The open form
Subtitle: essays for our time.
Edition: 3d ed.
Publisher: Harcourt, Brace & World
Published: 1970
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 420
Subjects: English essays -- 20th century.; American essays -- 20th century.
Table of contents: title: Superman comes to the supermarket, by N. Mailer.; title: The Twenty-ninth Republican Convention, Miami Beach, Florida, August 5-8, 1968, by G. Vidal.; title: The new mutants, by L. A. Fiedler.; title: Diary of a revolutionist, by J. S. Kunen.; title: Reply to the student activists, by G. F. Kennan.; title: Beyond nihilism, by M. Polanyi.; title: A yo-yo going down, a mad squirrel coming up, by F. Conroy.; title: Homeboy, by Malcolm X.; title: Cousin Sophie, by A. Kazin.; title: Notes of a native son, by J. Baldwin.; title: The phantom captain, by R. B. Fuller.; title: Boston, the lost ideal, by E. Hardwick.; title: London, by V. S. Pritchett.; title: The vacancies of August, by J. Thompson.; title: New York to Wrangell, Alaska, by E. Hoagland.; title: June, by J. W. Johnson.; title: The old stone house, by E. Wilson.; title: A young entomologist in old Russia, by V. Nabokov.; title: Why the novel matters, by D. H. Lawrence.; title: Walt Whitman: he had his nerve, by R. Jarrell.; title: Paris review interview with Allen Ginsberg, conducted by Thomas Clark.; title: The Burton dilemma, by A. Birstein.; title: Comedy's greatest era, by J. Agee.; title: No starch in the dhoti, s'il vous plaît, by S. J. Perelman.; title: A hanging, by G. Orwell.; title: In battle, by G. Chapman.; title: The sleds of the children, by H. E. Salisbury.; title: Introduction to Slaughterhouse-five, by K. Vonnegut, Jr.