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1968-12-28 The New Yorker Magazine Contents

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 Art World: Surrealism in the Streets by Harold Rosenberg
  • The Current Cinema: A Sign of Life by Pauline Kael about Ingmar Bergman’s “Shame”
  • Musical Events: It’s the Tops by Winthrop Sargeant
  • “The Prints” a poem by W.S. Merwin
  • Books: Verse by Louise Bogan

    • 1968-04-13 The New Yorker Magazine Contents

    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 Paris by Genet
  • “On the Roof” a poem by C.K. Williams
  • The Sporting Scene: The Short Season about Baseball by Roger Angell
  • Letter from Washington by Richard H. Rovere
  • The Air: Life and Death in the Global Village by Michael J. Arlen
  • The Race Track: Three Year Itch by Audax Minor
  • Musical Events: The Stamp of the Man by Winthrop Sargeant
  • On and Off the Avenue: This and That by M.M.
  • Books: Confessions of a Biochemist by Jeremy Bernstein about “The Double Helix” by James D. Watson

    • 1968-04-06 The New Yorker Magazine Contents

    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 Broadway: Paine’s Progress by Edith Oliver
  • The Race Track: The Younger Set by Audax Minor
  • Letter from London by Mollie Panter-Downes
  • “Speak” a poem by James Wright
  • The Sporting Scene: Something the Matter with Glasgow about Soccer by Alastair Reid
  • Musical Events: Hatchet Girl by Winthrop Sargeant
  • On and Off the Avenue: About the House by J.M.
  • The Current Cinema: A Minority Movie by Pauline Kael about Jean-Luc Goddard’s “La Chinoise”
  • Books: Questions Concerning Giacomo is by John Updike and about “Giacomo Joyce” by James Joyce

    • 1968-03-23 The New Yorker Magazine Contents

    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 Finance: In Defense of Sterling – Part 1 of 2 by John Brooks
  • The Theatre: Vile Bodies by Brendan Gill about Gore Vidal’s “Weekend”
  • Off Broadway: Wishy Washout by Edith Oliver
  • The Race Track: Home Again by Audax Minor
  • The Art World: Signs about the Adolph Gottleib retrospective by Harold Rosenberg
  • Letter from Saigon by Robert Shaplen
  • Musical Events: Spooked Duke by Winthrop Sargeant
  • The Naked-Ape Crisis by H.F. Ellis
  • Letter from Washington by Richard H. Rovere
  • The Current Cinema: O Pioneer! by Pauline Kael
  • Letter from London by Mollie Panter-Downes
  • Books:Babes in the Wood by Naomi Bliven is about “Nicholas and Alexandra” by Robert K. Massie

    • 1968-03-20 The New Yorker Magazine Contents

    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 Theatre: Image Breakers by Brendan Gill
  • US Journal: Clovis — No, Sir, I Can’t Go by Calvin Trillin
  • The Current Cinema: The Old Wave by Pauline Kael
  • “Watering Through” a poem by Maxine Kumin
  • The Race Track: Portent by Audax Minor
  • Musical Events: If You Can Get a Ticket, Go! by Winthrop Sargeant
  • The Air: How Do You Feel? by Michael J. Arlen
  • Books: Verse by Louise Bogan

    • 1968-03-16 The New Yorker Magazine Contents

    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
  • “The Building” a poem by Howard Moss
  • “Two Translations of a Private Poem Awaiting Further Translation” a poem by Gerald Jonas
  • The Theatre: How to Be a Saint Without Really Trying by Brendan Gill
  • Off Broadway: Off and Running by Edith Oliver
  • Letter from Paris by Genet
  • The Air: Sunday by Michael J. Arlen
  • The Current Cinema: The Freedom to Make Product by Pauline Kael
  • Musical Events: Mountain Music by Winthrop Sargeant
  • The Race Track: Mr. Right is Right There by Audax Minor
  • Books:The Most Deadly Sin by Naomi Bliven is about “Death at an Early Age” by Jonathan Kozol

    • 1968-03-09 The New Yorker Magazine Contents

    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 Broadway: Three Cheers by Edith Oliver
  • Musical Events: Remember the Cellist by Winthrop Sargeant
  • The Current Cinema: Business as Usual by Pauline Kael
  • The Race Track: Ruffled Flamingo by Audax Minor
  • Books:Briefly Noted
  • The last page of the issue is two columns beginning “Peter Arno died on Frebruary 22nd, at 64, after a long illness …”

