1981/04 -- Contents as follows:

  • Paris: A Taste of the New Age by Mavis Gallant
  • "The Museum" -- A Story by Ian Frazier
  • The New Economic Faith by Robert B. Zevin
  • "Mushrooms" -- A Poem by Margaret Atwood
  • Medicine Without Science by Lewis Thomas
  • "In the Run" -- A Story by Philip Roth
  • "At the Corner of the Eye" -- A Poem by Robert Penn Warren
  • The Civilianization of the Army by James Fallows
  • Loss: A Guide to Economics by Roy Blount, Jr.
  • Ballet/Designer Dancing by Holly Brubach
  • Movies/Defending Mediocrity by Stephen Schiff
  • Music/Contemporary American Composers by Allen Shawn
  • Books/Improbably Assignment by Wilfrid Sheed
  • Short Reviews
  • "Rain in Ohio" -- A Poem by Mary Oliver
  • Letters to the Editor
  • The Atlantic Puzzler
  • Comic Art by Edward Sorel and Michael C. Witte