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1964-03-28 The New Yorker Magazine Contents March 28 1964

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 Legislation — Part 3 of 3: The Real Voice by Richard Harris
  • The Theatre: Off Broadway by Edith Oliver
  • Shirt Shrift by Dorothy L. Guth
  • The Current Cinema: No Tampering by Brendan Gill
  • Musical Events: Bright Shadow by Winthrop Sargeant
  • The Race Track: Repeated by Audax Minor
  • Books: Angels and Devils by Anthony West

    • 1964-05-30 The New Yorker Magazine Contents May 30 1964

    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 Geoffrey T. Hellman
  • The Theatre: Melange by John McCarten
  • The Phone Call by Tom Mayer
  • The Sporting Scene: A Clean Well-Lighted Cellar is about the New York Mets by Roger Angell
  • The Current Cinema: Lessons in Acting by Brendan Gill

  • Letter from Paris by Genet
  • The Race Track: Marking Time by Audax Minor
  • Musical Events: Blues in the Night by Winthrop Sargeant

    • 1964-03-28 The New Yorker Magazine Contents March 21 1964

    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 Race Track: They’re Off by Audax Minor
  • Annals of Legislation – The Real Voice — Part 2 of 3 by Richard Harris
  • Letter from Paris by Genet
  • On and Off the Avenue – Feminen Fashions by Lois Long
  • “A Note to La Fontaine” — A Poem by Jean Garrigue

  • The Current Cinema: Sinister and Sunny by Brendan Gill
  • Musical Events: Casserole by Winthrop Sargeant
  • Letter from Washington by Richard H. Rovere

    • 1964-05-23 The New Yorker Magazine Contents

    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 Take Back Home by Katharine T. Kinkead
  • The Theatre: Off Broadway by Edith Oliver
  • Musical Events: Hit or Miss by Winthrop Sargeant
  • On and Off the Avenue: This and That by M.M.
  • The Lonesome Dream a poem by Lisel Mueller
  • Shall We, for God’s Sake, Join the Ladies? by H.F. Ellis
  • Letter from Stratford by Mollie Panter-Downes
  • The Current Cinema: Danger! Virtue at Work by Brendan Gill
  • The Race Track: Canada, Oh Canada! by Audax Minor
  • Books: The Revolt of the Demons by Lewis Mumford

    • 1964-02-15 The New Yorker Magazine Contents

    1964/02/15 —

  • Cover by William Steig
  • Goings on About Town
  • The Talk of the Town
  • Adventures of a People Buff by Peter de Vries
  • The Murmurers (Tobago) a poem by Josephine Jacobsen
  • Giving by Dean Doner
  • Spindrift a poem by Galway Kinnell
  • Profiles: The Honored Society — Part 2 of 3 by Norman Lewis about the Mafia
  • The Theatre: Busy, Busy, Busy by John McCarten
  • The Race Track: One for the Book by Audax Minor
  • Letter from London by Mollie Panter-Downes
  • The Piano Tuner a poem by Stephen Mooney
  • The Current Cinema: Familiar by Brendan Gill
  • Musical Events: First Causes by Winthrop Sargeant
  • The Art Galleries: The Margin of Luck by Robert M. Coates
  • Letter from Washington by Richard H. Rovere

    • 1964-02-29 The New Yorker Magazine Contents

    1964/02/29 —

  • Cover by Garrett Price
  • Goings on About Town
  • The Talk of the Town
  • Three More Hats by Roger Angell
  • Dinosaurs a poem by Carolyn Stoloff
  • An Act of Reparation by Sylvia Townsend Warner
  • A Hill a poem by Anthony Hecht
  • Profiles: Moving Out about artist Robert Rauschenberg by Calvin Tompkins
  • The Theatre: Good Going by John McCarten
  • The Race Track: Bustout by Audax Minor
  • On and Off the Avenue: Feminine Fashions by Lois Long
  • The Current Cinema: Family Package by Brendan Gill
  • Musical Events: High Spot by Winthrop Sargeant
  • Books: Blood Was Their Argument by Anthony West

