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The Harpers Monthly, May 1953, pp. 96-102

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    January 1953 Issue = 22 Articles
    1. Personal & Otherwise, pp. 8-17
    2. Letters, pp. 18-20
    3. The Truce Talks in Korea by Dean G. Acheson, pp. 21-30
    4. Gloss by David McCord, p. 31
    5. What Is Happening to the Weather? by Charles Ernest Pelham Brooks, pp. 32-38
    6. Wait a Minute Mr. Melville, p. 39
    7. The Octagon House by Frances McFadden, pp. 40-45
    8. Christmas Twice by David Goldknopf, pp. 46-51
    9. The Easy Chair by Bernard DeVoto, pp. 52-55
    10. Kitimat: Colossus of the Northwest by Richard L. Neuberger, pp. 56-64
    11. A TV Man at the Stevenson Watch by Perry Wolff, pp. 65-69
    12. Portraits from Memory by Bertrand Russell, pp. 70-71
    13. Despatch by Robert Berkowitz, p. 72
    14. Nothing Difficult About a Cow by A.B. Guthrie, Jr., pp. 73-76
    15. Caution: Medical Statistics at Work by Leonard Engel, pp. 77-82
    16. Egypt's "Blessed" Revolution by Leigh White, pp. 83-89
    17. To a Baby Parked in His Pram by Hortense Flexner, p. 90
    18. After Hours by "Mr. Harper", pp. 91-94
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      1. The Taming of the Nations by F.S.C. Northrop
      2. The Mind of East Asia by Lily Abegg
      3. Crowd Culture by Bernard Iddings Bell
      4. The Republic and the Person by Gordon Keith Chalmers
      5. The Shame and Glory of the Intellectuals by Peter Viereck
      6. Steamboat Gothic by Frances Parkinson Keyes
      7. Illustrated English Social History by G.M. Trevelyan
      8. The Last Resorts by Cleveland Amory
      9. The Scandalmonger by T.H. White
      10. The American Twenties by John K. Hutchens
      11. Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
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      3. Murder, Madness, and the Law by Louis H. Cohen
      4. Brain Surgeon by William Sharpe
      5. Be Happier, Be Healthier by Gayelord Hauser
      6. Letters of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Allan Ross Macdougall and Edna St. Vincent Millay, ...
    21. The New Recordings by Edward Tatnall Canby, pp. 103-106
    22. Cover by Philip Grushkin
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    1. Personal & Otherwise, pp. 4-19
    2. Letters, pp. 20-24
    3. Are We Headed for a Depression? by Sumner H. Slichter, pp. 25-29
    4. Song of Three Smiles by W.S. Merwin, p. 30
    5. Sea Monsters and Sharks at Eye Level by Captain J.Y. Cousteau and Frederic Dumas, pp. 31-39
    6. It's a Nice Place to Visit But..., p. 40
    7. The Martyr by Frank O'Connor, pp. 41-45
    8. The Upper Bohemians by Russell Lynes, pp. 46-51
    9. To My Geese by Anne Goodwin Winslow, p. 52
    10. The Easy Chair by Bernard DeVoto, pp. 53-56
    11. Europe's Quiet Corner by George Soloveytchik, pp. 57-65
    12. Go Slow on Fluoridation! by James Rorty, pp. 66-70
    13. Map the World by C. Lester Walker, pp. 71-76
    14. The Red Mountain by Robert Payne, pp. 77-85
    15. America's Submerged Class: The Migrants by Mary Heaton Vorse, pp. 86-92
    16. Portraits from Memory by Bertrand Russell, pp. 93-95
    17. After Hours by "Mr. Harper", pp. 96-99
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      New Books by Gilbert Highet, pp. 100-106 - 10 Reviews
      1. The Shipwrecked by Graham Greene
      2. The Sojourner by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
      3. The Second Happiest Day by John Phillips
      4. Shakespeare and the Rival Traditions by Alfred Harbage
      5. Charles Dickens: His Tragedy and Triumph by Edgar Johnson
      6. Dickens and Ellen Ternan by Ada B. Nisbet
      7. The Heart of Charles Dickens by Edgar Johnson and Charles Dickens
      8. Always the Young Strangers by Carl Sandburg
      9. Pioneer's Progress: An Autobiography by Alvin Saunders Johnson
      10. A Little Treasury of World Poetry by Hubert Creekmore
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      Books in Brief by Katherine Gauss Jackson, pp. 107-109 - 9 Reviews
      1. The Witch's Thorn by Ruth Park
      2. The Descent by Fritz Peters
