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January 1950 Issue = 21 Articles- Personal and Otherwise, pp. 6-13
- Letters, pp. 14-18
- The Day the Sun Stood Still by Eric Larrabee, pp. 19-26
- Insomnia in Whitehall by John Fischer, pp. 27-33
- The Seagull by Uys Krige, p. 34
- Hereby Hangs a Tale by Max Steele, pp. 35-41
- Parable of the Lost Chance by Bernard DeVoto, pp. 42-45
- The Ordeal of Dr. Condon by Louis Welborn, pp. 46-53
- The Eagle Without the Swastika by Fred M. Hechinger, pp. 54-61
- August Light by Katharine Strelsky, p. 62
- The Man Who Makes Weather by C. Lester Walker, pp. 63-70
- Breath of Air by Michael Jaffe, pp. 71-77
- Scientific Discussion---U.S.S.R. Style, p. 78
- Senator Flanders: Intelligent Conservative by C. Hartley Grattan, pp. 79-86
- How to Save Lives in Traffic by Bruce Bliven, pp. 87-91
- Portrait of the Artist by William Abrahams, p. 92
- Why Communists Are Valuable by Gerald W. Johnson, pp. 93-95
- Charlottesville: The Age of Reason by Sylvia Stallings, pp. 96-97
- After Hours by "Mr. Harper", pp. 98-101
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New Books by Richard H. Rovere, pp. 102-106 - 9 Reviews- Five Novels by Ronald Firbank
- The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg
- The Asphalt Jungle by W.R. Burnett
- Place Called Estherville by Erskine Caldwell
- The Islands of Unwisdom by Robert Graves
- The Big Cage by Robert Lowry
- Sinners, Come Away by Leon Wilson
- A Long Day's Dying by Frederick Buechner
- The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
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Books in Brief by Katherine Gauss Jackson, pp. 107-112 - 4 Reviews- Call It Treason by George Locke Howe
- The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren
- Killers of the Dream by Lillian Smith
- Promise and Fulfilment: Palestine, 1917-1949 by Arthur Koestler
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February 1950 Issue = 20 Articles- Personal and Otherwise, pp. 6-17
- Letters, pp. 18-22
- Simultaneous Discover by Lancelot Law Whyte, pp. 23-26
- The Easy Chair by Bernard DeVoto, pp. 27-30
- The Mirage of Pensions by Peter F. Drucker, pp. 31-38
- Reputation by Sonnenberg by Croswell Bowen and George R. Clark, pp. 39-48
- The New York Drought, p. 49
- An Altogether Different Strike by Mary Heaton Vorse, pp. 50-57
- Science, Secrecy, Security by Edward U. Condon, pp. 58-63
- The Villa by Victor Wolfson, pp. 64-68
- The Heist by Everett Debaun, pp. 69-76
- Advice to a Traveler by Howard Moss, p. 77
- When the Communists Entered Peking by Jean Lyon, pp. 78-85
- Notice to Our Readers, p. 86
- The Way a Novel Gets Written by Joyce Cary, pp. 87-92
- Marshall Plan, Point Four, and Beyond by Lancelot Law Whyte, p. 93
- The Ruin of Soul by Leonard Wallace Robinson, pp. 94-99
- After Hours by "Mr. Harper", pp. 100-103
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New Books by Richard H. Rovere, pp. 104-109 - 7 Reviews- And Madly Teach by Mortimer B. Smith
- Education Limited by Gustav E. Mueller
- The Education of Free Men by Horace M. Kallen
- The Theory of Education in the United States by Albert Jay Nock
- The Aims of Education, and Other Essays by Alfred North Whitehead
- Education of a Humanist by Albert Guerard
- The Market for College Graduates by Seymour E. Harris
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Books in Brief by Katherine Gauss Jackson, pp. 110-114 - 4 Reviews- The Parasites by Daphne du Maurier
- Little Boy Lost by Marghanita Laski
- Christina Rossetti by Marya Zaturenska
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti: A Victorian Romantic by Oswald Doughty
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March 1950 Issue = 20 Articles- Personal and Otherwise, pp. 6-17
