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The Easy Chair

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by Bernard DeVoto

The Harpers Monthly, April 1955, pp. 14-23

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      1. The Sane Society by Erich Fromm
      2. Culture and Mental Disorders by Joseph W. Eaton and Robert J. Weil
      3. The Revelations of Dr. Modesto by Alan Harrington
      4. Band of Angels by Robert Penn Warren
      5. Bell's Landing by Gerald Warner Brace
      6. The Tree of Man by Patrick White
      7. Nine Men by Fred Rodell
      8. The Supreme Court in the American System of Government by Robert H. Jackson
      9. The Sixth of June by Lionel Shapiro
      10. Officers and Gentlemen by Evelyn Waugh
      11. The Navigator by Jules Roy
    18. [+]
      Books in Brief by Katherine Gauss Jackson, pp. 97-101 - 8 Reviews
      1. The Picnic at Sakkara by P.H. Newby
      2. Grandfather Stories by Samuel Hopkins Adams
      3. Elinor Glyn by Anthony Glyn
      4. My Son Johnny by John McNulty
      5. This Is Goggle by Bentz Plagemann
      6. Winston Churchill in Trial and Triumph by Alan Moorehead
      7. Eden: The Making of a Statesman by Alan Campbell-Johnson
      8. The Family of Man by Edward Steichen
    19. The New Recordings by Edward Tatnall Canby, pp. 102-106
    20. Cover by Robert Osborn
  10. [+]
    October 1955 Issue = 21 Articles
    1. Letters, pp. 4-11
    2. The Easy Chair by Bernard DeVoto, pp. 12-23
    3. Personal and Otherwise, pp. 24-32
    4. How War Became Absurd by Bernard Brodie, pp. 33-36
    5. The Guardians by Richard S. Meryman, Jr., pp. 37-43
    6. The Noiseless Weapon by Hans Thirring, pp. 44-46
    7. The Safari Industry by Oden Meeker, pp. 47-52
    8. The Churches Repent by Lee Nichols and Louis Cassels, pp. 53-57
    9. Button, Button by Arthur H. Parsons, Jr., pp. 58-60
    10. Loser Takes All, Part I by Graham Greene, pp. 61-65
    11. It's Your Ego but It's My Id by Jean Pedrick, pp. 66-68
    12. Dear Louisa by Eleanor Perenyi, pp. 69-70
    13. Burning the Cat by W.S. Merwin, pp. 71-72
    14. Alvarez: Everyone's Family Doctor by Greer Williams, pp. 73-76
    15. Conversational English by T.S. Matthews, pp. 77-78
    16. Jonah Irene Orgel, pp. 79-81
    17. After Hours by "Mr. Harper", pp. 82-85
    18. [+]
      The New Books by Paul Pickrel, pp. 86-95 - 11 Reviews
      1. Marjorie Morningstar by Herman Wouk
      2. The Fabulous Train by Frederic Wakeman
      3. On the Waterfront by Budd Schulberg
      4. Time for Living by George Soule
      5. John Goffe's Legacy by George Woodbury
      6. Epstein: An Autobiography by Jacob Epstein
      7. Hogarth's Progress by Peter Quennell
      8. Swift and Carroll: A Psychoanalytic Study of Two Lives by Phyllis Greenacre
      9. Portrait of Barrie by Cynthia Asquith
      10. The Moth and the Star by Aileen Pippett
      11. Heritage by Anthony West
    19. [+]
      The Year in Poetry by Randall Jarrell, pp. 96-101 - 15 Reviews
      1. Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas
      2. Collected Poems by Wallace Stevens
      3. The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Thomas Herbert Johnson and Emily Dickinson
      4. North and South---A Cold Spring by Elizabeth Bishop
      5. Collected Poems, 1955 by Robert Graves
      6. The Shield of Achilles by W.H. Auden
      7. Collected Poems, 1928-1953 by Stephen Spender
      8. Birthdays from the Ocean by Isabella Gardner
      9. The Salt Garden by Howard Nemerov
      10. Poets of Today II by John Hall Wheelock
      11. Wilderness Stair: Poems 1938-1954 by Ben Belitt
      12. The Middle Voice by Constance Carrier
      13. Selected Poems by Roy Campbell
