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1983-02 Atlantic Monthly Magazine Contents

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 Guy Billout

  • The Last Bears of Yellowstone by Alston Chase

  • The Missing Person — a short story by Tobias Wolff
  • Mina Bell’s Cows — A poem by Wesley McNair
  • The Height of Fashion by Holly Brubach
  • Ma Barker: A World Portrait by Pinkie Barker-Watkins and Lynn Caraganis
  • Music – Interpreting Glenn Gould — A rebellious, obsessive virtuoso — by William H. Youngren
  • Books – Marginal Memoirs — Joyce Johnson’s Minor Characters and two portraits of Auden by James Atlas
  • Books – A Useful Mirror — Marshall Goldman’s USSR in Crisis by Lester C. Thurow
  • Short Reviews by Phoebe-Lou Adams
  • Letters to the Editor
  • The Atlantic Puzzler

    • 1982-12 Atlantic Monthly Magazine Contents

    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 collaboration
  • “Chez Sophie” a short story by Heidi Jon Schmidt
  • “Snow” a drawing by Guy Billout
  • Interferon and the Cure of Cancer by Sandra Panem and Jan Vilcek – The drug has not yet lived up to its promose as a panacea

    • Poetry:

  • “Supernatural Love” by Gjertrud Schnackenberg
  • “Green Feathers” by Reg Saner
  • “Jane Was With Me” by Marvin Bell

  • “Washing a Young Rhinoceros” by David Wagoner
  • Tizzy World by Robert M. Strozier – The land of the Tikki-Tikki-Sicko Birds
  • Music – A Gentle Costello by Langdon Winner – A rock album for adults (Elvis Costello)
  • Books – Kennan’s Passionate Realism by Stanley Hoffman
  • Books – Eight Lessons for American Corporations by James Fallows
  • Books – A Modern Existential Hero by James Atlas -Reviewing “Four Films of Woody Allen” by Woody Allen
  • Short Reviews by Phoebe-Lou Adams
  • Letters to the Editor
  • The Atlantic Puzzler

    • 1982-10 Atlantic Monthly Magazine Contents

    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 Jane Mankiewicz

  • If Snakes Were Blue – A Poem by Robert Penn Warren
  • The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert A. Caro
  • Migrant Mother, 1936 – A Poem by David Ray
  • Gravity – A Drawing by Guy Billout

  • Hollow – A Short Story by Breece D’J Pancake

  • Street Cries – A Poem by George Starbuck

  • Yoga for Masochists by Don Lessem
  • Music – Jazz Records: Gil Evans by Michael Ullman
  • Music: Better Played than Sung – Orchestra Musicians are more accomplished than ever, but where are the Wagnerian singers? by William H. Youngren

  • Movies: Child’s Eye, Adult’s Hand – Steven Spielberg’s anomalous view of modern life by Lloyd Rose

  • Books: Languid, but Never Dull – John Updike’s Bech Is Back by James Atlas
  • Short Reviews by Phoebe-Lou Adams
  • Letters to the Editor
  • The Atlantic Puzzler

    • 1982-08 Atlantic Monthly Magazine Contents

    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 – Building a Steinway grand piano – by Michael Lenehan

  • Distances – A Poem by Richard Hugo

  • Jungle – A Drawing by Guy Billout

  • The Staunch Maid and the Extraterrestrial Trekkie — A Poem by George Starbuck

  • The Famous Poll at Jody’s Bar – A Short Story by Ellen Gilchrist

  • Stump Speech – A Poem by David Wagoner
  • IQ Testing and the Media by R.J. Herrnstein
  • Love and Other Lessons – A Short Story by Janet Beeler Shaw

  • Rendezvous with Romania – In the footsteps of Graham Greene – by Lynn Caraganis
  • Music: Two Rock Revivals – Bringing back some early rockers by Langdon Winner
  • Movies: A Dreamer, Not a Storyteller – Brian DePalma isn’t interested in plot – by Lloyd Rose

  • Books: A Study in Fear and Courage – John Keegan’s Six Armies in Normandy – by Jack Beatty
  • Short Reviews by Phoebe-Lou Adams
  • Letters to the Editor
  • The Atlantic Puzzler

