Finks: how the CIA tricked the world's best writers

Introduction: A lit'r'y coup

Graduates

The responsibility of editors

Pasternak, the CIA, and Feltrinelli

The Paris Review goes to Moscow

Did the CIA censor its magazines?

James Baldwin's protest

Into India

The US coup in Guatemala

Cuba: a portrait by Figueres, Plimpton, Hemingway, García Márquez, part 1

Cuba: a portrait by Plimpton, Hemingway and García Márquez, part 2

Tools rush in: Pablo Neruda, Mundo Nuevo and Keith Botsford

The vital center cannot hold

Blowback

Coda: Afghanistan.