September 1946

Articles

• Loot for the Master Race

  “Göring resorted to every conceivable device to fill the walls and the coffers of Carinhall, bargaining, cheating, even invoking where necessary the prestige of German arms or the terrible threat of intervention by the Gestapo.”

  James S. Plaut

• First Blood

  Geoffrey Household

• Wind and Wings

  Llewellyn Howland

• The Riddle of Russia

  George Soloveytchik

• 10.05

  Constance Carrier

• Fern Gravel: A Hoax and a Confession

  James Norman Hall

• C. S. Lewis, Apostle to the Skeptics

  » Here is the audacious story of what an Oxford don has done in his crusade against religious skepticism in the modern world.

  Chad Walsh

• The Stendhal Revival

  Matthew Josephson

• The Asses of Alfoxden

  Helen Bevington

• This Month

  C. W. M.

• Tips

  Clyde Brion Davis

• Reunion

  Frederick W. Branch

• The Burglar Trap

  Herbert Coggins

• Moon Cheese

  Howard Hayes

• No Laughing Matter

  Edwin O’Connor

• Gathering Windfalls

  Joyce Horner

• Conversation Piece

  Russell Maloney

• Buenos Aires Subways

  Ray Josephs

• Looking Down

  George Palmer Putnam

• The Peripatetic Reviewer

  Edward Weeks

• The Far East

• A Mixed Bag

  Richard E. Danielson

• Letter to a Young Writer

• Imperial Commonwlalth

  Ellery Sedgwick

• Independent People

  Bruce Lancaster

• Fanfare for Elizabeth

  Robert Hillyer

• The Idea of Christ in the Gospels

  Charles E. Park

• Nightmare Alley

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• The Burning Mountain

  George De F. Lord Jr.

• The Great Promise

  Bernard Malamud

• 70,000 to 1

  Richard E. Danielson

• While Time Remains

  James H. Powers

• Lafcadio Hearn

  John Ashmead Jr.

• Leo Tolstoy: The Later Years

  Ernest J. Simmons

• Palestine

• The Atlantic Report on the World Today: Washington

• The Southern Frontier

  Ellis Gibbs Arnall

• Rome

• Brave New World

  Archibald MacLeish

• Our Chances in China

  John K. Fairbank

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