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Introduction / Fiona Green -- I. Magazine and Marketplace. The New Yorker, the middlebrow, and the periodical marketplace in 1925 / Faye Hammill -- 'We stand corrected': New Yorker fact-checking and the business of American accuracy / Sarah Cain -- Marianne Moore and the hidden persuaders / Fiona Green -- II. Self-Fashioning. Philip Roth's kinds of writing / Bharat Tandon -- Spark's proofs / Deborah Bowman -- Sylvia Plath and 'The blessed glossy New Yorker' / Linda Freedman -- The distraction of John Cheever / Tamarra Follini -- III. Lightness and Gravity. Portrait of the rabbit as a young beau: John Updike, New Yorker humorist / Thomas Karshan -- Sports at The New Yorker / Kasia Boddy -- The New Yorker life of Hannah Arendt's mind / Duncan Kelly -- On blustering: Dwight Macdonald, modernism and The New Yorker / Tom Perrin. |
