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April 2000 | Volume 285 No. 4 | |
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Nabokov's Butterflies Vladimir Nabokov was a distinguished lepidopterist, and butterflies dance among his writings in the form of images and metaphors and as the subject of enchanted scrutiny. We offer a treasury of unpublished work by Nabokov relating to butterflies, including "the last important unpublished fiction." by Vladimir Nabokov The Editors: 77 North Washington Street 
Web Only: Nabokov in The AtlanticAtlantic Unbound offers the first two short stories by Nabokov to appear in The Atlantic -- "Cloud, Castle, Lake" (June 1941) and "The Aurelian" (November 1941) -- along with Nabokov's poem "Softest of Tongues" (December 1941), introduced and read aloud by Nabokov's son and translator, Dmitri Nabokov. |
After the Wars: Yugoslavia and the World | |
A New Kind of Justice | |
The Reluctant Gendarme | |
Midnight in Sarajevo | |
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Reports Notes & Comment: A Hand for the Head A new service for the hard-of-thinking. by Cullen Murphy Personal File: Our First Telephone A family in Alaska embraces the communications revolution -- up to a point. by Leslie Leyland Fields Government: Regulation by Shaming Sometimes the best way to get companies to change is to make them come clean. by Mary Graham Fiction & Poetry
Distressed HaikuA poem by Donald Hall The Raft A short story by Peter Orner
Three Poemsby Robert Pinsky
Everyone Who Left UsA poem by Steven Cramer The seahorse symbol indicates that an article is supplemented with audio, an author interview, or other Web-only sidebar.
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Arts & Leisure Travel: Around the Big Bend The hard splendor of West Texas, where the American West and South meet Mexico. by Benjamin and Christina Schwarz Sport: The Best Pickup-Basketball Player in America He is fifty-one years old, and living a dream. by Timothy Harper Art: The Baddest of Bad Art Now there's a museum in New York devoted to "academic" art -- sentimental, critically disdained, and strangely wonderful. by Carol Kino Books High-Performance Poets New audio recordings. by Wen Stephenson
Web Only: Hear selections from the recordings by W. H. Auden, James Merrill, and Sylvia Plath discussed in this essay. Go to the article.
The Toronto Circle South Asian émigrés writing in Canada. by Jamie James Were the Hawks Right About the Vietnam War? Vietnam: The Necessary War, by Michael Lind by John Lewis Gaddis Brief Reviews by Phoebe-Lou Adams Other Departments 77 North Washington Street Contributors Letters (Send a letter to the editor.) The April Almanac The Puzzler by Emily Cox & Henry Rathvon Word Court by Barbara Wallraff |
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