      14. The Gentle Weight-Lifter by David Ignatow
      15. Selected Poems by Lincoln Fitzell
    20. The New Recordings by Edward Tatnall Canby, pp. 102-106
    21. Cover by Leo Manso
  11. [+]
    November 1955 Issue = 19 Articles
    1. Letters, pp. 4-9
    2. The Easy Chair by Bernard DeVoto, pp. 10-17
    3. Personal & Otherwise, pp. 18-28
    4. The Parties and Foreign Policy by Dean Acheson, pp. 29-34
    5. Ship's Company by Jan de Hartog, pp. 35-39
    6. The Ivy-Covered Wild Blue Yonder by Charles A. Fenton, pp. 40-43
    7. November in Windham by Katherine Anne Porter, p. 44
    8. Bishop Sheil: Prophet Without Honor by Mary Elizabeth Carroll, pp. 45-51
    9. Let's Not Get Out the Vote by Robert E. Coulson, pp. 52-53
    10. Me and My House... by James Baldwin, pp. 54-61
    11. Madame Vishnak by Morris Freedman, pp. 62-65
    12. Was Darwin Wrong about the Human Brain? by Loren C. Eiseley, pp. 66-70
    13. The Train Butcher by Thomas Hornsby Ferril, p. 71
    14. Loser Takes All, Part II by Graham Greene, pp. 72-79
    15. After Hours by "Mr. Harper", pp. 80-83
    16. [+]
      The New Books by Paul Pickrel, pp. 84-97 - 11 Reviews
      1. The Open Mind by J. Robert Oppenheimer
      2. The Year of Decisions by Harry S. Truman
      3. The Deer Park by Norman Mailer
      4. Inside Africa by John Gunther
      5. The Pillar of Salt by Albert Memmi
      6. The Myth of Sisyphus, and Other Essays by Albert Camus
      7. The Dark Eye in Africa by Laurens van der Post
      8. The Fears Men Live By by Selma Hirsh
      9. How Far the Promised Land? by Walter Francis White
      10. The Scrolls from the Dead Sea by Edmund Wilson
      11. The Dead Sea Scrolls by Millar Burrows
    17. [+]
      Books in Brief by Katherine Gauss Jackson, pp. 98-100 - 9 Reviews
      1. The Changelings by Jo Sinclair
      2. The Partisans by Peter Matthiessen
      3. The Farther Shore by Robert M. Coates
      4. The Winds of Heaven by Monica Dickens
      5. Mandarin Red by James Cameron
      6. The Greer Case by David W. Peck
      7. The Easy Chair by Bernard DeVoto
      8. Three Tickets to Adventure by Gerald M. Durrell
      9. Paradoxes of Everyday Life by Milton R. Sapirstein
    18. The New Recordings by Edward Tatnall Canby, pp. 101-106
    19. Cover by Joseph Low
  12. [+]
    December 1955 Issue = 18 Articles
    1. Letters, pp. 4-7
    2. The Easy Chair by Bernard DeVoto, pp. 8-20
    3. Personal & Otherwies by John Fischer, pp. 21-28
    4. Pay by the Year by Harold J. Ruttenberg, pp. 29-33
    5. Some Cultural Aspects of Serial Cartoons by Ignatius G. Mattingly, pp. 34-39
    6. Ross of Kansas by Senator John F. Kennedy, pp. 40-44
    7. Journey with Young Guitars by Charles Wertenbaker, pp. 45-51
    8. Death of a Correspondent by John Carlova, pp. 52-56
    9. The Novelist by Donald Hall, pp. 57-58
    10. Warren and the New Supreme Court by Irving Dilliard, pp. 59-64
    11. A Little Wine of the Country by Priscilla D. Willis, pp. 65-68
    12. What Einstein Was Up To by Leonard Engel, pp. 69-74
    13. Loser Takes All, Part III by Graham Greene, pp. 75-81
    14. After Hours by "Mr. Harper", pp. 82-87
    15. [+]
      The New Books by Paul Pickrel, pp. 88-103 - 9 Reviews
      1. Cash McCall by Cameron Hawley
      2. Architecture, Ambition and Americans by Wayne Andrews
      3. John Singer Sargent by Charles Merrill Mount
      4. American Painting: From the Armory Show to the Depression by Milton W. Brown
      5. Ten North Frederick by John O'Hara
      6. A Charmed Life by Mary McCarthy
      7. Robert Benchley by Nathaniel Benchley
      8. Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor
      9. The Spider's House by Paul Bowles
    16. [+]
