Using quantitative data on the book reviews and advertisements in the Nation and Athenaeum during the mid-1920s, this article argues that the Nation and Athenaeum, like its fellow intellectual weeklies, was characterized by a close and mutually beneficial relationship with the book trade. Rather than emphasizing imaginative literature, modernist or otherwise, the book-related content of the Nation and Athenaeum focused on a wide range of books. In particular, the periodical showed a preference for books most likely to attract individual book-buyers, a group believed to be largely coterminous with the audience for intellectual weekly periodicals.
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