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.
Next Thing Was Kansas City
A native of Belfast, Ireland, who now lives in Montreal, BRIAN MOORE is a most promising and powerful young novelist.His first book, THE LONELY PASSION OF JUDITH HEARNE, was chosen by the New York TIMES as one of the ten outstanding novels of 1956. His second, THE FEAST OF LUPERCAL,was equally well received, and he is now at work on his third.
The Man Who Took It Easy
Last summer the editor of the ATLANTIC invited PETER USTINOV, then on holiday from ROMANOFF AND JULIET, to give thought to writing a series of stories for us. The manuscripts began folwing in to us in September, each one distinctive, entertaining. and penetrating. This is the third of what we believe will be a celebrated series.
Sigh for a Strange Land
An English writer who spent most of her girlhood in France, MONICA STIRLING represented the ATLANTIC in Paris in the months immediately after the Liberation. We have published her short stories and her first novel, LOVERS AREN’T COMPANY, and have saluted with respect her biography of Ouida which appeared earlier this year. This is the second installment of her tender, valiant novel which was sparked by the Hungarian Revolution.
A Village Tragedy
The author of three novels, JOHN EARNK grew up and was educated in Jamaica, an island whose customs and people he describes with dramatic force. His most recent book, THE EYE OF THE storm, was published this past spring under the Atlantic Little, Brown imprint.
The Man in the Moon
Born in London in 1921, a descendant of a liberal Lutheran family which left Russia in 1868, PETER USTINOVhas turned out a new play nearly every year since he was twenty. He has scored an international success as an actor, playwright, and producer, and two of his plays, THE LOVE OF FOUR COLONELSand ROMANOFF AND JULIET,have been hits on Broadway. We are very happy that he has agreed to write an exclusive series of stories for the ATLANTIC,of which this is the first.
Carey Bloom
Irish essayist and critic, DONAT O’DONNELLis best known in this country for his book MARIA CROSS, a study of such modern Catholic authors as François Mauriac, Graham Greene, Sean O’Faolain, Evelyn Waugh, and Paul Claudel. He is fond of dogs, especially Kerry blues, as this narrative discloses.