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1940

January

Selected Articles

War and the verities

The future of Eleanor Roosevelt

Fiction

Mr. Penfold

After many a summer:
A novel in five parts (part three)


February

Selected Articles

Capital not wanted:
American business rolls its own


Dover Beach revisited:
A new fable for critics


Fiction

The darkroom

After many a summer:
A novel in five parts (part four)


Poetry

When Mars was near the earth

March

Selected Articles

The long watch in England

The war and the British middle class

Fiction

Shadow of a girl

After many a summer:
A novel in five parts (part five)


Poetry

Mary Kendig

Memo

April

Selected Articles

The war and America

News-letters:
A revolution in journalism


Fiction

That woman

Dancing lesson

Poetry

Spring in the wood

Four country poems

May

Selected Articles

An Australian-American axis?

Should we buy Greenland?

Fiction

A ticket to Mexico

Pastoral

Poetry

Silence

June

Selected Articles

Enter atomic power

Fiction

Scorn and comfort

Andy and the village virus

Poetry

Letter to heroes

July

Selected Articles

M-Day and the business man

Can the gold problem be solved?

Fiction

“They also serve . . .”

Table for one

Poetry

Poet of a gentler time

A flicker went free

August

Selected Articles

Wanted:
A plan for defense


The new German military theory

Fiction

Nebraska Crane

Poetry

And still the dark wind crying

Five sonnets

September

Selected Articles

The inner threat:
Our own softness


The lesson of 1917

Fiction

The old people

A lesson in French

Poetry

Appeasement

France

October

Selected Articles

The failure of France

Why Hitler wins:
A lesson in technological politics for Americans


Fiction

Pantaloon in black

Poetry

When you have seen the brown November wood

November

Selected Articles

Main Street twenty years after

Plain speaking about Latin America

Fiction

The pilgrim hawk:
A novel in two parts (part one)


An evening in Nuevo Leon

Poetry

Ice storm

December

Selected Articles

The United States Army

To our new prophets

Fiction

Savora's

The pilgrim hawk:
A novel in two parts (part two)


Poetry

Center square

Under the stairs of heaven

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