1968/12/28 — Cover by Andre Francois Goings on About Town The Talk of the Town “The Horses” by L. Woiwode “Barometers” a poem by Helen Bevington “The Cafeteria” by Isaac Bashevis Singer “New Years, 1948″ a poem by L.E. Sissman Profiles: Red Norvo by Whitney Balliett The Theatre: The Tragic View by Edith Oliver The [...]
1968/04/13 — Cover by Charles E. Martin (CEM) Goings on About Town The Talk of the Town “The Storm” a poem by Robert David Cohen “Chatty” by V.S. Pritchett “Catbird in Redbud” by May Swenson A Reporter at Large: The Ambient Air by Edith Iglauer The Theatre: Thirty Years After by Brendan Gill Letter from [...]
1968/04/06 — Cover by Andre Francois Goings on About Town The Talk of the Town “The Valley” a poem by Stanley Moss “The Tactics of Hunger” by Penelope Gilliatt “Stow Away” a poem by Hawley Truax Profiles: A Forager about Euell Theophilus Gibbons by John McPhee The Theatre: Before the Flood by Brendan Gill Off [...]
1968/03/23 — Cover by Abe Birnbaum Goings on About Town The Talk of the Town “Something No One Ever Sees” by George H. Freitag “Malcolm and Bea” by Mavis Gallant “A Little Retarded Boy on the Lexington Avenue Express” a poem by Ralph Pomeroy “Going to the Bakery” a poem by Elizabeth Bishop Annals of [...]
1968/03/30 — Cover by Charles Saxon Goings on About Town The Talk of the Town “The Boy Who Used Foul Language” by Julian Mazor “A Dead Leaf” a poem by Howard Moss “Morituri” a poem by Barbara Bellow Watson Annals of Finance: In Defense of Sterling – Part 2 of 2 by John Brooks The [...]
1968/03/16 — Cover by Charles E. Martin (CEM) Goings on About Town The Talk of the Town “Notes from the Underfed (After Reading Dostoevsky and the New “Weight Watchers” Magazine On the Same Plane Trip” by Woody Allen A Reporter at Large: Quang Ngai and Quant Tin — Part 2 of 2 by Jonathan Schell [...]
1968/03/09 — Cover by Arthur Getz Goings on About Town The Talk of the Town “Man and Daughter in the Cold” by John Updike A Reporter at Large: Quang Ngai and Quant Tin — Part 1 of 2 by Jonathan Schell “Running” a poem by Richard Wilbur The Theatre: Usable Pasts by Brendan Gill Off [...]
1968/03/02 — Cover by Albert Hubbell Goings on About Town The Talk of the Town “The Something of the World” by Gilbert Rogin “March” a poem by Jane Cooper “The Sofa” by Maeve Brennan “An Ordinary Evening in Cleveland” a poem by Lewis Turco Letter from Saigon by Robert Shaplen The Theatre: Off Broadway: by [...]
1968/02/24 — The classic Rea Irvin annual cover Goings on About Town The Talk of the Town “Indulgence in Games” by Dick Arndt, MD “The Satellite” by Ted Walker “Who Called That Pied-Billed Grebe a Podilymbus Podiceps Poediceps” a poem by Odgen Nash Reflections: A New Situation in the World by Richard H. Rovere “Piano [...]
1968/02/17 — Cover by James Stevenson Goings on About Town The Talk of the Town “A Pair of Duelling Pistols” by Sylvia Townsend Warner “Living in Hong Kong” a poem by Sandra Hochman “The Wait” by John Updike “Iowa” a poem by Michael Dennis Browne The Theatre: In the Wilderness by Brendan Gill is about [...]
1968/02/10 — Cover by Arthur Getz Goings on About Town The Talk of the Town “April Fish” by Mavis Gallant “Patrum Propositum” a poem by Robert Fitzgerald “A Day In the Country” by H.L. Mountzoures How” a poem by S.J. Marks A Reporter at Large: South Africa Part 3 of 3 The Peace of the [...]
1968/02/03 — Cover by William Steig Goings on About Town The Talk of the Town “Known for Her Frankness” by Penolope Gilliatt “High Wind at the Battery” a poem by Ralph Pomeroy A Reporter at Large: South Africa Part 2 of 3 South West by E.J. Kahn, Jr. “Furniture” a poem by Phyllis Harris The [...]
