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CONTENTS
NOTES 142
ARTICLES
Americanization
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Stephen Spender 148
Art and Revolution
Herbert Marcuse 174
The Melodramatic Imagination
Peter Brooks 195
POEMS
From
Absences
James Tate 188
STORIES
Confessions of a Youth Without Talent
Maria Lehmann 213
The Lady with the Pet Dog
Joyce Carol Oates 222
From
Out
Ronald Sukenick 238
DOCUMENTS
Writing in Byelorussia
Vasil' Bykov 2055
DRAWINGS
BUS 264
BOOKS
Conversations with Kafka by Gustav Janouch
Joyce Carol Oates 266
Black Feeling, Black Talk, Black Judgment by Nikki Giovanni
Livingdying by Cid Corman
Collected Poems by Alan Dugan
Places to Go by Joanna Kyger
Alicia Ostriker 270
The Revolution Script by Brian Moore
John Goode 276
Beyond Freedom and Dignity by B. F. Skinner
Andrew McLaughlin 282
COMMUNICATIONS
APolitics of Authenticity 287
NONSENSE 292
COVER DESIGN: CHARlES E. FINSILVER
