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Clive James remembers war, an interview with Frederick Wiseman, Alan Wald on Boston’s forgotten Marxist poets, essays on pornography, Count Basie, and the politics of Hungarian film. Poems by Octavio Paz, Charles Simic, and Rachel Hadas.

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