1982/10 -- Contents as follows:

Reports & Comment:

  • London: God Save the Monarch by Bernard Levin
  • Washington: Outside the Mainstream by Jennifer Seymour Whitaker
  • Divad -- The Army's new "ultra" weapon may not work very well, but it's expensive - by Gregg Easterbrook

  • Loyal - A Poem by William Matthews

  • Monday NIghts - A Short Story by Jane Mankiewicz

  • If Snakes Were Blue - A Poem by Robert Penn Warren
  • The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert A. Caro
  • Migrant Mother, 1936 - A Poem by David Ray
  • Gravity - A Drawing by Guy Billout

  • Hollow - A Short Story by Breece D'J Pancake

  • Street Cries - A Poem by George Starbuck

  • Yoga for Masochists by Don Lessem
  • Music - Jazz Records: Gil Evans by Michael Ullman
  • Music: Better Played than Sung - Orchestra Musicians are more accomplished than ever, but where are the Wagnerian singers? by William H. Youngren

  • Movies: Child's Eye, Adult's Hand - Steven Spielberg's anomalous view of modern life by Lloyd Rose

  • Books: Languid, but Never Dull - John Updike's Bech Is Back by James Atlas
  • Short Reviews by Phoebe-Lou Adams
  • Letters to the Editor
  • The Atlantic Puzzler