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Der Arme Dolmetscher: A Short Story

July 1955 Issue

A yellow tinted cropped grainy photograph of soldiers looking into a German dictionary

July Mountain

Wallace Stevens

April 1955 Issue

A blue-ish purple tinted print photograph by Prin Rodriguez of an explosion of starlight superimposed on a hazy landscape

Banjo Boomer

Wallace Stevens

March 1955 Issue

A survey photograph of a mulberry, at Cooper River, West Branch, Moncks Corner, Berkeley County, SC

The Making of The Magic Mountain

January 1953 Issue

A black and white photograph of Thomas Mann sitting in a suit looking over at the camera on his left

Winning the Nobel Prize

October 1950 Issue

Now I Become Myself

December 1948 Issue

Subversive of What?

August 1948 Issue

A blue illustration of Thomas Jefferson with red tape over his mouth

Castle of Snow

March 1948 Issue

A black and white photograph of a winter scene of skiers, seen through the outstretched legs of another skier

Shut a Final Door

August 1947 Issue

A gauzy photograph, closely cropped, of a white ceiling fan and an unlit bulb, on a white ceiling

The Simple Art of Murder

Raymond Chandler

December 1944 Issue

Phillip Marlowe

In My Defense

October 1944 Issue

The Joseph Novels

February 1943 Issue

Middlebrow: A Letter Written but Not Sent

July 1942 Issue

A black and white photograph portrait of Virginia Woolf in older age, cropped to just above her nose, showing her furrowed brow

Poems

Josephine Young Case

June 1942 Issue

How to Win the Peace

February 1942 Issue

The Aurelian

Vladimir Nabokov

November 1941 Issue

A preserved butterfly against a wooden background

The Atlantic Believes

November 1941 Issue

Why I Live at the P. O.

April 1941 Issue

An illustration of a red postage stamp with a cutout of a woman's torso facing away; the postage stamp is centered on a beige background

The Grapes of Wrath

June 1939 Issue

A 2013 photograph of Weedpatch Camp, a "rescue camp" for distressed migrant workers, whom some disparagingly called "Okies," who had fled Dust Bowl conditions in the Great Plains

Mankind, Take Care!

August 1938 Issue

If I Should Be a Queen

Emily Dickinson

November 1935 Issue

A portrait of Emily Dickinson on a blue background

The Poetry of Emily Dickinson

Martha Hale Shackford

January 1913 Issue

Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman

January 1882 Issue

A photograph of dried dead shriveled flowers and grass

The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrim’s Progress

William Dean Howells

December 1869 Issue

The Victim

Alfred Tennyson

February 1868 Issue

An black and white etch illustration of an arch-Druid about to sacrifice the King's son to save the people from the plague. The illustration is based on the poem, The Victim.

The Maine Woods

September 1864 Issue

Les Misérables, Fantine, and The Same

July 1862 Issue

A black and white photograph of Victor Hugo