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"America’s Best Magazine?: Commentary in the 1960s"

April 18, 2013 - Alexandra Wetegrove

"America’s Best Magazine?: Commentary in the 1960s"
A case of materials from the Commentary magazine archive is on display in the lobby for the Morris Dickstein lecture. Photo by Alicia Dietrich.
A case of materials from the Commentary magazine archive is on display in the lobby for the Morris Dickstein lecture. Photo by Alicia Dietrich.

In conjunction with tonight’s lecture by author Morris Dickstein, an accompanying display case in the Ransom Center’s lobby features items from the Center’s Commentary magazine archive. Dickstein’s lecture, titled “America’s Best Magazine?: Commentary in the 1960s,” takes place tonight at 7 p.m. in the Prothro Theater. The Commentary magazine archive was donated to the Center in 2011.

Materials on display include a 1961 subscriber survey, a 1986 exchange of letters between Allen Ginsberg and Commentary editor Norman Podhoretz, and the May 1952 issue of the magazine, which contains the first American publication of “Diary of Anne Frank.”

This program is co-sponsored by the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies at The University of Texas at Austin. The Albert and Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation made a generous donation to support this program and the cataloging of the Commentary magazine archive.

Filed Under: Authors, Exhibitions + Events Tagged With: “Diary of Anne Frank”, Allen Ginsberg, Bernard Malamud, Commentary magazine, Elie Wiesel, James Baldwin, Morris Dickstein, Norman Mailer, Norman Podhoretz, Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies, The Albert and Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation, The University of Texas at Austin

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