      3. The Flowering Thorn by Margery Sharp
      4. Lady on the Beach by Norah Berg and Charles Samuels
      5. Annapurna by Maurice Herzog
      6. The Little Madeleine by Mrs. Robert Henrey
      7. From Main Street to Stockholm by Sinclair Lewis and Harrison Smith
      8. Great Stars of the American Stage by Daniel C. Blum
      9. Popular Mechanics Picture History of American Transportation by Edward L. Throm
    20. The New Recordings by Edward Tatnall Canby, pp. 110-112
    21. Cover by M.D. Glanzman
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    1. Personal & Otherwise, pp. 4-17
    2. Letters, pp. 18-22
    3. What Do the Democrats do Now? by John Fischer, pp. 23-29
    4. Northeaster by Elizabeth Enright, p. 30
    5. The Great Mokusatsu Mistake by William J. Coughlin, pp. 31-39
    6. Saying Good-By to a Child by Sara Van Alstyne Allen, p. 40
    7. Artists in Uniform by Mary McCarthy, pp. 41-49
    8. The Easy Chair by Bernard DeVoto, pp. 50-53
    9. Russia and the West by Arnold J. Toynbee, pp. 54-57
    10. Any Subcommittee Listening?, p. 58
    11. Revolution in Clothes by Fessenden S. Blanchard, pp. 59-64
    12. England's Country Houses by C.V. Wedgwood, pp. 65-73
    13. Taft-Hartley and the Test of Time by Benjamin Rathbun, pp. 74-80
    14. Indigenous Girls by Donald R. Depew, pp. 81-85
    15. Little Men and Flying Saucers by Loren C. Eiseley, pp. 86-91
    16. Portraits from Memory by Bertrand Russell, pp. 92-93
    17. That New-Fangled Idea Conservation, p. 94
    18. After Hours by "Mr. Harper", pp. 95-98
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      New Books by Gilbert Highet, pp. 99-105 - 20 Reviews
      1. African Sculpture Speaks by Ladislas Segy
      2. African Folktales and Sculpture by Paul Radin, Elinore Marvel, and James Johnson Sweeney, ...
      3. The Italian Painters of the Renaissance by Bernard Berenson
      4. The Letters of Samuel Johnson by R.W. Chapman and Samuel Johnson
      5. The Best Butter by Jean Dutourd
      6. The Stones of the House by Theodore Morrison
      7. Half a Dollar Is Better Than None by Nicholas Diminno
      8. Neely by Walter Karig
      9. When the Gods Are Silent by Mikhail Soloviev
      10. Empress of Byzantium by Helen A. Mahler
      11. Movable Feasts by Arnold Palmer
      12. Illustrated English Social History by G.M. Trevelyan
      13. Acton's Political Philosophy by George E. Fasnacht
      14. Lord Acton: A Study in Conscience and Politics by Gertrude Himmelfarb
      15. Prince of Players: Edwin Booth by Eleanor Ruggles
      16. The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
      17. Spring in Spain by MacKinley Helm
      18. Rome and a Villa by Eleanor Clark
      19. The Singular Preference by Peter Quennell
      20. Jan at the Blue Fox by Ronald F.H. Duncan
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      Books in Brief by Katherine Gauss Jackson, pp. 106-109 - 9 Reviews
      1. I and My True Love by Helen MacInnes
      2. Love for Lydia by H.E. Bates
      3. Landfall by Helen R. Hull
      4. A Good Man by Jefferson Young
      5. The Challenge by Phyllis Bottome
      6. My Dear Timothy by Victor Gollancz
      7. Mary Lincoln: Biography of a Marriage by Ruth Painter Randall
      8. The Silent World by Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Frederic Dumas
      9. The Wonderful World of Books by Alfred Stefferud
    21. The New Recordings by Edward Tatnall Canby, pp. 110-114
    22. Cover by Tom Frank
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    April 1953 Issue = 23 Articles
    1. Personal & Otherwise, pp. 4-19
    2. Letters, pp. 20-26
    3. A Tidy Room in Bedlam by Malcolm Cowley, pp. 27-32
    4. Three and a Half Years to Go, p. 33
    5. "The Silent Generation" by Thornton Wilder, pp. 34-35
    6. Weather Note by Babette Deutsch, p. 36
    7. Have We Tied the Dollar Down? by Edwin L. Dale, Jr., pp. 37-41
    8. The Easy Chair by Bernard DeVoto, pp. 42-45
    9. Breach of Promise by Jessamyn West, pp. 46-57
    10. The Magnificence of Age by Catherine Drinker Bowen, pp. 58-61
    11. Song of the New Fool by W.S. Merwin, p. 62
