But most of the great voices of contemporary literature were published first in the pages of Novy Mir. Aleksandr T. Tvardovsky, the editor from 1958 until his forced retirement in 1970, was the most successful in negotiating the censorial shoals, and his scarred desk is preserved in Novy Mir's shabby office suite as a kind of shrine. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich,'' the simple story of a labor-camp inmate. Well, there was some truth in that,'' he judged, but only in comparison to ''the general ruck of uninspired journals, with their emetic subject matter and their deadening indifference to artistic quality.'' ''I still cannot help feeling that whatever Novy Mir did, it came nowhere near the limits of the possible,'' he wrote. Some Work Was Omitted Mr. Tvardovsky could not, or did not dare to put Mr. Solzhenitsyn's more daring works into print, and he reportedly recoiled when Mr. Solzhenitsyn pressed him to print other courageous writing, such as Varlam Shalamov's prison-camp stories.
Business Is Good Just now, the czar's health is robust.
Circulation has tripled in two years, to more than 1.5 million. Mr. Zalygin was elected in March to the new national Congress of People's Deputies. In the face of fierce competition to take advantage of glasnost, Novy Mir has managed its share of literary and critical exploits.