Truants
The Blacking Factory and Pennsylvania Gothic
by Wilfrid Sheed
Expensive People
by Joyce Carol Oates
The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B
by J.P. Donleavy
Eva Trout
by Elizabeth Bowen
January 2, 1969 issue
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Truants
The Blacking Factory and Pennsylvania Gothic
by Wilfrid Sheed
Expensive People
by Joyce Carol Oates
The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B
by J.P. Donleavy
Eva Trout
by Elizabeth Bowen
January 2, 1969 issue
Nice But Not Good
The Nice and the Good
by Iris Murdoch
Orchestra and Beginners
by Frederic Raphael
Gone a Hundred Miles
by Heather Ross Miller
April 11, 1968 issue
Catch-31
The Instrument
by John O'Hara
A Bad Man
by Stanley Elkin
Games of Chance
by Thomas Hinde
January 18, 1968 issue
Not Long Enough
Justice Hunger
by Meyer Liben
A Story that Ends with a Scream and Eight Others
by James Leo Herlihy
The Touching Hand
by Sallie Bingham
The Time of Friendship
by Paul Bowles
November 9, 1967 issue
Total Recall
Casualties of Peace
by Edna O'Brien
Digging Out
by Anne Richardson
Green Lights Are Blue
by Ursule Molinaro
Goodbye
by William Sansom
August 24, 1967 issue
“Eat! Eat!”
Thou Worm Jacob
by Mark Mirsky
Fathers
by Herbert Gold
The Carpenter Years
by Arthur A. Cohen
Poor George
by Paula Fox
June 1, 1967 issue
Updike, Dennis, and Others
The Music School
by John Updike
A House in Order
by Nigel Dennis
La Chamade
by Françoise Sagan
Any God Will Do
by Richard Condon
February 9, 1967 issue
Stevenson for Grown-Ups
From Scotland to Silverado
by Robert Louis Stevenson, edited by James D. Hart
Robert Louis Stevenson and the Fiction of Adventure
by Robert Kiely
January 26, 1967 issue
Anything Goes
The Anti-Death League
by Kingsley Amis
Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me
by Richard Fariña
The Time of the Hero
by Mario Vargas Llosa
October 6, 1966 issue
Private Fortunes
The Beginners
by Dan Jacobson
Tenants of the House
by Heather Ross Miller
Black Light
by Galway Kinnell
The Old Man at the Railroad Crossing and Other Tales
by William Maxwell
April 28, 1966 issue
Bouillabaisse
The Solid Mandala
by Patrick White
The Magus
by John Fowles
The Evening of the Holiday
by Shirley Hazzard
A True Story
by Stephen Hudson
March 17, 1966 issue
Out Our Way
The System of Dante's Hell
by LeRoi Jones
The Gold Diggers and Other Stories
by Robert Creeley
The Theologian
by William Harrison
January 20, 1966 issue
Queen for a Day
Miss MacIntosh, My Darling
by Marguerite Young
Totempole
by Sanford Friedman
The Nightclerk
by Stephen Schneck
November 25, 1965 issue
Big Winner
Esau and Jacob
by Machado de Assis
The Garden Where the Brass Band Played
by Simon Vestdijk
October 28, 1965 issue
Goodbye to All That
English Poetry of the First World War
by John H. Johnston
The Georgian Revolt
by Robert H. Ross
September 30, 1965 issue
Mixed Company
Mountain of Winter
by Shirley Schoonover
Knights and Dragons
by Elizabeth Spencer
August is a Wicked Month
by Edna O'Brien
Castle Keep
by William Eastlake
A Pile of Stones
by Hugh Nissenson
June 3, 1965 issue
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