The Books That Take Revenge, Centuries Later
A new history of the Red Scare prompts the question: Does literature still have enough influence to bring down the powerful?
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Who Came Up With That?
Contrary to what we think of as intellectual property, most ideas are difficult to trace back to one human mind.
The Questionable Triumph of the ‘Baling Wire Hippies’
Stewart Brand’s Whole Earth Catalog was seen as a countercultural milestone, but his new book reveals his alliances with the powerful.
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Eight of the Most Fascinating Biographies to Read
Each is animated by the author’s love—for their subject, for language, and for pushing the boundaries of what the genre can do.
Six Books That Simply Must Be Talked About
These six books demand discussion—with a pal, a date, or a book club.
Nine Books to Reset Your View of the World
Each of these titles will widen your perspective, offering you original insight and vision.
Seven Books to Read When You Have No Time to Read
These titles are worth picking up, even if you have only a moment to spare.
Echoes
ISAK DINESEN is the nom de plume of Baronesse Karen Blixen, whose ancestral home near Elsinore she has described in one of her SEVEN GOTHIC TALES.After her marriage to Baron Blixen, she went to live on a coffee plantation in Kenya; there she remained for seventeen years and began to write the sensuous, eerie tales that have made her famous.
Lion of the Afternoon
A native of Belfast, Ireland, BRIAN MOOREis now a Canadian citizen living in Montreal and devoting full time to his writing. His first novel, THE LONELY PASSION OF JUDITH HEARNE,is currently being made info a Broadway play; his second, THE FEAST OF LUPERCAL,was published last spring.
Two Tales of Darkness
A writer of power and vividness unsurpassed in our time‚ ERNEST HEMINGWAY is the fifth American to have been awarded the Nobel Prize in literature. To his mastery of the short story he brings a swift and revealing dialogue, a veneration for courage, and a capacity to share and inflict suffering. These new stories show him at his characteristic best.
I Was There
An Englishman who served as a lieutenant commander of escort vessels in the Second World War, NICHOLAS MONSAHRAT writes in the great tradition of the English seafarers. His novel, THE CRUEL SEA, touched millions of readers here and in England at the war’s end, and because of it we asked him to recall that moment of supreme crisis when England stood with her hack to the wall — the Battle of Dunkirk.
A Grand Day for Mr. Garvey
A New Englander who was educated at the University of Notre Dame, EDWIN O’CONNOR does his writing in the winter on Beacon Hill and in the summer at Wellfleet. His novel, THE LAST HURRAH, one of the most widely read books of 1956, is now being filmed, and his new book, BENJY, a Ferocious Fairy Tale, will be off press this month.
Where Moth and Rust
“I was born in Brooklyn,”writes GERTRUDE FRIEDBERG, “and went to Wellesley College, where I was put in as a sub on the varsity hockey team in the last five minutes against the Irish team. After one year I transferred to Barnard and took my A.B. from there.”The wife of a doctor and the mother of two children, Mrs. Friedberg in recent years has reviewed books on music and done editorial work on technical textbooks.
Andrew Macafee, 1942-1957
CRARY MOORE is the pen name of a former Bostonian who has lived in Cambridge since her marriage four years ago. The Atlantic published her first short story, “Seductio ad Absurdum,”in May, 1952, and since that time several of her stories have appeared in our pages. This one, an account of a young prodigy’s obsession, is the product, she tells us, of the heavy intervals between chapters of a light novel on which she is now at work.
The Liberation Celebration Machine
Poet and novelist, LAWRENCE DURRELL was born in India and was educated in England at St. Edmund’s School, Canterbury. He served as a Foreign Service press officer in Athens, Cairo, Rhodes, and Belgrade, and from this experience has come the amusing story which follows. Mr. Durrell’s latest novel, Justine, which was a Book Society Recommendation in England, has recently been published in this country by Dutton.
The Tomahawk
Born in Indiana, WILLIAM BRANDON lived in Yucatán, New Mexico, trance, and England before settling down in California, where he devotes his time to writing. “I like to write,” he says. “It isn’t work in any sense whatsoever except that it gains my income. It’s a pleasure, delight, and recreationHis book, The Men and the Mountain, written in the form of a long historical essay about the Fremont expedition, teas published in 1955.
The Wonder Horse
GEORGE BYRAM lives on a small ranch in Colorado, which he operates on the side, paying for what I lose on the ranch out of what I earn in television and writing, wailing for the day when I’ll write tlie big one and can go back to the vast, mean, windy, murderous, tvonderful country of north-centred II yarning.”The idea for this present story, he says, “came about quickly one evening when I was studying genetics in regard to my men horsebreeding program (crossing Arabians on Quarter Horses). Like any horse-breeder, I began dreaming what kind of mutation I would like to have happen”