1982/02 -- Contents as follows:

Reports & Comment:

  • The Bomb: The Last Epidemic by Peter H. Stone
  • Jerusalen: Symbols of Recognition by Richard Sennett
  • Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond? - The sentimental value of diamonds may be forever, but their market value is theatened from several directions -- by Edward Jay Epstein

  • Escape to the Past - There's still time to see Portugal before progress spoils the view -- by Eleanor Perenyi
  • Shiny Object - a short story by Dianne Benedict
  • On the Portch at the Frost Place, Franconia, NH -- a poem by William Matthews
  • The Kennedy Imprisonment -- Part 2 -- The Prisoner of Toughness -- by Garry Wills

  • Detour -- a drawing by Guy Billout
  • Vigil -- a short story by Kathleen Conlon
  • Drawn to Perspective - a poem by Charles Simic
  • The Singing-Impaired by Roy Blount, Jr.
  • Books - Interpreting the World -- Saul Bellow's new novel -- by James Atlas
  • Books - Double Moral Standards - The collected essays of Noam Chomsky -- by James Fallows
  • Short Reviews by Phoebe-Lou Adams
  • Letters to the Editor
  • The Atlantic Puzzler