1981/09 -- Contents as follows:

Reports & Comment:

  • Washington: The Return of the ABM by Fred Kaplan
  • Resources: Oil, Fish, and Georges Bank by William MacLeish
  • "Cathedral" a short story by Raymond Carver
  • "Kneeling Down to Look Into a Culvert" a poem by Robert Bly
  • The Kingdom of Auschwitz by Otto Friedrich
  • "The Prophet's Hair" a short story by Salman Rushdie

  • The Voter a drawing by Edward Sorel
  • The Fight to Save Big Sur by Anthony Brandy

    • Young Poets:

  • "Dame Alys" by Kathleen Atkins
  • "Vermeer" by Mark Irwin
  • "Trees That Pass Us in Our Cars" by Wesley McNair

  • "Tarantelle" by Janet MacFadyen
  • "Nights in Kustenja" by Jim Merrow
  • "Prodigy" by Lynne McMahon
  • List of Funny Names Released by Ian Frazier
  • Music/The True Biography of Maria Callas by Lloyd Schwartz
  • Theater/ Royally Nicked by James Wolcott

  • Ballet/ Moving Pictures by Holly Brubach
  • Short Reviews by Phoebe-Lou Adams
  • Letters to the Editor
  • The Atlantic Puzzler