1986-VOLUME LIII NUMBER 1
CONTENTS
CONTRIBUTORS
COMMENT
William Phillips
FICTION
Vasily Grossman
Gideon Telpaz
John Hildebidle
ARTICLES
On the Death of Socialism and
Other Matters
Life and Fate
Four Camels Out of the Desert
.240, Lifetime
7
13
43
56
Morris Dickstein
Ronald Radosh
Shoah
and the Machinery of Death
36
Nicaraguan Myths
67
Melinda Camber Porter
An Interview with Octavio Paz
76
Millicent Bell
Edmund Leites
POETRY
What Happened in the Cave
The Family
as
History
W. S. Merwin, John Hollander, Eugene Dubnov, Jill Bialosky,
Paul Lake, Laszlo Baranszky, Lawrence Raab, James Galvin,
William Harmon, James Mandrell, Joyce Carol Oates,
Reginald Gibbons
BOOKS
Denis Donoghue
Selected Letters of John Crowe
Ransom
edited with an introduction
by
Thomas Daniel Young
and George Core
103
111
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