- Letters, pp. 18-22
- Arms and the Germans, 1950 by Telford Taylor, pp. 23-29
- Everything's True About Texas by Stanley Walker, pp. 30-35
- Florentine Afternoons by Katherine Garrison Chapin, p. 36
- Part of the Family Picture by Peter De Vries, pp. 37-40
- Death Went Away by Mark Van Doren, p. 41
- Bread and the Stuff We Eat by James Rorty, pp. 42-48
- The Easy Chair by Bernard DeVoto, pp. 49-52
- The Humble Female by Agnes Rogers, pp. 53-58
- You Can Say That Again, p. 59
- The Chaos of Congress by Albert L. Warner, pp. 60-65
- Whom Do We Picket Tonight? by Joseph Wood Krutch, pp. 66-68
- Hitchhiking with the Yellow Fish by Santha Rama Rau, pp. 69-79
- The British Jet Transports by Albert Douglas, pp. 80-85
- Birth of Song by Peter Viereck, pp. 86-87
- The Two Brothers by V.S. Pritchett, pp. 88-96
- After Hours by "Mr. Harper", pp. 97-101
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New Books by Richard H. Rovere, pp. 102-107 - 3 Reviews- The Wall by John Hersey
- Pleasure Dome by Lloyd Frankenberg
- The Classical Tradition by Gilbert Highet
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Books in Brief by Katherine Gauss Jackson, pp. 108-112 - 5 Reviews- I, My Ancestor by Nancy Wilson Ross
- The Scapegoat by Jocelyn Brooke
- I Leap Over the Wall by Monica Baldwin
- Art and Life in America by Oliver W. Larkin
- The Peabody Sisters of Salem by Louise Hall Tharp
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April 1950 Issue = 19 Articles- Personal and Otherwise, pp. 6-23
- Letters, pp. 24-30
- How to Elect a Republican by Herbert Agar, pp. 31-35
- Forecasting the 1950 Elections by Louis H. Bean, pp. 36-40
- The Blue-Winged Real by Wallace Stegner, pp. 41-49
- Hollywood Faces the Fifties by John Houseman, pp. 50-58
- Accused and Accuser in Lilliput, p. 59
- Two Boys on a Mountain by William O. Douglas, pp. 60-65
- A Cataclysm Threatens California by Alfred M. Cooper, pp. 66-69
- Those Lovely Figures by C. Hartley Grattan, pp. 70-75
- China in the Long Haul by Nathaniel Peffer, pp. 76-83
- Death of the Zulu by Uys Krige, pp. 84-88
- Rebop, Bebopo, and Bop by Marshall W. Stearns, pp. 89-95
- Aunt Alice in April by William H. Matchett, p. 96
- The Easy Chair by Bernard DeVoto, pp. 97-100
- Marquand of Newburyport by Granville Hicks, pp. 101-108
- After Hours by "Mr. Harper", pp. 109-113
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New Books by Richard H. Rovere, pp. 114-123 - 8 Reviews- The American Mind by Henry Steele Commager
- Incredible Tale by Gerald W. Johnson
- The Price of Union by Herbert Agar
- An Essay for Our Times by H. Stuart Hughes
- The Coming Defeat of Communism by James Burnham
- Disaster Through Air Power by Marshall Andrews
- The Grand Alliance by Winston S. Churchill
- Of Fear and Freedom by Carlo Levi
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Books in Brief by Katherine Gauss Jackson, pp. 124-130 - 12 Reviews- The Feast by Margaret Kennedy
- The Vintage by Anthony West
- Son of the Giant by Stuart Engstrand
- Tiger in the Garden by Speed Lamkin
- Weeping Bay by Joy Davidman
- Men of Stones by Rex Warner
- Decision in Germany by Lucius D. Clay
- Science Is a Sacred Cow by Anthony Standen
- Humanity and Happiness by Georg Brockmann
- The Art of Real Happiness by Norman Vincent Peale and Smiley Blanton
- The Wooden Horse by Eric Williams
- Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein
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May 1950 Issue = 22 Articles- Personal and Otherwise, pp. 6-21
- Letters, pp. 22-30
- The Second Eisenhower Boom by Richard H. Rovere, pp. 31-38
- Wordsworth Refuted by Cecil C. Eckles, p. 39
- The Catholic Church in America by D.W. Brogan, pp. 40-50