1968/01/20 — Cover by Charles Addams Goings on About Town The Talk of the Town “The Lighthouse” by Arturo Vivante “An Examination” by H.L. Mountzoures “Trapper’s Report” a poem by Adrien Stoutenburg “Geography: A Song” by Howard Moss Letter from Saigon by Robert Shaplen The Theatre: Silk Purse by Brendan Gill Musical Events: Election Year [...]
1968/01/13 — Cover by Charles E. Martin (CEM) Goings on About Town The Talk of the Town “The Children Are There, Trying Not to Laugh” by Maeve Brennan “The Letter Writer” by Isaac Bashevis Singer “No More Elegies” a poem by Jane Cooper “Plane” a poem by W.S. Merwin The Theatre: Many Voices by Brendan [...]
1964/05/30 — Cover by Arthur Getz Goings on About Town The Talk of the Town Man’s Face by Donald Barthelme The Fair – 6 pages of pages of Stevenson The Three Cats by Sylvia Townsend Warner “Cadenza” — A Poem by Ted Hughes Onward and Upward with the Sciences — The Tail of Taxonomy by [...]
1964/05/23 — Cover by William Steig Goings on About Town The Talk of the Town I Spend My Days in Longing by John O’Hara Morels a poem by William Jay Smith The Carpet With the Big Pink Roses On It by Maeve Brennan Vow a poem by John Updike A Reporter at Large: Somthing to [...]
1964/05/16 — Cover by Saul Steinberg Goings on About Town The Talk of the Town Great Oafs From Little Monsters Grow by S.J. Perelman Beisbol in Central Park a poem by Wallace White The Luzhin Defense — Part 2 of 2 by Vladimir Nabokov The Salmon Remembers a poem by Hilary Corke The Theatre: Off [...]
1964/05/09 — Cover by Anatol Kovarsky Goings on About Town The Talk of the Town Was Lifted by Ears as Boy, No Harm Done by E.B. White The Luzhin Defense — Part 1 of 2 by Vladimir Nabokov Them, Crying a poem by James Dickey May 10th a poem by Maxine W. Kumin The Theatre: [...]
1964/05/02 — Cover by Joseph Low Goings on About Town The Talk of the Town The Key by Berton Roueche One More New Botched Beginning a poem by Stephen Spender A Long Night by Sylvia Townsend Warner The May Day Dancing a poem by Howard Nemerov Profiles: Out Here Again is about Mary Lou Williams [...]
1964/04/25 — Cover by CEM aka Charles E. Martin Goings on About Town The Talk of the Town The Days and the Neighbors by Robert Henderson That Dying a poem by Alastair Reid Which of Those Two Ladies Is He Married To? by Edna O’Brien Five Poems by William Walden Profiles: Center of a New [...]
1964/04/18 — Cover by James Stevenson Goings on About Town The Talk of the Town 1109 Klingenstein by Gilbert Rogin Looking Up a poem by Howard Moss In the Sun by Elizabeth Taylor An Expedient–Leonardo da Vinci’s (and a Query) a poem by Marianne Moore Profiles: Center of a New World — Part 2 about [...]
1964/04/11 — Cover by Arthur Getz Goings on About Town The Talk of the Town Stand Back for Walford W. Oglethorpe, Jr.! By Thomas Meehan The Constant Lover a poem by Louis Simpson Everything Neat and Tidy by Brian Friel Profiles: Center of a New World — Part 1 of 3 about Cambridge by Christopher [...]
1964/04/04 — Cover by Peter Arno Goings on About Town The Talk of the Town Caf
1964/03/28 — Cover by Abe Birnbaum Goings on About Town The Talk of the Town Add Hot Water: Serves Fourteen Million by Thomas Meehan “The Skeleton in the Closet” — A Poem by Richmond Lattimore Lovely to Look At, Delightful to Hold by Edna O’Brien “Sea Knell” — A Poem by John Updike Annals of [...]
1964/03/21 — Cover by Andre Francois Goings on About Town The Talk of the Town Down the Line With the Annual by Donald Barthelme Other People’s Houses by Lore Segal “Closing Time” — A Poem by R.P. Lister “Stealing Trout” — A Poem by Ted Hughes The Theatre: Upon a Foundation by John McCarten The [...]