    • 1982-06 Atlantic Monthly Magazine Contents

    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 One Girl at the Boys’ Party – A Poem by Sharon Olds
  • Leaving Home – An Atlantic First – by Sue Miller
  • At City Hall – A Poem by Mary Jo Salter
  • Inevitable Revolutions – How the US has encouraged what it sought to prevent in Central America – by Walter LaFeber
  • What Could Happen – An Average Republican Meets the First Host – by Lynn Caraganis
  • Movies – Manufacturing “Annie” by Stephen Schiff

  • Books – Hard Times for Poets – Eileen Simpson’s Poets in Their Youth – by Wilfrid Sheed

  • Books – Close to the Nerve – Thomas Hardy by Michael Millgate — by Frank Kermode
  • Short Reviews by Phoebe-Lou Adams
  • Letters to the Editor
  • The Atlantic Puzzler

    • 1982-05 Atlantic Monthly Magazine Contents

    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 Poem by William Matthews
  • First Encounters by Edward Sorel and Nancy Caldwell Sorrell — Charlie Chaplin and Jean Cocteau
  • The Only Problem in the Universe by Rory O’ Connor about the Assembly of the Fourth World trying to solve it
  • Chickens by Roy Blount, Jr
  • Music – Classical Records – The proper sound of classical and Romantic music by William H. Youngren
  • Books – The Confident Speculators by John Kenneth Galbraith about Stephen Fay’s Beyond Greed
  • Books – Poet in Training by Katha Pollitt about The Journals of Sylvia Plath
  • Short Reviews by Phoebe-Lou Adams
  • Letters to the Editor
  • The Atlantic Puzzler

    • 1982-04 Atlantic Monthly Magazine Contents

    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 story by Alice Munro
  • The Everlasting/Stern Stuff — 2 poems by Peter Davison

  • The Cosmetics Executive by Lynn Caraganis
  • Even Better in Mono by Lloyd Schwartz
  • Books — McCarthy as Auteur — Nora Sayre ‘s Running Time by John Simon
  • Books — But Never Danger Today — John Prudos ‘s The Soviet Estimate — by Thomas Powers
  • Short Reviews by Phoebe-Lou Adams
  • Letters to the Editor
  • The Atlantic Puzzler

    • 1982-03 Atlantic Monthly Magazine Contents

    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 – by Nicholson Baker
  • Banyan Tree Before the Civic Center, Honolulu — a poem by Marvin Bell
  • Frederic Chopin and George Sand — a first encounter — by Edward Sorel and Nancy Caldwell Sorel
  • Robert Frost Corrupted – The effort to tidy up an inconsistent writer — by Donald Hall
  • Why Latin America Is Poor by Michael Novak
  • How It Happens – a poem by David Solway
  • My Stepmother, Myself by Garrison Keillor

  • Fashion – Time Is Money – by Holly Brubach
  • Books – What It Was Like – Patrick White’s Flaws in the Glass; Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Scenes of Childhood — by Maureen Howard
  • Books – Imitation Modernism – The aesthetic of difficulty – by Perry Meisel
  • Short Reviews by Phoebe-Lou Adams
  • Letters to the Editor
  • The Atlantic Puzzler

    • 1982-02 Atlantic Monthly Magazine Contents

    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 to the Past – There’s still time to see Portugal before progress spoils the view — by Eleanor Perenyi
  • Shiny Object – a short story by Dianne Benedict
  • On the Portch at the Frost Place, Franconia, NH — a poem by William Matthews
  • The Kennedy Imprisonment — Part 2 — The Prisoner of Toughness — by Garry Wills

  • Detour — a drawing by Guy Billout
  • Vigil — a short story by Kathleen Conlon
  • Drawn to Perspective – a poem by Charles Simic
  • The Singing-Impaired by Roy Blount, Jr.
  • Books – Interpreting the World — Saul Bellow’s new novel — by James Atlas
  • Books – Double Moral Standards – The collected essays of Noam Chomsky — by James Fallows
  • Short Reviews by Phoebe-Lou Adams
  • Letters to the Editor
  • The Atlantic Puzzler

