1983/02 — Contents as follows:
Reports & Comment:
Voting: What Midterm Results Mean by Richard M. Scammon
Washington: Less Red Ink by Milton Friedman
Paris: Unhappy Allies by John Carson Parker
Watching the Russians by Cullen Murphy
Mrs. Six Legs — A short story by Edward Minus
White Clover — A poem by Marvin Bell
Lift — A drawing by [...]
1982/12 — Contents as follows:
Reports & Comment:
Smyrna, Tenn: A Japanese Auto Maker Finds a Home by Michael Lenehan
Morocco: A Friend in Need by Pranay Gupte
The Price of Power by Seymour M. Hersh – Kissinger, Nixon, and Chile
“The Chambered Nautilus” a short story by H.L. Mountzoures
Assisting Stravinsky by Robert Craft – A misunderstood [...]
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 [...]
1982/08 — Contents as follows:
Reports & Comment:
Economics: Producing Something from Nothing by Robert B. Zevin
Tegucigalpa: Honduras on the Edge by Loren Jenkins
Argentina: The Falklands and Colonialism by J.P. Taylor
The Politics of Crime – Powerful forces oppose the steps that could reduce violent crime – by Richard Neely
The Quality of the Instrument – [...]
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 [...]
1982/05 — Contents as follows:
Reports & Comment:
Washington: Endless Deficits by James Fallows
Solar Energy: No Profit in Politics by Byron Harrin
Kissinger and Nixon in the White House by Seymour M. Hersh
The Power of Positive Buying by Robert M. Strozier
Where the Water is Wide – A Short Story by Dianne Benedict
Charming – A [...]
1982/04 — Contents as follows:
Reports & Comment:
The United Nations: Rules of the House by Bernard D. Nossiter
Conservation: Counting the Whales by William McCloskey
Chicago Highbrow by James Atlas
Promising the Air — A poem by Stnaley Plumly
Intersection — A drawing by Guy Billout
The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert A. Caro
Visitors — a short [...]
1982/03 — Contents as follows:
Reports & Comment:
Foreign Policy: Outmoded Assumptions by Henry Steele Commager
Northfield, Vt.: Scratching the Surface by Floyd C. Stuart
Broken Windows – Every neighborhood desperately wants order, but we are relucatant to let police maintain it — by James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling
Playing Trombone – a short story [...]
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 [...]
1982/01 — Contents as follows:
Reports & Comment:
Cancun: “North” and “South” at the Summit by Sanford J. Ungar
London: Local Surprises by Janet Morgan
Cairo: They Don’t Miss Sadat by Jennifer Seymour Whitaker
The Economy: Inflation and Uncertainty by John Case
The Kennedy Imprisonment – Part 1. The Prisoner of Charisma – On John F. Kennedy and [...]
1981/10 — Contents as follows:
Reports & Comment:
Kyoto: A Gorgeous “Na” Melody by Mary Jo Salter
Krakow: Russophobia in Poland by Timothy Crouse
Living on the Fault Line by James Fallows
The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert A. Caro
An Instinct fr the Game by David Halberstam – what it takes to play in the NBA
“The [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
1981/07 — Contents as follows:
Europe: The End of a Miracle by Edward Jay Epstein and Jeffrey Steingarten
Washington: The Vietnam Generation by James Fallows
“Pygmalion” — A Story — by John Updike
Among the Believers — An Islamic Journey — by V.S. Naipaul
Debating the Unknowable — Some scientific arguments — by Lewis Thomas
“Crossing the Divide” — A [...]
1981/05 — Contents as follows:
Reports & Comment: Wyoming: The Solace of Open Spaces by Gretal Ehrlich
Your Transit Commission by Garrison Keillor
America’s High-Tech Weaponry by James Fallows
“Look Homeward, Angel” – a story by Philip Roth
Betrayal on the Left by Edward Sorel
“Crows” a poem by Charles Simic
A Father Figure for the Avant-Garde by Robert Palmer
“Pastoral” [...]
