1980/08 -- Contents as follows:

  • Picking the President: Time to Change the Rules by Terry Sanford
  • Learning the Language, From A to M -- Adventures in etymology -- by John Ciardi
  • "I Thought My Last Hour Had Come ..." - An eyewitness account of the bombing of Hiroshima -- by Robert Guillain
  • Lunch With Anthony Blunt by H. Bibesco
  • Good-bye to the Ink-Stained Wretch by Steve Lohr

    • FICTION:

  • "Regards at Home" by Richard Yates
  • "The List" by Phyllis Kalb

    • POETRY:

  • "To Dorothy on Her Exclusion from the Guinness Book of World Records" by X.J. Kennedy

  • "Barn Swallow" by Michael Harris
  • "Night Swim" by William Pitt Root

    • REPORTS & COMMENT:

  • The Open Convention: A Kennedy Scenario by Martin Plissner
  • Peking: Waiting to Be Westernized by Ross Terrill
  • Nicaragua: After the Revolution by Edward Holland

    • LIFE & LETTERS:

  • Ward's Works of Wisdom for Husbands and Wives by Andrew Ward
  • Art Notes by Alexander Eliot
  • The Dimming of Stanley Kubrick by Henry Bromell is about The Shining
  • Short Reviews
  • PLA
  • The Wary Traveler by Caskie Stinnett
  • The Mail
  • The Atlantic Puzzler