    • 1982-01 Atlantic Monthly Magazine Contents

    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 the decline of the American Presidency by Garry Wills
  • “Narcissi in Winter” a poem by Celia Gilbert
  • “Sunshine and Shadow” a short story by Ann Beattie
  • “Tide Turning” a poem by John Frederick Nims
  • “Observations in Egypt” a watercolor portfolio by David Levine
  • The Competence of Babies by Susan Quinn
  • Trouble With the Air Force’s Eagle by James Fallows
  • “The Overcoat II” a short story by T. Coraghessan Boyle
  • “Still Life, But One” a poem by Sidney Burris
  • The Harmonica in America by Fred Nadis – the forgotten history of the mouth organ
  • Joining the Working Class by James Atlas – The literary proletariat arises
  • Books – The Legacy of Modernism by Gerald Graff reviewing Marshall Berman’s All That Is Solid Melts Into Air
  • Short Reviews by Phoebe-Lou Adams
  • Letters to the Editor
  • The Atlantic Puzzler

    • 1981-10 Atlantic Monthly Magazine Contents

    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 Crossing” a poem by Susan Ludvigson
  • “Heartbeat” a short story by Linda Svendsen
  • “Mountain Music” a poem by John Ridland
  • Wired Into Now by Roy Blount, Jr.

  • Books – Updike’s Rabbit Trilogy by Thomas R. Edwards
  • Books – Domesticated Madness by Benjamin DeMott is about “The Hotel New Hampshire” by John Irving
  • Short Reviews by Phoebe-Lou Adams
  • Letters to the Editor
  • The Atlantic Puzzler

    • 1981-09 Atlantic Monthly Magazine Contents

    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 Rushdie

  • The Voter a drawing by Edward Sorel
  • The Fight to Save Big Sur by Anthony Brandy

    • Young Poets:

  • “Dame Alys” by Kathleen Atkins
  • “Vermeer” by Mark Irwin
  • “Trees That Pass Us in Our Cars” by Wesley McNair

  • “Tarantelle” by Janet MacFadyen
  • “Nights in Kustenja” by Jim Merrow
  • “Prodigy” by Lynne McMahon
  • List of Funny Names Released by Ian Frazier
  • Music/The True Biography of Maria Callas by Lloyd Schwartz
  • Theater/ Royally Nicked by James Wolcott

  • Ballet/ Moving Pictures by Holly Brubach
  • Short Reviews by Phoebe-Lou Adams
  • Letters to the Editor
  • The Atlantic Puzzler

    • 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

    • 1981-07 Atlantic Monthly Magazine Contents

    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 Poem — by David Wagoner
  • Flying Upside Down — On the creation of a new computer — by Tracy Kidder
  • Worsening Condition — A Drawing — by Edward Sorel
  • “In the Zoot Car” — A Story — by Heidi Jon Schmidt
  • “Flood” — A Poem — by William Matthews
  • Aerie — A Drawing — by Michael Crawford
  • World Food Supplies by Julian L. Simon
  • Don’t Touch that Dial by Robert M. Strozier
  • Music/Classical Records by William H. Youngren
  • Books/Critical Condition by John Simon
  • Books/Making It Strange by John Bayley
  • Short Reviews by Phoebe-Lou Adams
  • Letters to the Editor
  • The Atlantic Puzzler

    • 1981-05 Atlantic Monthly Magazine Contents

    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” a poem by Ellen Bryant Voigt
  • “The Yellow Banana” a story by Patricia Volk
  • A Conversation With Garrett Hardin by Harold Hayes
  • “Night Blooming Flowers” a poem by Katha Pollitt
  • The Wins of the Great Plains by Charles Varon
  • Fashion/America the Comfortable by Holly Brubach
  • Music/Variations on the Sonata by William H. Youngren
  • Books/Public Philospher by Jack Beatty about John Kenneth Galbraith’s “A Life in Our Times”
  • Letters to the Editor
  • The Atlantic Puzzler

