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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.
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.
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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.
Sex Without Popcorn
ROBERT FONTAINE is the author of the Broadway hit THE HAPPY TIME and several books, and has written many light articles for the ATLANTIC.
Praise
Of the gifted novelists writing about the divided Union of South Africa, three have made a special appeal to ATLANTICreaders: Man Paton. Dan Jacobson, and Nadine Gordimer. Miss Gordimer is a native Johannesburger whose mastery of the short story is respected throughout the English-speaking world. The following story will appear in her new collection, NOT FOR PUBLICATION,soon to be published by Viking.
The Ring
On his graduation from Williams College in June of last year, ANDREW SMITH received the Hubbard Hutchinson Fellowship for creative writing, an award which has permitted him to work on a novel and a musical comedy at his home in Southport, Connecticut.
Three Shapes of Love
How to play an old Irish game, and how to discover “ the human thing to do” — these are among the talents explained in this new short story by one of Ireland’s finest living writers, who is also author of VIVE moi!, anenchanting autobiography recently published by Atlantic-Little, Brown.
The Escape
Italian novelist and short-story writer, ALBERTO MORAVIA achieved success when he was in his early twenties and has come to he regarded as one of the foremost contemporary European novelists. The following story will appear in a new collection. THE FETISH, to be published in the spring by Farrar, Straus & Girons.
The Rope
After taking an honors degree at Oxford, ALLAN SEAGER was an editor of VANITY FAIR magazine under Frank Crowninshield. Now professor of English at the University of Michigan,Mr. Seager has published about eighty short stories and five novels, the latest being DEATH OF ANGER.
The Peak
A Vassar graduate and the mother of three children, MAY DIKEMAN made her first appearance in the ATLANTIC in 1961 with her short story ‟ The Tender Mercies.” which won an Atlantic ‟ First ” prize. Her next two stories in our pages, ‟ The Sound of Young Laughter” and ‟ The Woman Across the Street,” were selected for the Martha Foley collecion, THE BEST AMERICAN SHOUT STORIES.
The Church of Sound
Poet and translator, W. S. MERWINwas born in New York City in 1927, graduated from Princeton, and worked as a tutor in France, Portugal, and Majorca from 1949 to 1951. His first book of poems, A MASK FOR JANUS, was published in 1952; his most recent volume, THE MOVING TARGET,appeared last year.
Man Overboard: An Atlantic "First"
JAMES BALLARDhas studied at St. John’s College in Annapolis and served with the Strategic Air Command. He is currently living in Piney River, Virginia, where he devotes much of his time to the writing of poetry and short stories.
One Spring Morning
After his graduation from the University of Notre Dame, EDWIN O’CONNOR worked as a radio announcer for the Yankee Network. In 1946 he sold his first magazine piece, a satire on radio, to the ATLANTIC.Since then he has written four novels: THE ORACLE,published in 1951; THE LAST HURRAH,which won the Atlantic prize in 1956; THE EDGE OF SADNESS, which received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1961; and I WAS DANCING, published last spring. The story which follows is the opening episode in Mr. O’ Connor’s new novel, as yet untitled.