Talk:Encounter (magazine)

Controversial?

While I'll agree that the funding scandal created controversy, I don't know that the magazine was ever considered controversial in terms of its actual content. Its main positions were well within the mainstream of western political thought and the views the authors expressed can't be considered much different than those in contemporary publications like The New Republic or The Atlantic Monthly' neither of which I think anyone would call "controversial." —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nsfreeman (talk • contribs) 11:43, March 14, 2007 (UTC)

Spender's resignation

This doesn't really make sense. Spender could hardly have resigned in 1966 over the CIA funding revelations if the self-same revelations did not emerge until the next year? Could he?—Preceding unsigned comment added by 155.245.110.104 (talk • contribs) 12:17, May 7, 2007 (UTC)

Unreferenced

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CIA agent was an editor

The quote in the article from Thomas Braden states that "Another agent became an editor of Encounter," but I have never heard this before. The quote is also from 1967 and I believe that more recent research has pretty much shown that those working at the various magazines had no idea that their funding was coming from the CIA, .

Unless someone has more recent information to the contrary, I was suggest that that part of Braden's quote be removed from the article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.167.100.82 (talk) 16:05, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

Really unencyclopedic writing

I am trying to rewrite this article for tone. Originally added here. I got through half of it. Namecheapblues (talk) 04:10, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

Please use edit summaries for any major edit. It really is not acceptable to cut 10K from an article without explanation. Charles Matthews (talk) 07:52, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

What you have done is made this article incomprehensible. I suggest you revert all of your edits and make your case here on the talk page for the changes you want to make. At this point, you have done more harm than good. ---The Old Jacobite_{The '45} 12:52, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

I'm beginning a copy edit, from the old version. Charles Matthews (talk) 14:41, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

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Unz citations

Yesterday, I removed many citations to The Unz Review website, a source which has been deprecated for several months. The website's list of articles from Encounter features scans of the front covers of each issue created, one assumes, without consent so the WP:COPYLINK policy applies and the website should not be cited. A substitute list of Encounter's content may not exist online, but I am not sure if a list of the contributors who had 10 or more articles published by the journal is particularly helpful. Philip Cross (talk) 07:27, 18 October 2021 (UTC)

Does anyone have access to a digital record of Edition VIII from the year 1957 or 1958 of the literary magazine Encounter?

The point is that this exact copy contains a highly interesting claim about the book, Story of O', that supposedly it was inspired by the Austrian philosoper Otto Weininger´s ideas about the absolute man and the absolute woman, and that role plaid by the character of ´O´ is a reflection of the absolute woman. I don´t cite the book that lists this edition of the magazine as a footnote within itself as a reference here, because the overrall subject of the book is too different from what is being discussed in the article here. StrongALPHA (talk) 10:29, 23 July 2023 (UTC)

I tried looking on the web archive, and I could only find other editions for it, but i´m looking for exactly viii. StrongALPHA (talk) 10:30, 23 July 2023 (UTC)

@Phillip Crosswould you know where I could potentially find such an edition? StrongALPHA (talk) 10:57, 23 July 2023 (UTC)