    • 1968-03-02 The New Yorker Magazine Contents

    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 Edith Oliver
  • The Sporting Scene: Old Game, New Challenge about court tennis by Herbert Warren Wind
  • Letter from Paris by Genet
  • The Air: Positive, Negative by Michael J. Arlen
  • “Sonatina: Hospital” by L.E. Sissman
  • Musical Events: The Outsider by Winthrop Sargeant
  • The Race Track: Close but No Cigar by Audax Minor
  • The Current Cinema: That Clean Old Peasant Again by Pauline Kael is about “The Two of Us”, also a little bit on “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”

    • 1968-02-24 The New Yorker Magazine Contents

    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 Practice” a poem by Howard Moss
  • The Theatre: Laff Riot by Brendan Gill is about “Plaza Suite” by Neil Simon
  • Letter from London by Mollie Panter-Downes
  • “Unalterables” by Arthur Gregor
  • “The Collection” by Thomas Meehan.
  • Irish Sketches” Ring in the Old, Ring in the New — With a Bit of a Jangle by JOhn McCarten
  • The Current Cinema: A Great Folly, and a Small One begins with the recent death of Mae Marsh and spends most of the time talking about the early work of D.W. Griffith, by Pauline Kael
  • Musical Events: Grant Opera by Winthrop Sargeant
  • The Race Track: Rustlings of Spring by Audax Minor
  • Books:A Very Inquisitive Old Party by W.H. Auden

    • 1968-02-17 The New Yorker Magazine Contents

    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 Arthur Miller’s “The Price”
  • Off-Broadway: Oh, Say Can You See T.V. by Edith Oliver
  • The Air: An Illustrated History of the War by Michael J. Arlen
  • The Race Track: Stunner by Audax Minor
  • The Current Cinema: Apes Must Be Remembered, Charlie by Pauline Kael covers “Planet of the Apes” and “Sweet November”
  • US Letter: Indiana by Calvin Trillin
  • Musical Events: Early Verdi (and the Warm) by Winthrop Sargeant
  • Choke Me With Frigate Birds by H.F. Ellis
  • Books: The Unthinkable and the Unanalyzable by Richard N. Goodwin

    • 1968-02-10 The New Yorker Magazine Contents

    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 Grave by E.J. Kahn, Jr.
  • The Theatre: Aren’t We Lucky? by Brendan Gill
  • Off-Broadway: Sodom and Other Playgrounds by Edith Oliver
  • The Art World: Discovering the Present is about Charles Baudelaire as Art Critic by Harold Rosenberg
  • “Man” a poem by Arturo Vivante
  • The Current Cinema: Making Lawrence More Lawrentian by Pauline Kael
  • Musical Events: Baton, Baton, Who’s Got the Baton? by Winthrop Sargeant
  • The Race Track: Marking Time by Audax Minor
  • Choke Me With Frigate Birds by H.F. Ellis
  • Books: Counting the Cats is about Chekhov’s “The Island: A Journey to Sakhalin” which was just published in English translation for the first time, by Stanley Edgar Hyman

    • 1968-02-03 The New Yorker Magazine Contents

    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 Theatre: Do-Re-Mi by Brendan Gill
  • Letter from Paris by Genet
  • The Race Track: Horses on the Grass, Hurrah! by Audax Minor
  • Letter from Washington by Richard H. Rovere
  • “For My Lover, Returning to His Wife” a poem by Anne Sexton
  • The Current Cinema: Moo Who? by Pauline Kael
  • Musical Events: Double Dip by Winthrop Sargeant
  • The Air: Watchman, What of the Night? … Or God Bless Our Public Interest: Further Fables for Our Time by Michael J. Arlen
  • Books: Willie Morris (b. 1934 – ) and Frank Conroy (B. 1936 – ) by Susan Lardner

    • 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

    • 1968-01-13 The New Yorker Magazine Contents

    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 Gill
  • Off Broadway: New Troupe in Town by Edith Oliver
  • Musical Events: Profusion and Confusion Reign by Winthrop Sargeant
  • Letter from Cambodia by Robert Shaplen
  • The Current Cinema: Movies as Opera by Pauline Kael
  • Letter from Paris by Genet

    • 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

    • 1964-05-23 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

    • 1964-05-16 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

    • 1964-05-02 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

    • 1964-04-25 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

    • 1964-04-18 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

    • 1964-04-11 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

    • 1964-03-28 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

    • 1964-03-28 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