal by Heinrich Böll
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Clifford Geertz
Under the Mosquito Net
A Diary in the Strict Sense of the Term by Bronislaw Malinowski
Coral Gardens and their Magic: I: Soil Tilling and Agricultural Rites in the Trobriand Islands II: The Language of Magic and Gardening by Bronislaw Malinowski
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Neal Ascherson
Ghosts
Journey Through a Haunted Land: The New Germany by Amos Elon
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Paul Goodman
For a Young Widow (poem)
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Mordecai Richler
Notes on Expo
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Richard H. Popkin
Garrison’s Case
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M.I. Finley
Plutarch, Historical Novelist
Plutarch and His Times by R.H. Barrow
Julius Caesar, A Political Biography by J.P.V.D. Balsdon
LETTERS
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Herbert Blau
Up the Drainpipe
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Leonard Schapiro,
Walter LaqueurThe Jews and the Revolution
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John de J. Pemberton Jr.,
Andrew KopkindDissension in the ACLU
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Gary Rader
Draft Resistance
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Andre Gorz,
George LichtheimState of Mind
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Norman N. Holland,
Richard WilburDecoding Poe
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.


