November 1971

Articles

• Burma

  Paul Theroux

• Profiles in Courrèges

  Calvin Trillin

• An Ode to Objectivity: Does God Play at Dice?

  On Jacques Monod’s Chance and Necessity

  Gunther Stent

• Ground

  Peter Davison

• Life Is Suffering But..

  Melvin Maddocks

• A Woman for the People

  Marya Mannes

• A Queer Business

  Frank Kermode

• Our Misanthropic Movies

  David Denby

• The Peripatetic Reviewer

  Edward Weeks

• Meet Me in the Green Glen

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• When I Was Old

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• Goat Songs

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• Les Guerilleres

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• Jeeves and the Tie That Binds

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• The Brass Ring

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• Von Stroheim

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• The Mortgaged Heart

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• Out of the Silence

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• Glory

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• Lennon Remembers

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• Strange Stories

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• The Hours of Etienne Chevalier

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• The Morning After

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• Kennedy Justice

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• Memphis

  James Conaway

• The Editor's Page

• Innocent Bystander: A Novembrist Manifesto

  L. E. Sissman

• Contributors

• Cyprus

  Elizabeth Drew

• Paper Victory: The United States v. The New York Times and the Washington Post

  Charles Rembar

• False Youth: Autumn: Clothes of the Age: For Susan Tuckerman Dickey

  James Dickey

• The Bull's Eye and the Scorpion

  Stephen Diamond

• Playing the Wheel in Juan

  Robert Bagg

• Disarmed at Middle Age

  Antonia Chayes

• The Judge

  Mary Gray Hughes

• The Life of Accra, the Flowers of Abidjan: A West African Diary

  Nadine Gordimer

• The 800,000,000: Report From China

  The China we do not know is opening to view, albeit slowly and selectively. Back from his second extended visit to the mainland, Professor Terrill, a native Australian now teaching at Harvard, tells what life is like in China today.

  Ross Terrill

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