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1977-12 Atlantic Monthly Magazine Contents

1977/12 — Contents as follows:

  • Oh! Canada! — Lament for a divided country — by Mordecai Richler
  • Behold the Hunter by Nelson Bryant
  • Great Moments in Architecture – Vinyl Siding, and other achievements — by David Macaulay
  • The Handicapped: Hidden No Longer by Sonny Kleinfield

    • FICTION:

  • “Christmas Roses” by Edna O’Brien
  • “Trilobites” by B. D’J Pancake

    • POETRY:

  • “In Memory of L.E. Sissman” by Barry Spacks
  • “On His Kindness” by Andy Solomon

    • REPORTS & COMMENT:

  • The Volunteer Army in Review by Drew Middleton
  • Washington by Sanford J. Ungar

    • LIFE & LETTERS:

  • The Last Mambo by Andrew Ward
  • Gaia: The Harmony of Our Sphere by Fred Hapgood
  • The Scrolls by Daniel Menaker
  • Short Reviews
  • PLA by Phoebe-Lou Adams
  • The Atlantic Puzzler
  • The Editor’s Page
  • Guestmanship by Caskie Stinnett
  • The Mail

    • 1977-10 Atlantic Monthly Magazine Contents

    1977/10 — Contents as follows:

  • Asking for Trouble in South Africa by George W. Ball – The hazards of moralism
  • The Anatomy of White Power by Benjamin Pogrund – Life under apartheid
  • The Gentle Art of Poverty by John Brooke
  • Tinkering With Sunshine by Tracy Kidder – The Prospects for Solar Energy

    • FICTION:

  • “Juvenile Dice” by Albert Haley

    • POETRY:

  • “Tobacco Men” by James Applewhite
  • “Mussels” by Mary Oliver
  • Three Poems on Time by Robert Penn Warren

    • REPORTS & COMMENT:

  • Polus Kholodo: The Coldest Place
  • Australia: Running Out of Luck by Denis Warner

    • LIFE & LETTERS:

  • A Classic Confrontation by Andrew Ward
  • FM Gabbai by Mark Singer
  • Other Voices, Other Tones by Donald Hall
  • Short Reviews
  • PLA by Phoebe-Lou Adams
  • The Maltese Fruit by Raymond Sokolov
  • The Mail
  • The Atlantic Puzzler

    • 1977-09 Atlantic Monthly Magazine Contents

    1977/09 — Contents as follows:

  • Toward Nuclear Stability by Earl C. Ravenal
  • The Children of Affluence by Robert Coles

  • Lion in the Rain-Rinsed Morning – A hunter’s tale – by Jack Curtis

    • FICTION:

  • “Gorm” by Ella Leffland
  • “Undertow” by Stuart Dybek

    • POETRY:

  • “La Bocca della Verita” by Peter Davison
  • “Horse Chestnut” by Gary Miranda

    • REPORTS & COMMENT:

  • Washington by Sanford J. Ungar

  • Moscow: A Chill in the Air by David K. Shipler
  • Turkey: The Relucatant Westerners by Cokie Roberts

    • LIFE & LETTERS:

  • Ump by Laurence Sheehan
  • Culture Watch by Benjamin DeMott
  • Short Reviews
  • PLA by Phoebe-Lou Adams
  • The Atlantic Puzzler
  • Party of One by Thomas Griffith
  • The Mail

    • 1977-08 Atlantic Monthly Magazine Contents

    1977/08 — Contents as follows:

  • The Politics of Fish by William W. Warner
  • Lunch With Uncle Ez by H. Bibesco
  • Passage to a New India by Pranay Gupte
  • How I Defeated the Germans by Peter Ustinov

    • FICTION:

  • “The Hitchhiker” by Roald Dahl
  • “The Problem of Li T’ang” by Geoffrey Bush

    • POETRY:

  • “Memories” by Helen Knopf
  • “Two Night Poems” by Daniel Halpern

    • REPORTS & COMMENT:

  • Brazil: Letter from a Coffee Planter by Ellen Bromfield Geld
  • Michigan: If Something Odd Happens… by Edwin Chin
  • Turin: Nostalgic Communism by Godfrey Hodgson