    12. The Defense of the Middle East by B.H. Liddell Hart, pp. 63-69
    13. On the Border by Don Gordon, p. 70
    14. The World and the Greeks and Romans by Arnold J. Toynbee, pp. 71-75
    15. Three Stars for Baedeker by W.G. Constable, pp. 76-83
    16. Electronic Calculators: Brainless But Bright by Leonard Engel, pp. 84-89
    17. A Selection by Robert Berkowitz, p. 90
    18. The Tame Ox by Jack Cope, pp. 91-96
    19. After Hours by "Mr. Harper", pp. 97-99
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      New Books by Gilbert Highet, pp. 100-107 - 17 Reviews
      1. Such, Such Were the Joys, and Other Essays by George Orwell
      2. The Intruder by Helen Fowler
      3. Naked Hollywood by Weegee and Mel Harris
      4. Prince Bart by Jay Richard Kennedy
      5. Jan at the Blue Fox by Ronald F.H. Duncan
      6. The God of the Witches by Margaret Alice Murray
      7. Divine Horsemen by Maya Deren
      8. The World and the West by Arnold J. Toynbee
      9. The Lot of Her Neighbors by Bonner McMillion
      10. Watch Night by Walter B. Lowrey
      11. Stay Away, Joe by Dan Cushman
      12. Voices in the House by John Sedges
      13. Solitary Confinement by Christopher Burney
      14. The Puppet Masters by Robert A. Heinlein
      15. The American Thesaurus of Slang by Lester V. Berrey and Melvin Van Den Bark
      16. The World of Silence by Max Picard
      17. The Writer in America by Van Wyck Brooks
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      Books in Brief by Katherine Gauss Jackson, pp. 108-110 - 4 Reviews
      1. The Tattooed Heart by Theodora Keogh
      2. The Laughing Matter by William Saroyan
      3. The White Rabbit by Bruce Marshall
      4. Holmes-Laski Letters by Mark DeWolfe Howe, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Harold J. Laski, ...
    22. New Recordings by Edward Tatnall Canby, pp. 111-114
    23. Cover by N.M. Bodecker
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    May 1953 Issue = 23 Articles
    1. Personal & Otherwise, pp. 4-15
    2. Letters, pp. 16-20
    3. The Social Structure of the Underworld by Lewis Dent, pp. 21-26
    4. Founding Fathers by Sylvia Stallings, p. 27
    5. Tomorrow's Helicopters by C. Lester Walker, pp. 28-35
    6. One for the Collection by Elizabeth Enright, pp. 36-42
    7. Notebook on Black Africa by Eric Larrabee, pp. 43-50
    8. The Medical Insurance We Need Most by Peter F. Drucker, pp. 51-55
    9. The Underground Railroad by Don Gordon, p. 56
    10. The Easy Chair by Bernard DeVoto, pp. 57-60
    11. What Happened to the Dodgers at the End of the 1953 Season by Fred Schwed, Jr., pp. 61-63
    12. The Pigeons and Sun Yat-Sen by Eric Barker, p. 64
    13. Death at Skrikerud Pond by Ted Olson, pp. 65-71
    14. Statehood for Alaska by Ernest Gruening, pp. 72-77
    15. New York and the Puerto Ricans by Winifred Raushenbush, pp. 78-83
    16. Reading, Writing, and Religion by Eugene Exman, pp. 84-89
    17. Eh---?, p. 90
    18. Elected Silence: Three Sonnets by Christopher Morley, p. 91
    19. After Hours by "Mr. Harper", pp. 92-95
    20. [+]
      New Books by Gilbert Highet, pp. 96-102 - 12 Reviews
      1. The Outsider by Richard A. Wright
      2. The Hour Awaits by March Cost
      3. Stephania by Ilona Karmel
      4. In the Wet by Nevil Shute
      5. The Golden Apples of the Sun by Ray Bradbury
      6. Rembrandt: Selected Paintings by Tancred Borenius and Rembrandt
      7. Benjamin Britten by Donald Mitchell and Hans Keller
      8. Maurice Ravel by Victor I. Seroff
      9. Music-Makers by Roland Gelatt
      10. Elements of Metaphysics by Alfred Edward Taylor
      11. Religion, Philosophy and Psychical Research by C.D. Broad
      12. Corpus of Joe Bailey by Oakley M. Hall
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      Books in Brief by Katherine Gauss Jackson, pp. 103-105 - 9 Reviews
      1. The Heart Alone by George Locke Howe
      2. No Name in the Street by Kay Cicellis
      3. The Struggles of Albert Woods by William Cooper
      4. Kiss Me Again, Stranger by Daphne du Maurier
      5. The Plantation by Ovid Williams Pierce
      6. Why Did They Kill? by John Bartlow Martin
