[citation needed] In 1953, Kolatch joined the staff of The New Leader magazine (1923-2006), long run by Sol Levitas (who, among other things, was a member of the American Committee for Cultural Freedom).
Book of the Month Club had selectedStrategy of Deception: A Study of Worldwide Communist Tactics, edited by Jeane J. Kirkpatrick.
[5] He also hired Stanley Edgar Hyman as book reviewer with a regular column called "Writers and Writing.
Since I was a kid I was very interested in the whole growth and development of typography and moveable type, and I was in print shops, so I care a lot about graphic design.
[2]After The New Leader's reportage on Yugoslavian writer Mihajlo Mihajlov landed him in 1964, Kolatch wrote a foreword to his book, published in 1966.