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IssueVol. 089 Issue 001 (January 1 2006)
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Paid articleForeword
JR, ARTHUR M. SCHLESINGER
Foreword By Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. Historically "small" magazines—small in their circulation, small in their life expectancy—have played an influential role in the whirligig known as...
Paid articleIntroduction
KOLATCH, MYRON
1924-2006 Introduction By Myron Kolatch THE HEADLINE on Charles McGrath's adroit New York Times feature story (January 23) reporting The New Leader's imminent demise read: "A Liberal Beacon...
Paid articleTHE EARLY YEARS
BELL, DANIEI
Learning History Firsthand The Early Years By Daniel Bell I BEGAN WRITING for THE NEW Leader in 1938, at age 19, when I was a senior at the City College of New York. I continued to do...
Paid articleThe Cold War Fifties
SHUB, ANATOLE
Analyzing a Divided World The Cold War Fifties By Anatole Shub When I came to work at The New Leader as an associate editor in February 1949, shortly after graduating from the City...
Paid articleAppointment with Destiny
MIHAJLOV, MIHAJLO
A Dissident's Tale Appointment with Destiny By Mihajlo Mihajlov Belgrade This is how it all started. In June 1964, under a cultural exchange program between Yugoslavia and the...
Paid articleAway from the Big Tents
JANEWAY, MICHAEL
In Search of a Craft Away from the Big Tents By Michael Janeway THE TIMES were on a hinge. Lyndon B. Johnson hadjust won 61 per cent of the Presidential vote against Barry Goldwater,...
Paid articleThis Boy's Politics
KELMAN, STEVEN
Navigating the Sixties This Boy's Politics By Steven Kelman This may sound strange—in retrospect, it does even to me—but in 1964, as a high school sophomore, I underwent a political...
Paid articleHow I Got My Master's
RAVITCH, DIANE
An Unconventional Education Howl Got My Master's By Diane Ravitch I graduated from college in 1960 and was married two weeks later. At age 221 had thus achieved my personal goal by getting a...
Paid articleMy Favorite Gig
KIRK, DONALD
Letter from Seoul My Favorite Gig By Donald Kirk Seoul IN the EARLY 1960s, as a fledgling newspaper reporter and graduate student at the University of Chicago, I hardly had time for...
Paid articleAn Experiment in Freedom
CLAUSEN, CHRISTOPHER
Second Thoughts An Experiment in Freedom By Christopher Clausen I became aware of The New Leader as a college freshman in 1961, not quite halfway through its life cycle and early in my...
Paid articleSPECIAL ISSUES
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Paid articlePicking Up the Ax
GILDER, GEORGE
A Mode of Skepticism Picking Up the Ax By George Gilder I first encountered The New Leader in the fall of 1957, at the Out of Town News kiosk in Harvard Square. Reaching out to me from...
Paid articleOpenness Was the Upside
GEWEN, BARRY
Resisting Rigidity Openness Was the Upside By Barry Gewen I was one of thousands of young PhDs churned out by the campus factories in the late 1960s and '70s. Eternal students, we had...
Paid articleWhile the City Slept
MERKIN, DAPHNE
Wite-Out Nights While the City Slept By Daphne Merkin WHEN I LOOK BACK at the years I wrote for TheNew Leader as first a book critic and then a movie critic—from 1977 through 1986, with...
Paid article1962 Cartoon
MYERS, LOU
FROM THE ISSUE OF MARCH 5,...
Paid articleSinging About the Culture
PETTINGELL, PHOEBE
Writers & Writing Singing About the Culture By Phoebe Pettingell IT is impossible for me to talk dispassionately about The New Leader. My first encounter with it came, somewhat...
Paid articleCritical Duties
ALLEN, BROOKE
On Fiction Critical Duties By Brooke Allen READERS OF The New Leader over the past several decades would name fiction as one of its central concerns. But this was not always the case: When...
Paid articleReel Pleasures
SHARGEL, RAPHAEL
On Screen Reel Pleasures By Raphael Shargel IN an episode of the short-lived 1990s television series The Critic, film reviewing was derided as one of the most hated professions. If there...
Paid articleThe Tube Effect
KITMAN, MARVIN
On Television The Tube Effect By Marvin Kitman Television is so good today because of my work at The New Leader from 1967 to 1987. Thanks to my 221 columns, comedies are funny, dramas are...
Paid articleExcerpts
FRANK, REUVEN
Reuven Frank was the NL's "On Television" columnist from June 1992 until his death at age 85 on February 5, 2006. He twice served as president of NBC News, won seven Emmys for documentaries he...
Paid articleMusic to Your Eyes
SIMON, JOHN
On Music Music to Your Eyes By John Simon The New Leader was a home base for me. At different times since 1961 I was its film, theater or culture critic, and I frequently...
Paid articleHello, I Must Be Going
KANFER, STEFAN
On Stage Hello, I Must Be Going By Stefan Kanfer ON Broadway, Off-Broadway, Off-Off Broadway, every actor, director and playwright, every stage, lighting and costume designer, wants...
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