    • LIFE & LETTERS:

  • Coming to Grips by David Hammarstrom, Jr.
  • A Keeper of the Bees by Joan Ackermann-Blount
  • The Naked Coward by Fred Hapgood

  • I Do Not Like Thee, Dr. Seuss The Reason Why I Can’t Deduce by Richard Lipez
  • Short Reviews
  • PLA by Phoebe-Lou Adams
  • I Know It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll But I Hate It by Caskie Stinnett
  • The Mail

    • 1977-07 Atlantic Monthly Magazine Contents

    1977/07 — Contents as follows:

  • Bleak House — Frustration on Capitol Hill — by Sanford J. Ungar
  • Wynken, Blynken, and Cob — The back-to-the-sea movement: a firsthand report — by Page Stegner
  • Views — On the strange brotherhood between environmentalists and industrialists — by Anthony Brandt

  • Jimmy Carter Revealed — He’s a Rockefeller Republican — by Christopher Lydon
  • The Trilateral Connection – Meet the President’s tutors in foreign policy — by Jeremiah Novak
  • The Tidies by Eleanor Clark

    • FICTION:

  • “Under the Blanket” by Mary Manning

    • POETRY:

  • “Perfect” by Stephen Sandy
  • “Pain Killer” by Florence Elson
  • “Cross Cut” by Peter Davison

    • REPORTS & COMMENT:

  • Puerto Rico by Jonathan Evan Maslow
  • France: The Making of the Elite by Don Cook

    • LIFE & LETTERS:

  • The Spiritual Energy Crisis by Reuven Frank
  • An Austen-ized Village by Martin Green
  • Culture Watch by Benjamin DeMott
  • Digging Panama by Justin Kaplan
  • PLA by Phoebe-Lou Adams
  • The Editor’s Page
  • Party of One by Thomas Griffith
  • The Mail

    • 1977-06 Atlantic Monthly Magazine Contents

    1977/06 — Contents as follows:

  • Life on Mars by David L. Chandler
  • The Never-Ending Wrong — Sacco and Vanzetti fifty years later — by Katharine Anne-Porter

    • FICTION:

  • “Grounds” by Laura Cunningham
  • “Golden State” by John Sayles

    • POETRY:

  • “Lament for the Non-Swimmers” by David Wagoner
  • “Dr. Freud” by Andrew Glaze

    • REPORTS & COMMENT:

  • Japan by Frank Gibney
  • City University of New York by Larry Van Dyke

    • LIFE & LETTERS:

  • My Bird Problem, and Ours by Laurence Sheehan
  • Under the Agnus Castus Tree, by the Banks of the Old Ilissus by Robert M. Strozier
  • Paris Celebrates: A New Art Center and the Brothers Duchamp by Francis Steegmuller
  • Short Reviews
  • PLA by Phoebe-Lou Adams
  • The Editor’s Page
  • And Having Writ, Wrote On by Caskie Stinnett
  • The Mail

    • 1977-05 Atlantic Monthly Magazine Contents

    1977/05 — Contents as follows:

  • Obscenity — Forget It — Some proposals towards controlling pornography — by Charles Rembar
  • A Conversation with John Gardner by Don Edwards and Carol Polsgrove
  • Twilight in White Rhodesia by Joseph B. Treaster
  • Pencils Down by Andrew Ward
  • The Parthenon is Shrinking by Emily Vermeule

    • FICTION:

  • “Redemption” by John Gardner

    • POETRY:

  • “A Certain Providence” by Bruce Guernsey
  • “Judge Jenk” by Peter Klein
  • “The Calling” by Sally Jo Renfro
  • “My Story” by David Pollens
  • “Arrowhead” by Gary Miranda
  • “This Reaping” by Jay Parini
  • “Gangster Dreams” by Michael Ryan
  • “The Briefcase” by W.S. Merwin
  • “Building Her” by Philip Booth

    • REPORTS & COMMENT:

  • Cuba by Stephen Kinzer
  • Spain by Stanley Meisler

    • LIFE & LETTERS:

