August 1944
In This Issue
Explore the August 1944 print edition below. Or to discover more writing from the pages of The Atlantic, browse the full archive.
Articles
I Tried to Be a Communist
“I asked for a definition of what was expected from the writers—books or political activity. Both, was the answer.”
Unlucky Soldier
Looking Over the Oscars
Baser English
Invisible Eye
Portrait of an Artist
Sugar in the Gourd
Non-Drinking Song
The Peripatetic Reviewer
Thank God for Sitwells
The Time for Decision
Lebanon
The Rest of Your Life
Leave Her to Heaven
The World of Washington Irving
FOREWORD. In The Flowering of New England, Van Wyck Brooks conceived and animated a new form of literary history. Perceptive and illuminating, his studies of American writers are a skillful blending of the individual essence with the temper of the times. In his new book, of which we shall publish more than a third, Mr. Brooks turns to New York and Philadelphia to appraise those authors and artists who were at their zenith in the early nineteenth century.
Latin America
The Atlantic Report on the World Today: Washington
European Front
Policing Germany by Air
What to Do With Bad Boys
In the May Atlantic Judge Perkins of the Boston Juvenile Court examined the practice and theory of Individual Treatment as it has been applied to juvenile offenders. Responding to his leading article, “Common Sense and Bad Boys,” came many letters and articles by social workers and psychiatrists, by penologists and guards in our prison camps, by fellow jurists, heads of foundations, and parents.
Reading Your Mind
Was This Romance?
I Tried to Be a Communist
Mark Twain: Business Man: Letters and Memoirs
Preface
Slanting the News
The Pacific War
In Defense of the Press
First Day Finish
Courage
The Florida Ditches