1981/04 — Contents as follows:
Paris: A Taste of the New Age by Mavis Gallant
“The Museum” — A Story by Ian Frazier
The New Economic Faith by Robert B. Zevin
“Mushrooms” — A Poem by Margaret Atwood
Medicine Without Science by Lewis Thomas
“In the Run” — A Story by Philip Roth
“At the Corner of the Eye” — A [...]
1981/02 — Contents as follows:
Back to the Gold Standard? by James K. Glassman
Teaching a Stone to Talk – a meditation on silence – by Annie Dillard
Rite of Passage – Watching old age turn into a childhood; a memoir — by Anthony Brandt
Of Sex and the Catholic Church – Liberal Catholics confront the intransigence of the [...]
1981/01 — Contents as follows:
Cease This Madness — Our Collision Course with the USSR — by George F. Kennan
The New Snobbery: How to Show Off in America by John Brooks
The Rise of the Newsocracy: All the News All the Time by Louis Banks
New England Recaptured: The World of the Howes Brothers by Richard Wilbur
Understanding [...]
1980/12 — Contents as follows:
Ulster’s Children by Robert Coles
Words Upon the Greatness of William McGonagall
The Names of Christmas by John Ciardi
“Look Out for Turkey Wart” And other advice from Thurber to E.B. White by James Thurber
Museums and Hype by Deborah Trustman
FICTION:
“The Man Who Counted” by John P. Sisk
“The Twisted River” by Peter Meinke [...]
1980/11 — 123rd Anniversary IssueContents as follows:
The Wallenberg Mystery by Kati Marton
Escape From Boredom: A Defector’s Story by Nora Beloff
Shooky Fink’s Backyard Diamond by John McCormick
Environmental Vigilante by Kenneth Brower
Margaret Drabble: Cautious Feminist by Diana Cooper Clark
FICTION:
“My Uncle’s Story” by Leslie Norris
“A.D. 991″ by Jorge Luis Borges
“Baby Boom” by Jeffrey Blum
POETRY:
“The Last Thing [...]
1980/10 — Contents as follows:
The Presidential Race: Decision or Deadlock
Foreward by Robert Manning
Looking at Reagan by James Conaway
Is It All Carter’s Fault? by James Fallows
What Happens If Nobody Wins by Laurence H. Tribe and Thomas M. Rollins
Governor vs. Governor by Stephen Chapman
Portfolio: The Photographer as Artist by Arnold Newman and Henry Geldzahler
The Triumph of [...]
1980/09 — Contents as follows:
American Industry: What Ails It, How to Save It by James Fallows
Is There a Russian Energy Crisis? by Marshall I. Goldman
The Silver Scam: How the Hunts Were Outfoxed by Alan Trustman
A State of Grace: Understanding the Martial Arts by Don Ethan Miller
The Cult of Candor by Warren Bennis
FICTION:
“Whatta We [...]
1980/08 — Contents as follows:
Picking the President: Time to Change the Rules by Terry Sanford
Learning the Language, From A to M — Adventures in etymology — by John Ciardi
“I Thought My Last Hour Had Come …” – An eyewitness account of the bombing of Hiroshima — by Robert Guillain
Lunch With Anthony Blunt by H. Bibesco
Good-bye [...]
1980/07 — Contents as follows:
The Politics of Grain by Dan Morgan
The Cruelest Game by E.J. Kahn, Jr. about backgammon
Making It Through Hard Times by Ann Banks
The Doomsday Scenario by Deborah Trustman
FICTION:
“Poppa’s Books” by Jay Neugeboren
“Who He Slept By” by Linda Svendsen
POETRY:
“The Surround” by James Dickey
“Three Poems by Jorge Luis Borges
“Fog” by [...]
1980/06 — Contents as follows:
Playing Games The Case Against the Moscow Olympics by Joseph Brodsky
How to Avert a New “Cold War” by George McGovern
The Future of the Photovoltaic Cell by Tracy Kidder
The Third Kind of Knowledge by Robert Fitzgerald
Annie, Don’t Get Your Gun by Mary Jo Salter
FICTION:
“St. Stephen’s Green” by Kay Boyle
“Uncle Sidney [...]
