February 1963 Issue, THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY

- Washington, pp. 6-13
- West Germany , pp. 14-21
- France , pp. 22-33
- Guinea , pp. 34-46
- Lean Times in Boston
  Charles W. Morton
  , pp. 47-54
  Depression and the Drys
- Cuba and the Nuclear Risk
  Walter Lippmann
  , pp. 55-58
- How Not To Teacher Teachers
  James D. Koerner
  , pp. 59-63
- Carry On, Carry On!
  J.B. Priestley
  , pp. 64-70
- The Motorcyclist's Song
  DeWitt Bell
  , p. 71
- The Window
  DeWitt Bell
  , p. 72
- Sailing to Italy
  Mark Strand
  , p. 72
- The Stranger
  Donald Finkel
  , p. 73
- The Lonely Two
  Augustus Napier
  , p. 73
- The Pride of the Morning
  Sue Kaufman
  , pp. 74-78
  A Story
- Must We Hate?
  Archibald MacLeish
  , pp. 79-82
- Monet: "Les Nympheas"
  W.D. Snodgrass
  , p. 83
- The Indiana Dunes and Pressure Politics
  William Peeples
  , pp. 84-88
- A Tune on a Bass Drum
  George H. Freitag
  , pp. 89-90
  A Story
- Lampedusa in Sicily
  Archibald Colquhoun
  , pp. 91-110
  The Lair of the Leopard
- Watch Their Smoke
  Charles W. Morton
  , p. 111
- The Irish Pub
  William Bittner
  , pp. 112-113
- The New Yorker's Tale
  Ernest Earnest
  , pp. 114-115
- The Telltale Art
  Margaret Bennett
  , pp. 116-117
- England
  Ken W. Purdy
  , pp. 118-123
- Record Reviews
  Herbert Kupferberg
  , pp. 124-125
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  The Peripatetic Reviewer (4 Reviews)
  Edward Weeks
  , pp. 126-127
  1. The Thoughts of Thoreau by Edwin Way Teale and Henry David Thoreau
  2. "In Wilderness Is the Preservation of the World" by Eliot Porter
  3. The Sand Pebbles by Richard McKenna
  4. Phoenix at Coventry: Building a Cat by Basil Spence
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  Reader's Choice Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymo... (7 Reviews)
  William Barrett
  , pp. 128-133
  1. Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour by J.D. Salinger
  2. The Politics of Hope by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
  3. The Deadlock of Democracy by James MacGregor Burns
  4. That Summer in Paris by Morley Callaghan
  5. Eternal Fire by Calder Willingham
  6. Sissie by John Alfred Williams
  7. The Street Where the Heart Lies by Ludwig Bemelmans
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  Potpourri Renoir, My Father, by Jean Renoir (5 Reviews)
  Phoebe Adams
  , pp. 134-138
  1. Renoir, My Father by Jean Renoir
  2. Renoir: His Life and Work by Francois Fosca
  3. The Centaur by John Updike
  4. John Adams by Page Smith
  5. Occasion for Loving by Nadine Gordimer
- Cover Design
  Russell Carpenter