Encounter was a literary magazine, founded in 1953 by poet Stephen Spender and early neoconservative author Irving Kristol. The magazine ceased publication in 1991. Published in the United Kingdom, it was a largely Anglo-American intellectual and cultural journal. The magazine received covert funding from the Central Intelligence Agency, after the CIA and MI6 discussed the founding of an "Anglo-American left-of-centre publication" intended to counter the idea of cold war neutralism. The magazine was rarely critical of American foreign policy, but beyond this editors had considerable publishing freedom.[1] Spender served as literary editor until 1967, when he resigned[2] due to the revelation that year of the covert Central Intelligence Agency funding of the magazine, of which he had heard rumors, but had not been able to confirm.
Contents:
Foreword
Mexico City to Buenos Aires, by John Mander
They Gave Us the Land (story), by Juan Rulfo
Spectrum, by James Morris, Albert O. Hirschman, Victor Urquidi, Keith Botsford, Arnold Toynbee
The Spanish Heritage, by J.H. Elliott
Who Are the Indians?, by Jullian Pitt-Rivers
The Mexican Revolution, by Alistair Hennessy
The Brazilian Impasse, by Emanuel de Kadt
The Argentine Trouble, by S.E. Finer
A Visit to Neruda, By Alastair Reid
Poems by João Cabral de Melo Neto, Cesar Vallejo, Nicanor Parra, Octavio Paz, Carlos Drummond de Andrade
Art: International Style, by Lawrence Alloway
The Bones of Cuauhtémoc, by Lewis Hanke
The Modesty of History, by Jorge Luis Borges
The Chilean Experiment, by Hugh O'Shaughnessy
The Two Americas, by Richard Morse
The New Novelists, by Emir Rodríguez Monegal
Politics & Violence, by Malcolm Deas
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