- Battle Over Television. Hollywood Faces the Fifties, Part II by John Houseman, pp. 51-59
- The Easy Chair by Bernard DeVoto, pp. 60-63
- The Beautiful Mo by George Howe, pp. 64-69
- Lincoln Never Said That by Albert A. Woldman, pp. 70-73
- Due Notice to the AMA, p. 74
- Railroads on the Wrong Track by Herbert Askwith, pp. 75-79
- Measures for Song and Dance by Katherine Anne Porter, pp. 80-81
- Tourist in England by Osbert Lancaster, pp. 82-85
- Full Circle by Bentz Plagemann, pp. 86-95
- Heigh Ho, Silver by Morris E. Garnsey, pp. 96-99
- Remembering a Red Brink Wall in Rensselaer by Thomas Hornsby Ferril, p. 100
- At My Wit's Beginning by Fred Schwed, jr., pp. 101-106
- Congressional Investigation 1778, p. 107
- A Middle-Aged Man's Garden of Verses by Peter De Vries, pp. 108-109
- After Hours by "Mr. Harper", pp. 110-113
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New Books by Richard H. Rovere, pp. 114-122 - 9 Reviews- The Novel and Our Time by Alex Comfort
- The World of Fiction by Bernard DeVoto
- The Liberal Imagination by Lionel Trilling
- Geraldine Bradshaw by Calder Willingham
- The Town and the City by Jack Kerouac
- Editor to Author by Maxwell E. Perkins and John Hall Wheelock
- The Twin Adventures by William Saroyan
- Star Money by Kathleen Winsor
- The Sunnier Side by Charles Jackson
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Books in Brief by Katherine Gauss Jackson, pp. 123-130 - 11 Reviews- Nothing by Henry Green
- Under the Skin by Phyllis Bottome
- The Town by Conrad Richter
- Eye Witness by George Harmon Coxe
- Mr. Midshipman Hornblower by C.S. Forester
- A Golden Girl by Harry Sylvester
- Hie to the Hunters by Jesse Stuart
- Shakespeare of London by Marchette Chute
- Worlds in Collision by Immanuel Velikovsky
- Of Men and Mountains by William O. Douglas
- The Story of Irving Berlin by David Ewen
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June 1950 Issue = 21 Articles- Personal and Otherwise, pp. 6-19
- Letters, pp. 20-26
- Who Are the American Poor? by Robert L. Heilbroner, pp. 27-33
- Two Stories from the Isle of Man by Nigel Kneale, pp. 34-40
- The Secretary of State, p. 41
- War Games in Southern Waters by Fletcher Pratt, pp. 42-49
- Atomic Engines---When and How by Louis Cassels, pp. 50-56
- Jumped or Fell by Ted Robinson Jr., pp. 57-61
- Roosevelt and His Detractors by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., pp. 62-68
- The Twilight of Wall Street by Ed Tyng, pp. 69-76
- The Easy Chair by Bernard DeVoto, pp. 77-80
- Orchestration by David Morton, p. 81
- The Road that Food Built by Myron Stearns, pp. 82-88
- The Supreme Court and Big Business by Harold Fleming, pp. 89-94
- Up-State Cellar Hole by Fred Lape, p. 95
- The Inspector by John Fraiser Robinson, pp. 96-101
- What the Wrights Really Invented by Wolfgang Langewiesche, pp. 102-104
- Oscillogram by David McCord, p. 105
- After Hours by "Mr. Harper", pp. 106-109
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New Books by Richard H. Rovere, pp. 110-114 - 7 Reviews- The Essential Samuel Butler by G.D.H. Cole and Samuel Butler
- The Law by Rene A. Wormser
- Reason and Law by Morris Raphael Cohen
- Courts on Trial by Jerome Frank
- The Sense of Injustice by Edmond N. Cahn
- Seeds of Treason by Ralph de Toledano and Victor Lasky
- The Case of General Yamashita by A. Frank Reel
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Books in Brief by Katherine Gauss Jackson, pp. 115-122 - 9 Reviews- Red Bone Woman by Carlyle Tillery
- The Circle of the Day by Helen Howe
- The Other Father by Laura Z. Hobson
- Cloak of Laughter by May Mellinger
- Night Journey by Albert J. Guerard
- The Autobiography of Robert A. Millikan by Robert A. Millikan
- Room for One More by Anna Perrott Rose
