1980/04 — Contents as follows:To Draft or Not to Draft: Foreward by Robert Manning Why the Army Needs It by James Webb Why the Country Needs It by James Fallows Financing a College Education by Alston Chase Newspaper Days: Politics–We Are the Hostages by Ward Just The Rage to Know by Horace Freeland Judson FICTION: [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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” [...]
1968/12 — Contents as follows: Going Hungry in America by Elizabeth B. Drew “Conjectural Poem” by Jorge Luis Borges “Pictures of Fidelman” a story by Bernard Malamud The Decentralization Fiasco and Our Ghetto Schools by John R. Everett Detroyers, Defilers, and Confusers of Men by George P. Elliott “Weeds” a poem by Ann Stanford Postmark: [...]
1969/03 — Contents as follows: Reveille for Democrats by Bill Moyers “Patients” a Story by Jonathan Strong Further Thoughts on the Biological Revolution “The Summer People” a poem by James Merrill The Price of Free TV by Leonard Chazen Hadrian the Seventh On Stage and Off by Louis Kronenberger How to Teach a Delinquent THE [...]
1969/09 — Contents as follows: The Young and the Old: Notes on a New History – Part I – by Robert Jay Lifton “Tell Me, Doctor, Will I Be Active Right Up to the Last?” by Howard Luck Gossage Why Automobile Insurance Rates Keep Going Up by Gilbert B. Friedman Viewpoint: The President’s Making History [...]
1970/06 — Contents as follows: The God-Hucksters of Radio by William C. Martin Tale of Genji — A Poem — by Hugh Seidman Love and Death — A Story — by Joyce Carol Oates Who, Sir? Me, Sir? The Times, Sir! — A Poem — by Ogden Nash Indians in History by Alvin M. Josephy, [...]
1970/07 — Contents as follows: Let Us Now Appraise Famous Writers by Jessica Mitford King of the River — A Poem — by Stanley Kunitz The Recruiting Officer — A Story — by John McGahern Surviving — A Poem — by Rosellen Brown The Little Big Man Who Laughs at the Law by Nicholas Gage [...]
1970/08 — Contents as follows: Thanksgiving in Paris — 1964 by Mary McCarthy Episode in Tokyo Bay by Theodore H. White The McCarthy Campaign by Abigail McCarthy “Variations on the Art of Wishing” a poem by Judith Rascoe When the President Meets the Press by Hedrick Smith The Inscrutable West by Ross Terrill Novel Bites [...]
1976/08 — Contents as follows: Trains in Trouble — Amtrak to the rescue? — by Tracy Kidder The Rice Is Wild — Harvesting the Earth’s last undomesticated grain by Robert Treuer Thinking About the Thinkable — Arms and the politicians — by Drew Middleton Crumblings — Some true stories about interesting people — by Wallace [...]
1976/09 — Contents as follows: While Alma Mater Burns by Gail Thain Parker Lo, the Poor Animals by James Fallows My Love Affair With Foster by Anonymous as told to Ward Just A Fatal Slaying of the Very Worst by Edwin Newman The Scourge of Avondale by Louis Kronenberger FICTION: “Three Shots for Charlie Betson” [...]
1976/10 — Contents as follows: Middle-Class Myths, Middle-Class Realities by Robert L. Heilbroner Within Walking Distance by Irwin Shaw “I Don’t See How to Write a Book Without Poeple in It” by Virginia Woolf — a 1922 letter too Gerald Brenan FICTION: “The Chinese Puzzle Race” by Sam Toperoff “Honor, Power, Riches, Fame & the [...]
1976/11 — Contents as follows: The Battle for Long Island – A plan to stay the bulldozer and save some of God’s green earth – by Tracy Kidder Scenes from a Spanish Village – What Life is like in Post-Franco Spain – by Victor Perera After the Sexual Revolution by Benjamin DeMott On the Reef [...]
