The list of contributors is formidable: Isaiah Berlin, Joan Didion, Susan Sontag, Edmund Wilson, etc, etc.

ECONOMIST: Barbara Epstein, editor, died on June 16th, aged 77

In 1944, Edmund Wilson published an article in this magazine that contained some disparaging remarks about the mystery genre.

NEWYORKER: Easy Writers

However, the American critic Edmund Wilson famously dismissed the work as "juvenile balderdash", and Philip Toynbee wrote in 1961 that Tolkien's works had "passed into a merciful oblivion".

BBC: Rings fellowship keeps on growing

Despite the slightly tedious nostalgia for the world of the New York intellectuals and the patient outlets of nineteen-fifties high journalism, I doubt that Edmund Wilson or Alfred Kazin would rightfully find much to complain about.

NEWYORKER: Reality Effects

They are about the men and women active in the communist and labour movements in America during the late 1920s and 1930s, and on into the McCarthy aftermath Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers, Edmund Wilson, John L. Lewis (a union boss), the Reuther brothers, who brought General Motors to its knees, and others, many now forgotten.

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