Morris Freedman’s “I Teach at CCNY”
Oscar Mandel’s “Dr. Watson to Dulcinea”
David Wykes’s “Orwell In the Trenches”
Harry S. Ashmore’s “Below the Bottom Line”
Stories by Morris Freedman, Oscar Mandel, David Wykes, and Harry S. Ashmore
Poetry by Louis Simpson, Dabney Stuart, Peter Balakian, and Hank Lazer
Harry S. Ashmore (1916-1998) was the executive editor of the Arkansas Gazette during the 1957 desegregation crisis at Little Rock’s Central High School and won the Pulitzer Prize for his editorials on the topic.