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Archive: 1959

Faulkner, Nabokov, Hersey, Shirley Jackson, and some newcomers

by Paul Murphy Pickrel,

Battle hymn of the State Department

by Reginald Heber,

Rebuilding the foreign service

by James L. (James Lucian) McCamy,

Why today’s teen-agers seem so different

by Eugene Gilbert,

The genteel tradition on a southern campus

by David Boroff,

Is it Judge Crater’s body? A new clue in the most famous disappearance case of our century

by Murray Teigh Bloom,

The Next Election Is Already Rigged

by Richard L. (Richard Lee) Strout,

Why a fair ballot has become impossible in most states … how one farmer often outvotes 500 city-dwellers … and why our politicians refuse to fix the political breakdown which is crippling local governments.

Among our contributors

by Harper’s Staff,

Whose vote counts most?

The city that hid itself

by John Fischer,

An archaeological mystery story

Letters

by Harper’s Staff,

Untitled

Letter to a young man about to enter publishing

by Harper’s Staff,

The delights of literary lecturing

by Kingsley Amis,

American poetry’s silver age

by Stanley Kunitz,

Why American plays are not literature

by Robert Sanford Brustein,

Which side of the Atlantic?

by C.P. (Charles Percy) Snow,

Archive: 1959

Jazz notes

And also . . .

The greatest living composer

Books in brief

Faulkner, Nabokov, Hersey, Shirley Jackson, and some newcomers

Damp stamp

Mr. Wright’s museum

Medicine man from Alabama

Three poems

Battle hymn of the State Department

Rebuilding the foreign service

Why today’s teen-agers seem so different

The marooned

Fashions in medicine

The blessing

The genteel tradition on a southern campus

The virgins and the empress

The plague of the locus

Is it Judge Crater’s body? A new clue in the most famous disappearance case of our century

Kind sir

The Next Election Is Already Rigged

Among our contributors

The city that hid itself

Letters

Untitled

Letter to a young man about to enter publishing

The delights of literary lecturing

American poetry’s silver age

Why American plays are not literature

Which side of the Atlantic?

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Archive: 1959

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Jazz notes

And also . . .

The greatest living composer

Books in brief

Faulkner, Nabokov, Hersey, Shirley Jackson, and some newcomers

Damp stamp

Mr. Wright’s museum

Medicine man from Alabama

Three poems

Battle hymn of the State Department

Rebuilding the foreign service

Why today’s teen-agers seem so different

The marooned

Fashions in medicine

The blessing

The genteel tradition on a southern campus

The virgins and the empress

The plague of the locus

Is it Judge Crater’s body? A new clue in the most famous disappearance case of our century

Kind sir

The Next Election Is Already Rigged

Among our contributors

The city that hid itself

Letters

Untitled

Letter to a young man about to enter publishing

The delights of literary lecturing

American poetry’s silver age

Why American plays are not literature

Which side of the Atlantic?

November 1959

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