    • 1981-04 Atlantic Monthly Magazine Contents

    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 Poem by Robert Penn Warren
  • The Civilianization of the Army by James Fallows
  • Loss: A Guide to Economics by Roy Blount, Jr.
  • Ballet/Designer Dancing by Holly Brubach
  • Movies/Defending Mediocrity by Stephen Schiff
  • Music/Contemporary American Composers by Allen Shawn
  • Books/Improbably Assignment by Wilfrid Sheed
  • Short Reviews
  • “Rain in Ohio” — A Poem by Mary Oliver
  • Letters to the Editor
  • The Atlantic Puzzler
  • Comic Art by Edward Sorel and Michael C. Witte

    • 1981-02 Atlantic Monthly Magazine Contents

    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 Vatican — by Francis X. Murphy, C.SS.R.
  • Artists’ Valentines – A portfolio – by Miriam Schapiro, Tood McKie, Hannah Wilke, Ellen Lanyln, Alfred Leslie
  • Unwanted Immigrants: Cuban Prisoners in America by James Conaway

    • FICTION:

  • “A Trip to Seaside” by V.S. Pritchett
  • “Tomcat” by Jim Shepard

    • POETRY:

  • “Art” by Michael Harris
  • “Metaphors of Women” by Katha Pollitt
  • Untitled Poem by Alan Dugan
  • Some Younger Poets — Barbara Thomsen, Fran Lindsay, Peggy Rizza, Ken Leeder, Brad Leithauser

    • REPORTS & COMMENT:

  • Czechoslovakia: The Party Is in Control by John Stone

  • Labor: What’s a Job Worth? by Vivienne Killingsworth

    • LIFE & LETTERS:

  • The Ward Essaymatic 5000
  • Life in the Fast Lane by Donald McCaig
  • Dr. Eliot’s Five-Foot Shelf by Jeff Wylie
  • Short Reviews
  • PLA by Phobe-Lou Adams
  • The Mail
  • The Atlantic Puzzler

    • 1981-01 Atlantic Monthly Magazine Contents

    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 Islam: No More Holy Wars — Toward a Christian-Muslim Dialogue — by Harvey Cox

    • FICTION:

  • “Saints” by William Trevor
  • “The Honored Dead” by B. D’J Pancake
  • “Cleaving” — An Atlantic First by Michael Cunningham — Early fiction by Pulitzer Prize winning Cunningham (The Hours, 1999), referred to here as “a prizewinner in the American Short Story Contest last spring, studied writing at the University of Iowa and is currently a fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA.”

    • POETRY:

  • “My Mother’s Chess” by David Solway
  • “Wildfire” by Dave Smith
  • “The Laughter of Women” by Peter Davison
  • “Magician” by Gary Miranda

    • REPORTS & COMMENT:

  • Nigeria: Oil-Rich and Nervous by Pranay Gupte
  • Energy: The Myth of Independence by Stephen Chapman

    • LIFE & LETTERS:

  • What January Means to Me by Robert Strozier
  • Solving Problems by Henry Bromell
  • Elvis One More Time by Benjamin DeMott
  • PLA
  • Party of One by Thomas Griffith
  • The Mail
  • The Atlantic Puzzler

    • 1980-12 Atlantic Monthly Magazine Contents

    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

    • POETRY:

  • “Driftwood” by David Wagoner

    • REPORTS & COMMENT:

  • Poland: A Weakened Communist Party Fights for Survival by Murray Seeger
  • Bolivia: Once More, the Generals Take Over by Ray Bonner

    • LIFE & LETTERS:

  • Aunty Crime’s Neighborhood Newsletter by Andrew Ward
  • Not Being There by Robert Ebert

  • The New Journalism Revisited by Deborah McGill
  • PLA
  • The Editor’s Page
  • The Wary Traveler by Caskie Stinnett
  • The Mail
  • The Atlantic Puzzler

    • 1980-11 Atlantic Monthly Magazine Contents

    1980/11 — 123rd Anniversary Issue
    Contents 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 I Say” by Marvin Bell
  • “Child’s Song” by Gregory Orr