  • Yumbo
  • Culture Watch by Benjamin DeMott
  • One Last Fling at Coobies Bay by Richard Lipez
  • Short Reviews
  • PLA by Phoebe-Lou Adams
  • The Editor’s Page
  • Party of One by Thomas Griffith
  • The Mail

    • 1977-04 Atlantic Monthly Magazine Contents

    1977/04 — Contents as follows:

  • Inside the Supreme Court by Earl Warren
  • The Terrifying Prospect — Atomic Bombs everywhere — by Daniel Yergin

  • Money for Art’s Sake — The government as patron — by Eleanor Munro

  • A Poet’s Statements of Faith by Richard Hugo

    • FICTION:

  • “Shaving” by Leslie Norris
  • “The Anatomy of Bliss” by John L’Heureux

    • POETRY:

  • “April” by Charles Wright
  • “As It Was” by Frederick Morgan

    • REPORTS & COMMENT:

  • Washington by Sanford J. Ungar
  • The Common Market by Don Cook

    • LIFE & LETTERS:

  • The Diary of Me by Robert Strozier
  • Stranger in Holy Land by Steven Reiner
  • Unlisted Number by Nancy C. Grace

  • Four Faces of Corporate Man by Richard Todd
  • Short Reviews
  • PLA by Phoebe-Lou Adams
  • The Editor’s Page
  • Dinner With the Big Boys by Caskie Stinnett
  • The Mail

    • 1977-01 Atlantic Monthly Magazine Contents

    1977/01 — Contents as follows:

  • “The Biggest Pimp of All” — Prostitution and some facts of life — by Elizabeth and James Vorenberg
  • St. Patrick’s and the Prospect of Hell by Stephen Harrigan
  • The Tiddling Tennis Theorem by Arthur Hoppe
  • Supersonic Best — The story of the Concorde — by Peter Gillman

    • FICTION:

  • “A Lamp” by Mark Schorer
  • “Port of Embarkation” by Elizabeth Spencer

    • POETRY:

  • “Houses” by Richard Hugo
  • “The Windows” by W.S. Merwin
  • “The Hanging Man” by Peter Davison

    • REPORTS & COMMENT:

  • The Presidency: The Road to Washington by Ward Just

    • LIFE & LETTERS:

  • The Best Weapon by Robert Strozier
  • Shaping a National Theatre by Lawrence Malkin
  • Notes on the Distaff Side by Audrey C. Foote
  • How Doctors and Lawyers Got That Way by Richard Todd
  • PLA by Phoebe-Lou Adams
  • The Editor’s Page
  • Party of One by Thomas Griffith
  • The Mail

    • 1976-12 Atlantic Monthly Magazine Contents

    1976/12 — Contents as follows:

  • An Expatriate Looks at America by J.P. Donleavy
  • The Vanishing Tuna by John N. Cole
  • Notes While Being Hijacked by Richard Brockman
  • Searching for the Real Nixon Scandal by Renata Adler
  • The Trouble With Professors

    • FICTION:

  • “Smokers” by Tobias Wolff

    • POETRY:

  • “Waiting” by Robert Penn Warren
  • “Everything Comes Eventually” by Robert Wallace
  • “Try” by Stephen Sandy
  • “Oil That Glitters” by Felicia Lamport

    • REPORTS & COMMENT:

  • Washington by Sanford J. Ungar
  • Nigeria by Anthony Astrachan

    • LIFE & LETTERS:

  • “The Christmas Tree Lot Murders” by Laurence Sheehan
  • My Compliments to the Freezer by John L. and Karen Hess
  • Culture Watch by Benjamin DeMott

  • The Second Reich by Richard Todd
  • Short Reviews: Books
  • PLA by Phoebe-Lou Adams
  • The Editor’s Page
  • Live and Let Live by Caskie Stinnett
  • The Mail

    • 1976-11 Atlantic Monthly Magazine Contents

    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 Darkly – Meet a scientist who sees with his hands – by Kenneth Brower

    • FICTION:

  • Memory by L.M. Rosenberg

    • POETRY:

