1959/09 -- ITEM DESCRIPTION: Cover design by Robert Benton and Ben Somoroff.

Contents as taken from the index page of this issue are as follows:
ARTICLES:

  • "A Sophisticated Approach to the Stock Market" by Burton Crane
  • "The Self-Deceivers" by Alan Harington
  • "The Heart of Peru" by Robert W. Marks
  • "The Subourbonites" by Jerome Beatty, Jr.
  • "New York's New Napoleon of Haute Cuisine" by Gilbert Millstein
  • "Observations on Ezra Pound" by Richard Avedon & Truman Capote
  • Why Resign From the Human Race?" by Harvey Swados
  • A Ghandi in Sicily: Danilo Dolci" by Philip Evans
  • "The Seine" by Blake Ehrlich

    • FICTION:

  • "Gunplay" by Anthony C. West
  • "Black Is Not the Color of My True Love's Hair" by Robert Penn Warren
  • "Unbelievable Characters" by Howard Nemerov

    • PICTURED ESSAYS:

  • "Gina Lollobrigida Gives a Pagan Dance Recital" -- Photographed by Saul Leiter
  • "10th Street" -- Photographed by John Cohen

    • SUPPLEMENT:

  • "Esquire's Basic guide to the Basic College Week End" -- Sketches by Milton Glaser

    • Other Features Include:

  • Several articles in the "Wearables" section, plus Travel, regular Departments and Briefs