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VOLUME XXXVII, NUMBER
4
COVER
Solitary
Philip Guston
ARTICLES
America II
Michael Harrington
Arthur SchleSinger, Jr.
Howard Zinn
POEMS
Irving Weinman
STORIES
CONTENTS
Ontological Proof of My Existence (a play)
Joyce Carol Oates
The Blizzard
Russell Banks
ARGUMENTS
Why Johnny Can't
George Levine
CONTEMPORARY NONSENSE
BOOKS
Heckletooth 3 by David Shetzline; When the ·War is Over by Stephen Becker;
Fat City by Leonard Gardner; Going Down by David Markson; The Lives and
461
498
505
519
542
471
530
550
563
Loves of Mr. Jivens Higger by Cecil Brown: Maureen Howard
564
Speaking
to
Each Other by Richard Hoggart: Thomas R. Edwards
570
One Hundred Years Alf Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez; The Sound of the
Mountain by Yasunari Kawabata; Local Anaesthetic by Gunter Grass: Richard
Howard
574
Toward a Radical Middle; Fourteen Pieces of Reporting
&
Criticism by Re-
nata Adler; The End of the American Era by Andrew Hacker; The Making of
an Un-American by Paul Cowan: James Gilbert
580
