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John Thompson

John Thompson is an English sociologist. He has published several studies of the media and communication in modern societies, including The Media and Modernity: A Social Theory of the Mediaand Political Scandal: Power and Visibility in the Media Age.

Clubland

The Men's Club

by Leonard Michaels

July 16, 1981 issue

At Least One Way

No Way

by Natalia Ginzburg, translated by Sheila Cudahy

Touch the Water, Touch the Wind

by Amos Oz. translated by Nicholas de Lange in collaboration with the author

January 23, 1975 issue

In Africa

Jungle Lovers

by Paul Theroux

Farquharson's Physique: And What It Did to His Mind

by David Knight

The Wanderers

by Ezekiel Mphahlele

This Earth, My Brother…An Allegorical Tale of Africa

by Kofi Awoonor

Bound to Violence

by Yambo Ouologuem, translated by Ralph Manheim

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September 23, 1971 issue

An Alphabet of Poets

A Look Round the Estate

by Kingsley Amis

Short Poems

by John Berryman

Words

by Robert Creeley

The Hard Hours

by Anthony Hecht

Woodwo

by Ted Hughes

Body Rags

by Galway Kinnell

The Harvester's Vase

by Ned O'Gorman

The Marches

by James Scully

Iliad of Broken Sentences

by Rosemary Tonks

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August 1, 1968 issue

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