Death of a Pig
“I just wanted to keep on raising a pig, full meal after full meal, spring into summer into fall.”
160 Years of Atlantic Stories
A year-by-year catalogue of some of the magazine's most momentous work.
Loot for the Master Race
“Göring resorted to every conceivable device to fill the walls and the coffers of Carinhall, bargaining, cheating, even invoking where necessary the prestige of German arms or the terrible threat of intervention by the Gestapo.”
As We May Think
“Consider a future device ... in which an individual stores all his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility. It is an enlarged intimate supplement to his memory.”
How Bad Is the Flu?
“The possibility of recurrent epidemics, perhaps of increasing virulence, even of another pandemic, must be faced.”
The Education of a Queen
Princess Elizabeth will be eighteen on her next birthday. How does her education compare with that of an American girl of the same age? And how does it compare with that of Victoria, who was also educated to be a queen?
China Emergent
As Chiang Kai-shek struggled against Japanese invaders from without and the Communist movement from within, his Wellesley College-educated wife decried the exploitation of China by the West and delineated a vision for a more democratic future.
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: Part I
In 1937, Rebecca West set out to see for herself why the "Powderkeg of Europe" had so often threatened the fate of the continent.
We Stand Here
Two Yale students defend their isolationism.
Concentration Camp
“Men ... are brought, for the 'protection of the people and the State,' into a concentration camp without hearing, without court sentence, without the possibility of redress, and for an indefinite time.”