1980/07 -- Contents as follows:

  • The Politics of Grain by Dan Morgan
  • The Cruelest Game by E.J. Kahn, Jr. about backgammon

  • Making It Through Hard Times by Ann Banks

  • The Doomsday Scenario by Deborah Trustman

    • FICTION:

  • "Poppa's Books" by Jay Neugeboren
  • "Who He Slept By" by Linda Svendsen

    • POETRY:

  • "The Surround" by James Dickey
  • "Three Poems by Jorge Luis Borges
  • "Fog" by Philip Booth
  • "Pound of Pasta" by Verne Alan Carter

    • REPORTS & COMMENT:

  • Latin America: The Revolutionary Bishops by Penny Lernoux
  • The Law: Collect $230 and Go to Jail by Maurice DeG. Ford

    • LIFE & LETTERS:

  • The Campaign for the North Meadow by Ronald Jager
  • A Thinking Man's Kurt Vonnegut by Benjamin DeMott
  • Short Reviews
  • PLA
  • Party of One by Thomas Griffith
  • The Mail
  • The Atlantic Puzzler