  • Part Song by David Wagoner

  • The Model by David Ray
  • Fron the I Ching by Frederick Morgan

    • REPORTS & COMMENT:

  • Clarke Reed of Mississippi by Sanford J. Ungar
  • The Libertarian Party by Andrew Ward

    • LIFE & LETTERS:

  • Political Morality and the First Family by Claiborne Lee Bell
  • Britannica 3, Failures of by Geoffrey Wolff

  • The Mahler Boom by Arthur W. Hepner

  • A Ladies’ Man by Richard Todd
  • PLA by Phoebe-Lou Adams
  • The Editor’s Page
  • Party of One by Thomas Griffith
  • The Mail

    • 1976-10 Atlantic Monthly Magazine Contents

    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 Love of Women” by Ward Just

    • POETRY:

  • “The Road to Good Intentions” by Pat Janus
  • “small letters” by Kathleen Spivack
  • “Heroic Simile” by Robert Haas

    • REPORTS & COMMENT:

  • Campaigning: Democratic Convention Notes by Michael Janeway
  • Nepal by Claire Sterling

    • LIFE & LETTERS:

  • Simple Gifts by Andrew Ward
  • Mushville by Alan Lelchuk
  • Country Fair by Mark Kramer
  • Tales From Two Cities by Richard Todd
  • PLA by Phoebe-Lou Adams
  • The Editor’s Page
  • Two on the Isle by Caskie Stinnett
  • The Mail

    • 1976-09 Atlantic Monthly Magazine Contents

    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” by Leslie Norris
  • “Communique” by Allan Garganus

    • POETRY:

  • Newly Discovered Poems of Ezra Pound with introduction by James Laughlin and including the following: “From Chebar”, To Hulme (T.E.) and Fitzgerald (a certain)”, “Envoi”, Untitled Poem
  • “Actaeon” by Ted Hughes
  • “Bronco Busting, Event #1” by May Swenson

    • REPORTS & COMMENT:

  • East Asia: Our One-China Problem by John K. Fairbank
  • Vienna by Frances Koltun

    • LIFE & LETTERS:

  • Toward the Perfect Holo-Alphabetic Sentence by Russell Slocum
  • The Pleasures of Eating in Persia by Terence O’Donnell
  • A Sublime Folly: Christo’s Running Fence by Michele Cone
  • Back to School Reading: Why Yalies Can’t Write by Richard Todd
  • PLA by Phoebe-Lou Adams
  • Party of One by Thomas Griffith
  • The Mail

    • 1976-08 Atlantic Monthly Magazine Contents

    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 E. Knight
  • Francis Ford Coppola — Portrait of the Godfather’s film father — by Susan Braudy

    • FICTION:

  • “The Tryst” by Joyce Carol Oates

    • POETRY:

  • “The Hawk of the Mind” by Peter Davison
  • “To Dorothy” by Marvin Bell
  • “Shoplifters” by Maura Stanton

    • LIFE & LETTERS:

  • Chapter the Seventh: In Pursuit of the Wali of Fafa by Andrew Ward
  • Twyla Tharp by Dale Harris
  • Culture Watch by Benjamin DeMott
  • Short Reviews
  • PLA by Phoebe-Lou Adams
  • The Editor’s Page
  • Farewell, My Lovely by Caskie Stinnett
  • The Mail

    • 1970-08 Atlantic Monthly Magazine Contents

    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 Man by Dan Wakefield
  • “Something Missing” a story by John L’Heureux
  • “Deerhound” a poem by Leslie Norris
  • High Schools That Work by Charles E. Silberman
  • Reports: Washington by Elizabeth B. Drew
  • France and the Middle East by Georgiana G. Stevens
  • California by Mary Ellen Leary
  • Nepal by Merry I. White

  • The Mail

  • Life and Letters: Dirty Movies by David Denby
  • John Updike: Midpoint and After by L.E. Sissman
  • Zelda; Or, What’s In a Name? by Mark Schorer
  • “Jaded Appetite” a poem by Felicia Lamport
  • Judgment in Moscow by Agnes De Mille
  • The Peripatetic Reviewer by Edward Weeks
  • Short Reviews: Books by Phoebe Adams
  • Coming in the Atlantic

