1980/09 -- Contents as follows:

  • American Industry: What Ails It, How to Save It by James Fallows
  • Is There a Russian Energy Crisis? by Marshall I. Goldman
  • The Silver Scam: How the Hunts Were Outfoxed by Alan Trustman
  • A State of Grace: Understanding the Martial Arts by Don Ethan Miller

  • The Cult of Candor by Warren Bennis

    • FICTION:

  • "Whatta We Got for the Folks This Week?" by Calvin Trillin
  • "Wissler Remembers" by Richard Stern
  • "In Quarantine" by Tracy Kidder

    • POETRY:

  • "Bears" by David Wagoner
  • "Continuum: A Love Poem" by Maxine Kumin
  • "Variation on the Word Sleep" by Margaret Atwood

    • REPORTS & COMMENT:

  • Cairo: Sadat's Mission by Milton Viorst
  • The South Pacific: Some Enchanted Prime Time by Barry Siegel

    • LIFE & LETTERS:

  • Major Minor Masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance by John Harris
  • A Couple of Three by Henry Bromell
  • Doctorow's Promise by Bejamin DeMott
  • PLA
  • Party of One by Thomas Griffith
  • The Mail
  • The Atlantic Puzzler