    • 1964-05-16 The New Yorker Magazine Contents

    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 Broadway by Edith Oliver
  • Musical Events: Out of the Mists by Winthrop Sargeant
  • Letter from Paris by Genet
  • A Yellow Circle a poem by May Swenson
  • The Sporting Scene: Four Days in April (Masters Golf) by Herbert Warren Wind
  • The Current Cinema – Gravedigging by Brendan Gill
  • Letter from Washington by Richard H. Rovere
  • The Race Track: Now for the Preakness by Audax Minor
  • Books: Conversation by Renata Adler

    • 1964-05-09 The New Yorker Magazine Contents

    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: Grim Stuff by John McCarten
  • Musical Events: Housewarming by Winthrop Sargeant
  • Annals of Law — The Gideon Case — Part 3 of 3 by Anthony Lewis
  • The Current Cinema: Time Past by Brendan Gill
  • The Race Track: Star from the North by Audax Minor

    • 1964-04-18 The New Yorker Magazine Contents

    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 Cambridge by Christopher Rand
  • The Theatre: For Thright Price by John McCarten
  • The Race Track: Not Mongo’s Day by Audax Minor

  • The Current Cinema: Another Writer by Brendan Gill
  • Banker to His Own Flesh and Blood by Clifford Aucoin
  • A Fact in the Fable by Harold Witt
  • Our Far-Flung Correspondents – Back and Forth in Phnom Penh by Robert Shaplen
  • Musical Events: “Kaddish” by Winthrop Sargeant
  • Letter from Paris by Genet
  • Books: State of the Nation by Naomi Bliven

    • 1964-05-02 The New Yorker Magazine Contents

    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 by Whitney Balliett
  • The Current Cinema: No Confidence by Brendan Gill
  • Letter from Paris by Genet
  • Thank You, Madam President by E.J. Kahn, Jr.
  • Advice to Those Visiting England a poem by F. Pratt Green
  • Annals of Law: The Gideon Case — Part 2 of 3 by Anthony Lewis
  • Musical Events: The Judgment of Raffaele by Winthrop Sargeant
  • Books: Instruments by Renata Adler

    • 1964-04-11 The New Yorker Magazine Contents

    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 Rand
  • Estuary a poem by Ted Walker
  • The Theatre: New Group in Town by John McCarten
  • Musical Events: Yes and No by Winthrop Sargeant
  • On and Off the Avenue: Feminine Fashions by Lois Long
  • Pit Viper a poem by George Starbuck
  • The Fair That Was by Frank Zachary
  • The Sporting Scene: Deux Villes de Hockey by Herbert Warren Wind
  • Letter from Washington by Richard H. Rovere
  • Blitzkrieg Days by Eric Wright
  • The Current Cinema: Author! Author! by Brendan Gill
  • The Race Track: Warming Up by Audax Minor
  • Books: Monsters Breed When Reason Sleeps by Anthony West

    • 1964-03-07 The New Yorker Magazine Contents

    1964/03/07 —

  • Cover by Charles Saxon
  • Goings on About Town
  • The Talk of the Town
  • The Habit by John Cheever
  • In the Cabot Straight a poem by R.P. Lister
  • L’Americano by William Murray
  • Reincarnation a poem by James Dickey
  • A Reporter at Large: Fifteen Thousand Quarts of Air by Edith Iglauer
  • The Theatre: The Great Silence by Edith Oliver
  • The Art Galleries: Morality in Montmartre by Robert M. Coates
  • On and Off the Avenue: Feminine Fashions by Lois Long
  • Anthill in Winter a poem by Peter Kane Dufault
  • Letter from Paris by Genet
  • The Race Track: Star Light, Star Bright by Audax Minor
  • The Red Bicycle by Richard Berczeller
  • The Current Cinema: First Steps by Brendan Gill
  • Musical Events: Comer by Winthrop Sargeant
  • Books: Rhyming Max by John Updike

    • 1964-04-25 The New Yorker Magazine Contents

    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 World Part 3 of 3 by Christopher Rand about Cambridge
  • The Theatre: Old Stuff by John McCarten
  • The Race Track: Square Deal by Audax Minor
  • Please, Doctor by Patricia Collinge
  • Annals of Law: The Gideon Case — Part 1 of 3 by Anthony Lewis
  • The Current Cinema: Uneasy Marriage by Brendan Gill
  • On and Off the Avenue: This and That by M.M.
  • Out of Darkness by Mitchell Alland
  • “Portrait de Femme,” After Picasso a poem by Irving Feldman
  • Musical Events: Visitors’ Days by Winthrop Sargeant
  • Books: A Retrospect by Donald Malcolm