    • 1970-07 Atlantic Monthly Magazine Contents

    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
  • The Way It All Comes Loose — A Story — by Ralph Maloney
  • The Professor Walking — A Poem — by James Tate
  • In Search of Nan Page by Barbara Kevles
  • A Prophet As the Time of Day — A Poem — by Pamela Alexander
  • Murder in the Schoolroom — Part II — by Charles E. Silberman
  • Reports: Washington by Elizabeth B. Drew
  • Europe by Don Cook
  • Cambodia by H.D.S. Greenway
  • The Mail

  • Life and Letters: Isaac Bashevis Singer Scoffs by Isreal Shenker
  • The Voices and Visions of Aldous Huxley by Louis Kronenberger
  • The Strayed Message — A Poem — by Robert Graves

  • The Flicks in France by James K. Glassman
  • The Peripatetic Reviewer by Edward Weeks
  • Short Reviews: Books by Phoebe Adams
  • Cover: Edward Sorel

    • 1970-06 Atlantic Monthly Magazine Contents

    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, Jr.
  • Thelma — A Story — by Don Mitchell
  • Was Judas’s Cover Blown? — A Poem — by Grey Ruthven
  • Murder in the Schoolroom by Charles E. Silberman
  • Pursuit of Honor, 1946 — A Poem — by L.E. Sissman

  • Call it Misadventure by Clarissa Lorentz
  • Reports: Washington by Elizabeth B. Drew
  • Libya by Douglas Kiker
  • The Mail
  • Reviewmanship and the I-Wrote-A-Book Disease by Herbert Gold
  • One Man’s Mead, Another Man’s Poison by Ernest ven den Haag
  • Plus Fours by Leslie Norris
  • The Peripatetic Reviewer by Edward Weeks
  • Short Reviews: Books by Phoebe Adams
  • Cover: Adrian Taylor/Dennis Hodgson

    • 1969-09 Atlantic Monthly Magazine Contents

    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 by Herbert Feis
  • Oil and Politics by Ronnie Dugger
  • Preface to “Anonymous Max” – A Story – by John Deck
  • “An Unknown Western Union Boy” a poem by L.E. Sissman
  • Adventures in the Sponge Trade by Peter Throckmorton
  • “Rosimaya” a poem by John Okai
  • People on Spits and Other Niceties by Louis Kronenberger
  • Reports: The Middle East: A View from the U.N. by Georgiana Stevens
  • The Middle East: The Fedayeen by Alfred Friendly, Sr.
  • Haiti by Ronald Steel
  • Los Angeles by Steven V. Roberts
  • The Mail
  • Arts and Letters: Yorick Blumenfeld, Robert Evett, Charles Nicol, Edward Weeks, Dan Wakefield, Herbert Kupferberg, Phoebe Adams

    • 1969-03 Atlantic Monthly Magazine Contents

    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 POLICE AND THE REST OF US – An Atlantic Supplement, runs pages 74-135

  • Why Cops Hate Liberals — And Vice Versa by Seymour Martin Lipset

    • Los Angeles:

  • Chief Reddin: New Style at the Top by Linda McVeigh Mathews

    • San Francisco:

  • The Trouble with Troubleshooting by Mary Ellen Leary
  • A Policeman’s Lot… by Fernando Krahn

    • New York:

  • “Support Your Local Police” by David B. Durk
  • Why I’m a Cop – Interviews from a Reporter’s Notebook – by Patrica Lynden
  • Requiem for the Centre Street Mafia by Richard Dougherty

    • Detroit:

  • “God Help Our City” by William Serrin

    • Boston:

  • On the Vice Beat by Bruce McCabe
  • Abuses of Police Power by Paul Chevigny

  • What Makes a Better Policeman by James Q. Wilson
  • Reports: Washington, Cuba, Laos
  • The Mail
  • Coming in the Atlantic
  • Arts and Letters: Elizabeth Janeway, Victor Lange, Melvin Maddocks, Edward Weeks, Robert Evett, Jay Cantor, Herbert Kupferberg, Phoebe Adams