      7. O Rugged Land of Gold by Martha Martin
      8. U.S. 40 by George R. Stewart
      9. The Fabulous Fanny by Norman Katkov
    22. The New Recordings by Edward Tatnall Canby, pp. 106-114
    23. Cover by Rowland Emett
  6. [+]
    June 1953 Issue = 20 Articles
    1. Personal & Otherwise, pp. 4-17
    2. Letters, pp. 18-24
    3. How We Invented the Airplane by Orville Wright, pp. 25-33
    4. The Republican Prospects by Richard H. Rovere, pp. 34-40
    5. Cherry Tree by Peter Kane Dufault, p. 41
    6. Good-By to Oedipus by Helen Eustis, pp. 42-48
    7. The Easy Chair by Bernard DeVoto, pp. 49-52
    8. Monsieur Malfait by Stephen Becker, pp. 53-59
    9. On a Sonnet Written Past Fifty by Robert Berkowitz, p. 60
    10. The Case of Tax Collector Delaney by John Strohmeyer, pp. 61-68
    11. The Afterglow of Empire by Eric Larrabee, pp. 69-77
    12. No Month But May by Mary Deasy, pp. 78-84
    13. Forty Months in Red Hungary by George May, pp. 85-90
    14. Westbound Voyage by Jan Struther, p. 91
    15. Where Are the Ads of Yesteryear? by Robert L. Heilbroner, pp. 92-95
    16. After Hours by "Mr. Harper", pp. 96-99
    17. [+]
      New Books by Gilbert Highet, pp. 100-105 - 17 Reviews
      1. Kingfishers Catch Fire by Rumer Godden
      2. The Financial Expert by R.K. Narayan
      3. I Thought of Daisy by Edmund Wilson
      4. The Strange Case of Alger Hiss by William Allen Jowitt
      5. The Enormous Radio, and Other Stories by John Cheever
      6. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
      7. The High and the Mighty by Ernest K. Gann
      8. Seven and a Half Cents by Richard Pike Bissell
      9. The Emperor's Lady by F.W. Kenyon
      10. The Fair Bride by Bruce Marshall
      11. The Echoing Grove by Rosamond Lehmann
      12. Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis
      13. A Window on Red Square by Frank Rounds, Jr.
      14. The True Voice of Feeling by Herbert Read
      15. The Root of Europe by Michael Huxley
      16. Pastels by Degas by Douglas Cooper and Degas
      17. 1066 and All That~~Ten Sixty-Six and All That by W.C. Sellar and R.J. Yeatman
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      Books in Brief by Katherine Gauss Jackson, pp. 106-109 - 10 Reviews
      1. Nine Days to Mukalla by Frederic Prokosch
      2. The Weather in Middenshot by Edgar Mittelholzer
      3. Go Tell It On the Mountain by James Baldwin
      4. Children Are Bored on Sunday by Jean Stafford
      5. The Wild Honey by Victoria Lincoln
      6. Stories of Sudden Truth by Joseph I. Greene and Elizabeth Abell
      7. Stanford Short Stories 1953 by Wallace Stegner and Richard Scowcroft
      8. Elizabeth and Philip by Geoffrey Bocca
      9. Money Mountain by Marshall Sprague
      10. Two Lives by Lucy Sprague Mitchell
    19. The New Recordings by Edward Tatnall Canby, pp. 110-112
    20. Cover by Sam Norkin
  7. [+]
    July 1953 Issue = 23 Articles
    1. Personal & Otherwise, pp. 4-15
    2. Letters, pp. 16-20
    3. Colossus on the Potomac by Senator Paul H. Douglas, pp. 21-27
    4. Grandeurs and Miseries of Old Age by Elmer Davis, pp. 28-30
    5. The Ultimate Weapon, p. 31
    6. The Nail in the Coffin by Alec Waugh, pp. 32-36
    7. All Right Send Them "Oliver Twist", p. 37
    8. The Soprano and the Piccolo Player by Mary Murry, pp. 38-48
    9. The Easy Chair by Bernard DeVoto, pp. 49-52
    10. How Red Was the Red Decade? by Granville Hicks, pp. 53-61
    11. Close-Up of a "Workers' Paradise" by George May, pp. 62-66
    12. Blind Date by E.A. Muir, p. 67
    13. The Flower by Miriam Rugel, pp. 68-74
    14. The Wellesley Experiment by Morton M. Hunt, pp. 75-80
    15. Noon Hour in Bryant Park by Sylvia Wright, p. 81
    16. Why Be Secretary of Agriculture? by J.K. Galbraith, pp. 82-86
    17. By Swancoote Pool by David McCord, p. 87
    18. What Makes Architecture Modern? by Harrison Gill, pp. 88-91
    19. After Hours by "Mr. Harper", pp. 92-95
    20. [+]
      New Books by Gilbert Highet, pp. 96-99 - 15 Reviews
      1. You Shall Know Them by Vercors
      2. A Dog's Head by Jean Dutourd
      3. The Singer, Not the Song by Audrey Erskine Lindop