- Louisa May Alcott by Madeleine B. Stern
- The World of Gilbert and Sullivan by William A. Darlington
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July 1950 Issue = 22 Articles- Personal and Otherwise, pp. 6-13
- Letters, pp. 14-22
- How Big Is Too Big? by Peter F. Drucker, pp. 23-28
- What We Know About Drinking by C. Lester Walker, pp. 29-38
- The Perpetual Refugees by Michael L. Hoffman, pp. 39-45
- Night Study by William Rose Benet, p. 46
- Portrait of the Artist as a Young Grocery Clerk by Bentz Plagemann, pp. 47-51
- The Easy Chair by Bernard DeVoto, pp. 52-55
- The Predicament of the Tolerant by Horace M. Kallen, pp. 56-60
- Subway by Gilbert Highet, p. 61
- Mencken and the Twenties by William Manchester, pp. 62-72
- Japan: Challenge to Our Prestige by Helen Mears, pp. 73-77
- Without the Violence by May Sarton, p. 78
- Her Breath upon the Windowpane by William Goyen, pp. 79-80
- Well Time Answers Some Questions, p. 81
- The Economics of Holidays by C. Hartley Grattan, pp. 82-88
- Three Sonnets by David McCord, p. 89
- Old-Age Pensioner by Isabel Gaines, pp. 90-97
- A Word to Put It Mildly for the Gulf Stream, p. 98
- After Hours by "Mr. Harper", pp. 99-102
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New Books by Richard H. Rovere, pp. 103-106 - 7 Reviews- World Enough and Time by Robert Penn Warren
- A Woman of Means by Peter Taylor
- The House of Fiction by Caroline Gordon and Allen Tate
- Fundamentals of Good Writing by Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren
- The Cocktail Party by T.S. Eliot
- The Little Blue Light by Edmund Wilson
- The Lady's Not for Burning by Christopher Fry
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Books in Brief by Katherine Gauss Jackson, pp. 107-110 - 8 Reviews- The Dog Star by Donald Windham
- The Snow Was Black by Georges Simenon
- The High Place by Geoffrey Household
- Herman Melville by Newton Arvin
- Comes the Comrade! by Alexandra Orme
- Ten Days to Die by Michael A. Musmanno
- Assignment to Austerity by Herbert L. Matthews and Nancie Matthews
- Courtroom: The Story of Samuel S. Leibowitz by Quentin Reynolds
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August 1950 Issue = 16 Articles- Personal and Otherwise, pp. 6-15
- Letters, pp. 16-24
- ACTH, Cortisone, & Co. by Leonard Engel, pp. 25-33
- The Noble Crusade of Senator McCarthy by Alfred Friendly, pp. 34-42
- What It Was Like by Eleanor Lattimore, pp. 43-52
- The Little World of Don Camillo by Giovanni Guareschi, pp. 53-59
- The Easy Chair by Bernard DeVoto, pp. 60-63
- Unlikely Teacher by Hortense Flexner, p. 64
- Mencken and the Mercury by William Manchester, pp. 65-72
- The Tourist by S.P. Andersen, p. 73
- The Care and Feeding of Small Business by Peter F. Drucker, pp. 74-79
- The Old Strife At Plant's by Joyce Cary, pp. 80-96
- How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff, pp. 97-101
- After Hours by "Mr. Harper", pp. 102-104
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New Books by Richard H. Rovere, pp. 105-108 - 12 Reviews- Making Capitalism Work by Dexter Merriam Keezer
- The Social Costs of Private Enterprise by K. William Kapp
- Taxes and Economic Incentives by Lewis H. Kimmel
- The Future of Democratic Capitalism by Thurman W. Arnold, Morris L. Ernst, and Adolf A. Berle, Jr., ...
- The New Society by Peter F. Drucker
- The ABC of the Federal Reserve System by Edwin Walter Kemmerer
- Federal Reserve Policy-Making by George Leland Bach
- America's New Frontier: The Mountain West by Morris E. Garnsey
- Of Men and Mountains by William O. Douglas
- Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth by Henry Nash Smith
- Bold New Program by Willard R. Espy
- The United States and the Restoration of World Trade by William Adams Brown, Jr.
