Confrontation

Confrontation is the name of both a literary magazine and a left wing publication in The Illuminatus! Trilogy.

Historical
Confrontation Magazine began in 1968 "with the mission of bringing new talent to light in the shadows cast by well-known authors. Open to all submissions, each issue contains original work by famous and by lesser-known writers." Writers published in Confrontation include John Steinbeck, Derek Walcott, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Joseph Brodsky, Nadine Gordimer, S.Y. Agnon; W.H. Auden, Arthur Miller, Ned Rorem, Ed Bullins, Joyce Carol Oates, T.C. Boyle, Lanford Wilson, Cynthia Ozick, Paul Theroux, Walter Abish, and Susan Vreeland.

Conspiratorial
The editor of Confrontation in the trilogy is Joe Malik. He disappears after a bombing of the magazine's office. George Dorn is a reporter for Confrontation.