1981/02 -- Contents as follows:

  • Back to the Gold Standard? by James K. Glassman
  • Teaching a Stone to Talk - a meditation on silence - by Annie Dillard
  • Rite of Passage - Watching old age turn into a childhood; a memoir -- by Anthony Brandt
  • Of Sex and the Catholic Church - Liberal Catholics confront the intransigence of the Vatican -- by Francis X. Murphy, C.SS.R.
  • Artists' Valentines - A portfolio - by Miriam Schapiro, Tood McKie, Hannah Wilke, Ellen Lanyln, Alfred Leslie
  • Unwanted Immigrants: Cuban Prisoners in America by James Conaway

    • FICTION:

  • "A Trip to Seaside" by V.S. Pritchett
  • "Tomcat" by Jim Shepard

    • POETRY:

  • "Art" by Michael Harris
  • "Metaphors of Women" by Katha Pollitt
  • Untitled Poem by Alan Dugan
  • Some Younger Poets -- Barbara Thomsen, Fran Lindsay, Peggy Rizza, Ken Leeder, Brad Leithauser

    • REPORTS & COMMENT:

  • Czechoslovakia: The Party Is in Control by John Stone

  • Labor: What's a Job Worth? by Vivienne Killingsworth

    • LIFE & LETTERS:

  • The Ward Essaymatic 5000
  • Life in the Fast Lane by Donald McCaig
  • Dr. Eliot's Five-Foot Shelf by Jeff Wylie
  • Short Reviews
  • PLA by Phobe-Lou Adams
  • The Mail
  • The Atlantic Puzzler