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 Share this:TwitterFacebook Related