1982/06 -- Contents as follows:

Reports & Comment:

  • Indonesia: An Effort to Hold Together by James Fallows
  • Washington: Environmental Deregulation by David Osborne
  • Waiting for the End - Millions of Americans Expect Doomsday this Decade - by William Martin
  • Life Without Pain - A Short Story by Leslie Epstein

  • The Myth of Oppressive Corporate Taxes by Gregg Easterbrook
  • The One Girl at the Boys' Party - A Poem by Sharon Olds
  • Leaving Home - An Atlantic First - by Sue Miller
  • At City Hall - A Poem by Mary Jo Salter
  • Inevitable Revolutions - How the US has encouraged what it sought to prevent in Central America - by Walter LaFeber
  • What Could Happen - An Average Republican Meets the First Host - by Lynn Caraganis
  • Movies - Manufacturing "Annie" by Stephen Schiff

  • Books - Hard Times for Poets - Eileen Simpson's Poets in Their Youth - by Wilfrid Sheed

  • Books - Close to the Nerve - Thomas Hardy by Michael Millgate -- by Frank Kermode
  • Short Reviews by Phoebe-Lou Adams
  • Letters to the Editor
  • The Atlantic Puzzler