      Books in Brief by Katherine Gauss Jackson, pp. 104-108 - 13 Reviews
      1. A Convention of Sparrows by Rumer Godden
      2. The Angry Hills by Leon Uris
      3. The Lady and the Looking-Glass by Frances Mallory Wykes
      4. The Open Heart by Edward Weeks
      5. The Whispering Gallery: Autobiography I by John Lehmann
      6. Doctor at Dienbienphu by Paul Grauwin
      7. Cartoon Treasury by Lucy Black Johnson and Pyke Johnson, Jr.
      8. The New Yorker Album 1950-1955
      9. Notre-Dame of Paris by Allan Temko
      10. Buffalo Bill and the Wild West by Henry Blackman Sell and Victor Weybright
      11. The Frontier Years by Mark Herbert Brown and W.R. Felton
      12. The Look of the Old West by William Foster-Harris
      13. The American West by Lucius Beebe and Charles Clegg
    17. The New Recordings by Edward Tatnall Canby, pp. 109-114
    18. Cover by Paul Arlt
7. [+]
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  Issues of 1958 = 12 Issues, 247 Articles
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  Issues of 1960 = 12 Issues, 262 Articles
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  Issues of 1961 = 12 Issues, 273 Articles
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  Issues of 1962 = 12 Issues, 260 Articles
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  Issues of 1963 = 12 Issues, 241 Articles
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  Issues of 1964 = 12 Issues, 274 Articles
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  Issues of 1966 = 12 Issues, 273 Articles
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  Issues of 1967 = 12 Issues, 269 Articles
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  Issues of 1968 = 12 Issues, 228 Articles
10. [+]
  Issues of 1969 = 12 Issues, 248 Articles
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  Issues of 1970 = 12 Issues, 221 Articles
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  Issues of 1971 = 12 Issues, 238 Articles
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  Issues of 1972 = 12 Issues, 222 Articles
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  Issues of 1973 = 12 Issues, 318 Articles
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  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
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Issues of the 1980s = 10 Years, 119 Issues, 2,472 Articles
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  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
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  Issues of 1988 = 12 Issues, 260 Articles
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  Issues of 1989 = 12 Issues, 251 Articles
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Issues of the 1990s = 10 Years, 109 Issues, 2,094 Articles
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  Issues of 1990 = 11 Issues, 220 Articles
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  Issues of 1991 = 8 Issues, 151 Articles
3. [+]
  Issues of 1992 = 12 Issues, 255 Articles
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  Issues of 1993 = 9 Issues, 183 Articles
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  Issues of 1994 = 11 Issues, 224 Articles
6. [+]
  Issues of 1995 = 12 Issues, 221 Articles
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  Issues of 1996 = 12 Issues, 227 Articles
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  Issues of 1997 = 12 Issues, 213 Articles
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  Issues of 1998 = 10 Issues, 182 Articles
10. [+]
  Issues of 1999 = 12 Issues, 218 Articles
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Issues of the 2000s = 9 Years, 87 Issues, 1,520 Articles
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  Issues of 2000 = 11 Issues, 178 Articles
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  Issues of 2001 = 12 Issues, 215 Articles
3. [+]
  Issues of 2002 = 12 Issues, 199 Articles
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  Issues of 2003 = 11 Issues, 201 Articles
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  Issues of 2004 = 10 Issues, 180 Articles
6. [+]
  Issues of 2005 = 12 Issues, 218 Articles
7. [+]
  Issues of 2006 = 11 Issues, 174 Articles
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  Issues of 2007 = 2 Issues, 25 Articles
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  Issues of 2009 = 6 Issues, 130 Articles
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Issues of the 2010s = 1 Year, 2 Issues, 39 Articles
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  Issues of 2010 = 2 Issues, 39 Articles