      4. The Passionate Land by Geoffrey A. Wagner
      5. Study in Power by Allan Nevins
      6. King George the Fifth by Harold G. Nicolson
      7. Winston Churchill: The Era and the Man by Virginia Cowles
      8. The Diplomats, 1919-1939 by Gordon A. Craig and Felix Gilbert
      9. What Is History? by V. Gordon Childe
      10. Decline of the Roman Empire by F.W. Walbank
      11. Heresy, Yes--Conspiracy, No by Sidney Hook
      12. The Captive Mind by Czeslaw Milosz
      13. The Man Without Qualities, Vol. 1 by Robert Musil
      14. Good Morning, Young Lady by Ardyth Kennelly
      15. The Dark Angel by Mika Waltari
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      Books in Brief by Katherine Gauss Jackson, pp. 100-102 - 8 Reviews
      1. The Singing Sands by Josephine Tey
      2. The Light in the Forest by Conrad Richter
      3. Wait, Son, October Is Near by John Bell Clayton
      4. Lost Trails, Lost Cities by Percy H. Fawcett and Brian Fawcett
      5. Douglas Fairbanks: The Fourth Musketeer by Ralph Hancock and Letitia Fairbanks
      6. Women Today by Elizabeth Bragdon
      7. Best Articles 1953 by Rudolf Flesch
      8. The River and the Gauntlet by S.L.A. Marshall
    22. The New Recordings by Edward Tatnall Canby, pp. 103-104
    23. Cover by Arthur Marokvia
  8. [+]
    August 1953 Issue = 21 Articles
    1. Personal & Otherwise, pp. 4-15
    2. Letters, pp. 16-22
    3. Are We Worth Savings? by Elmer Davis, pp. 23-30
    4. The Fetish of Atomic Secrecy by Paul Block, Jr., pp. 31-36
    5. The Sportsman by David McCord, p. 37
    6. Troubadour by Eugene Walter, pp. 38-46
    7. Europe's Invisible Brick Wall by Peter F. Drucker, pp. 47-53
    8. The Easy Chair by Bernard DeVoto, pp. 54-57
    9. Richard Rodgers: Composer Without a Key by Eckert Goodman, pp. 58-65
    10. Inflation in Your Ballot Box by John Creecy, pp. 66-69
    11. The Blue Charm by Paul Hyde Bonner, pp. 70-75
    12. Swing Song by Elizabeth Enright, p. 76
    13. Guerrilla Warfare As It Really Is by Auro Roselli, pp. 77-82
    14. Mathew and the Mau Mau by Sandy Sanderson, pp. 83-88
    15. Sonnet by Robert Berkowitz, p. 89
    16. My Kitchen Hates Me by Sylvia Wright, pp. 90-93
    17. After Hours by "Mr. Harper", pp. 94-97
    18. [+]
      New Books by C. Hartley Grattan, pp. 98-101 - 14 Reviews
      1. Economic Stability in a Changing World by John Henry Williams
      2. Europe and the United States in the World Economy by Robert Marjolin
      3. Economic Survey of Europe Since the War
      4. The Government's Role in Economic Life by George Albert Steiner
      5. Economics in the Public Service by Edwin G. Nourse
      6. The Federal Debt: Structure and Impact by Charles Cortez Abbott
      7. Economic Essays by Roy F. Harrod
      8. The Organizational Revolution by Kenneth E. Boulding
      9. Ideas of the Great Economists by George Henry Soule
      10. The Development of Economic Thought by Henry William Spiegel
      11. Shares of Upper Income Groups in Income and Savings by Simon Kuznets and Elizabeth Jenks
      12. The American Way by Shepard B. Clough
      13. Soviet Economic Growth by Abram Bergson
      14. The Captive Mind by Czeslaw Milosz
    19. [+]
      Books in Brief by Katherine Gauss Jackson, pp. 102-103 - 5 Reviews
      1. A Stranger Here by Robert Henriques
      2. The Laughing Stranger by Vina Delmar
      3. Taw Jameson by May Davies Martinet
      4. Truth Is Our Weapon by Edward W. Barrett
      5. Life Among the Savages by Shirley Jackson
    20. The New Recordings by Edward Tatnall Canby, p. 104
    21. Cover by M.D. Glanzman
  9. [+]
    September 1953 Issue = 18 Articles
    1. Personal & Otherwise, pp. 4-15
    2. Letters, pp. 16-20
    3. Dr. Kinsey's Second Sex by Anne G. Freedgood, pp. 21-27
    4. Cholmondeley the Chimpanzee by Gerald M. Durrell, pp. 28-34
    5. The Coming Change in American Foreign Policy by John Fischer, pp. 35-37
    6. Look! Look! by Leonard Bacon, p. 38
    7. Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl, pp. 39-44
    8. The Easy Chair by Bernard DeVoto, pp. 45-48
    9. To the Mountains of the Moon by Eric Larrabee, pp. 49-56
