#2,
1969
VOLUME XXXVI. NUMBER 2
ARTICLES
Metropole Hotel
Lillian Hellman
ALiterature of Law and Order
Richard Poirier
The Making Jlf a Vanguard
Norman Birnbaum
CONTENTS
Magical Mystery Tour: Ritual In the Modern Theater
Leslie Epstein
The Age of Aquarius
Geoffrey Cannon
INTERVIEW
AConversation with Henry Roth
David Bronsen
POEMS
Herbert Krohn
Peter Davison
STORIES
The Deranged Cousins
Edward Gorey
In the Creep Block, One Was Observed •••
John Hollander
CONT.EMPORARY NONSENSE
BOOKS
179
189
220
251
282
265
233
280
205
238
289
Lost In the Fun House by John Barth: Tony Tanner
293
Towards a New Past: Dissenting Essays in American History by Barton J.
Bernstein; The Liberal Ideal in the Corporate State, 1900-1918 by James
Weinstein: James Burkhart Gilbert
300
After Experience by W. D. Snodgrass; Firstborn by Louise Gluck; The Back
Country by Gary Snyder; The Ribs of Death by Paul Zimmer: Robert Boyers
306
The Letters of John Addington Symonds: Vol. I. ed. by Herbert M. Schueller;
Vol. II. ed. by Robert L. Peters: G. S. Rousseau
316
LETIERS
324