March 1972
In This Issue
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Articles
The Party's Over
What this country needs is some unvarnished political partisanship
Pop Nihilism at the Movies
What You Fancy
Those Damned Rebels
The Conspiracy
The Nixon Recession Caper
The Friends of Eddie Coyle
The American Way of Violence
The Way It Is Now
The Late Great Creature
We Must Run While They Walk
One Hand Clapping
Stubbs
The Ewings
Jorge Luis Borges: Selected Poems 1923-1967
Animal, Vegetable, Mineral
American Indian
Moscow
El Paso
Innocent Bystander: Evelyn Waugh: The Height of His Powers
Contributors
The Editor's Page
The Letting Down of the Hair
Sand Dollar
Petronius Americanus: The Ways of Gore Vidal
“I look on myself as a 100 percent American writer, which is probably why I don’t like living here. From Hawthorne to Hemingway, there is a tendency to get the hell out.”
Believing in Bluegrass
The Democrats
Old Voices
An Eye for an Eye
The Ghosts of Nuremberg
The shapelessness of evil is many-faceted, and has its own dimensions which swell and shift and elude us as we try to take its measure.
Four Poems
Friday Night in the Coliseum
For every wrestler who enters the ring with pure heart and clean hands, a dozen Foreigners and so-called Intellectuals and Sonsofbitches seek to bring him down with treachery and brute force and outright meanness.
I Met Khrushchev and Didn't Argue About Refrigerators
A Friend Told Me
A Kind of Village Society
After This Life We Will Listen
The Bomb Blanket