    10. Quiet Day at Panmunjom by Captain B.R. Brinley, pp. 57-68
    11. Drug Store: Sunday Noon by Robert Hutchinson, pp. 69-75
    12. Rocket Shoot at Whitesands by Jonathan Norton Leonard, pp. 76-81
    13. Reporting in China by Christopher Rand, pp. 82-89
    14. After Hours by "Mr. Harper", pp. 90-93
    15. [+]
      New Books by Gilbert Highet, pp. 94-97 - 10 Reviews
      1. Too Late the Phalarope by Alan Paton
      2. Portrait of Andre Gide by Justin O'Brien
      3. Lafcadio's Adventures by Andre Gide
      4. The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole by Frederick Rolfe, Baron Corvo
      5. Tolstoy: A Life of My Father by Alexandra Tolstoy
      6. Westward the Sun by Geoffrey Cotterell
      7. Beyond This Place by A.J. Cronin
      8. Time and Time Again by James Hilton
      9. Icebound Summer by Sally Carrighar
      10. A History of Christianity by Kenneth Scott Latourette
    16. [+]
      Books in Brief by Katherine Gauss Jackson, pp. 98-99 - 5 Reviews
      1. Landscape of the Heart by Lettie Rogers
      2. The Bridges at Toko-Ri by James A. Michener
      3. The Foolish Immortals by Paul Gallico
      4. Coco by Dilys Powell
      5. More Dennis the Menace by Hank Ketcham
    17. The New Recordings by Edward Tatnall Canby, pp. 100-104
    18. Cover by N.M. Bodecker
  10. [+]
    October 1953 Issue = 21 Articles
    1. Personal & Otherwise, pp. 6-17
    2. Letters, pp. 18-24
    3. Why Did They Fight? by Eric Sevareid, p. 25
    4. We've Found a Substitute for Income by Darrell Huff, pp. 26-32
    5. When I Came from Colchia by W.S. Merwin, p. 33
    6. The Decay of State Governments by Richard L. Neuberger, pp. 34-41
    7. Stranger in the Village by James Baldwin, pp. 42-47
    8. Pioneer Bid for the Egg-Head Vote, p. 48
    9. The Easy Chair by Bernard DeVoto, pp. 49-52
    10. Povera Baby by Nancy Huddleston, pp. 53-57
    11. The Business Invasion of Washington by Cabell Phillips, pp. 58-63
    12. The Secret of Life by Loren C. Eiseley, pp. 64-68
    13. Forget the Geraniums by Max Steele, pp. 69-74
    14. Fulbrighting in Greece by George R. Stewart, pp. 75-80
    15. The Case of the Disrespectful Mice by Jean Mayer, pp. 81-84
    16. Bloodroot by Charles G. Bell, pp. 85-86
    17. You, Too, Can Write the Casual Style by William H. Whyte, Jr., pp. 87-89
    18. After Hours by "Mr. Harper", pp. 90-93
    19. [+]
      New Books by Gilbert Highet, pp. 94-99 - 12 Reviews
      1. The Short Novels of John Steinbeck by John Steinbeck
      2. The Third Angel by Jerome Weidman
      3. Private Interests by Nigel Balchin
      4. Quackery in the Public Schools by Albert Lynd
      5. Teen-Age Gangs of New York by Dale Kramer and Madeline Karr
      6. Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
      7. Fabian of the Yard by Robert Fabian
      8. The Spirit of St. Louis by Charles A. Lindbergh
      9. Dead Man in the Silver Market by Aubrey Menen
      10. Michelangelo by Ludwig Goldscheider
      11. The History and Treasures of Westminster Abbey by L.E. Tanner
      12. Vatican Art by Karl Ipser
    20. The New Recordings by Edward Tatnall Canby, pp. 100-104
    21. Cover by Richard Erdoes
  11. [+]
    November 1953 Issue = 22 Articles
    1. Personal & Otherwise, pp. 4-19
    2. Letters, pp. 20-24
    3. The Mass-Produced Suburb by Harry Henderson, pp. 25-31
    4. Moment's Monument by Anne Goodwin Winslow, p. 32
    5. The Seducers by Katherine Anne Porter, pp. 33-38
    6. Big Botch at Savannah River by George McMillan, pp. 39-44
    7. The Easy Chair by Bernard DeVoto, pp. 45-48
    8. The Englishman Laughs by V.S. Pritchett, pp. 49-54
    9. At Tidemark by Elizabeth Enright, p. 55
    10. Seeing the World with Stevenson by William Attwood, pp. 56-62
    11. Church and State by John Tracy Ellis, pp. 63-66
    12. The Natural Superiority of Women, p. 67
    13. The Pen Friend by Wilmer Hamilton, pp. 68-75
    14. Cincinnati by William H. Hessler, pp. 76-80
    15. Washington Rif by Ruth Adams, pp. 81-82
    16. Advice for 1953, p. 83
    17. Evolution Up to Date by Ruth Moore, pp. 84-89
    18. After Hours by "Mr. Harper", pp. 90-93
    19. [+]
