Encounter (magazine)
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| description | Anglo-American culture magazine |
| language | English |
| First edition | 1953 |
| attitude | 1990 |
| ISSN (print) | 0013-7073 |
Encounter was a controversial literary magazine founded in 1953 by the poet Stephen Spender and the writer Irving Kristol and published in England. In 1990 the magazine stopped its publication. It was primarily an intellectual culture magazine for an Anglo-American readership.
Spender was the editor until 1966 . The reason for Donor's withdrawal was the uncovering of covert CIA funding for the magazine through the Association for Cultural Freedom , which he was unaware of. It caused a scandal among European and American intellectuals that has since overshadowed the literary content of the magazine. The Encounter was the British counterpart to the French magazine Preuves , the Italian magazine Tempo presente , the Austrian magazine FORVM and the German magazine The Month.
During the time of Melvin J. Lasky , who succeeded Kristol in 1958 and was its editor-in-chief until he was hired, the Encounter enjoyed its greatest success in terms of readership and influence. The other editors in this era were Frank Kermode and D. J. Enricht .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Frances Stonor Saunders: Modern art was CIA 'weapon'. Revealed: how the spy agency used unwitting artists such as Pollock and de Kooning in a cultural cold war. October 21, 1996, accessed April 23, 2018 .
- ^ Wolf-Dieter Roth: German artists and journalists as "IM" of the USA? October 26, 2006, accessed April 23, 2018 .