Bohemians, bootleggers, flappers, and swells: the best of early Vanity fair

Vanity Fair and the birth of the new / Graydon Carter

1910s. The physical culture peril (May 1914) / P. G. Wodehouse ; August Strindberg (October 1914) / Georg Brandes ; The world's new art centre (January 1915) / Frederick James Gregg ; Are odd women really odd? (June 1915) / Hyman Strunsky ; New York women who earn $50,000 a year (August 1915) / Anne O'Hagan ; Any porch (poetry) (September 1915) / Dorothy Rothschild (Parker) ; Football and the new rules (September 1915) / Walter Camp ; War scenes across the Canadian border (October 1915) / Stephen Leacock ; Are the rich happy? (December 1915) / Stephen Leacock ; An Afghan in America (February 1916) / Syyed Shaykh Achmed Abdullah ; The art of being a bohemian (March 1916) / Robert C. Benchley ; Why I haven't married (October 1916) / Dorothy Rothschild (Parker) ; Men: a hate song (poetry) (February 1917) / Dorothy Rothschild (Parker) ; The shifting night life of New York (February 1917) / James L. Ford ; Actresses: a hate song (poetry) (May 1917) / Dorothy Rothschild (Parker) ; Relatives: a hate song (poetry) (August 1917) / Dorothy Rothschild (Parker) ; George Jean Nathan (November 1917) / The editors ; From left to right in the movies (January 1918) / Douglas Fairbanks ; Excursions into Hunland (March 1918) / Lieut. E. M. Roberts, R. F. C. ; The great American army (poetry) (June 1918) / Gertrude Stein ; The gateway to an artificial paradise: the effects of hashish and opium compared (October 1918) / Arthur Symons ; Our office: a hate song (poetry) (May 1919) / Dorothy Parker

1920s. William Somerset Maugham: a pen portrait by a friendly hand (January 1920) / Hugh Walpole ; My autobiography (January 1920) / A. A. Milne ; The higher education on the screen (February 1920) / Robert E. Sherwood ; Mr. Wilson's inelastic intelligence (February 1920) / John Jay Chapman ; The lamps of Limehouse (short story) (March 1920) / Thomas Burke ; "Hippocketiquette" (April 1920) / Richard Connell ; Poems (November 1920) / Edna St. Vincent Mlllay ; This is a magazine (December 1920) / F. Scott Fitzgerald ; Sport for art's sake (September 1921) / Heywood Broun ; Memoirs of court favourites (November 1921) / Noël Coward ; James Joyce (March 1922) / Djuna Barnes ; Without the cane and the derby (poetry) (May 1922) / Carl Sandburg ; I like Americans: they are so ridiculous (poetry) (August 1922) / Edna St. Vincent Millay (pseudonym Nancy Boyd) ; The public and the artist (October 1922) / Jean Cocteau ; The high-low controversy (January 1923) / Randolph Dinwiddie ; The early days of Pablo Picasso (May 1923) / Max Jacob ; Jazz: a brief history (June 1923) / Samuel Chotzinoff ; Poems (July 1923) / T. S. Eliot ; An essay on behaviorism (October 1923) / Bertrand Russell ; The woman behind the mask (short story) (November 1924) / Colette ; When Calvin Coolidge laughed (April 1925) / e. e. cummings ; What, exactly, is modern? (May 1925) / Aldous Huxley ; Poems (September 1925) / Langston Hughes ; The education of Harpo Marx (March 1926) / Alexander Woollcott ; Hello, big boy (June 1926) / Sherwood Anderson ; A western reunion (short story, in telegrams) (August 1926) / Geoffrey Kerr ; Liberty, equality, fraternity (December 1926) / Clarence Darrow ; Some American expatriates (April 1927) / Ford Madox Ford ; Blazing publicity (September 1927) / Walter Lippmann ; A primer of Broadway slang (November 1927) / Walter Winchell ; Russia: the great experiment (June 1928) / Theodore Dreiser ; Do women change? (April 1929) / D. H. Lawrence ; If you are going to Antibes (July 1929) / Alexander Woollcott ; An American Museum of Modern Art (November 1929) / Alfred H. Barr Jr. ; The extremely moving pictures (December 1929) / Thomas Mann

1930s. A stock market post-mortem (January 1939) / David Cort ; A portrait of Joan Crawford (June 1930) / Douglas Fairbanks Jr. ; A close-up of Cole Porter (February 1931) / Charles G. Shaw ; Twilight of the economic gods (April 1931) / Jay Franklin ; Banks and the collapse of money values (January 1932) / J. M. Keynes ; The babe (May 1932) / Paul Gallico ; Bootlegging for Junior (June 1932) / Dalton Trumbo ; The Jimmy Walker era (December 1932) / Alva Johnston ; When lovely women stooped to the follies (February 1933) / Helen Brown Norden ; The moll in our midst (August 1934) / Stanley Walker ; Little Caruso (short story) (October 1934) / William Saroyan ; Tarzan;ape-man into industry (January 1935) / Darwin l. Teilhet ; The grand guillotiner of Paris (May 1935) / Janet Flanner ; The bums at sunset (short story) (October 1935) / Thomas Wolfe ; Golden swank (February 1936) / Allene Talmey.