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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.
Is Cohabitation the Feminist Future?
Stories about women living together are proliferating—and offering alternative visions to the nuclear family.
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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.
Maybe Later It Will Come Back to My Mind
Thirty years. Summer lore. Myer Layevsky’s business: A dollar down and a dollar when you ketch me. Sunset in the old people’s home. All this and more come warmly together in this first published story by Miss Faessler of Toronto, Canada. Besides writing, she presides over a rooming house for actors.
Against a Backdrop
From Ogden, Utah, Mr. While went to California, graduated from Stanford, worked as a cabbie, service station, attendant, and newspaper reporter, He is now a writer on the staff of the NEW YORKER.
The Election Fiesta in Ultra
This is the first published fiction of Mr. Griffith, a Tacoma-born journalist who is now senior staff editor of TIME, LIFE, FORTUNE,and the other Luce publications. He is author of THE WAIST-HIGH CULTURE.
Babe the Blue Ox
Mr. Fowles, born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1940, and a graduate of Loomis School, has traveled widely in the United States, Mexico, Europe, and India (where he held a Fulbright Scholarship) and has worked “at various mundane jobs.” He prefers writing.
The Condor Passes
I Southern writer who manages in her fiction to combine realism and symbolism with a touch of the poet, Shirley Ann Grau has been regarded as an author of considerable talent and brilliance since the publication of her first book of stories in 1955. The characters in the following story will appear in the new novel on which she is working, but the story is not a part of that novel.
The Earrings
The survivor of many Washington dinners, DEAN ACHESON became an expert on their pecking order and how to cope with it.
The Several Blessings of Ta-Nien Wang
Hua-ling Nieh was ten years old when her father was killed by the Chinese Communists. She disguised herself and fled from Peking to Canton and then to Taiwan, where she lived for fifteen years before coming to the United States. She has published several books in Chinese and English, but this is her first published work in the United States.
In Trouble
An excerpt from the new novel When She Was Good by Philip Roth
A Dog for Rock
This short sketch shows what can happen to a free, savage young man when feeling enters his spirit. Mr. Senesi is a young Italian writer whose first work appeared in the ATLANTIC five years ago.
The Swiss Watch
The versatile Peter Ustinov here re-enters the pages of the ATLANTICwith another example of his talent for combining plot with character and the crinkles of a smile. The story will be included in a new collection of his short stories, THE FRONTIERS OF THE SEA,to be published next month by Atlantic - Little, Brown.