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Jack Richardson (1934–2012) was a playwright, novelist and drama critic. His 1960 play, The Prodigal, a retelling of Euripides’ Orestes, won an Obie Award and a Drama Desk Award. Richardson wrote dramatic criticism for The New York Times, Esquire and Commentary and was a frequent contributor to The Review.
An Oppressed Group
Dolphins, Whales and Porpoises: An Encyclopedia of Sea Mammals
by David J. Coffey
July 14, 1977 issue
A Tale of Long Ago
Ladies and Gentlemen
Lenny Bruce!!
by Albert Goldman from the journalism of Lawrence Schiller
June 27, 1974 issue
Master Builder
One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel García Márquez, translated by Gregory Rabassa
March 26, 1970 issue
The Black Arts
Rebellion or Revolution?
by Harold Cruse
Black Fire
edited by LeRoi Jones, edited by Larry Neal
Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone
by James Baldwin
Soul on Ice
by Eldridge Cleaver
December 19, 1968 issue
The Trouble I’ve Seen
A Mass for the Dead
by William Gibson
When I Was Last on Cherry Street
by Harry Roskolenko
The Terrorized
by Harry Roskolenko
October 10, 1968 issue
I Don’t Want to Go Home
The Pursuit of Happiness
by Thomas Rogers
An Hour of Last Things
by George P. Elliott
Melinda
by Gaia Servadio
August 1, 1968 issue
Prop Art
Vanity of Duluoz
by Jack Kerouac
The Answer
by Jeremy Larner
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country
by William H. Gass
April 11, 1968 issue
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