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 [...]
1968/04/13 — 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 [...]
1968/01/13 — 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 [...]
1953/02/07 — Cover by Abe Birnbaum Goings on About Town The Talk of the Town “The Morning After the Big Fire” by Maeve Brennan “Tweedledee and Tweedledoom” a poem by Ogden Nash The Sunny Banks of the River Lethe by Irwin Shaw “The Phenomenon” a poem by Karl Shapiro Profiles: Lilt about May Gadd by [...]
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 [...]
1946/10/19 — Cover by Constantin Alajalov Goings on About Town The Talk of the Town “Ellie” by John O’Hara He’s the Kinda Character Who Burns the Candle from Both Sides by Arthur Kober “Landscape, Or Portrait” a poem by Rolfe Humphries Making a Man Out of Him by John J. Espey Shakespeare One Better by [...]
1944/07/01 — Cover by Rea Irvin Goings on About Town The Talk of the Town National Convention is two pages of cartoons, look to be by Perry Barlow, but the signature is hard to decipher Assistant Croupier by Joseph Wechsberg “Night Piece: In the Country” is a poem by Rolfe Humphries Grievance at Noon by [...]
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 [...]
1956/10/27 — Cover by Abe Birnbaum Goings on About Town The Talk of the Town “The Best Four Years” by St. Clair McKelway “A Letter for Allhallows” a poem by Peter Kane Dufault “The Beam” by Nancy Hale “Old Faces of ’56″ a poem by John Updike Onward and Upward With the Arts – Porgy [...]
1944/07/29 — Cover by Tibor Gergely Goings on About Town The Talk of the Town Italy is two pages of cartoons by Saul Steinberg Boys Will Be Boys by Elizabeth Warner “For My Ancestors” is a poem by Rolfe Humphries An Article of Faith by Sally Benson Profiles: Socko! by Philip Hamburger is about Martin [...]
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 [...]
1956/08/11 — Cover by Perry Barlow Goings on About Town The Talk of the Town “Further Fables for Our Time” by James Thurber (one page) Japanese Prints by Reiko Hatsumi “The Strange Case of the Lucrative Compromise” a poem by Ogden Nash Profiles: Nagelmackers’ Way about Leo Cesoli is by Joseph Wechsberg The Current Cinema [...]
1944/08/05 — Cover by Barbara Shermund Goings on About Town The Talk of the Town Full-page cartoon by Peter Arno The Cherboors by James Thurber The Looters by Emily Hahn “There’ll Always Be a Xanthippe” a poem by Stanley Walker Profiles: The Regular by George Woodward features Staff Sergeant Joseph P. Prendiville “Invitation” is a [...]
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 [...]
1956/02/25 — Eustace Tilly anniversary cover by Rea Irvin Goings on About Town The Talk of the Town “Caveat Emptor” by Frank Sullivan “Anybody for Money?” a poem by Ogden Nash In Italy by Mavis Gallant “Jet-Vapor Trail” a poem by Peter Kane Default Profiles: Yrs. Truly, A. Lincoln about Joseph Cosey by John Kobler [...]
1944/08/12 — Cover by Will Cotton Goings on About Town The Talk of the Town “The Writing Public” cartoon with caption is by Gluyas Williams We’re Proud of You, Boy by Lawrence Williams What a Man Would Do by Robert M. Coates Full-page cartoon by Whitney Darrow, Jr. Profiles: The Young Man Behind Plexiglass is [...]
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 [...]
1953/08/22 — Cover by Arthur Getz Goings on About Town The Talk of the Town “O Youth and Beauty!” by John Cheever “Goodbye Now, Or, Pardon My Gauntlet” a poem by Ogden Nash The Pilgrimage by William Maxwell “Overture” a poem by Robert Hillyer Profiles: Cit about George Hervey Hallett, Jr. is by Dwight MacDonald [...]
1944/08/26 — Cover by Will Cotton Goings on About Town The Talk of the Town Full-page cartoon by Whitney Darrow, Jr. Poor Everybody by Robert McLaughlin “Aria” a poem by Rolfe Humphries A Guide to Literary Pilgrimage by James Thurber Profiles: Public Relations — Part 2 of 4 — by Alva Johnston about Russell Birdwell [...]
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 [...]
1953/06/13 — Cover by Roger Duvoisin Goings on About Town The Talk of the Town “A Kitchen Knife” by Sylvia Townsend Warner “Family Tour” a poem by Anne Hyde Greet The Presbyterian Nimrods by St. Clair McKelway Our Footloose Correspondents – A Dash of Tabasco by John McNulty “Tom Fool at Jamaica” by Marianne Moore [...]
1944/07/08 — Cover by Mary Petty Goings on About Town The Talk of the Town Italy — 2-pages of cartoons by Saul Steinberg The Danger by Mollie Panter-Downes Take Two Parts Sand, One Part Girl and Stir by S.J. Perelman “Parallax” — A poem by Maxwell Anderson Profiles: The Hot Bach — Part 3 of [...]
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 [...]
1953/05/02 — Cover by Arthur Getz Goings on About Town The Talk of the Town “Fall Guy” by Peter De Vries “Meditations During a Permanent Wave” a poem by Phyllis McGinley The Farangi – Part 2: Lord of My Soul by Anne Sinclair Mehdevi “Lumber of Spring” a poem by Anne Ridler Annals of Crime [...]
1944/07/22 — Cover by Constantin Alajalov Goings on About Town The Talk of the Town Travellers is 2-pages of cartoons, I cannot make out the artist’s signature though My Brother Osong’s Career in Politics by Carlos Bulosan Gunners’ Passage by Irwin Shaw “The Summer Landscape, Or, The Dragon’s Teeth” is a poem by Rolfe Humphries [...]
