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ENCOUNTER, edited in London by Stephen Spender
and
Melvin J. Lasky, is the most widely read monthly
of its type in the world. In the words of one
reviewer, "it is by far the most vital and immediate
of the English literary magazines, and unique
in the way it sees letters as being in the
thick
of affairs."
In 1959 ENCOUNTER published articles
by Bertrand Russell, R. H. S. Crossman, Arthur Koestler,
John Kenneth Galbraith, Joseph and Stewart Alsop,
W. H. Auden, F. W. Dupee, Harold Rosenberg, Thomas
B. Hess, Edmund Wilson, Anthony Powell, Vladimir
Nabokov, George F. Kennan, Malcolm Muggeridge, Dwight
Macdonald, Marcus Cunliffe, C. P. Snow, Jack Kerouac,
and many interesting writers of the younger
generation. Subjects discussed included Thomas Wolfe,
Lolita,
the Van Gogh letters, the Beatniks,
Freud and Havelock Ellis, the Berlin crisis, history as
literature, prostitution, trade unionism, Hollywood, and
developments behind the Iron Curtain. There were
poems
by Edwin Muir (his last), Philip Larkin and Robert
Lowell, stories, and some hard-hitting correspondence.
With over 60,000 words in each issue, ENCOUNTER gives
marvellous value at 75 cents a copy. Ask your book-
seller about it (he can order through the Eastern
News Co., New York)--or mail $7.50 for a year's
post-paid subscription to ENCOUNTER, 25 Haymarket,
London SW1 or British Publications Inc. 30 East 60th
Street, New York 22.