    • 1968-07 Atlantic Monthly Magazine Contents

    1968/07 — Contents as follows:

  • Bill Moyers Talks About LBJ, Power, Poverty, War, and the Young by Bill Moyers
  • Carnival of Excess – TV at the Conventions – by Charles McDowell, Jr.
  • The Freedom Rides Revisited by Victor S. Navasky
  • Sorel’s Unfamiliar Quotations by Edward Sorel
  • Edwin O’Connor and the Irish-American Process by John V. Kelleher
  • Young Poets: Fanny Howe, “Some Matters Concerning the Occupants” by Garrison Keillor, Edward Brash, Jean Goldschmidt
  • Democracy on Ice – A Study of American Policy Toward Dictatorship in Greece – by Elizabeth B. Drew
  • Joe Bananas by Sam Toperoff

  • A Pleasing Fragrance — A Poem — by John L.Heureux
  • Two in the Bush — A Story — by Paul Theroux
  • Who Shot the Iron Horse? by Louis Kronenberger
  • Reports: Campaigning With Nixon and Humphrey, Yugoslavia
  • Coming in the Atlantic
  • The Mail
  • Arts and Letters: John W. Albridge, Philip Toynbee, Theodore Solotaroff, Stanley Hoffman, Robert Bingham, Edward Weeks, Elisabeth Stevens, Herbert Kupferberg, Phoebe Adams
  • Cover: Robert and Marilyn Dustin

    • 1968-04 Atlantic Monthly Magazine Contents

    1968/04 — Contents as follows:

  • How Could Vietnam Happen? – An Autopsy by James C. Thomson, Jr.
  • After the War — A Poem — by W.S. Merwin
  • Whatever You Do, Don’t Sell My IBM by “Adam Smith”

    • The Right to Die:

  • A Father Speaks by Bernard Bard
  • A Theologian Comments by Joseph Fletcher
  • What Makes Bill Buckley Run by William F. Buckley, Jr

  • Man in the Drawer — A Story — by Bernard Malamud
  • The Deserted Poet — A Poem — by Peter Davison
  • Poems by Leslie Norris

  • Making It in the Big City by Wilfrid Sheed

  • Thomas Nast and the First Reconstruction by Morton Keller

  • Five Green Waves — A Story — by George Mackay Brown
  • Reports: Washington, Egypt, Campainging

  • Coming in the Atlantic
  • Letters
  • Places: Phoebe Adams
  • Music: Herbert Kupferberg
  • Books: Edward Weeks, Diana Trilling, Oscr Handlin, Phoebe Adams
  • Cover: Cambridge Design Group, Inc.

    • 1968-03 Atlantic Monthly Magazine Contents

    1968/03 — Contents as follows:
    Supernation at Peace and War by Dan Wakefield
    Being Certain Observations, Depositions, Testimonies, and Graffiti Gathered on a One Man Fact-and-Fantasy-Finding Tour of the Most Powerful Nation of the World.

    Part I: Protest

  • A. Against the War in Vietnam
  • B. Against Home and Mother
  • C. Against Poverty

    • Part II: Pacification

  • A. The Ball Game vs. The War
  • B. The Silent Center
  • C. Models of Successful Pacification

    • Part III: Patriotism

  • A. Keeping the Home Fires Burning
  • B. Washington Patriots

  • C. Men Are Trained and Serve–and Die
  • Reports: Moscow, The Danube, Wales and Scotland
  • Letters
  • Coming in the Atlantic
  • Accent: Jack Kerouac (“In the Ring” is 4 full columns of text over 2 pages by Kerouac and looks to be about an old boxer/wrestler his father knew), Charles R. Larson, Milford Poltroon, Sam Toberoff
  • Places: Axel Hornos
  • Music: Herbert Kupferberg
  • Books: Edward Weeks, Oscar Handlin, Phoebe Adams
  • Cover: Robert and Marilyn Dustin

    • 1967-12 Atlantic Monthly Magazine Contents

    1967/12 — Contents as follows:

