Coming in the June Atlantic
THE SOLITUDE OF FAULKNER
by Malcolm Cowley
Heretofore unpublished correspondence between the noted critic and great writer makes a literary feast in which publicity-shy William Faulkner exposes his private thoughts about his work and his fierce determination not to reveal “that something breathing and moving sat behind the typewriter.”
The Angry Doctor Szasz
by Edwin M. Schur
About the iconoclastic psychiatrist who charges his professional colleagues with violating ethics and abusing the civil rights of many of the 250,000 Americans who are committed to mental institutions each year.
The White Northerners:
Pride and Prejudice
Dr. Robert Coles examines the reflexes and motivations that make for anti-Negro politics in the big cities, and Peggy Lamson portrays in words one of the rising figures in metropolitan racial politics, Mrs. Louise Day Hicks of Boston.
The Failure of Collective Bargaining
by A. H. Raskin
A leading labor reporter examines the breakdown of traditional labor-management techniques — and the cost to the public — as dramatized in recent newspaper, transit, and other strikes.
And among other features:
A new poem by James Dickey, winner of the 1966 National Book Award for poetry; an Atlantic “First” story; N. J. Berrill on The Roots of Human Nature.