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Books in Brief by Katherine Gauss Jackson, pp. 109-112 - 7 Reviews- Too Little Love by Robert Henriques
- The Legacy by Nevil Shute
- Troy and the Maypole by Winston Clewes
- John Adams and the American Revolution by Catherine Drinker Bowen
- There'll Always Be a Drayneflete by Osbert Lancaster
- Here's England by Ruth McKenney and Richard Bransten
- The Little Princesses by Marion Crawford
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September 1950 Issue = 21 Articles- Personal and Otherwise, pp. 6-15
- Letters, pp. 16-20
- The Communists in America by Robert H. Jackson, pp. 21-26
- The Two Laughters by Joseph Joel Keith, p. 27
- Take a Chair by Peter Blake and Robert Osborn, pp. 28-33
- Our Roads Are Going to Pot by Myron Stearns, pp. 34-37
- Population and Human Destiny by Julian Huxley, pp. 38-46
- Two Manx Tales by Nigel Kneale, pp. 47-57
- I Weep for the Chinese by Walter Robb, pp. 58-63
- U.S. vs. A & P: Battle of Titans by John Williams Andrews, pp. 64-73
- Sir Carl of Heldart: A Novell by Victoria Lincoln, pp. 74-78
- What It Was Like (Part II) by Eleanor Lattimore, pp. 79-86
- Anthem for Boeotia by Christopher Morley, p. 87
- The Snout by Loren C. Eiseley, pp. 88-91
- Eames vs. Hammock by Harold A. Larrabee, p. 92
- The Easy Chair by Bernard DeVoto, pp. 93-96
- Problems Problems Everywhere, p. 97
- "Tie It Up in a New Package" by Jean Glasscock, pp. 98-99
- After Hours by "Mr. Harper", pp. 100-103
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New Books by Richard H. Rovere, pp. 104-108 - 6 Reviews- Across the River and Into the Trees by Ernest Hemingway
- Primer of the Novel by Vincent McHugh
- The Margin by J.D. Scott
- The Plenipotentiaries by H.J. Kaplan
- An Edith Wharton Treasury by Arthur Hobson Quinn and Edith Wharton
- Selected Writings of William Dean Howells by Henry Steele Commager and William Dean Howells, ...
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Books in Brief by Katherine Gauss Jackson, pp. 109-112 - 7 Reviews- The House of Breath by William Goyen
- The Little World of Don Camillo by Giovanni Guareschi
- The Small Hours of the Night by Timothy Angus Jones
- Ordeal by Slander by Owen Lattimore
- Rise Up and Walk by Turnley Walker
- Butcher's Dozen, and Other Murders by John Bartlow Martin
- 12 Against Crime~~Twelve Against Crime by Edward D. Radin
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October 1950 Issue = 25 Articles- To Our Readers, pp. 4-6
- Letters by President Truman, p. 7
- Personal and Otherwise by John A. Kouwenhoven, pp. 8-22
- One Hundred Years of Harper's, pp. 23-36
- Hardy Centennials by Philip Hamburger, pp. 37-40
- Look at the Schools from the Inside by R.L., pp. 41-48
- The Century by Bernard DeVoto, pp. 49-57
- Precious Five by W.H. Auden, pp. 58-59
- The Age of Taste by Russell Lynes, pp. 60-73
- Women Have Come a Long Way by Eleanor Roosevelt, pp. 74-76
- Reader, Transatlantic by Rebecca West, pp. 77-86
- To Be Sung by Peter Viereck, p. 87
- The Prisoner by Katherine Anne Porter, pp. 88-96
- America on the Move by John A. Kouwenhoven, pp. 97-144
- The Big Change by Frederick Lewis Allen, pp. 145-160
- Constant Reader by Elmer Davis, pp. 161-175
- The U.S.A. from the Air by Wolfgang Langewiesche, pp. 176-199
- A Name for the City by William Faulkner, pp. 200-214
- The Easy Chair by Bernard DeVoto, pp. 215-220
- The Villains by Gerald W. Johnson, pp. 221-228
- Mountains of Paper by Roger Burlingame, pp. 229-247
- Coming Events Cast Their Shadows, pp. 248-249
- The Years of My Life by Thomas Mann, pp. 250-267
- A Century of Books by C. Hartley Grattan, pp. 268-277
- New Books by Richard H. Rovere, pp. 278-284
