New Yorker Magazine June 10 1944 Nabokov Langston Hughes Steichen Addams VFNM

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The New Yorker Magazine June 10, 1944, the complete issue in beautiful shape. Christina Malman gives us a wonderfully expansive wartime view of New York from an open window high above Riverside Park. Far below, the curving parkway is crowded with automobiles and buses, pedestrians move through the green lawns and promenades, and sailboats dot the Hudson, with the Palisades stretching along the opposite shore. The domestic framing of curtain, window sash, and brick wall turns the panorama into a private New Yorker moment: an enormous city and river landscape enjoyed from the quiet of an apartment window. The New Yorker identifies Malman as the artist of the June 10, 1944 cover. Published only four days after the Allied landings in Normandy, this is an extraordinary wartime issue whose editorial contents were necessarily prepared before D-Day. The tension of that waiting period is nowhere more palpable than in Mollie Panter-Downes’s Letter from London, written while Britain awaited the invasion across the Channel. Elsewhere, Matthew Josephson concludes his extensive Profile of photographer Edward Steichen; Daniel Lang tells the story of a young Brooklyn soldier’s captivity in a German prison camp; Philip Hamburger writes about the great jurist Learned Hand; and Andy Logan visits composer Kurt Weill. Poetry includes Vladimir Nabokov and Langston Hughes, while the cartoons include Charles Addams, Saul Steinberg, Helen E. Hokinson, William Steig, Perry Barlow, Garrett Price, and o

• Publisher: New Yorker
• Year: 1944
• Condition: Fine

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