    • 1964-02-08 The New Yorker Magazine Contents

    1964/02/08 —

  • Cover by Abe Birnbaum
  • Goings on About Town
  • The Talk of the Town
  • Twin Beds in Rome by John Updike
  • Time’s Arrow a poem by Louis Coxe
  • English Mosaic by Sylvia Townsend Warner
  • In the X-Ray Room a poem by Howard Moss
  • Profiles: The Honored Society — Part 1 by Norman Lewis about the mafia
  • The Current Cinema: No Contest by Brendan Gill
  • Musical Events: The Human Touch by Winthrop Sargeant
  • On and Off the Avenue: Feminine Fashions by Lois Long
  • The Race Track: Fast on the Grass by Audax Minor
  • Books: The Camus Notebooks by A.J. Liebling

    • 1953-02-07 The New Yorker Magazine Contents

    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 Angelica Gibbs
  • The Current Cinema – Two Misses, Not Very Near by John McCarten
  • Tables for Two – The Enormous Room by D.W.
  • Letter from Paris by Genet
  • The Art Galleries – Impressionist, Expressionist, Abstractionist by Robert M. Coates
  • On and Off the Avenue – Feminine Fashions by Lois Long
  • Television – Ebb Tide by Philip Hamburger
  • The French Navy Et Moi by Nathaniel Benchley
  • “Essay on a Photo Album” a poem by Walker Gibson
  • Musical Events – Kitten on the Keys by Douglas Watts
  • The Race Track — Well, Well by Audax Minor
  • Books – Three Pasts by Brendan Gill

    • 1944-07-15 The New Yorker Magazine Contents

    1944/07/15 —

  • D-Day cover by Rea Irvin shows King George VI with President Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, the General Eisenhower and Montgomery across from them in the top pane; Soldiers on June 6 in the middle pane; a scene from June 7 in the bottom left pane with Adolf Hitler under his chair in the final pane labeled “Sic Semper Tyrannis”
  • Goings on About Town
  • The Talk of the Town
  • Full-page cartoon by Peter Arno
  • You’ll Scare Your Own Mothers by Robert McLaughlin
  • “Release” is a poem by Dilys Bennett Laing
  • “The Writing Public” is a full-page cartoon with caption text by Gluyas Williams
  • See With Someone You Love! by Frank Sullivan
  • Profiles: Emergencies, Advice For is by Brendan Gill and about Frederic Huntington Bartlett, M.D.
  • “Landscape, Without Figures” is a poem by Phyllis McGinley
  • The Current Cinema: Underdose of Bears and Battle by John Lardner
  • The Race Track: Greener Pastures by Audax Minor
  • A Reporter at Large: Cross-Channel Trip — Part 3 of 3 — by A.J. Liebling
  • A Game of Halma by Christine Weston
  • Letter from London by Mollie Panter-Downes
  • On and Off the Avenue: Feminine Fashions by L.L.
  • Letter from Rome by Daniel Lang
  • Notes on Sports: Thirty Years War by D.L. is about Big Bill Tilden
  • Books: Oh, Bury Me Not by Hamilton Basso

    • 1944-07-22 The New Yorker Magazine Contents

    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
  • Letter from France by A.J. Liebling
  • The Current Cinema: An Electric Fan Is Better by John Lardner
  • The Race Track: Western Star by Audax Minor
  • On and Off the Avenue: About the House by B.B.
  • “Muse Americana” is a poem by Irwin Edman
  • Our Combatant Correspondents: The Colonel in the Foxhole by Lt. Sterling M. Jessup
  • Tables for Two: In the Dread Old Summertime by R.E.M.W.
  • Letter from Lisbon by Marya Mannes
  • Books: Tonio Kroger in Egyptian Dress by Hamilton Basso

    • 1944-07-08 The New Yorker Magazine Contents

    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 3 by Richard O. Boyer about Duke Ellington
  • The Theatre: Fair Enough by Wolcott Gibbs
  • A Reporter at Large: Cross-Channel Trip — Part 2 of 3 — by A.J. Liebling
  • The Current Cinema: And a Current Book by David Lardner
  • The Proper Seating of the Poppet by Robert McLaughlin
  • On and Off the Avenue: Markets and Menus by S.H.
  • Books: Children’s Books for the Dog Days by K.S.W.

