1981/05 -- Contents as follows:

  • Reports & Comment: Wyoming: The Solace of Open Spaces by Gretal Ehrlich
  • Your Transit Commission by Garrison Keillor
  • America's High-Tech Weaponry by James Fallows
  • "Look Homeward, Angel" - a story by Philip Roth
  • Betrayal on the Left by Edward Sorel
  • "Crows" a poem by Charles Simic

  • A Father Figure for the Avant-Garde by Robert Palmer
  • "Pastoral" a poem by Ellen Bryant Voigt
  • "The Yellow Banana" a story by Patricia Volk
  • A Conversation With Garrett Hardin by Harold Hayes
  • "Night Blooming Flowers" a poem by Katha Pollitt
  • The Wins of the Great Plains by Charles Varon
  • Fashion/America the Comfortable by Holly Brubach
  • Music/Variations on the Sonata by William H. Youngren
  • Books/Public Philospher by Jack Beatty about John Kenneth Galbraith's "A Life in Our Times"
  • Letters to the Editor
  • The Atlantic Puzzler