1980-07 Atlantic Monthly Magazine Contents 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 Philip Booth “Pound of Pasta” by Verne Alan Carter REPORTS & COMMENT: Latin America: The Revolutionary Bishops by Penny Lernoux The Law: Collect $230 and Go to Jail by Maurice DeG. Ford LIFE & LETTERS: The Campaign for the North Meadow by Ronald Jager A Thinking Man’s Kurt Vonnegut by Benjamin DeMott Short Reviews PLA Party of One by Thomas Griffith The Mail The Atlantic Puzzler Share this:TwitterFacebook Related