  • Shepherds vs. Flocks: Ministers and Negro Militancy by William C. Martin
  • Thomas Wolfe Arrives by Andrew Turnbull
  • “Song: One in Many” a poem by Robert Graves
  • The Cost of the Brain Drain by Walter Mondale
  • “Sidney and the Dogs” an Atlantic First by Brett Riley

  • The Health Syndicate: Washington’s Noble Conspirators by Elizabeth Brenner Drew
  • The Promise of Thera: A Bronze Age Pompeii by Emily Vermeule
  • Max Rafferty of California: Gadfly on the Rump of Education by Mark Harris
  • The Arabs, 1967 by John S. Badeau
  • “Distance” a story by Grace Paley
  • “Early December in Croton-on-Hudson” a poem by Louise Gluck
  • Reports: New Hampshire, Indonesia, Latin-American Guerrillas, Poland
  • Coming in the Atlantic
  • Letters
  • Accent: Herbert Mitgang, Elinor Goulding Smith, Ken W. Purdy, Sam Toeroff
  • Places: James Egan, Richard O’Connell
  • Music: Herbert Kupferberg
  • Books: Edward Weeks, Nat Hentoff, Oscar Handlin, Phoebe Adams
  • Cover: Herman and Lees Associates

    • 1967-06 Atlantic Monthly Magazine Contents

    1967/06 — Contents as follows:

  • To Boris Leonidovich Pasternak by Svetlana Alliluyeva (Stalin’s daughter)
  • A Minority Nobody Knows by Helen Rowan
  • My Brother Evelyn by Alec Waugh
  • Wings and Beards — A Poem — by Robert Graves
  • Capitalism, Socialism, and the Future of the Industrial State by John Kenneth Galbraith
  • The Jones Boy Forever by Wilfrid Sheed
  • Vanishing Tidelands by Polly Redford
  • The Spy Who Returned to the Fold by John F. Campbell
  • Young Poets: Belmilr Brigham – William Pitt Boot – Louise Gluck – Robert Siegel – Grey Ruthven
  • The Case for the Electric Automobile by Donald E. Carr
  • The Only People — An Atlantic First — by Judith Higgins

    • Departments:

  • Reports: Washington, Japan, New York, Tanzania
  • Letters
  • Coming in the Atlantic
  • Viewpoint: Roger Rapoport
  • Accent: Charles W. Morton, Basil Boothroyd, Leonard Conversi
  • Places: William Clifford, Robert Scott Milne
  • Music: Herbert Kupferberg
  • Books: Edward Weeks, Oscar Handlin, Phoebe Adams
  • Atlantic Creative Writing Contest Winners
  • Cover: Herman, Lees and Lappin Associates

    • 1967-05 Atlantic Monthly Magazine Contents

    1967/05 — Contents as follows:

  • Germany 1967 by Robert Manning — Daniel P. Moynihan, Richard Rovere, Diana Trilling, Irving Kristol, Harvey Swados, Midge Dector, George P. Elliott, Stanley Kauffmann
  • Bobby — A Story — by Joseph Whitehill
  • Fly — A Poem — by W.S. Merwin
  • A Time for Comedy by Louis Kronenberger
  • Market Planning and the Role of Government by John Kenneth Galbraith
  • A Gentle Soul — A Story — by Mary Lavin
  • Projection — A Poem — by Howard Nemerov
  • The Battle of the Scrolls by Chaim Raphael
  • A Rage Greater Than Grief by Murray Kempton
  • Short Poems by John Frederick Nims
  • Psychiatry and War by William Sargant, M.D.

    • Departments:

  • Reports: Washington, Macao, The Common Market, Science
  • Letters
  • Coming in the Atlantic
  • Viewpoint: James C. Thomson, Jr.
  • Accent: Charles W. Morton, Eric Solomon, Samuel L. Albert, Anne Kelley, John Tagliabue
  • Places: Phyllis Feldkamp
  • Music: Herbert Kupferberg
  • Books: Edward Weeks, Oscar Handlin, Phoebe Adams
  • Cover: Herman, Lees and Lappin Associates