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November 1950 Issue = 20 Articles- Personal and Otherwise, pp. 6-15
- Letters, pp. 16-20
- This War Is Different by Peter F. Drucker, pp. 21-26
- Our Most Serious Military Problem, p. 27
- London Journal, 1762-1763 by James Boswell, pp. 28-38
- The Unhappy Warrior by Sylvia Stallings, p. 39
- The New Snobbism by Russell Lynes, pp. 40-50
- Korea: the Military Lesson by Eric Larrabee, pp. 51-57
- The Reasonable Music by John Cheever, pp. 58-62
- Sic Semper, p. 63
- The Easy Chair by Bernard De Voto, pp. 64-67
- A University in Jeopardy by John Caughey, pp. 68-75
- Church and State in Israel by William Zukerman, pp. 76-78
- The Soil of Genius, p. 79
- Under Weigh by Katherine Anne Porter, pp. 80-88
- McCarran, Lone Wolf of the Senate by Alfred Steinberg, pp. 89-94
- Snow Tracks by Burke Boyce, p. 95
- After Hours by "Mr. Harper", pp. 96-99
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New Books by Richard H. Rovere, pp. 100-108 - 10 Reviews- The Trial of Comrade Tulayev by Victor Serge
- The Pageant of Russian History by Elizabeth Seeger
- Our Ally: The People of Russia by William Alexander Wood and Myriam Sieve
- The People of Great Russia by Geoffrey Gorer and John Rickman
- The Best American Short Stories, 1950 by Martha Foley
- Prize Stories of 1950 by Herschel Brickell
- Mixed Company by Irwin Shaw
- Collected Stories by William Faulkner
- Cast a Cold Eye by Mary McCarthy
- The Short Stories of Conrad Aiken by Conrad Aiken
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- The Widow by Susan Yorke
- The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone by Tennessee Williams
- The Backward Bride by Aubrey Menen
- The Peacock by Jon Godden
- Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft by Thor Heyerdahl
- Belles On Their Toes by Frank B. Gilbreth, Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, ...
- A Generation on Trial by Alistair Cooke
- The Other Side of the Bottle by Dwight Anderson and Page Cooper
- You Can Stop Drinking by Harold Morrow Sherman
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- Letters, pp. 18-22
- The Nature of the Universe, Part I by Fred Hoyle, pp. 23-30
- A New Deal 1890, p. 31
- Tourist in America by D.W. Brogan, pp. 32-40
- Promiscuous Unbound by Max Steele, pp. 41-46
- A Calculated Risk in Yugoslavia by Henry C. Wolfe, pp. 47-53
- The Easy Chair by Bernard DeVoto, pp. 54-57
- Venezuela Booms by Tharon Perkins, pp. 58-65
- Memorandum to a Tired Bureaucrat by James Rorty, p. 66
- The Danger Point in Taxes by Colin Clark, pp. 67-69
- The Exile by Katherine Anne Porter, pp. 70-78
- American Goods Preferred by Fred M. Hechinger, pp. 79-84
- Boundary by Adrienne Cecile Rich, p. 85
- The Strangest Place in Chicago by John Bartlow Martin, pp. 86-97
- After Hours by "Mr. Harper", pp. 98-101
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New Books by Charles Poore, pp. 102-111 - 7 Reviews- Boswell's London Journal, 1762-1763 by Frederick A. Pottle and James Boswell
- Blandings' Way by Eric Hodgins
- Helena by Evelyn Waugh
- A Fearful Joy by Joyce Cary
- Burning Bright by John Steinbeck
- The Disenchanted by Budd Schulberg
- Snobs by Russell Lynes
- Books for Children by Phyllis McGinley, pp. 112-115
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Books in Brief by Katherine Gauss Jackson, pp. 116-118 - 6 Reviews- The World My Wilderness by Rose Macaulay
- The Sign of Jonah by Nancy Hale
- Who Is My Neighbor? by Nigel Balchin
- Tomato Cain, and Other Stories by Nigel Kneale
- The Country Wife by Dorothy Van Doren
- The Story of My Psychoanalysis by John Knight
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Issues of 1989 = 12 Issues, 251 Articles
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