1981/08 -- Contents as follows:

  • Washington Defense, Taxes and the Budget by James Fallows
  • Hanoi: The Problems of Peace by Stanley Karnow
  • On Chekhov by Vladimir Nabokov -- one master explains another -- 5 pages
  • The Ultimate Toy by Tracy Kidder
  • During the War -- A Poem by Marvin Bell
  • The Wasp -- A Drawing by Edward Sorel

  • The Last of the Pure Baseball Men by Michael Lenehan Surviving in the corporate world of sports
  • The Tip-Top Club -- A Story by Garrison Keillor
  • Slow Motion -- A Poem by Amy Clampitt
  • Among the Believers: Pakistan by V.S. Naipaul
  • World Population Growth by Julian L. Simon
  • Partly Cloudy by Eleanor Perenyi
  • Books/In Praise of Dispraise by James Atlas
  • Books/Malone's Jefferson Concluded by Marvin Meyers
  • Short Reviews by Phoebe-Lou Adams
  • Letters to the Editor
  • The Atlantic Puzzler