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J. R. Ackerley’s My Father and Myself[*] is the simplest, most directly personal report of what it is like to be a homosexual that, to my knowledge, has yet been…

Herbert Marcuse or Milovan Djilas? The inescapable choice of the next decade

by Irving Howe,

The rebel as writer

by Robert Kotlowitz,

The wounds of all generations

by Irving Howe,

Waxing wroth

by Kingsley Amis,

A rose for Emily

by Justin Kaplan,

From the other side of the moon

by Irving Howe,

The Stevenson we lost

by Midge Decter,

George Orwell

by Irving Howe,

"As the bones know"

The writer and the city

by Alfred Kazin,

A masterpiece regained

by Irving Howe,

George Kennan and the students

by Norman Podhoretz,

James Baldwin

by Irving Howe,

At ease in Apocalypse

New books of poems

by Louis Aston Marantz Simpson,

Torment and therapy

by Irving Howe,

First novels

by Irving Howe,

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What’s it about? What’s it like?

The decline in democratic sentiment

The Odyssey was ended

Tribute to an American poet

Mr. Moses’s public works

A great man’s greatness

Some versions of subversion

Fiction

Flaming youth

New black writers

The clever, the true, and the marvelous

Dostoevsky–the struggle to create

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The Uncomplaining Homosexuals

Herbert Marcuse or Milovan Djilas? The inescapable choice of the next decade

The rebel as writer

The wounds of all generations

Waxing wroth

A rose for Emily

From the other side of the moon

The Stevenson we lost

George Orwell

The writer and the city

A masterpiece regained

George Kennan and the students

James Baldwin

New books of poems

Torment and therapy

First novels

September 1970

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