      New Books by Gilbert Highet, pp. 94-101 - 18 Reviews
      1. The Offshore Light by Pamela Frankau
      2. Lord Vanity by Samuel Shellabarger
      3. The Enchanted Cup by Dorothy J. Roberts
      4. The Palm Wine Drinkard by Amos Tutuola
      5. In the Castle of My Skin by George Lamming
      6. Jungle Lore by Jim Corbett
      7. All Done from Memory by Osbert Lancaster
      8. The Best Humor from Punch by William Cole
      9. The Best of H.T. Webster by H.T. Webster
      10. The Tattooed Sailor, and Other Cartoons from France by Andre Francois
      11. Ideas and Places: The Golden Horizon by Cyril Connolly
      12. By Land and by Sea by Samuel Eliot Morison
      13. Conquest of the Moon by Wernher von Braun, Fred Whipple, Willy Ley, and Cornelius Ryan, ...
      14. The Sky Block by Steve Frazee
      15. Jutland Cottage by Angela Thirkell
      16. A Handful of Blackberries by Ignazio Silone
      17. Mandrake Root by Frederic Wakeman
      18. A Sunset Touch by Howard Spring
    20. [+]
      Books in Brief by Katherine Gauss Jackson, pp. 102-104 - 7 Reviews
      1. The Sleeping Beauty by Elizabeth Taylor
      2. Galatea by James M. Cain
      3. A Law for the Lion by Louis Auchincloss
      4. The Lying Days by Nadine Gordimer
      5. Nobody Say a Word, and Other Stories by Mark Van Doren
      6. The Overloaded Ark by Gerald M. Durrell
      7. The Boat by Walter Gardiner Gibson
    21. The New Recordings by Edward Tatnall Canby, pp. 105-112
    22. Cover by Sam Norkin
  12. [+]
    December 1953 Issue = 23 Articles
    1. Personal & Otherwise, pp. 4-13
    2. Letters, pp. 14-18
    3. A Religion for Now by Nathan M. Pusey, pp. 19-21
    4. The Jackknife Farm Program, p. 22
    5. The Germans: Their Cause and Cure by Milton Mayer, pp. 23-30
    6. Bulletin for Wall Street, p. 31
    7. A Christmas Carillon by Hortense Calisher, pp. 32-41
    8. The Easy Chair by Bernard DeVoto, pp. 42-45
    9. Insomnia, Stamps, and Mr. Minkus by Marion Hargrove, pp. 46-53
    10. On the Generations of man by Marion M. Madsen, p. 54
    11. Why People Change by Ian Stevenson, M.D., pp. 55-60
    12. The Armadillo Basket by William Goyen, pp. 61-64
    13. December: Of Aphrodite by W.S. Merwin, p. 65
    14. Why Not Negotiate With Russia? by Ernest T. Weir, pp. 66-71
    15. Christmas Song by Sylvia Wright, p. 72
    16. Billion-Dollar Cure for Texas' Drought by Walter Prescott Webb, pp. 73-79
    17. Rugged American Collectivism by Harry Henderson, pp. 80-87
    18. After Hours by "Mr. Harper", pp. 88-90
    19. The Man on the Shelf by Ogden Nash, p. 91
    20. [+]
      New Books by Gilbert Highet, pp. 92-101 - 14 Reviews
      1. Fire in the Ashes by Theodore H. White
      2. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
      3. One by David Karp
      4. The Canyon by Jack Schaefer
      5. The Marmot Drive by John Hersey
      6. The Voices of Silence by Andre Malraux
      7. Mimesis by Erich Auerbach
      8. The Pogo Papers by Walt Kelly
      9. Except the Lord by Joyce Cary
      10. Cockney Communist by Charles Henry Darke
      11. The End of the Week by Virginia Chase
      12. The Broken Penny by Julian Symons
      13. A Taste of Our Time
      14. Tahiti, Voyage Through Paradise by George T. Eggleston
    21. [+]
      Books in Brief by Katherine Gauss Jackson, pp. 102-106 - 12 Reviews
      1. The Catalans by Patrick O'Brian
      2. Leaving Home by Elizabeth Janeway
      3. The Man in the Queue by Josephine Tey
      4. The Case of the Curious Bride by Erle Stanley Gardner
      5. Some Enchanted Evenings by Deems Taylor
