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The New Yorker Full Magazine August 19, 1972 James Stevenson Cover
This complete vintage issue of The New Yorker, dated August 19, 1972, features a delightful cover illustration by James Stevenson, whose warm humor and keen observational wit made him one of the magazine’s most beloved contributors. Inside, this issue presents The New Yorker’s signature mix of literary finesse and cultural commentary, with fiction and essays by John Updike and Ted Walker, poetry by Mona Van Duyn and James Schuyler, and profiles and reportage by Gerald Jonas and Robert Coles.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
THE TALK OF THE TOWN – 19
“HOW TO LOVE AMERICA AND LEAVE IT AT THE SAME TIME” – John Updike – 25
“WALKING THE DOG: A DIATRIBE” (Poem) – Mona Van Duyn – 26
“THE SWAN MAN” – Ted Walker – 28
“BLUE” (Poem) – James Schuyler – 32
PROFILES (Dr. Neal E. Miller—I) – Gerald Jonas – 34
THE CURRENT CINEMA – Penelope Gilliatt – 58
MUSICAL EVENTS (Jazz Records) – Whitney Balliett – 62
THE RACE TRACK – Audax Minor – 67
BOOKS – Robert Coles – 68
BRIEFLY NOTED – 79
Cover: James Stevenson
Drawings: Charles Addams, Warren Miller, William Hamilton, Lee Lorenz, Mischa Richter, Everett Opie, J. B. Handelsman, Charles Barsotti, George Booth, Charles E. Martin, Donald Reilly, William O’Brian, Frank Modell.