1981/07 -- Contents as follows:

  • Europe: The End of a Miracle by Edward Jay Epstein and Jeffrey Steingarten
  • Washington: The Vietnam Generation by James Fallows
  • "Pygmalion" -- A Story -- by John Updike
  • Among the Believers -- An Islamic Journey -- by V.S. Naipaul
  • Debating the Unknowable -- Some scientific arguments -- by Lewis Thomas
  • "Crossing the Divide" -- A Poem -- by David Wagoner
  • Flying Upside Down -- On the creation of a new computer -- by Tracy Kidder
  • Worsening Condition -- A Drawing -- by Edward Sorel
  • "In the Zoot Car" -- A Story -- by Heidi Jon Schmidt
  • "Flood" -- A Poem -- by William Matthews
  • Aerie -- A Drawing -- by Michael Crawford
  • World Food Supplies by Julian L. Simon
  • Don't Touch that Dial by Robert M. Strozier
  • Music/Classical Records by William H. Youngren
  • Books/Critical Condition by John Simon
  • Books/Making It Strange by John Bayley
  • Short Reviews by Phoebe-Lou Adams
  • Letters to the Editor
  • The Atlantic Puzzler