    • REPORTS & COMMENT:

  • Savannah: Restoration Without Gentrification by Roger M. Williams
  • Tunisia: Twilight for the Bourguiba Regime> by Claudia Wright

    • LIFE & LETTERS:

  • Mr. Chips Redux by Richard A. Hawley
  • Beauty in the Beast by Henry Bromell

  • Will Energy Policy Ever Grow Up? by Benjamin DeMott
  • Short Reviews
  • PLA
  • Party of One by Thomas Griffith
  • The Mail
  • The Atlantic Puzzler

    • 1980-10 Atlantic Monthly Magazine Contents

    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 Numbers by John Hersey

    • FICTION:

  • “The Jungle of Injustice” by Nora Johnson
  • “Walla Walla” by Robert Dunn

    • POETRY:

  • “Willingly” by Tess Gallagher
  • “Intersection” by Barry Spacks

    • REPORTS & COMMENT:

  • Energy Conservation: The Longer View by Peter H. Stone

    • LIFE & LETTERS:

  • Letters to the Groaning Board Forum by Paul Wales
  • The New Kid on Market Street by Henry Brommell
  • Yes & No: The Vision of James Merrill by Mary Jo Salter
  • Short Reviews
  • PLA
  • The Wary Traveler by Caskie Stinnett
  • The Mail
  • The Atlantic Puzzler

    • 1980-09 Atlantic Monthly Magazine Contents

    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 Got for the Folks This Week?” by Calvin Trillin
  • “Wissler Remembers” by Richard Stern
  • “In Quarantine” by Tracy Kidder

    • POETRY:

  • “Bears” by David Wagoner
  • “Continuum: A Love Poem” by Maxine Kumin
  • “Variation on the Word Sleep” by Margaret Atwood

    • REPORTS & COMMENT:

  • Cairo: Sadat’s Mission by Milton Viorst
  • The South Pacific: Some Enchanted Prime Time by Barry Siegel

    • LIFE & LETTERS:

  • Major Minor Masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance by John Harris
  • A Couple of Three by Henry Bromell
  • Doctorow’s Promise by Bejamin DeMott
  • PLA
  • Party of One by Thomas Griffith
  • The Mail
  • The Atlantic Puzzler

    • 1980-08 Atlantic Monthly Magazine Contents

    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 to the Ink-Stained Wretch by Steve Lohr

    • FICTION:

  • “Regards at Home” by Richard Yates
  • “The List” by Phyllis Kalb

    • POETRY:

  • “To Dorothy on Her Exclusion from the Guinness Book of World Records” by X.J. Kennedy

  • “Barn Swallow” by Michael Harris
  • “Night Swim” by William Pitt Root

    • REPORTS & COMMENT:

  • The Open Convention: A Kennedy Scenario by Martin Plissner
  • Peking: Waiting to Be Westernized by Ross Terrill
  • Nicaragua: After the Revolution by Edward Holland

    • LIFE & LETTERS:

  • Ward’s Works of Wisdom for Husbands and Wives by Andrew Ward
  • Art Notes by Alexander Eliot
  • The Dimming of Stanley Kubrick by Henry Bromell is about The Shining
  • Short Reviews
  • PLA
  • The Wary Traveler by Caskie Stinnett
  • The Mail
  • The Atlantic Puzzler

    • 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

    • 1980-06 Atlantic Monthly Magazine Contents

    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 and the Mexicans” by James Lee Burke

    • POETRY:

  • “Empty White Blotch on Map of Universe” by Robert Penn Warren
  • “New” by William Matthews
  • “Everything Twice” by William Stafford

    • REPORTS & COMMENT:

  • Strasbourg: The European Parliament Convenes by Don Cook
  • Israel: Jews versus Jews by Dorit Gary

    • LIFE & LETTERS:

  • The Stengler Ploy by William Walden
  • All the Tea in India by Warren Unna
  • Short Reviews
  • PLA
  • The Editor’s Page
  • The Wary Traveler by Caskie Stinnett
  • The Mail
  • The Atlantic Puzzler