1981-08 Atlantic Monthly Magazine Contents

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 of the Pure Baseball Men by Michael Lenehan Surviving in the corporate world of sports

The Tip-Top Club — A Story by Garrison Keillor

Slow Motion — A Poem by Amy Clampitt

Among the Believers: Pakistan by V.S. Naipaul

World Population Growth by Julian L. Simon

Partly Cloudy by Eleanor Perenyi

Books/In Praise of Dispraise by James Atlas

Books/Malone’s Jefferson Concluded by Marvin Meyers

Short Reviews by Phoebe-Lou Adams

Letters to the Editor

The Atlantic Puzzler