      6. Our Will Rogers by Homer Croy
      7. Madeleine Grown Up by Mrs. Robert Henrey
      8. Out of These Roots by Agnes E. Meyer
      9. Man, Time, and Fossils by Ruth E. Moore
      10. The Limits of the Earth by Fairfield Osborn
      11. Flight Into Space by Jonathan Norton Leonard
      12. The Juggler of Our Lady by R.O. Blechman
    22. The New Recordings by Edward Tatnall Canby, pp. 107-112
    23. Cover by Rowland Emett
5. [+]
  Issues of 1954 = 12 Issues, 251 Articles
6. [+]
  Issues of 1955 = 12 Issues, 229 Articles
7. [+]
  Issues of 1956 = 12 Issues, 234 Articles
8. [+]
  Issues of 1957 = 12 Issues, 236 Articles
9. [+]
  Issues of 1958 = 12 Issues, 247 Articles
10. [+]
  Issues of 1959 = 11 Issues, 257 Articles
[+]
Issues of the 1960s = 10 Years, 120 Issues, 2,653 Articles
1. [+]
  Issues of 1960 = 12 Issues, 262 Articles
2. [+]
  Issues of 1961 = 12 Issues, 273 Articles
3. [+]
  Issues of 1962 = 12 Issues, 260 Articles
4. [+]
  Issues of 1963 = 12 Issues, 241 Articles
5. [+]
  Issues of 1964 = 12 Issues, 274 Articles
6. [+]
  Issues of 1965 = 12 Issues, 325 Articles
7. [+]
  Issues of 1966 = 12 Issues, 273 Articles
8. [+]
  Issues of 1967 = 12 Issues, 269 Articles
9. [+]
  Issues of 1968 = 12 Issues, 228 Articles
10. [+]
  Issues of 1969 = 12 Issues, 248 Articles
[+]
Issues of the 1970s = 10 Years, 114 Issues, 2,355 Articles
1. [+]
  Issues of 1970 = 12 Issues, 221 Articles
2. [+]
  Issues of 1971 = 12 Issues, 238 Articles
3. [+]
  Issues of 1972 = 12 Issues, 222 Articles
4. [+]
  Issues of 1973 = 12 Issues, 318 Articles
5. [+]
  Issues of 1974 = 12 Issues, 274 Articles
6. [+]
  Issues of 1975 = 12 Issues, 256 Articles
7. [+]
  Issues of 1976 = 6 Issues, 123 Articles
8. [+]
  Issues of 1977 = 12 Issues, 226 Articles
9. [+]
  Issues of 1978 = 12 Issues, 234 Articles
10. [+]
  Issues of 1979 = 12 Issues, 243 Articles
[+]
Issues of the 1980s = 10 Years, 119 Issues, 2,472 Articles
1. [+]
  Issues of 1980 = 11 Issues, 219 Articles
2. [+]
  Issues of 1981 = 12 Issues, 231 Articles
3. [+]
  Issues of 1982 = 12 Issues, 190 Articles
4. [+]
  Issues of 1983 = 12 Issues, 211 Articles
5. [+]
  Issues of 1984 = 12 Issues, 298 Articles
6. [+]
  Issues of 1985 = 12 Issues, 255 Articles
7. [+]
  Issues of 1986 = 12 Issues, 294 Articles
8. [+]
  Issues of 1987 = 12 Issues, 263 Articles
9. [+]
  Issues of 1988 = 12 Issues, 260 Articles
10. [+]
  Issues of 1989 = 12 Issues, 251 Articles
[+]
Issues of the 1990s = 10 Years, 109 Issues, 2,094 Articles
1. [+]
  Issues of 1990 = 11 Issues, 220 Articles
2. [+]
  Issues of 1991 = 8 Issues, 151 Articles
3. [+]
  Issues of 1992 = 12 Issues, 255 Articles
4. [+]
  Issues of 1993 = 9 Issues, 183 Articles
5. [+]
  Issues of 1994 = 11 Issues, 224 Articles
6. [+]
  Issues of 1995 = 12 Issues, 221 Articles
7. [+]
  Issues of 1996 = 12 Issues, 227 Articles
8. [+]
  Issues of 1997 = 12 Issues, 213 Articles
9. [+]
  Issues of 1998 = 10 Issues, 182 Articles
10. [+]
  Issues of 1999 = 12 Issues, 218 Articles
[+]
Issues of the 2000s = 9 Years, 87 Issues, 1,520 Articles
1. [+]
  Issues of 2000 = 11 Issues, 178 Articles
2. [+]
  Issues of 2001 = 12 Issues, 215 Articles
3. [+]
  Issues of 2002 = 12 Issues, 199 Articles
4. [+]
  Issues of 2003 = 11 Issues, 201 Articles
5. [+]
  Issues of 2004 = 10 Issues, 180 Articles
6. [+]
  Issues of 2005 = 12 Issues, 218 Articles
7. [+]
  Issues of 2006 = 11 Issues, 174 Articles
8. [+]
  Issues of 2007 = 2 Issues, 25 Articles
9. [+]
  Issues of 2009 = 6 Issues, 130 Articles
[+]
Issues of the 2010s = 1 Year, 2 Issues, 39 Articles
1. [+]
  Issues of 2010 = 2 Issues, 39 Articles