    • 1944-08-26 The New Yorker Magazine Contents

    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
  • “Wind From Home” is a poem by Robert P. Tristram Coffin
  • Large (two-thirds of a page) Addams Family cartoon by Charles Addams
  • “August Night” is a poem by Hortense Flexner
  • The Current Cinema: Evasion Via Bagdad by John Lardner
  • A Reporter at Large: The Talk ina Cinnamon Grove by Ernest O. Hauser
  • Civilian Sunday by Helen Eustis
  • Letter from France by A.J. Liebling
  • The Race Track: Movie Hero by Audax Minor
  • No Namee by Edith Morgan King
  • Books: “You Can’t Do This to Me!” Shrilled Celia: Inquiry into a Current Best-Seller is by Edmund Wilson and is about “The Robe” by Lloyd C. Douglas

    • 1944-08-12 The New Yorker Magazine Contents

    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 by Brendan Gill and about Joseph Theodore Hallock
  • “The Good Swimmer” is a poem by Rolfe Humphries
  • The Theatre: Miss West by Wolcott Gibbs is about Mae West in “Catherine Was Great”
  • Letter from France by A.J. Liebling
  • Christening in the Cruise by Mary Mian
  • “Dusty Answer” is a poem by David McCord
  • The Race Track: A Little Flower and Some Other Colts is by Audax Minor
  • The Current Cinema: The World Made Safe for Wilson by John Lardner is about “Wilson”
  • Our Combatant Correspondents: Mukluks and Glogg is by Staff Sergeant N.T. Joost, Jr.
  • Books – Briefly Noted

    • 1944-08-15 The New Yorker Magazine Contents

    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 poem by David Morton
  • The Current Cinema: Wilde and Others at War by John Lardner
  • A Reporter at Large: The Yellow Flour by Daniel Lang
  • Colloquy by Shirley Jackson
  • On and Off the Avenue: About the House by B.B.
  • “Ceiling Unlimited” is a poem by Leslie Nelson Jennings
  • The Race Track: At Concert Pitch by Audax Minor
  • Books: A Guide to “Finnegans Wake” by Edmund Wilson reveiws “A Skeleton Key to ‘Finnegans Wake'” by Joseph Campbell and Henry Morton

    • 1944-07-29 The New Yorker Magazine Contents

    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 Block
  • “Ten Leagues Beyond the Wide World’s End” is a poem by Dilys Bennett Laing
  • On and Off the Avenue: Feminine Fashions by M.M.
  • Letter from France by A.J. Liebling
  • The Quarter Pool by Sgt. Edgar Cole
  • “Oh, What a Beautiful Morning! (Daily Except Sat. and Sun.) by Nina Bourke
  • The Current Cinema: Assorted Epics by John Lardner makes mention of “Dragon Seed” and “Since You Went Away”
  • Letter from London by Mollie Panter-Downes
  • Books: Dos Passos’ Reporting–Woollcott’s Letters by Edmund Wilson

    • 1944-07-01 The New Yorker Magazine Contents

    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 Louise Field Cooper
  • Profiles: The Hot Bach – Part 2 of 3 is about Duke Ellington and by Richard O. Boyer with small Ellington cartoon by W. Cotton
  • “For a Man’s Eighteenth Birthday” is a poem by Marshall Smelser
  • The Theatre: Hudson Duster by Wolcott Gibbs
  • “Address Book” is a poem by Marya Mannes
  • A Reporter at Large: Cross-Channel Trip — Part 1 of a series by A.J. Liebling
  • The Current Cinema: Renovations by David Lardner covers “Christmas Holiday”
  • On and Off the Avenue: About the House by B.B.
  • Musical Events: Two Twenty-Sevens by Robert A. Simon
  • Letter from Lisbon by Marya Mannes
  • The Race Track: By Jimminy Again by Audax Minor
  • Caramels by PFC Len Zinberg
  • Books: Salvador Dali as Novelist by Edmund Wilson

    • 1968-01-20 The New Yorker Magazine Contents

    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 by Winthrop Sargeant
  • The Current Cinema: Celebrities Makes Spectacles of Themselves by Pauline Kael
  • Letter from Paris by Genet
  • The Air: A Whole Lot of Fun by Michael J. Arlen
  • Books: Cry Havoc about Louis-Ferdinand Celine by George Steiner