1981/01 -- Contents as follows:

  • Cease This Madness -- Our Collision Course with the USSR -- by George F. Kennan
  • The New Snobbery: How to Show Off in America by John Brooks
  • The Rise of the Newsocracy: All the News All the Time by Louis Banks
  • New England Recaptured: The World of the Howes Brothers by Richard Wilbur

  • Understanding Islam: No More Holy Wars -- Toward a Christian-Muslim Dialogue -- by Harvey Cox

    • FICTION:

  • "Saints" by William Trevor
  • "The Honored Dead" by B. D'J Pancake
  • "Cleaving" -- An Atlantic First by Michael Cunningham -- Early fiction by Pulitzer Prize winning Cunningham (The Hours, 1999), referred to here as "a prizewinner in the American Short Story Contest last spring, studied writing at the University of Iowa and is currently a fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA."

    • POETRY:

  • "My Mother's Chess" by David Solway
  • "Wildfire" by Dave Smith
  • "The Laughter of Women" by Peter Davison
  • "Magician" by Gary Miranda

    • REPORTS & COMMENT:

  • Nigeria: Oil-Rich and Nervous by Pranay Gupte
  • Energy: The Myth of Independence by Stephen Chapman

    • LIFE & LETTERS:

  • What January Means to Me by Robert Strozier
  • Solving Problems by Henry Bromell
  • Elvis One More Time by Benjamin DeMott
  • PLA
  • Party of One by Thomas Griffith
  • The Mail
  • The Atlantic Puzzler