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Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Introduction · David Remnick Part One · The War

A Note by George Packer Notes and Comment: September 2, 1939 · E. B. White Paris Postscript (On the Fall of France) · A. J. Liebling Letter from London (On the Blitz) · Mollie Panter-Downes Survival (On Lieutenant John F. Kennedy) · John Hersey Cross-Channel Trip (On D Day) · A. J. Liebling The Suspended Drawing Room (On post-Blitz London) · S. N. Behrman D Day, Iwo Jima · John Lardner Letter from Rome (On V-E Day) · Philip Hamburger Hiroshima · John Hersey

Part Two · American Scenes

A Note by Jill Lepore Notes and Comment: July 3, 1943 · E. B. White The Old House at Home (On McSorley’s Old Ale House) · Joseph Mitchell Opera in Greenville (On a lynching trial) · Rebecca West Letter from a Campaign Train (On the 1948 presidential campaign) · Richard Rovere Symbol of All We Possess (On the Miss America Pageant) · Lillian Ross

Part Three · Postwar

A Note by Louis Menand Notes and Comment: November 1, 1947 · E. B. White Greek Diary: Communists, Socialists, and Royalists · Edmund Wilson The Birch Leaves Falling (On the Nuremberg trials) · Rebecca West The Beautiful Spoils: Monuments Men (On Nazi art theft) · Janet Flanner Come In, Lassie! (On the Red Scare in Hollywood) · Lillian Ross Letter from Washington (On the North Atlantic Pact) · Richard Rovere Die Luftbrücke (On the Berlin airlift) · E. J. Kahn, Jr.

Part Four · Character Studies

A Note by Susan Orlean Notes and Comment: April 21, 1945 · E. B. White Pollen Man (On Walt Disney) · ST. Clair Mckelway and Harold Ross Rugged Times (On Norman Mailer) · Lillian Ross Lugubrious Mama (On Edith Piaf) · A. J. Liebling Gossip Writer (On Walter Winchell) · ST. Clair Mckelway Goethe in Hollywood (On Thomas Mann) · Janet Flanner La France et Le Vieux (On Marshal Pétain) · Janet Flanner The Hot Bach (On Duke Ellington) · Richard O. Boyer From Within to Without (On Le Corbusier) · Geoffrey T. Hellman The Great Foreigner (On Albert Einstein) · Niccolò Tucci The Years Alone (On Eleanor Roosevelt) · E. J. Kahn, Jr. El Único Matador (On Sidney Franklin) · Lillian Ross

Part Five · The Critics

Notes and Comment: December 12, 1948 · E. B. White Books

A Note by Joan Acocella Clifton Fadiman

Ernest Hemingway Crosses the Bridge (On For Whom the Bell Tolls)

Edmund Wilson

Why Do People Read Detective Stories? Jean-Paul Sartre: The Novelist and the Existentialist (On The Age of Reason)

Louise Bogan

Review of Lord Weary’s Castle (On Robert Lowell)

George Orwell

The Sanctified Sinner (On The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene)

W. H. Auden

Port and Nuts with the Eliots (On “Notes Towards the Definition of Culture” by T. S. Eliot)

Lionel Trilling

Orwell on the Future (On Nineteen Eighty-Four)

The Current Cinema

A Note by David Denby John Mosher

The Great Hildy (On His Girl Friday) Zanuck’s Joads (On The Grapes of Wrath) Charlie’s Hitler (On The Great Dictator) Childe Orson (On Citizen Kane)

David Lardner

Pre-Eisenhower (On Casablanca) Blood and Premiums (On Double Indemnity)

John Mccarten

Very Rare Vintage (On The Lost Weekend) None Better (On The Bicycle Thief)

The Theatre

A Note by Hilton Als Wolcott Gibbs

The Boys in the Back Room (On The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O’Neill) Well Worth Waiting For (On Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller) What a Wonderful War (On Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific)

Art & Architecture

A Note by Peter Schjeldahl Robert M. Coates

Assorted Moderns Georges Braque, and the American Abstract Artists

Lewis Mumford

Rockefeller Center Revisited The Architecture of Power

Musical Events

A Note by Alex Ross Robert A. Simon

Copland and Shostakovich Current and Recurrent (On Bernstein, Toscanini, and Armstrong)

Philip Hamburger

In the Hills (On Tanglewood) May Day at Loxford (On Benjamin Britten)

Winthrop Sargeant

The Violin and Szigeti

Feminine Fashions

A Note by Judith Thurman Lois Long

On the retail customer On ready-to-wear clothes On American milliners On French fashion On college clothes

Part Six · Poetry

A Note by Dan Chiasson Home Song · E. B. White The Unknown Citizen · W. H. Auden The Ritualists · William Carlos Williams Night Journey · Theodore Roethke Barroom Matins · Louis Macneice The End of the World · Malcolm Cowley The Blind Sheep · Randall Jarrell The Lovers · Conrad Aiken Sunday-Morning Prophecy · Langston Hughes A Poet Speaks from the Visitors’ Gallery · Archibald Macleish A Hundred Minnows · Mark Van Doren The Triumph of Education · Howard Nemerov At the Fishhouses · Elizabeth Bishop Aspects of Robinson · Weldon Kees Awaking · Stephen Spender At Yearsend · Richard Wilbur What I Know About Life · Ogden Nash The Bight · Elizabeth Bishop Song for the Last Act · Louise Bogan

Part Seven · Fiction

A Note by Zadie Smith The Second Tree from the Corner · E. B. White The Jockey · Carson Mccullers Graven Image · John O’hara The Patterns of Love · William Maxwell Act of Faith · Irwin Shaw The Enormous Radio · John Cheever My Da · Frank O’connor The Mysteries of Life in an Orderly Manner · Jessamyn West Symbols and Signs · Vladimir Nabokov The Lottery · Shirley Jackson The Beginning of a Story · Elizabeth Taylor The Ladder · V. S. Pritchett

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