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1953-08-22 The New Yorker Magazine Contents

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
  • The Current Cinema – Something for Everybody by P.H. focuses on “The Sword and the Rose” with a paragraph on “I, the Jury” (two-third of a page)
  • On and Off the Avenue – Feminine Fashions by G.J.
  • The Miraculous Weed by Bowen Ingram
  • “On a Porch Near the Shore” a poem by Charles Ramond
  • The Race Track – Seventeen by Audax Minor
  • Television – Whose Life? is about “This Is Your Life” by Philip Hamburger
  • Books – The Nineteenth Century and After by Brendan Gill

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 1953-03-07 The New Yorker Magazine Contents

    1953/03/07 —

  • Cover by Leonard Dove
  • Goings on About Town
  • The Talk of the Town
  • “Spry Old Character” by Elizabeth Taylor (the writer, not the actress)
  • “Everybody Wants to Get into the Baedeker” a poem by Ogden Nash
  • Miserliness Begins at Home by Geoffrey T. Hellman
  • Profiles – The Swan in the “Mirror” about Nick Kenny by John McCarten
  • The Theatre – Miss Russell and Mr. Shaw by Wolcott Gibbs
  • Television – “They Haven’t Killed Me Yet” by Philip Hamburger
  • Letter from Paris by Genet
  • On and Off the Avenue – Markets and Menus by S.H.
  • The Record by David Daiches
  • The Current Cinema – French Panel by John McCarten
  • Letter from Washington by Richard H. Rovere
  • The Race Track – Good Show by Audax Minor
  • Musical Events – Worlds Apart by Douglas Watt
  • Books – Toil and Strife by Anthony West

    • 1953-04-18 The New Yorker Magazine Contents

    1953/04/18 —

  • Cover by Garrett Price
  • Goings on About Town
  • The Talk of the Town
  • De Gustibus Ain’t What Dey Used to Be by S.J. Perelman
  • “To the Lido With Fido” a poem by David McCord
  • The Oracle by Robert M. Coates
  • “The Explorers” a poem by Adrienne Cecile Rich
  • Profiles – Part 1: Fiendish about Roland Butler by Robert Lewis Taylor
  • The Theatre – Squatters on Broadway by John McCarten
  • Tee and Green – Masters’ Master by P.W.W. Jr.
  • The Current Cinema – Cheaters Aren’t the Answer by John McCarten
  • “Dialogue” a poem by May Sarton
  • Annals of Medicine – Birds of a Feather by Berton Roueche
  • Servants of the Public by David Daiches
  • “With a Book of Donne’s Sermons” a poem by Joyce Horner
  • On and Off the Avenue – About the House by S.H.
  • Our Footloose Correspondents – You Got to Jump on Those by E.J. Kahn, Jr.
  • Television – Peepers about Wally Cox (Mr. Peepers) by Philip Hamburger
  • The Race Track – The Weight of Reason by Audax Minor
  • Letter from Paris by Genet
  • Musical Events – Just a Mouse by Douglas Watt
  • Books – Arnold Bennett by V.S. Pritchett

    • 1953-04-25 The New Yorker Magazine Contents

    1953/04/25 —

  • Cover by Ilonka Karasz
  • Goings on About Town
  • The Talk of the Town
  • The Farangi — Part 1: Dust on My Head by Anne Sinclair Mehdevi
  • “Recall” a poem by Reed Whittemore
  • Is There A King Snake, In Your House? by Geoffrey T. Hellman
  • Profiles – Part 2:Fiendish about Roland Butler by Robert Lewis Taylor
  • The Theatre: Miss Bennett’s Slip Shows by Wolcott Gibbs
  • The Race Track – Jig by the Dancer by Audax Minor
  • A Friendship Sloop by Sloan Wilson
  • Our Rural Correspondents – Things of the Past by Christopher Rand
  • The Sky Line – Part 1: From Blight to Beauty by Lewis Mumford
  • On and Off the Avenue – About the House by S.H.
  • “In My Opinion” a poem by Irwin Edman
  • The Current Cinema – Two Flat, One in Depth by John McCarten
  • The Letters by E.G. Pollak
  • Musical Events – Portrait of the Artist by Douglas Watt
  • Books – Happy and Happy-Go-Lucky by Anthony West

    • 1953-05-02 The New Yorker Magazine Contents

    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 – This Is It, Honey by St. Clair McKelway
  • The Theatre – Mr. Williams as Mr. Dickens by Wolcott Gibbs
  • Letter from Paris by Genet
  • A Reporter at Large – A Room at the Barn by John McNulty
  • The Current Cinema – Up the Cattlemen! by John McCarten
  • Letter from London by Mollie Panter-Downes
  • The Race Track – Gray Whirlwind by Audax Minor
  • On and Off the Avenue – About the House by B.B.
  • Television – Album by Philip Hamburger
  • Couture Continentale by Francis Steegmuller
  • “Bob-White” a poem by John Hall Wheelock
  • Letter from Washington by Richard H. Rovere
  • Musical Events – Man with a Past by Douglas Watt
  • Books – Through the Collarbone of a Hare by W.H. Auden

    • 1953-06-13 The New Yorker Magazine Contents

    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

  • Letter from London by Mollie Panter-Downes
  • “Summer Return” a poem by Whitney Balliett
  • The Race Track – Place aux Dames by Audax Minor
  • The Current Cinema – Et Tu, Mankiewicz by John McCarten
  • A Reporter at Large — Seeing the Facts Made by E.J. Kahn, Jr.
  • The Bell Buoy by Nathaniel Benchley
  • “Try Counting Sheepskins” a poem by Kay Hosking
  • On and Off the Avenue – This and That by G.J.
  • Television – The Queen by Philip Hamburger
  • Letter from Paris by Genet
  • Musical Events – Making Ends Meet by Douglas Watt
  • Books – Son and Brother by Brendan Gill

    • 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

    • 1968-03-20 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

    • 1968-03-23 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

    • 1968-03-16 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

    • 1968-04-06 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