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‘The Paralysis of Stuttering’

Stuttering: An Integrated Approach to Its Nature and Treatment

by Barry Guitar

Stuttering: The Disorder of Many Theories

by Gerald Jonas

Black Swan Green

by David Mitchell

Dead Languages

by David Shields

The King’s Speech: How One Man Saved the British Monarchy

by Mark Logue and Peter Conradi

Foundations of Stuttering

by Marcel E. Wingate

Stutter

by Marc Shell

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April 26, 2012 issue

‘Sex Work’?

November 5, 1992 issue

Splendor and Miseries

Women for Hire: Prostitution and Sexuality in France after 1850

by Alain Corbin, translated by Alan Sheridan

La Vie quotidienne dans les maisons closes, 1830–1930

by Laure Adler

Figures of Ill Repute: Representing Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century France

by Charles Bernheimer

Painted Love: Prostitution in French Art of the Impressionist Era

by Hollis Clayson

July 16, 1992 issue

Letter

Tracy Quan

‘Sex Work’?

November 5, 1992 issue

Calling Dr. Kubie

February 27, 1986 issue

The Bologna Bombing

November 7, 1985 issue

The Progress of Klaus Barbie

The Nazi Legacy: Klaus Barbie and the International Fascist Connection

by Magnus Linklater and Isabel Hilton and Neal Ascherson

Klaus Barbie

by Ladislas de Hoyos, translated by Nicholas Courtin

The Children of Izieu

edited by Serge Klarsfeld

June 27, 1985 issue

Letter

John L. Harper

The Bologna Bombing

November 7, 1985 issue

No Fool

Clare Boothe Luce

by Wilfrid Sheed

April 1, 1982 issue

Death in Iran

August 13, 1981 issue

The Heavenly Deception

Crazy for God: The Nightmare of Cult Life

by Christopher Edwards

Moonstruck: A Memoir of My Life in a Cult

by Allen Tate Wood and Jack Vitek

Hostage to Heaven: Four Years in the Unification Church, by an Ex-Moonie and the Mother Who Fought to Free Her

by Barbara Underwood and Betty Underwood

Science, Sin, and Scholarship: The Politics of Reverend Moon and the Unification Church

edited by Irving Louis Horowitz

October 25, 1979 issue

Letter

Betty Underwood

The Moonies

April 3, 1980 issue

Letter

Timothy Miller

The Moonies

April 3, 1980 issue

Freedom in Iran

September 15, 1977 issue

Knowledge of the Guru

January 24, 1974 issue

Knowledge of the Guru

January 24, 1974 issue

Blissing Out in Houston

December 13, 1973 issue

Letter

Nicholas B. Dirks

Knowledge of the Guru

January 24, 1974 issue

Letter

Joan Apter

Knowledge of the Guru

January 24, 1974 issue

On Safari

The Long African Day

by Norman Myers

June 28, 1973 issue

Old Times

Richard Nixon’s self-denial, self-mythologizing, and self-discipline were on full display at his 1973 inauguration.

February 22, 1973 issue

The Politics of Salvation: II

June 15, 1972 issue

Harrisburg: The Politics of Salvation

By 1970 Sister Elizabeth McAlister, a devout nun in the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary and an art history teacher at Marymount College, had been transformed by the recent revolution in the Church and the political turbulence of the 1960s. Then in 1970, she was arrested for allegedly conspiring to kidnap Henry Kissinger.

June 1, 1972 issue

Address to the Democratic Town Committee of Newtown, Conn.

May 6, 1971 issue