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Summer 1989 Issue

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The Green Room

Staige D. Blackford — The Green Room, Summer 1989

Articles

Robert Coles — All About Dickens
Wendy W. Fairey — At Her Epistolary Best
Morris Freedman — My Last Summer Session
Edward L. Greenamyre — The Pitfalls of Symptomatic Empiricism: I Counted So Long and Still Got It Wrong
Mark Harris — From the Desk of the Troublesome Editor
Sholom J. Kahn — Albert LÉOn GuÉRard (1880?1959): the Styles of A Humanist
Harold H. Kolb Jr. — Mark Twain Today
HILARY MASTERS — On Silver Skates
JEFFREY MEYERS — "THE IMMEDIATE, INSTANT SELF"
Michael Oriard — The Sweet Science
Douglas Lane Patey — Who Now Reads Pope? And Why?
HUGH RAGSDALE — The Challenge of Russian Nationalism to Soviet Stability
Brian C. Rosenberg — Mary Lee Settle and the Critics
W. Warren Wagar — H.G. Wells and the Scientific Imagination
Joan Walsh — Games

Poetry

Poetry

Reprint

Reprint, Summer 1989

Recent Books

Notes on Current Books, Summer 1989